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A High Placed Source Tells Me…
The Government Shutdown is about to end. Here is the Democratic thinking on direction, strategy, and who can tick off wins, and who loses (from their perspective): There will be a vote soon ending the shutdown. It will extend funding until January 31. It will include three small appropriations bills
DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: DeepSeek Self-Censorship and Servers!
Anticipating that someone on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party would eventually ask about the independence, or lack thereof, of DeepSeek, which now as a generative AI platform seems to be spreading faster than Covid-19 did, I decided to ask both DeepSeek and ChatGPT the same question: Does the Central Committee of…
The Impact of Tariffs on Santa Claus and the North Pole: Ho Ho Ho!
This holiday, for the first time ever, I am giving some presentations on the world’s geopolitical and geo-economic fault lines on the really terrific Regent Seven Seas Explorer traveling between Australia and New Zealand.
Joe Biden Ends Reelection Bid
The debate around President Joe Biden’s ability to vigorously take on a second political battle with former President Donald Trump is over. President Biden, as he expresses in the note above, is withdrawing from the election and will focus on serving out his term.
Painting Outside the Lines: Widehall
We have created a new company, Widehall LLC — and launched it quietly last November and have built it step by step sinc