Seven items from the past fortnight, all of them assembled from public data. Three of them describe activity that is falling while the pressure behind it rises, which is the harder pattern to write…
The most consequential development of the weekend for Israel happened about 1,000 kilometres away, in the Hejaz. Saudi Arabia shut its East-West pipeline on Friday after a drone attack on the line and…
The stated cause of today’s move is clean enough. Dario Amodei argued for a slower pace of frontier development, Sam Altman backed the idea of pacing, and AI-linked semiconductors sold off through…
Heaven has a numbers problem. Hardly anyone passes the entrance exam any more, intake has dried up, and management is close to writing the whole century off. Hell has the opposite trouble, which is…
A fortnight of coverage doesn’t usually resolve into a single argument, and this one doesn’t either. What it does have is a repeated shape. In nearly every story worth reading this month, something…
Vertical frame, black and white, shot from a boat on the East River. The underside of the Manhattan Bridge fills the top two thirds and runs away to a vanishing point at the tower pier. One Manhattan…
Pont Marengo crosses the Nive in Bayonne between Grand Bayonne and Petit Bayonne, and it’s one of the best places in town to stand with a camera. This winter frame looks across to the Maison…
I have never found much to agree with in anything Donald Trump says about technology, and I’m not going to pretend his grasp of what these systems actually do extends past the marketing. He talks…
Lululemon reported its second quarter in early September and the market spent about fifteen minutes deciding what it meant. The stock fell 18% and briefly traded under $100. Sales in the Americas,…
Three frames from a protest, stacked one above the other. No hinges, no gold, no saints, nothing devotional anywhere in it. It still reads as a triptych, and the reason has almost nothing to do with…