"Cuba would be harder than Venezuela to reconstruct, both politically and economically." "Every option is fraught. A deal big enough to satisfy Messrs Trump and Rubio looks hard to achieve; military action may fail to accomplish what diplomacy has not." https://t.co/9Q9C2P9x9f
@KatyKelleher A footnote to your National Geographic color photo story: that "unidentified landscape" has a pretty distinct horizon profile, and I bet the OSINT types could locate the place pretty easily.
"A more radical option is to offer workers direct stakes in the progress of AI. One way to do this would be to spread ownership of the companies developing the technology more widely, whether by handing out shares or through sovereign-wealth funds." https://t.co/Vn33dfdNF1
"If political violence committed in the president’s name is not only tolerated but actively rewarded, it could take this already bleak timeline somewhere much, much darker." https://t.co/iTWxf1XBIk
Futurist at the movies microreview: "Escape from New York," which came out 45 years ago today. Many American cities are doing better than they were in 1981; the chance of great power war dropped since then, but is now rising again.
@gmail In the last few days Gmail in iOS has been duplicating draft emails but erasing the content and replacing it with the subject line. The empty duplicates multiply.
This is one of the simplest maps that explains how power is shifting in the world -- and how this isn't the Cold War, during which the USSR was peripheral. https://t.co/5rrUCja0dW