Enjoying the view from Limbo
The following is a slightly edited version of a brief reply I offered to a regular correspondent who expressed disappointment in her seeming inability to bite her tongue, let alone to control her emotional response outright, when faced with irrational or obnoxious ideas or behavior from those around her, such as coworkers. This kind of self-control is especially important when the people you...
Artificial intelligence will never be human. It will never have the best characteristics of humans. Neither will it ever have the worst characteristics of humans. What it will be, and all it will be capable of becoming, is an emulation, an imitation, a digital simulation, of the best and worst characteristics of humans. However, as it can only be simulating those elements of...
Donald Trump, as part of his crusade to keep the stock market’s tech bubble alive, obviously for the sake of his and his family’s material profit, is not only rejecting all pleas for regulation of the development of artificial intelligence, but is even proposing to boost its idiot-friendliness by changing its name to something even more false than the current one. Specifically, he...
by Daren Jonescu · Published September 21, 2026 · Last modified September 25, 2026
When speaking of his various dreamed-of military parades, golden ballrooms, triumphal arches, domestic army deployments, press bans, annexations of foreign lands, gargantuan federal monuments, and government buildings transformed into armed fortresses with snipers, Donald Trump is wont to proffer, often as his central argument for these dreams, the fact that, “We are the only country that doesn’t have/do this! The only country!” It...
The Chinese Communist Party propaganda machine — machine being a keyword here — is flooding the world of the weakminded (aka the internet, such as in this piece from Fox News) with the “news” that a humanoid robot has “shattered” Usain Bolt’s 100-metre dash world record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. I saw the headlines, repeatedly, on my office computer’s...
Liberty's Labors Lost / What is Progressivism? / What is The Establishment?
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 29, 2026
Inevitably, the news comes that the Trump administration is deeply engaged in negotations aimed at establishing “a long-term stake in a vast share of Venezuela’s oil fields.” That is, a long-term U.S. Government ownership stake in Venezuela’s natural resources. So Trump invades a socialist country and deposes its leader, only to come to terms with the rest of the socialist regime at the...
Donald Trump, in his typically infantile manner, has responded to not getting his way in trade bullying with Canada by signing an executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Of course no one in Canada will ever recognize or use this name. And of course the only Americans who will ever use it are the diehards still clinging to their Trump fantasy...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost / World Politics
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 17, 2026
To those U.S. military veterans who were once friendly readers of my writing but turned against me when they fell under the spell of the dumbest and most corrupt man ever to run for commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, and who pooh-poohed my criticisms of said dunderhead with refusals to accept his own frequent pro-despot words (and later policies) at face value,...
Where is Mitch McConnell? As for where his body might be, I have no idea, although since all evidence points to his having suffered a massive heart attack, it is likely that he will never be what he was before his disappearance, and this is granting that what he was for the last couple of years before his disappearance was, if I may...
Ideas and Reflections / Pandemic that Ate a Planet
by Daren Jonescu · Published August 7, 2026 · Last modified August 8, 2026
Within the past few days, the illustrious Dr. Fauci, a man of no small vanity and no great humility, a man who never met a crisis he couldn’t exploit for his own aggrandizement and indeed never met a minor crisis he couldn’t magnify into a major one so as to inflate his own importance and career profile, has been met at last with...
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