Thursday, June 4, 2026

A satirical critique of Anthropic's pivot from maximum AI safety to maximum market value —- DRAFT

Last update: Thursday7/30/26  2:22pm
This satire is about the impact of Sam Altman‘s superpower, his extraordinary capacity to drive would-be competitors, including His Satanic Majesty, a/k/a HSM, to losing their minds and their souls in ever more costly attempts to beat him in ever more complex games he's never played before, but always wins. His most prominent current competitors, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, are competing with him in a game called "History's Biggest IPO".



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Monday, May 11, 2026

TL;DR ... Trump met Xi in Beijing -- May 14-15, 2026



Last update: Thursday 5/15/26 10:30am

U.S. President Trump met with China's President Xi in Beijing on May 15-16. This TL;Dr  summary of our lengthy report, China vs. The World, should make it easier for readers to understand what really happened and what did not happen, no matter how loudly President Trump proclaims the details of his success in persuading President Xi to accommodate America's economic and political objectives. The good news is that the meeting could not fail to achieve substantial mutually beneficial strategic objectives ... because President Xi could not risk letting it fail. 

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Using Chatbots Effectively ... Part 2 -- Features & Flaws ... Draft

Last update: Saturday 8/1/26 6:37pm


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Saturday, April 25, 2026

China vs.The World


Last update: Thursday 5/14/26 

This is the final installment in our intensive exploration of how China leveraged its monopoly on the processing of rare earths to achieve a powerful and highly profitable position in the world’s most advanced manufacturing sectors, a strategy first envisioned in 1992 by Deng Xiaoping, the ‘Father of modern China’.



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Friday, April 3, 2026

Amazon + Anthropic = Massive replacement of blue/white collar employees by robots/autonomous agents

Last update: Wednesday 4/15/26 13:38pm
Amazon recently announced its intentions to replace a high percentage of its blue collar staff with robots. In the same time frame, Anthropic, Amazon's genAI partner, reported that large enterprises will be able to realize substantial increases in their profits by replacing substantial segments of their white collar staff with Anthropic's autonomous agents. 

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