First kiss was 21 million years ago. Researchers found that the mouth-on-mouth kiss dates back to our common ancestor with great apes. “We think kissing probably evolved around 21.5 million years ago in the large apes,” says Dr. Matilda Brindle. […]
Pennies Are Trash Now “There is no plan.” The U.S. Mint has abruptly stopped minting pennies, leaving 300 billion of them in circulation without any strategy for their future. Unlike Canada’s organized withdrawal, the U.S. seems to have given up […]
Cook County’s shifting tax burden. I have a property in Wicker Park that I finally got the tax bill for, and my taxes are up 50%. Reading about the issue, I discovered I have much to be thankful for. As […]
CTU’s financial scandal deepens. “Teachers are fighting their own leadership for the right to know where their money went. And that fight has finally reached Congress.” The Chicago Teachers Union is facing federal scrutiny over missing financial audits, with five […]
Redesigning government websites for the better. This is what happens when Airbnb’s cofounder joins the government. “Work is super high impact, redesigning government interfaces that suck.” National Design Studio is on a mission to modernize user experiences in government systems, […]
Does Gemini Show That Scaling Still Works? No. “The data show the opposite: scaling works only in a diminishing sense, with each gain costing non-linearly far more than the last.” Google’s Gemini 3 is a testament to brute-force computation yielding […]
Beware of secondary markets. “Secondary markets are rife with fraud and bad actors, and it pains me to see these bottom feeders profiting off Anduril’s growth while fleecing retail investors through unreasonable or opaque fee structures.” Anduril co-founder Matt Grimm […]
Transformation theater in tech. “Press releases announce ‘company-wide AI adoption.’ Hallway conversations tell a different story.” While firms tout AI revolutions, many employees aren’t even using the new tools. The facade of change replaces true innovation. ~ learn more
Junior job opportunities are vanishing. “Companies that adopt AI at higher rates are hiring juniors 13% less.” The traditional path for junior engineers is disappearing as AI automates entry-level work, leaving many young professionals struggling to enter the job market. […]
Playing entrepreneur on Hard Mode. “I wrote this because I have been feeling like Capitalism needs to be upgraded, and it seems like creating a pledge or manifesto—a movement to strengthen capitalism—might be the fastest way to do it.” The […]