π¦ 2020 — Final Year of Trump Presidency January 2020 U.S. presidency: Donald Trump Impeachment trial begins in the U.S. Senate (Ukraine-related charges) U.S.–Iran tensions escalate after killing of Qasem Soleimani (Jan 3, 2020) February 2020 COVID-19 begins spreading globally; early U.S. response phase U.S.–Taliban peace agreement signed (Feb 29) March 2020 COVID-19 declared a pandemic (WHO) U.S. federal emergency declared Large-scale economic shutdown begins April 2020 Massive U.S. stimulus (CARES Act implementation period) Peak uncertainty phase of pandemic governance May 2020 George Floyd killed (May 25) → nationwide protests begin June 2020 U.S. protests expand globally (racial justice movement) Federal–state political tensions increase July 2020 COVID-19 case surge in U.S. Election campaigning begins intensifying August 2020 Republican National Convention (Trump renomination) Continued pandemic + economic instability September 2020 Supre...
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The bandleader said he doesn’t need a radio. That stopped me. Not because radio is some sacred gatekeeper anymore—it isn’t—but because of what the statement reveals underneath: a willingness to close a door before even checking what’s on the other side. And in music, especially in a city like Toronto, closing doors is rarely a winning strategy. The modern landscape is messy. Streaming pays almost nothing per play. Social media feels like shouting into a storm. Algorithms are fickle, audiences are distracted, and attention is fragmented across a dozen platforms that didn’t exist ten years ago. On paper, skepticism makes sense. But skepticism can quietly harden into limitation. Because the reality is simple: every channel—radio, streaming, live shows, word of mouth, Instagram clips, late-night conversations after a set—each one expands your surface area for opportunity. None of them “work” on their own. All of them work a little. And those small effects compound. Radio might not br...
TWO GIRLS ONE BOWL There occurs, from time to time, a revealing pathology in societies that have exceeded their own capacity for astonishment. They cease to remember events as facts and begin instead to retain them as moods. What happened is forgotten; what it felt like to live through it remains. The late internet of the 2000s—already vulgar, inventive, anarchic, and strangely prophetic—understood this before its professors did. It grasped that certain objects survive not because they are carefully preserved, but because they are endlessly reconstructed in rumor, recollection, and nervous laughter. By 2007 or thereabouts, one notorious fragment of Brazilian obscenity, passed hand to hand through the digital underworld, had already stopped being about itself. The clip—degraded, pirated, stripped of provenance and dignity—was less significant than the gasp it elicited, and less significant still than the spectacle of others gasping at it. Here we arrive at the modern ...
full map of the AI landscape across domains , of AI in Western markets , layers of intelligence infrastructure . π FULL AI LANDSCAPE (Western Market) — by domain 1) π§ General Intelligence / “Thinking Partner” These are the closest things to a universal assistant. AI Company Strength ChatGPT OpenAI Best all-purpose reasoning, writing, coding, multimodal work Claude Anthropic Best structured long-form thinking, safety, coherence over long documents Gemini Google Strong integration with search + Google ecosystem π Role: “external mind” for thinking, writing, decisions 2) π Knowledge Discovery / Real-Time Research Layer This replaces “Googling + reading 10 tabs.” AI Company Strength Perplexity AI Perplexity AI Fast cited answers, best AI search engine Google Search + AI Overviews Google Largest index of live web knowledge You.com You.com Search + apps + customizable AI answers π Role: “external reality scanner” 3) π Writing / Publishing / Language Craft These ...