Today's Soap Operas – Coronation Streeting, Eastenders, And Succession

Europe Scrambles For Innovation And Defense As US Decouples From "Global Order" For decades the European elites have pretended as if US integration into the progressive agenda is an afterthought on the way to a liberal Utopia.  The EU has long criticized Americans as backwards in their principles and politics, while at the same time being desperately dependent on American consumers, American innovation and American military might.  They simply never considered the possibility that the US might walk away from the old post-war arrangements. Well, now it's happening and the European...

ADP Employment Reports Shows Better Than Expected Job Gains, Accelerating Wages Hiring and pay gains both held steady in March. The ADP National Employment report printed a better than expected +62k jobs added in March (+40k exp) and modestly down from an upwardly revised 66k in February. That is the ninth straight month of job gains. Source: Bloomberg The smallest employers drove job growth for a second month, while hiring in trade, transportation, and utilities continued to decline. "Overall hiring is steady, but job growth continues to favor certain industries, including health care. In March,...

Zuck Torches Dario's AI Nanny State, Wants 'Trust Us Bro' Instead After Anthropic's Dario Amodei set off a firestorm on Saturday calling for a 'pause' in AI development until hand-picked arbiters are installed inside the frontier labs (a gift to Beijing), Mark Zuckerberg sided with the testosterone wing of the tech-bro complex with a builder's response: police yourselves. You don't need anyone's permission - or a cartel, to do it. Mark Zuckerberg macrodoses mushrooms and fights Dario Amodei in his mindspace (probably) Amodei published a 3,800-word essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier"...