Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning take a look at incompetency, corruption and coverage failures:

• Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses: “Again and again, the claims of AI pitchmen become blatant lies. This has been the case since a minimum of the age of the Mechanical Turk, the 18th chess-playing automaton that was truly only a chess participant crammed into the bottom of an elaborate puppet that was exhibited as an autonomous, clever robotic. A lot AI seems to be low-waged individuals in a name middle within the World South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: “AI stands for ‘absent Indian’”  (Pluralistic)

• 23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Almost $0: From superstar ‘spit events’ to a drop within the bucket: The once-hot DNA-testing firm is struggling to revenue. (Wall Road Journal)

• The Struggle on ‘Woke Capital’ Is Backfiring: Republicans need to outlaw state funding in funds they see as tainted by progressive ideology. They’ll most likely simply get decrease returns. (The Atlantic)

• Company Self-Oversight: 4 auditing companies look at the books of almost each large U.S. firm, in a course of riddled with conflicts of curiosity. However federal monitoring is making a comeback below new management. (American Prospect)

• The Rooftop Photo voltaic Trade May Be on the Verge of Collapse: the residential photo voltaic business is floundering. In late 2023 alone, greater than 100 residential photo voltaic sellers and installers within the U.S. declared chapter, in line with Roth Capital Companions—six occasions the quantity within the earlier three years mixed. Roth expects a minimum of 100 extra to fail. The 2 largest firms within the business, SunRun and Sunnova, each posted large losses of their most up-to-date quarterly experiences, and their shares are down 86% and 81% respectively from their peaks in January 2021. (Time)

• Far-Proper Snowflakes Are Fearful of the Tremendous Bowl and Taylor Swift: The massive-brained powerful guys of on-line see the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ fourth Tremendous Bowl look in 5 years as proof of a Deep State psy-op. (Every day Beast) see additionally Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA Meltdown: The fulminations surrounding the world’s largest pop icon — and girlfriend of Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce — reached the stratosphere after Kansas Metropolis made it to the Tremendous Bowl. (New York Instances)

• Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter: The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t despite his success—it might have been the important thing to it. That’s the emergent lesson of “Milton Friedman: The Final Conservative,” a brand new mental biography by the Stanford historian Jennifer Burns. Regardless of appreciable entry to sources, and even Friedman’s kids, Burns by no means fairly pulls again the veil on her topic’s psychology. However her exhaustive account of Friedman’s underdog a long time does illuminate how the sphere of economics slowly polarized round his work. (New Yorker)

• Iranian agent recruited Hells Angels in murder-for-hire plot: The plot is the newest in a rising checklist of interrupted Iranian-backed plots towards regime dissidents around the globe, together with on U.S. soil. (Job and Function)

• A federal decide is fed up with these defending the Jan. 6 rioters:  “So let me set the document straight … this was not a protest that bought out of hand. It was a riot; in lots of respects a coordinated riot. … ‘Protesters’ would have merely shared their views on the election — as did 1000’s that day who didn’t strategy the Capitol. However those that breached and occupied the Capitol constructing and grounds halted the counting of the electoral faculty votes required by the twelfth Modification. The rioters interfered with a needed step within the constitutional course of, disrupted the lawful switch of energy, and thus jeopardized the American constitutional order. Though the rioters failed of their final aim, their actions nonetheless resulted within the deaths of a number of individuals, damage to over 140 members of legislation enforcement, and lasting trauma for our total nation. This was not patriotism; it was the antithesis of patriotism.” (Washington Put up)

• Will You Vote for Trump Once more? It’s the query weighing on Republicans throughout the nation. However Iowans get to resolve first. Jesse Gutierres believes just one Republican candidate will restore confidence within the economic system. Kelly Nieuwenhuis needs to maneuver past the chaos. Shannon Demastus needs a president she may be happy with. We listened as they grappled with their selections. (New York Instances)

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