Fueling Infrastructure
It's a shame that hydrogen fuel cells didn't work out for cars. On their face, fuel cells were natural successors to gasoline for consumer vehicles: the energy density by weight is...
Review: Interior Chinatown
Some 18 months ago, I noticed and wrote about the surge of Asian-American cinema in Hollywood. Crazy Rich Asians was the breakout movie, but Everything Everywhere All at Once made the movie subgenre mainstream, dominating...
Translating Culture
Before ChatGPT made AI mainstream, Google and others had already experimented with, successfully, adding aspects of machine learning to traditional rules-based language systems to get more accurate translations. LLMs, too, seem to do a pretty...
Tech Savvy Stasis
The other day, my dad forwarded me a screenshot of a Google Gemini-generated summary: some way, somehow, the capital gains tax rate for people over 55 can be 0%. Now, I'll grant that...
An Environment of Trust
About 2 years ago, a mini-banking crisis eventually caused several mid-sized banks to become insolvent and fail: the most notable being Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and First Republic Bank (FRB). It was a classic bank...
Financialization Endgame
2024 was a pretty rough year for the video game industry. Even though there were some great games released last year, workers continued to get laid off at a higher rate compared to 2023, and...