🔮 The people vs tech; the Europoor; forgotten Creole++ #609

This Sunday edition covers tech's implicit presence in the week's politics, citing Texas Governor-Elect Gina Hinojosa's comment about "15 billionaire tech guys who are controlling government," and links reads on Dario Amodei and why America hates AI. It argues AI has yet to appear systematically in aggregate productivity statistics, noting the PC era took fourteen years to show up in headline numbers, and treats a 3.6% US productivity quarter as too noisy to attribute to AI. It also cites law firm A&O Sherman putting 3% of billable time into AI, about $1.1bn over five years, aiming to "redesign the service completely."