[Financial Times]: ‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter.

June 2, 2025Posted inAI Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Financial Times, Laurene Powell-Jobs, LoveFrom, San Francisco, Tech Companies, TechnologyNo Comments
By Matthew Garrahan, June 1, 2025. After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again https://www.ft.com/content/7f0a45b0-a3cc-4e1c-be71-1b7b42958d4d ‘Humanity deserves better’_ Jony Ive and Laurene…

[The Atlantic]: There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

February 18, 2025Posted inAnne Applebaum, Articles, Autocracy, Autocrats, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, Russell Vought, Steve Bannon, The Atlantic, Trump, Trump Administration
How regime change happens in America. By Anne Applebaum, February 13, 2025. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671 Summary of "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing: How Regime Change Happens in…

[The Guardian]: Mark Zuckerberg sports $900,000 watch as he calls time on Meta fact-checking

January 9, 2025Posted inKleptocracy, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, Tech Companies
Tech giant CEO wore Greubel Forsey ‘Hand Made 1’, which retails for $895,500, as he announced policy overhaul. By Léonie Chao-Fong, Tuesday, January 7, 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/zuckerberg-swiss-watch-meta-factchecking-video?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare…

[Slate]: Don’t Mistake Neil Gorsuch’s Abrupt Recusal for Actual Ethics. By Mark Joseph Stern

December 6, 2024Posted inBillionaires, Mark Joseph Stern, Neil Gorsuch, Philip Anschutz, Slate, Supreme Court
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/supreme-court-ethics-neil-gorsuch-recusal.html This is an interesting read. The simple statement "Gorsuch recused himself" is really misleading; there no self-awareness, lofty ethical stance; he was ultimately forced to the obvious, the right…