Abiodun Adedeji

So 2024. What both parties miss is that AI can be a great government vs business equalizer. If government hires people willing and able to learn how to use the same AI available to everyone, from any number of domestic model makers, it has the opportunity to serve Americans, adequately at worst, more productively and effectively , if done well and transparently The more efficient government is, the harder companies have to work to outperform it. That makes for more opportunity. What both parties have to realize is that the problem that will accelerate in this new world is crony capitalism. Both parties excel at giving our taxpayer money to their friends. Like all new technologies, AI will create new pockets of wealth that will try to buy our politicians. From both parties. The more transparency we require in government, the more we respect the right of the people to challenge that largesse, the more we restrict the ability of politicians to receive dark money , and reward their friends, the better the quality of life will be across the country. Whether you like it or not, AI has changed everything, except , our government , our politics and our politicians. Which have not changed at all. So here we are. Talking about parties and politicians that are thinking in the past. Like it’s still 2024. That’s a problem for all of us.

Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.

Give me an example of that difference, please.

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology. China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

BREAKING! Iran just struck US targets in Kuwait after the US struck Qeshm today. Also, alarms just went off in Bahrain, seems Iran is striking there too. Iranian source tells me Iran has stopped playing the tit-for-tat game. Instead, it's now striking back "at least 1.5x as hard" for every attack the US against Iran.

The British government is saying they're banning me because I am "a serious risk to the public order" due to my criticism of Israel. They say that my charge that Israel controls the American government through donations to 94% of Congress, while factual, is antisemitic nonetheless. Don't know if facts will soon be banned in Britain. I didn't get banned for criticizing the UK, but for criticizing Israel. They broke the irony record by saying it was because I said Israel might control other governments. I wonder if they're going to ban themselves. Think about it - if I had said that the Israeli government controls the British government so thoroughly that they'll ban someone from coming to the UK just for criticizing Israel, they would have said that was an antisemitic statement. This is absolutely Kafkaesque.

Trump claims his strikes haven't really hurt the Iranian military: "We've actually left their military alone. People would be surprised to hear that."

🇮🇷 The IRGC Navy turned back vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz without coordinating with Iran's new Persian Gulf Strait Authority. Iran is enforcing its permit system in real time, the same night it fired a ballistic missile at Kuwait and launched 5 drones at U.S. forces. Source: Tasnim News

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and longtime State Dept. official Victoria Nuland debate international relations scholars Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, co-authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, on whether “Iran is a monster.”