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Who Really Calls the Shots When Larry Ellison’s Billions Are “On the Table”?

When you hear that a billionaire is “backing” a big media deal, most people picture something concrete: a vault door swinging open, pallets of cash, and then it’s all wrapped up. But that's not how it usually plays out. Look at Larry Ellison’s role in Paramount’

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When the Fed Sounds Calm and Nervous at the Same Time

I was making coffee when a headline crawled across the TV: Fed cuts rates by 0.25%, and Powell says there's 'no risk-free path.' In one line you get a green light and a warning sign nailed to the same post. Lower rates are supposed to

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California’s 2026 Laws: Nice Slogans, Ugly Punch Lists

California’s 2026 laws on rentals, school smartphones, and AI look clean in headlines, messy in practice. I walk through how they’ll really work, who bears the load, and which parts are sturdy versus mostly talk.

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Fusion Is Not a Physics Race. It’s a Governance Contest.

Fusion is exposing a deeper race between China’s state-led model and America’s private-led model for high-risk innovation. Whoever commercializes fusion first will also export a template for how big, slow, civilization-scale bets get organized.

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Sitting at the Kitchen Table with the WHO

A new WHO review again finds no link between vaccines and autism. But trust isn’t built from headlines. It grows in small, honest conversations at kitchen tables, where fear is named, questions are welcomed, and science meets lived experience.

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The Chatbot, the Murder Case, and Our Hunger for Mechanical Certainty

A murder‑suicide lawsuit against OpenAI is really a case about how we outsource judgment to chatbots built to engage, not protect. When frightened people treat AI as an oracle, opaque systems make blame feel simple while the harder questions go untouched.

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What the Doctors’ Strike Teaches About Systems on the Brink

Resident doctors’ strikes in England aren’t just about pay. They’re a warning that workload, staffing, and training bottlenecks have pushed the NHS past its safety limits. Ignore that maintenance, and both staff and patients bear the cost.