AI Hypotheticals

The Viral Citrini Substack Post That's Sparking New AI Worries on Wall Street
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-tariffs-02-23-2026/card/the-citrini-substack-selloff-70cWx0scioiLradyuTRa
 
THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
https://substack.com/home/post/p-188821754
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future. 

Alternative Viewpoint: Ignore the AI Hysteria
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/ignore-the-ai-hysteria-b64eac84

Economics and Politics - US Edition

Trump’s Challenge to Free Market Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/business/economy/trump-republicans-economy-capitalism.html
Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?
 
New Yorkers will pay for this Instead of making government work, Mamdani plans to tax and spend his way to affordability
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/20/mamdani-nyc-budget-affordability-crisis/ 

International Diversification

U.S. investors are pulling money out of their own stock market at the fastest pace in at least 16 years as Big Tech returns fade and better-performing overseas markets look more attractive.
https://www.reuters.com/business/buy-america-bye-america-wall-street-exodus-gathers-pace-2026-02-20/ 

The Past and the Future

Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/history-hope-delusion.html 

Tech and the Human Brain

How technology is reshaping our minds
https://www.ft.com/content/b56fcaba-b36d-44f1-affa-24a049a66638
Competing demands on our attention are undermining our ability to focus.
 
FT’s Tej Parikh notes:
Technology is designed to create efficiency. It allows us to search, retrieve and analyze data faster, freeing us for higher thinking.
But humans have an inbuilt evolutionary tendency to conserve cognitive energy and seek out dopamine hits. Market economies optimize for this. As mental friction is engineered away, the tools we need for deeper cognition risk atrophying. For example, sustained concentration helps strengthen attention, tackling long texts deepens comprehension and forming arguments without prompts builds originality. 

Gorillaz - New Track [MUSIC]

Gorillaz - Orange County ft Bizarrap, Kara Jackson, Anoushka Shankar
https://youtu.be/QO7b_xX-Z-g
https://youtu.be/X70VHzox6uA 

Humanity's Demise

Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher
Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible?