Heavy
winter snows
whitened the trees.
They turned the branches
shivering in the wind
into filigrees.
Archives for December 2025
Goodbye to 2025
Beneath
that commanding sky
helicopters beat the air
like motorcycles
flying by.
Cut, Paste, Print: a Graphic History of Political Montage
The exhibition opened recently at La Contemporaine (associated with Paris Nanterre University). It runs through March 14, 2026. Have a look at a few of the montages.
Krugman and Kedrosky
A Most Enlightening Conversation About AI & Its Future
As a longtime reader of Paul Krugman’s columns, I can say without hesitation that this is his best Substack conversation yet about AI and its ramifications. Thanks to Paul Kedrosky’s clarity, I understand a helluva lot more of what is going on than I did until now.
DOGE Has Evolved from Chainsaw to Ticks
Today’s headline at WIRED is a reminder of “Billboard Proposal #2,” which was posted seven months ago. And now that Elon Musk’s chainsaw has evolved, this is not so much an I-told-you-so as confirmation of his so-far inescapable assault. Let us also not forget “Billboard Proposal #1.”