Intriguing Sight

 Dear Diary:

I was strolling down MacDougal Street just after the most severe part of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown. I was glad to see that people were out and about, with some sitting on chairs and benches.

Among the most intriguing of these was a woman with a white cockatoo perched on her shoulder.

I approached her and asked whether I could talk to her bird.

“He never learned to speak,” she said, “but sure, say hello.”

“Hello, hello,” I said.

The parrot responded by barking, a real yip like a small dog.

“Oh yeah,” the woman said. “We used to live with a Yorkie.”

— Judith Miller

Silicon Valley is Investing in the Wrong A.I. which makes the top market caps of Wall Street vulnerable to a major setback

 

Silicon Valley Is Investing in the Wrong A.I.

By Gary Marcus

Mr. Marcus is a founder of two A.I. companies and the author of “Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us.”

Birds of a feather flock together

 

Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence

“George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”

Contrary to this opinion piece asserting the gutting of "colorblindness' in the voting rights act as a bad thing requiring more time to transition I believe its been too long in repealing.

 

The Supreme Court’s ‘Colorblindness’ Would Gut the Voting Rights Act

By Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

      Nobody Is ‘Gutting’ the Voting Rights Act

In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate. While investors are always making bets on an unknown future, bubbles form when large swaths of investors continuously pour ever more into an asset, with seemingly little regard for how much it could earn and when.

 

Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble

By Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings

Mr. Bernstein was the chair of President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2023 to 2025. Mr. Cummings served the council as an economist from 2021 to 2023.

Critics have charged that the compact threatens free speech. It does no such thing. It places no constraints on individual speech, nor does it intrude on academic freedom. The compact does require schools not to punish, intimidate or incite violence against conservative ideas. Those are not speech restrictions. They are restrictions on the suppression of speech.

 

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

By Marc Rowan

Mr. Rowan is the chief executive of Apollo Global Management.

She Found a New Way to Sell High-End Houses: Mock the Rich - Sorry couldn't help myself

 

She Found a New Way to Sell High-End Houses: Mock the Rich

In minute-long video tours of Florida real estate, Breanna Banaciski lampoons the rich — and the upscale houses she wants you to buy.

By David Segal

Sept. 14, 2025