Alexander Panetta
@Alex_Panetta
For 28 years: a journalist @ CBC, POLITICO, CP. Next: Getting a master’s in Artificial Intelligence management at Georgetown.
Artificial Intelligence is a totally new area of focus for me. And it’s been fun. I’ve plunged into reading about it, to prep for school. I’m beginning at, well, the beginning…..
The Pantheon. 10:30 am and 11:30 am. Showing the effect of the light descending to floor level, positioned perfectly to illuminate the doorway every year at noon on Rome’s birthday, April 21, as the emperor entered as if illuminated by a celestial spotlight. Heck of a visual…
The superhighway of the ancient world. The beginning, middle, and end of the old Appian Way. As seen in Rome, Puglia, and by the port of Brindisi which connected the trading routes of Rome to Greece and lots of other places. 🍷 🫒 🥖 🌶️
A definitive history of marketing hype in the AI sector, with Artificial General Intelligence as the current pot at the end of the rainbow used to assuage antsy venture capitalists that their hundreds of billions in investments will, eventually, totally, pay off.…
The most predictable own-goal in recent history. The U.S. can do this to many countries but didn’t have the leverage here.
My latest column Trump's bullying of Brazil is backfiring, spectacularly A senior Brazilian diplomat told me: Bolsonaro and his allies “got what they worked for — a severe threat against the whole country and its economy — and now not only part of their voters, but especially…
An entire WSJ article about why US soda-makers don't use cane sugar (spoiler: we don't "make enough" lol) and not a single mention of highly-restrictive US sugar quotas that keep prices here WAY above global levels? Cmon, man. wsj.com/business/the-p…
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First born children have higher IQ than their siblings.
Crazy to think Andrew Johnson is the only impeached President who never flew on Epstein's plane
Via @angusreidorg: Half of Canadians say Canadian officials should hold firm on supply management in tariff talks with US. Only 15% of Canadian polled indicated that PM Carney should offer to end the dairy-quota program as part of new economic deal. angusreid.org/canada-united-…
Probably one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century - from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)
If I was a NIMBY in the year 2025, I would be apoplectic right now. The YIMBYs are on an unstoppable winning streak with no end in sight!
Chicago just voted to abolish parking minimums around transit, and New Hampshire just capped them at one space statewide. It feels so good to win.
WSJ: Trump decided to give Ukraine not 2, but 5 Patriot systems — after seeing Russia bomb a maternity hospital in Kharkiv and a residential block in Kherson (killing a 1-year-old). He immediately called Merz on July 11 and made the offer. 1/
This is the Fed chair Trump himself personally appointed after reports, citing multiple sources, that he feared the previous Fed chair was…. too short, in terms of feet and inches in physical stature. cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/28…
Trump on Powell: “I was surprised he was appointed” (Trump appointed him)
Asked whether he's planning to fire Chair Powell, President Trump says just now: "No, we're not planning on doing anything," Trump says. "We're very concerned. ... I just want to see lower interest rates."
NEW: President Donald Trump is likely to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell soon, a White House official said, and discussed the possible move in a meeting with congressional Republicans on Tuesday night. @josh_wingrove bloomberg.com/news/articles/…