Bridging the Divide: The Phone Call That Could Reshape U.S.-China Relations
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The Ouroboros of Intelligence: AI’s Unfolding Crisis of Collapse
Somewhere in the outskirts of Tokyo, traffic engineers once noticed a peculiar phenomenon. A single driver braking suddenly on a highway, even without cause, could ripple backward like a shockwave. Within minutes, a phantom traffic jam would form—no accident, no obstacle, just a pattern echoing itself until congestion became reality. Motion created stasis. Activity masked collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F_F2ajqvjw Welcome to the era...
Behind the Curtain: A White-Collar Bloodbath, Sponsored by Disruption™
Satirical Business & Career Intelligence AI Didn’t Steal Your Job—Your CEO Did, With a Slightly More Efficient Spreadsheet By TheMORKTimes | May 29, 2025 In a revelation that surprised absolutely no one with an Outlook calendar and a soul slowly eroded by Slack notifications, AI pioneer Dario Amodei has issued a chilling warning: Artificial Intelligence is poised to eviscerate entry-level white-collar jobs...
Our Thoughts on Axios’s “AI white-collar bloodbath”
It begins, as these things often do, not with a bang but with a memo — one that quietly circulates among executives, policy wonks, and press inboxes, whispering the same unsettling thought: This time might be different. Not because we’ve built smarter machines — we’ve done that before. But because the machines now whisper back. They write emails, draft...
The Worker’s Dilemma in the Age of AI: What UNDP missed and got it right in their 2025 report
The 2025 Human Development Report from the UNDP, titled “A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI,” makes an urgent and timely appeal: that the rise of artificial intelligence must not leave people behind. Its human-centric framing is refreshing, reminding us that AI should be designed for people, not just profits. But when viewed from...
Beyond the Why: Building Learning Cultures in a World Without Certainty
In a world obsessed with frameworks, formulas, and foolproof plans, one ancient skeptic reminds us of a simple, uncomfortable truth: we’re all just making it up as we go. Long before “future-ready” became a LinkedIn headline, Agrippa the Skeptic warned that any attempt to justify knowledge would end in one of three dead ends — an infinite regress of...
The Economics of a Disrupted Workforce: When the Bet on Bots Backfires [Part1]
In 1589, William Lee invented the stocking frame knitting machine, only to have Queen Elizabeth I refuse a patent with the words: "Consider thou what the invention could do to my poor subjects who get their living by knitting?" Fast-forward 400 years, and we’re still doing the same dance—this time with AI instead of knitting frames. We now romanticize disruption...
