SAVE MONEY

I switched from AT&T to Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile (which is really the T-Mobile 5G network) and have been saving more than $50 a month.

You get unlimited talk, text, and data for $50 or less — and, if you use this link, your first month free.

Then, if you’re happy and don’t cancel, they pay me $100.

All this time you’ve wondered how I have so much money “I can truly afford to lose.”

Now you know.

DEMOCRACY VERSUS DICTATORSHIP

Joyce Vance White:

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The first time President Obama met with his US Attorneys, he told us, “I appointed you but you don’t serve me. You serve the American people. And I expect you to act with independence and integrity.” None of us ever forgot that.

His words meant the world to us, even at the time. Enough so that people wrote them down, kept them on their desks, and talked with people in their offices about what they meant, over and over.

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Imagine: an oath-allegiant, Constitution-respecting president.  What a concept.

A.I.

Thursday, I posted Matt Shumer’s scary piece about the rapid — accelerating — pace of A.I.

Professor Cal Newport argues that Shumer’s alarm was overdone: Has AI Changed Work Forever?  Not Really (15 minutes).

Yet maybe not that much overdone.

Business Insider checked to see how smart people in tech are reacting to Matt Shumer’s viral essay about what AI means for jobs.  Their reactions were varied but hardly dismissive.

A friend at dinner said he has five people on his analytical team and is being encouraged daily by the higher ups to look for ways to use A.I.  He recently asked A.I. to do something that would normally have taken one of his team three days to complete.  A.I. did it in six minutes.  He fears he may wind up having to let his team go . . . and that at some point his higher-ups will find a way to let him go.

Yesterday, I posted Jack Dorsey’s letter letting more than 4,000 people go, nearly half his work force.

As previously noted, we need — urgently — to figure out (a) how to protect humanity from a superior species; (b) how to avoid economic catastrophe and, instead, harness A.I. for the benefit of all.

Not sure how to do (A).

(B) is as simple as learning to get along with each other.

“Isn’t it amazing,” Bill Clinton would frequently observe near the end of his presidency.  “We’ve split the atom; we’ve landed men on the moon; we’re mapping the human genome” — now long-since mapped — “and yet the one challenge that’s eluded us is the oldest one of all: how to get along with each other.”

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on March 3rd, 2026, on andrewtobias.com, syndicated with permission.