Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Does the fate of the US economy now hinge on one company?

As the price of almost everything has increased, and American workers’ wages have all but stalled, politicians like President Donald Trump have tried to ease our minds by telling us that the economy is “doing great” and that the stock market is booming. “Record high, record high, record high,” Trump said at an event earlier […]

Castlevania’s Dracula is (almost) the best Dracula adaptation

Castlevania's Dracula captures all the important personality facets of Bram Stoker's monster in ways other Dracula adaptations often fail to do

The rhyme you might have missed in Hazbin Hotel season 2

Composer Sam Haft reveals an Easter Egg in Sir Pentious' song, Live to Live, as performed by Alex Brightman.

All the places I used my Trump Mobile wireless service this week

Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump Phone's whereabouts. As usual, we're still waiting for a response. In the meantime, we're testing the service on Trump Mobile's MVNO. Here's how that went. As I sat down at the bookstore […]

A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A look at ChatGPT's impact on US stocks three years after its release: AI mania revived Big Tech, making an already concentrated S&P 500 even more top heavy  —  Three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, setting off a mania on Wall Street for all things artificial intelligence.