ZD 26.19: Living in Ted's World
How Ted Turner shaped the world we live in today.
🥊 Ted Turner vs Rupert Murdoch (The Myers Report)
Aside from inventing 24-hour news and marrying Jane Fonda, Ted Turner might be the only American who challenged Rupert’s news dominance.
✈️ Why Airlines Are Always Going Bankrupt (David Oks)
Airlines cannot be competitive and profitable at the same time.
🧾 Stop Microlooting the Tax Code (Very Serious)
Everyone thinks their tax cut is the reasonable one. All the carve-outs cost us all.
🪦 On Superpower Suicide (Thinking about...)
Great powers don’t fall — they jump, usually while telling themselves the ground is rising to meet them.
🐎 People Are Not Horses (Brian Albrecht)
Human labor does not behave like equine labor.
🧪 I Don’t Think We Are Close to “AI Scientists” (Understanding AI)
Models can summarize papers; they don’t know the right paper to write.
🧠 The Human-Clanker-Human Sandwich (Co-Write with AI)
Put the AI in the middle and the humans on the outside.
🚿 The Slop Cannons in Your Engineering Org (Handy AI)
Pull requests can be slop too.
🧱 Minimally Viable Consistency (The Beautiful Mess)
How to build alignment with a combination of sharp and flexible consistency and some understanding of locally driven but documented inconsistency.
🛸 Drones and Ancient Revolutions in Military Affairs (Stephen Bryen)
Every “revolution in military affairs” looks novel until you notice the Assyrians did it first.
💵 Tethered Italian Efficiency (Giovanni Foglietta)
Tether was built by two Italians. It has a dozen or so employees and a balance sheet strong enough to make a hostile €1.1 billion offer for Juventus.
The Look
AI is both increasingly powerful and ubiquitous. Regulation is likely according to Bruce Mehlman.
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