DAVID FRIEDMAN: The AI Boom Is an Infrastructure Supercycle.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
June 17, 2025
June 16, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.
WE NEED TO DEVELOP ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY AND ANTIGRAVITY: Why space wrecks the human body.
SHE’S NOT WRONG:
No place on the planet has ever in history been better for white progressive women with bullshit college degrees than America in 2025, and there's no place in time they hate more.
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) June 15, 2025
GEEZERVILLE:
Redditors are beginning to notice. pic.twitter.com/tw2ES8AaLx
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) June 16, 2025
ADVICE TO BRITONS:
So make them fear you. https://t.co/oDoYkhxU4l
— @instapundit (@instapundit) June 16, 2025
Honestly, I think their worst fear is an uprising by native Britons, which is why they’ve used a mixture of misinformation and intimidation to keep the response suppressed. But at this point I can imagine politicians hanging from lampposts.
FLASHBACK: QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED IN THE SAME HEADLINE: Fewer teens having sex, doing drugs but more are depressed.
CONSEQUENCES TEACH LESSONS:
Protestors in Seattle avoid Tesla Cybetruck due all the cameras it has.
"Don't touch it they have cameras. For your safety don't touch the car." https://t.co/ExsL78O9B4
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) June 15, 2025
NAMASTE, NOW OBEY: The velvet glove of virtue signaling.
FOR ONE THING, TRUMP HAS CUT OFF MOST OF THE MONEY THEY USED TO USE TO HIRE RIOTERS: Why 2025 Won’t be Summer of Love 2.0…Despite the Violent Left’s Best Efforts.
“THE GREATEST TIME WASTER IN HUMAN HISTORY,” DAVID SARNOFF CALLED IT. 100 years ago, the battle for television raged.
NEW FRONTIERS IN IMAGING: Scientists detect light passing through entire human head, opening new doors for brain imaging. “To achieve this, the team used powerful lasers and highly sensitive detectors in a carefully controlled experiment. They directed a pulsed laser beam at one side of a volunteer’s head and placed a detector on the opposite side. The setup was designed to block out all other light and maximize the chances of catching the few photons that made the full journey through the skull and brain.”
WHY HURRICANES AND TYPHOONS DON’T CROSS THE EQUATOR. I figured they were just afraid of being hazed by King Neptune.
HMM: Study: Lesbian, gay, bisexual medical students less likely to graduate. The story suggests discrimination as a cause, but I’d suspect it’s at least as likely that inferior students are admitted as part of DEI efforts, and then can’t cut it. Obviously we need to lower the standards until they can!
ICYMI: NO KINGS, JUST COMMISSARS? I report from “No Kings” Boston.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES:
It keeps the kings away, I assume. https://t.co/QQnyYAfzbq
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 16, 2025
UPDATE (From Ed): Scott Walker: California’s failures on homelessness, drugs and crime show it’s time for real change.
THE “HAVE YOU NO DECENCY” CROWD IS, AS USUAL, ON SHAKY GROUND:
Marxists murdered 100 million people who they thought were preventing them from getting their way. https://t.co/eWhsY5ESPd
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) June 16, 2025
HE’S NOT WRONG:
Sorry to say, but academia — particularly in the humanities and social sciences — is politically corrupted, beyond redemption at this point. https://t.co/jbpVr2aeU3
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) June 15, 2025
THIS APPROACH ALWAYS WORKS WHEN TRIED. THE REASON IT’S NOT TRIED MORE IS THAT IT’S INSUFFICIENTLY PRODUCTIVE OF GRAFT:
What Poland did:
1. Embrace capitalism & free markets, lots of deregulation and making it easier to start businesses
2. Enforce the rule of law so people feel safe and businesses can take risks
3. Immigration reform focused on Selective Migration – policy favors migrants who… https://t.co/dpGDurpetF
— Tweets from Zach Weinberg (@zachweinberg) June 14, 2025
BAD FAITH: Another UNC system administrator gets caught on camera defending efforts to protect DEI.
She looks exactly like you’d imagine a determined defender of mediocrity would look.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. A Fatherless Nation Cannot Prosper.
Hence the war on fathers. “In 1965, nearly 80% of Black children were raised in two-parent homes.”
JOEL KOTKIN: AI is killing jobs and fuelling campus radicalism.
Today we may again be creating an assertive and angry class — as evidenced in the recent LA riots and the pro-Palestine protests on US campuses over the last year and a half — made up of degree holders. We can see this in recent reports that show the job market getting tougher for graduates. Hit hardest are those professionals on the “soft” side of the economy (finance, accounting, law, coding) whose jobs are increasingly threatened by the rise of artificial intelligence.
These industries tend to have a higher proportion of humanities graduates and countries in the West more generally have a problem with elite overproduction. As AI grows, there won’t be enough jobs to go round, and even if those graduates do get a job, their employers, with so many candidates to choose from, won’t pay well.
Related: The Coming “Symbolic Analyst” Meltdown. “As Eric Hoffer wrote, ‘Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.'”