Month: July 2026

The big story is the hedge fund Situational Awareness, founded by investing prodigy Leopold Aschenbrenner (@leopoldasch), has been unwound following significant losses during the recent crash in AI stocks: Truly an incredible turn of events for Situational Awareness and @leopoldasch. https://t.co/kRtDQF19ZI pic.twitter.com/qYLCDnq4xX — Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) July 30, 2026 Here is the timeline: His downfall… Continue reading Leopold Aschenbrenner blows up

As a follow-up to my last post, “The AI Experts Who Couldn’t Predict AI,” I want to expound on the “memory shortage” of 2025-2026 and how no one saw it coming, even experts in AI. A seemingly sudden demand for memory due to AI has led to shortages for personal computers and other applications. This… Continue reading The “memory shortage” that no one saw coming

The article, “A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence,” went viral. It was co-authored by Jacob Tsimerman, who, as the media has made abundantly clear, is the 2026 Fields Medal recipient–as if that somehow adds credibility to the article or grants him immunity from criticism. Despite being published on arXiv, which has a focus… Continue reading The AI Experts Who Couldn’t Predict AI

The latest moral panic among the chattering classes and online intelligentsia is the so-called “end of reading.” Two weeks ago, The Atlantic proclaimed that we are entering a “post-literate age.” NPR similarly asked, “Are we living through the end of reading?” Or from the New York Times, “Is This What a Post-Literate Era Looks Like?”… Continue reading The Long-Form Content Boom No One’s Talking About

Item #1: Trump weighs Iran war expansion as fresh US strikes target Hormuz shipping threats. The Iran war is fully “on,” just as I predicted all along since March. Trump is not even pretending there is going to be yet another “deal” or “ceasefire”. Such hopes evaporated 2 weeks ago. If you were on Twitter… Continue reading The Daily View 7/22/2026: Iran, Polymarket, Math, AI & Job Loss, Trump

This went viral today, “AI’s solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise.” Levent Alpöge at Harvard University wrote on X on 19 July that the Jacobian conjecture – which academics have spent decades trying to prove was true – is actually false, giving a tiny, 216-character counterexample as proof. I will admit I wish… Continue reading The Jacobian conjecture falls to AI

The big story is Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Florida on charges of rape and sex trafficking: LONDON – Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued 38 new charges against them, including allegations of rape and sex trafficking. The United Kingdom’s Crown Prosecution Service… Continue reading Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Florida

America appears under-policed compared to European countries, which have more police per capita: France has a higher police-to-population ratio than the United States. France averages roughly 330 to 452 police officers per 100,000 residents (depending on whether specialized paramilitary forces like the Gendarmerie are included), whereas the US averages about 210 to 220 sworn officers… Continue reading Why European-Style Policing Doesn’t “Work” in the US

I have long argued that AI will not hurt the status/prestige of elite colleges. This is because the difficulty and selectivity implicitly act as an IQ filter. Even if AI enables widespread cheating in coursework, admissions can still be based on assessments that are largely immune to AI, such as proctored SATs and mathematics competitions,… Continue reading Elite Colleges Will Survive AI. The Rest Need to Adapt.

This article went massively viral, “Why American ambulance rides are so expensive?” The focus is on ambulances, but it applies to all aspects of the US healthcare system. Ambulances are expensive for the same reasons the rest of American healthcare is expensive. There are factors unique to healthcare, and especially in America, that makes it… Continue reading Healthcare Is Expensive Because Americans Expect So Much from It