Wake up. Every profession deemed white-collar, the middle class dream, is about to be decimated by AI, at a much faster pace than anticipated, with monstrous social consequences.

"As climate summit approaches, UN reports existing 1.5C warming limit is no longer achievable" by @afreedma for @CNN: cnn.com/2026/10/21/climate/c…

“Even without active alliance building or coercion, China and the United States can make all other countries that seek access to advanced AI beholden to them,” write @nfergus, Lisa Klaassen, and @ericschmidt. foreignaffairs.com/china/emp…

The number of people writing dissertations in the humanities has collapses, now the same thing is happening in the social sciences. I'd wager that we will see a similar trend in psychology and other fields before long. Cuts in funding, the tight academic job market, and AI are rapidly changing the university and cratering graduate programs.