Liberation Day, Year One: What the Tariffs Actually Built
89,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, a permanently smaller economy, $166B in refunded wrongly-collected tariffs, and a policy regime running on borrowed legal authority. The anniversary ledger.
89,000 fewer manufacturing jobs, a permanently smaller economy, $166B in refunded wrongly-collected tariffs, and a policy regime running on borrowed legal authority. The anniversary ledger.
AI IPO wave, Guardrails Alliance super PAC, Amazon retaliation, token minimization economics, Jack Clark on alignment, boot security deadline, and training data transparency.
Token minimization, the Guardrails Alliance, Amazon retaliation, Zoph out at OpenAI, Guadagnino’s Altman film dropped, LLM bottleneck claims, and Jensen Huang’s preferred governance frame.
The US government just demonstrated it can shut down frontier AI systems globally. Before declaring that a win, the safety movement should ask who's holding the switch — and what they intend to do with it.
Schoenbrun's third film completes a triptych about constructed selfhood — immersion, burial, emergence. The killer is called Little Death. The trilogy's happiest film is also its most radical: the self made by others can still be inhabited from within.