writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mktcvggbbc2b“Several users speculated that #goblin #terminology was how the #model characterized itself, in lieu of identifying as a person with a soul.” https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-became-so-obsessed-with-goblins-that-openai-had-to-intervene-a6644e6601 May 2026 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktcvggbbc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkt4in36cs2s“Not long ago, someone estimated that there were seven full-time #bookcritics left in #America. With The Post’s Book World gone, that number has dropped to five.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/books/review/ai-book-reviews.html01 May 2026 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt4in36cs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkstfj643c2b“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, #education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.” - #JeanPiaget01 May 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkstfj643c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mksnkaztqk2b“We don’t want to put our #bylines on #stories we did not actually write even if they’re based on our work,” said Ariane Lange, an investigative #reporter at The #SacramentoBee and the vice chair of The Sacramento Bee News Guild. “That in itself feels like a lie.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/media/mcclatchy-ai-newsroom-byline-strike.html01 May 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksnkaztqk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mksgiiel422n“If you want an answer to the question “but who’s really to blame?” then tough luck; the universe isn’t obliged to provide you with one.” https://backofmind.substack.com/p/the-plurality-of-accountability-sinks?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3080&post_id=196116273&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=b8e6&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email01 May 2026 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksgiiel422nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mksbhsbk7s2oSo #DavidLynch was a #Platonist … who knew? [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksbhsbk7s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mks43vvy422o“ #Canada can opt to eventually join the #Americanempire, or forge further out into the world, which would require it to invest heavily in accelerating its own #energytransition …” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-will-canada-choose-oil-and-bondage-to-the-us-or-forge-our-own-destiny/01 May 2026 12:13 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks43vvy422ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkrzrmmofk2o“ #MAGA is trying to deal with its #affordability #crisis simply by denying reality. Over the past few days multiple prominent #Republicans have gone on TV to insist that #gasprices are falling.” https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/who-are-you-gonna-believe-trump-or?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios01 May 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrzrmmofk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkrzllol4c2oBloomberg: #Alphabet added $421 billion to its #marketcapitalization on Thursday, following blowout quarterly earnings that sent the #stock skyrocketing. It’s the second-biggest one-day jump in #marketcap add for any stock ever.01 May 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrzllol4c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkrzazkd2s2oBloomberg: #Roblox tumbles 22%. The #video-game #company reported user figures that fell short of estimates after implementing safety features restricting how children can use the platform.01 May 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrzazkd2s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkryy3a2ok2oBloomberg: US #equityfutures were steady, suggesting a pause in the rally after the best month for #stocks since late 2020. The #yen resumed gains triggered by government #intervention in currency #markets01 May 2026 11:18 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkryy3a2ok2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkrywbmglk2oBloomberg: #Apple delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast. It warned, however, of higher #memory-chip costs and persistent #Mac #computer #shortages. The shares are up 2.8% in early trading.01 May 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrywbmglk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkrypaiafs2o“It is a problem I’m not on the ballot. And I have to convince—Everyone says if I was on the ballot we’d win in a landslide. I have the best, I have some of the best poll numbers I’ve ever had.” - #Trump on NewsMax01 May 2026 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrypaiafs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkryefgdqc2o“The question now,” Krugman wrote, is “how much destruction will the world, and #America, have to bear before #Trump is willing to accept reality?” https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-30-2026?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios01 May 2026 11:07 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkryefgdqc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkr3msm4b22z“ #Trump, however personally dazzled he is by the wealth and splendor of the British monarchy, much prefers the policies and the power of the modern-day tsar he spoke with on Wednesday to those of the King he hosted with such pomp the day before.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 02:32 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkr3msm4b22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkr2o53abk2b“ #Trump, in other words, was privately trash-talking #Zelensky in what he himself called another ‘very good’ conversation with his ‘friend’ #Putin.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 02:15 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkr2o53abk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkr2hsoy222b“Even as #Charles was speaking, Trump’s #WhiteHouse posted on #socialmedia an image of the two men with the caption ‘TWO KINGS. 👑’” https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/in-trumps-america-it-takes-a-king-to-praise-democracy01 May 2026 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkr2hsoy222bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkqrmvqv422b“If it was written by Mr. Epstein, the message could provide insights into his state of mind in the weeks before he died hanging from a bunk bed” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-note-sealed.html30 Apr 2026 23:33 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqrmvqv422bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkqnhgv3xk23“They are handing us these things, these #phones, these #agents, like they’re some great gift when in fact it’s more like an #existential #crisis as a service. Worse, we’re buying it.” https://open.substack.com/pub/mcluhan/p/we-have-no-reason-to-be-grateful?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios30 Apr 2026 22:19 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqnhgv3xk23