Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

AI: NOT READY TO REPLACE HUMANS JUST YET.

IT’S ALL THEY HAVE: Matt Vespa: Democrats’ Sudden Freakout Over Gerrymandering Is Starting to Make Sense. “The problem for Democrats is that there aren’t enough states to gerrymander. They’re tapped out, with deportations increasing, and blue states poised to lose electoral votes due to declining populations, the lifeblood of the Democratic Party is being drained, and they don’t know what to do. It’s what happens when you think demography is destiny. It’s not. The five new districts the GOP would supposedly claim with Texas’ new map are majority Hispanic.”

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Kinda like this:

HOW ABOUT THAT?

OUT: PUTIN RATTLES NUCLEAR SABER. IN: ‘There Can Be No Winner In A Nuclear War’: Russia Responds After Trump Dispatches Submarines: “… we believe everyone should be very careful about nuclear rhetoric.”

Related:

I REMEMBER WHEN I THOUGHT THE BLS WAS A BUNCH OF HARDCORE WONKS WHO ONLY CARED ABOUT GETTING THE DATA RIGHT:

Hard to believe I was ever that naive.

THE PREFERENCE CASCADE WILL COME, AND IF THERE’S JUSTICE POLITICIANS WILL HANG:

CONGRATULATIONS, BUT SUBORBITAL FLIGHTS AREN’T MUCH OF AN ACHIEVEMENT IN 2025: Blue Origin successfully completes another human flight.

10 or 15 years ago this would have been a big deal. I’d like to see Blue Origin going gangbusters, but . . .

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.