Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

The Ultimate Circle

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About once a month, I receive an epic-long treatise from a talented and intelligent chap by the name of Ed Zitron who has been focusing his attention lately on the utter unchecked lunacy of the AI industry. He shared a graphic in last night’s missive (which will take me a good two hours to read completely) that pretty much captures the fact that the entire global economy and equity markets are largely dependent on a handful of companies handing around the same giant wad of cash.

This thing simply can’t crash fast enough.

Semicolonoscopy

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The whole of America isn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the drawer when it comes to proper syntax and punctuation (and our grammar-challenged President is not only unhelpful, but deleterious in this regard), yet I find this illustration of punctuation use rather interesting. I’d like to meet the folks are “aren’t sure” about their use of periods. Actually, no; we’d probably best remain strangers.