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noahpinion.blog

Trump actually started to decouple America from China

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Multinationals have learned the painful lesson that when they put their factories in China, their technology will be appropriated by Chinese indigenous companies — often with the help of the Chinese government — and then later used to outcompete them in global markets.

platformer.news

The best argument I’ve heard for why AI won't take your job

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If you or I go and vibe-code something, we think we've replaced the engineer, replaced the accountant, replaced the lawyer. But then you actually look — that was the first 80% of the job. The extra 20%, it turns out, is all the value creation of that profession. All the expertise and domain knowledge is in that last 20%, not the text that got generated.

China Decode

The HIGH-STAKES Trump-Xi Summit Preview | China Decode

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I think for the first time ever it is the Chinese president more than the US president that is the person with the upper hand.

The New York Times

She Was Self-Taught – Then Wrote One of the Greatest Roots Albums of All Time

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I think there are advantages to being self-taught. You're not as inclined to follow the rules and that's important when you're trying to create.

The New York Times

What Satellite Images Reveal About Iran’s Attacks on U.S. Bases

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Amid the barrage of messages and misinformation swirling online and on Capitol Hill, about what damage U.S. military sites incurred during the conflict with Iran, a Times analysis of satellite imagery shows 18 sites in seven countries were hit.

themarginalian.org

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

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I do not have to win in order to know my dreams are valid, I only have to believe in a process of which I am a part. My work kept me alive this past year, my work and the love of women. They are inseparable from each other. In the recognition of the existence of love lies the answer to despair. Work is that recognition given voice and name.

wired.com

Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

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Famous for helping build Apple's iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world's most valuable data.

longreads.com

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

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The real, unsettling mechanism of Fallon's banal horror is its insistence on a radical non-engagement with reality: a position that, in our current political climate, is itself an aggressively political act.

The Business of Tech

The Business of Tech: AI is eating market research

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Market intelligence shouldn't sit in a forgotten PDF, but should be a constantly evolving, always accessible understanding of your customer.

honest-broker.com

Rick Beato Versus the NY Times

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I assumed that I was voting for the songwriters who would be included in the list. But I now see that the experts consulted by the Times only got to make nominations. The final 30 names were chosen by six New York Times music critics. There never was a real vote.

upstartsmedia.com

These Startups Can Capitalize On AI Security's Coming Boom (And Doom)

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And the redrawn rules of engagement for the AI era are bringing back into play certain security risks, like phishing and identity theft, that previously seemed mostly solved.

whyisthisinteresting

The Creative Parent Edition

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Unlike my children, my books are cruelly unforgiving of my weaknesses, failings, and flaws of character. Most of all, my books, unlike my children, do not love me back.

ai-supremacy.com

OpenAI's Momentum is Spiraling Down ▼

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While Google and Anthropic have executed well in their Generative AI efforts, OpenAI has fumbled their priorities while losing considerable marketshare over the last year.