All of these cute stories about robots running sub-4 min miles during a half marathon fail to mention how terrifying it will be when these things are hunting us for sport in 2029.

Perplexity Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

🤔 www.perplexity.ai/page/labor-s...

TMH (@thememoryhole) “Television…has made us heartless…Television has made it a lot of fun to kill people…In my own war, in the Second World War, it wasn’t any fun to look at a dead enemy…” -Kurt Vonnegut (1992)

substack.com/@thememoryho...

One Easy Pro-Consumer Trick Congress Will Never Pass Plus: Getting lost in the tunnels of a techno-thriller.

Entry one billion in why it would be nice to have a functioning Congress

J. Alex Greenwood (@alexgreenwood1)

New: substack.com/profile/2401...

No Sign of Yesterday by Men At Work on Apple Music Song · 1983 · Duration 6:33

music.apple.com/us/album/no-...

U.S.S. Pride

J. Alex Greenwood (@alexgreenwood1)

New: substack.com/profile/2401...

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

Yessssss www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

We Before Me: How Identity Starts Thinking for Us Tajfel's experiments, test pattern Trekkies, and the moment your loyalty starts doing your reasoning

New. 🪞 open.substack.com/pub/alex715/...

Hungary’s Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat

Hungary’s Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

The Day God Picked a Fight with Kansas City Season 3 finale, recorded live at True Crime Genre Con

substack.com/@kilingcityp...

Radical Competency vs. Corporate BS: Why Weak Thinking Often Learns to Dress for Management Radical Competency #12

Most of us have long suspected this stuff was nonsense; now, research suggests it may be worse than that. open.substack.com/pub/alex715/...

Radical Competency vs. Corporate BS: Why Weak Thinking Often Learns to Dress for Management Radical Competency #12

Radical Competency vs. Corporate BS: Why Weak Thinking Often Learns to Dress for Management
open.substack.com/pub/alex715/...

Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives

Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives

After citizens in Republican states used ballot measures to protect abortion, expand Medicaid and raise the minimum wage, statehouses are moving to make such initiatives much harder. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

Great day!

open.substack.com/pub/alex715/...

Perplexity Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.

www.perplexity.ai/search/has-n...

open.substack.com/pub/alex715/...

3 ships.

The Strait is not open.

U.S. Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low

U.S. Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire".

They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles.

What a disaster.

This Washington County school board member’s outrageous comment to a student has made it to People Magazine.

people.com/tenn-school-...

The U.S. had a national debt ‘home run’ in its grasp, says Jamie Dimon. But the government did nothing, and now its best option is crisis management “We haven’t had the will yet to actually deal with it, and it’s unfortunate because it can end up with a real problem, worse than it would otherwise have been. Good policy is free,” Dimon said.

finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

The Heat Travels Slowly In this episode of Mysterious Goings On, I read my latest essay, “The Heat Travels Slowly.” The short version: when I was five, my aunt told me not to touch the iron.

open.substack.com/pub/alex715/...

"Do You Feel In Charge ? " Scene - The Dark Knight Rises - HD YouTube video by CoolCoolMovies

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C_B...