BUZZING· 70%17m·2026-09-09·TechnologyManaging The Situation
In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how society continues to manage rather than deal with crises, and how the AI bubble is yet another crisis resulting from a failure to deal with the complexity of the real world. Last Week’s Newsletter: Hyperscale Normalization…
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