A movement for public power has grown over the past several years, especially in Michigan, where advocates want more accountability from the state’s investor-owned utilities. As our experience in Lansing highlights, local and municipal is certainly more accountable, but not unequivocally better.
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We’ve heard a lot about how new AI products are being foisted upon virtually every workplace. Doesn’t seem like it’s
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The peculiar thing about news these days is that we’ll spend months waiting for something, but then, when it finally
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Not a day goes by in 2025 without some egregious display of incompetence, overtly contemptuous behavior, or general foolishness from
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An unprecedented collapse in international imports in the second quarter meant that US consumers were … well, still spending plenty of money importing things from foreign countries!
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Trump continues to tout the value of trade deals, even though we’re now paying billions more in tariffs– that we weren’t paying a year ago. It’s a sign of an increasingly chaotic environment of market information, and one that markets seem to be completely unfazed by. For now.
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Humans like smells that remind us of nature. Can corporate-led fragrance chemistry convince our primitive brains that we’re actually in nature when we’re in a hotel lobby?
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The chaotic trade declarations coming out of the White House- which resembles less strategic public policy with a defined end goal, and more unstructured bloviating for the purpose of grandstanding, is doing weird things to markets and businesses.
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News broke over the weekend that a Chinese-developed, open-source large language model AI product is delivering comparable results to ChatGPT’s
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I spent part of the winter shopping around for a good computer setup that could handle the withering demands of
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