"Three decades of underfunding and an increasingly bloated bureaucracy have taken a heavy toll." from @TheEconomist 

A classic example of "why not both?"

JPMORGAN: "Don't look up: A debt ceiling primer"

GOLDMAN SACHS (Hatzius): All major economies (except the UK) now look likely to avoid recession this year.

Great, great point: "CEOs are paid for performance not because they would refuse to work without the carrot of an extra yacht, but because it is human to want to be recognised for a job well done" via @cepr_org 

"Individuals need further protections: it is one thing to train AI software on a mass of material, but what if someone feeds in the works of a single living artist and then asks for a new sketch in her style?"

Earth is conducive to life only because the Big Bang led to molecules of water and atoms of carbon. They need not, however, have been included in a post-Bang universe. For some theologically inclined people, this fact means that we are a cosmic imperative.

Meta’s cap­i­tal ex­pen­di­tures have more than dou­bled over the past two years ... and "sub­stan­tially all” of an ad­di­tional $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion that the com­pany planned to spend on data cen­ters in 2023 would go to­ward AI.

Three episodes into @ThePeripheralPV . Outstanding.

Thinking about the future of US transportation