Author: Jim

Applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have captured the world’s imagination—but AI companies are focused on something else.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/nvidia-chips-gpu-generative-ai/677664/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYerKY-Uh95KcCwbjw-aR-gc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

If They Can’t Make a Federal Case Out of Trump …

The Supreme Court may well decide another presidential election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/trump-trials-supreme-court.html?smid=em-share

The social contract of trust between experts and society is in danger of dissolving. We need to start putting it back together.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/truth-decay-experts-hilary-putnam/677590/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYYx9ZYUfxgowp-AKfs4JQKQ&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

They’ve become a major military player—and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/how-special-ops-became-the-solution-to-everything/618080/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYQu8WHLPNNoPobsQQmclZnM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Israel Is Falling Into an Abyss

Will exhaustion and despair lead to some kind of resolution for Palestinians and Israelis?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-hostages.html?smid=em-share

The Red-Blue Divide Goes Well Beyond Biden and Trump

Births and deaths are only part of what makes America turn left or right.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/opinion/red-blue-states-demographics.html?smid=em-share

Private equity has made one-fifth of the market effectively invisible to investors, the media, and regulators.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/private-equity-publicly-traded-companies/675788/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Nearly 30 years after the company was founded, we still don’t really know where its profits come from. The answer will loom large in the antitrust case against it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/amazon-profits-antitrust-ftc/677580/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social