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Nobody Argues Back Anymore
DraftKings points its models at the bettors who lose most, seven in ten large companies can’t show an AI win, and dating apps drown in their own choice.
The Great Walk-Back
Employers mine your credit-card balances to lowball salaries, a Polish app hunts Meta glasses nearby, and nine streaming subscriptions now cost $702…
A Practical Futurist’s Guide to Not Losing Your Mind Over the AI Discourse This Week
Holy hell has it been a wild week in AI discourse.
Growth Up, Paychecks Down
Americans without degrees enjoy their best hiring market in decades, China’s record graduate class doesn’t, and kitchen-table Claude agents are…
Nobody’s Ready For This
Exploits now ship in minutes, drones dump packages in pools, insurance adjusters are revolting, and Loudoun County already lived this future twenty…

August 2026

Faster, Neater, No Better
Meta’s engineers shipped nothing extra, Oura gets sued over its sleep math, and founders now lose sleep babysitting agents that never do.
Cheap Intelligence, Expensive Companies
Working Theory #002
The Middle Can’t Afford AI
Meanwhile an AI manager fires a worker, Google pays $10M for a dead airline’s inbox, and broke startups resell their token credits at a discount.
Abundance Was the Pitch
China electrifies its cargo fleet, Amazon builds America’s dirtiest data center, and SAP freezes hiring to cover the AI bill.
The Bill for Agentic AI Lands on You, Not the Labs
Working Theory #001
Arrest the Protesters, Not the Agents
Corporate America finally got the AI invoice, Reddit’s user growth evaporated, and Google Earth will now fabricate satellite imagery on request.
Closing the Foresight-Action Gap
Seeing the future isn’t the same as building it.
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