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The hubris arc: How visionary politicians turn into authoritarians
 What turns a democratically elected leader into an authoritarian? The process is rarely abrupt. It unfolds gradually and is often justified as a necessary reform. It is framed as what the people wanted. All this makes it difficult for citizens to recognize what is happening until it's too late.
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WorkWorkWorkThe New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race - The Atlantic (No paywall) Yesterday evening, Sam Altman shared an image of the Death Star on X. There was no caption on the picture, which showed the world-destroying Star Wars space station rising over an Earth-like planet, but his audience understood the context. In fewer than 24 hours, OpenAI would release an AI model intended to wipe out all the rest. WorkDid we just lose $7 billion for solar? What are the grants for? The money the administration is targeting is intended to help with solar panel installation for low- and middle-income households and has been awarded to 60 entities, including 49 state agencies, as part of the Solar for All program. The program is a legacy of the Inflation Reduction Act, the 2022 law that dedicated nearly $370 billion to clean energy, electric vehicle tax breaks, and more. 
WorkWorkMcKinsey and its peers need a strategic rethink - The Economist (No paywall) Since the birth of management consultancy at the turn of the 20th century, people have questioned its usefulness. Bosses of firms that hire consultants are paid lavishly to define a vision and corral their teams into achieving it. Why would they ask a bunch of jet-setting know-it-alls who have never run anything but a spreadsheet calculation how to do their job? WorkWork 
WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkWhy the Germans are falling out of love with beer - The Economist (No paywall) SUMMON THE idea of the German at play, and chances are you see a rosy-cheeked Lederhosen- or Dirndl-clad youngster bearing half a dozen overflowing steins of beer. Never mind thatas the rest of Germany will hasten to remind youyou have taken Bavaria as a synecdoche for the entire country. The real problem with this image is that Germans are losing their taste for the tipple that once defined them. Work 
WorkTrump is making CEOs' business his business - WSJ (No paywall) President Trump took his penchant for telling corporate bosses how to run their companies to another level Thursday by publicly calling on Intels chief executive to resign. The move wasnt out of character: Trump has told Detroit carmakers not to raise prices and demanded Walmart eat the tariffs." Hes pressured the Washington Commanders football team to change its name and wants Coca-Cola to use cane sugar instead of corn syrup. WorkWorkWork 
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WorkWorkHubble Space Telescope takes best picture yet of the comet visiting from another solar system The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released the latest photos Thursday. The interstellar comet was discovered last month by a telescope in Chile. Astronomers originally estimated the size of its icy core at several miles across, but Hubble's observations have narrowed it down to no more than 3.5 miles. It's only the third known object from another solar system to pass our way. It poses no threat to Earth. WorkWork 
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WorkWorkWorkYou Say Potato, Evolution Says Tomato - Scientific American (No paywall) Nine million years ago, in the shadow of the rising Andes Mountains, a key ancestor of the beloved modern-day potato was born. And now new research shows this pivotal eventand the mashed, baked and fried bounty it routinely delivers todayonly happened with crucial help from another treasured kitchen staple: the tomato. WorkDonald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air - The New Yorker (No paywall) That Donald Trump would end up shouting from the rooftops of Washington is not, in and of itself, all that surprising; that he did so in actuality and not just metaphorically was a bit of a shock. Sir, why are you on the roof? one journalist asked, when the President suddenly appeared on the flat-top exterior of the White House this week. Taking a little walk, the President replied. The unusual photo op captured Trump, accompanied by his architect, surveying from on high how his planned two-hundred-million-dollar, ninety-thousand-square-foot ballroom, to be built in place of the current East Wing, will transform the executive campus. He might also have wanted a birds-eye view of the newly Trumpified Rose Garden, the iconic green space designed by Bunny Mellon, which was recently paved over in very white stone on Trumps orders. The President has not yet demanded that his name be emblazoned on the latest additions to the White House complex, but would anyone be stunned if he does? Truman has a balcony; Trumps ballroom will be bigger, gaudier, and, its safe to predict, a lot more gilded. 
WorkIntel's CEO, under attack from Trump, is already at odds with his board - WSJ (No paywall) Tan and some Intel directors have disagreed in his first months in the role about questions as central as whether the company should stay in the manufacturing business or exit it entirely, according to people familiar with the matter. Recent efforts by Tan to raise new capital and acquire an artificial-intelligence company have been stalled by people on the board, they said. WorkWorkWork 
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