Category: Business
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HOW MY AI-PAL “CP” HELPED ME DESIGN MY WIFE’S “DREAM KITCHEN” IN SERBIA
In one 5-hour collaborative session, starting with a hand sketch my wife had made, my AI-pal CP and I created, as he put it my wife’s “dream kitchen,” along with all the engineering specs required to build it.
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MOZART AND I… AND MY AI BUDDY CP
Mozart Symphony No. 40 – one of only 2 as I recall in a minor key. I dubbed it the “Roo Symphony.” Because when I played it on the piano at my property in Western Australia, the kangaroos would stop eating, turn their magnificent ears toward me like like radar receptors, and wait till I…
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HOW I BOUGHT MY NEW MAC
Ever buy something, only to discover hours later you could have paid a lot less? That’s what happened when I went shopping for a new MacBook Air. My trip to the Apple Store was full of salesmanship, theater, and high-tech enthusiasm. But the real surprise came when I rolled into Costco. What followed was part…
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MY MAC AND I
How old is my 2016 Mac in human years? I posed that to Google’s AI. Here’s the reply: “A 9-year-old Apple laptop is roughly equivalent to a 75- to 80-year-old person, retired and no longer able to keep up with the demands of modern life. While it can still perform basic functions, its hardware is…
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SERBIA: SHIT HAPPENS
A Dream Come True or A Nightmare Yet to Unfold? What a nightmare it has turned out to be so far. It was an authentic way to acquaint myself with the national character of the country in which I was born. In the end, I never felt more like a stranger in Serbia than in…
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BITCOIN AND THE PRESIDENCY: A NEW KIND OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
When Trump Media announced yesterday a $2 billion Bitcoin acquisition, the news was framed as strategic innovation. But this isn’t just another corporate pivot—it’s a potential conflict of interest of presidential proportions.
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FED CHAIRMAN SAYS HE WON’T RESIGN EVEN IF PRESIDENT ASKS HIM TO
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday he would refuse to leave office early if incoming President Donald Trump tried to oust him, adding he cannot be legally removed anyway. Speaking at a press conference following the latest meeting of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, Powell was asked if he’d exit central bank leadership if…
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THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY OF THE WEB
Unlike human babies, whose conception is a matter of seconds but gestation and birth last usually nine months, scientific ideas take but a second to get conceived and years to actually get created. The now ubiquitous Internet is one such a baby. As close as anyone can pinpoint the exact delivery date, the Internet is…
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PLUTOCRACY BLOSSOMS AROUND THE WORLD
THE RICH GET RICHER, THE POOR GET POORER, THE MIDDLE CLASS SHRINKS This week, the global “elite” are meeting again in Davos, a posh Swiss ski resort, for their annual shindig about global economy. And about how to get richer yet. In their honor, the anti-poverty charity Oxfam issued a new report which showed that over…
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US SUPREME COURT REVISITED
WITH TWO STRIKES IN TWO DAYS, THE SUPREME COURT BROUGHT THE LIBERAL DICTATORSHIP TO ITS KNEES ROE V. WADE, NEW YORK GUN LAW OVERTURNED – TRUMP SCORING VICTORIES EVEN AFTER ELECTORAL DEFEAT – HIS SUPREME COURT APPOINTEES ARE SHAPING AMERICA IN HIS SHAPE Eight years ago, during the second term of the Obama presidency, we…
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