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The Long View — March 23-29, 2026
Strange loops everywhere: the safety company that leaked its own secrets, the security stack that ate itself, and the first hard numbers on which jobs AI is actually coming for.
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The Long View — March 2-8, 2026
When powerful institutions try to make the world legible from above, the world pushes back from below. This was the week American AI governance tried to become legible.
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The Long View — February 22-28, 2026
This was the week the bewilderment arrived. A Fed governor admitted powerlessness. A speculative report moved billions. A CEO fired 40 percent of his people and the stock surged. And the government tried to force an AI company to remove its safety guardrails.
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The Long View — February 16-22, 2026
THE LONG VIEW Future Shock Weekly — February 16-22, 2026 In 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in northeast England. Within two years, canal company shares had lost a third of their value. The canals still worked fine. The boats still floated. Nothing about the physical infrastructure had changed. What