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This kind of thing, these sort of charges, will freeze publishing. Publishers -- who tend to be risk averse given their slim margins -- will shun any material that could retrospectively be identified as "offensive" or "causing discomfort" etc. That means, in practice, pretty much all of what we call literary writing, because it depends on ambiguity, intellectual complexity, and layered, ancient, unresovable conflicts in the mind and in society. Only AI work will be trustworthy -- because it can be programmed to police itself according to all the current speech codes. It can even seamlessly update its own texts as those codes change. The codes of speech and thought and expression very quickly will become as complicated as the tax codes and most human authors will simply give up trying to comply with them. Though publishers will give up first, I expect.

The real reason is because the airlines know that AI assistants can break their dynamic pricing algorithms.

2100 = three generations from now. To get to 100 mil from 42 mil in 74 years entails population growth of a little less than 1.2 per cent per year. Actual population growth over the last 74 years: 1.44 per cent per year. So the scary, scary proposition that this professional fear-monger would like you to lose your mind over is ... to slow down population growth by about a fifth. No doubt if you had told people in 1952, when the population was less than 15 million, that Canada's population in 2026 would be nearly 42 million, they would have panicked, too. How will we ever feed all those people? How will we ever employ them? etc In fact, employment grew faster than population (4x vs 2.9x). Per capita GDP has more than quadrupled. etc etc. Or rather no, probably they wouldn't have panicked. Because our politics had not yet been overrrun by such chronic bed-wetters.

I didn’t expect this deal so soon but maybe ATH changed their plans. In order for $SCR.TO to be successful they need to get the majority of the minority at $GFR to agree to the terms which takes a relatively small number of shares. The deal structure is also super interesting.

🚨 BREAKING: GINA HINOJOSA ISSUES ELON MUSK WITH AN ULTIMATUM OVER TESLA’S OPERATIONS IN TEXAS. Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has announced plans to introduce significantly higher tax rates targeting Elon Musk’s companies operating in Texas, insisting that Tesla must comply with the state’s new tax requirements or reconsider its continued manufacturing operations in the state. Under the proposed terms, Tesla would be required to pay the increased tax rate to maintain its production operations, including Cybertruck manufacturing at its Texas Gigafactory, or face the possibility of having production halted. The development would mark a significant escalation in the political and business tensions surrounding Musk’s relationship with Texas’ incoming Democratic leadership.

Since I left Overstock 7 years ago I have had nothing to say, wanting to do nothing to jeopardize the firm's prospects. More recently there have been repeated requests to talk about those 20 years and my perspective on what has happened since I left. Here it is.

California city makes history allowing throuples, foursomes to legally register as partners trib.al/injZnvo