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Some cross-species dialog to begin the weekend. Be a good “carbon” while we chat-up the “silicons.”  This allows us to peer ahead into the combined issues leading to the corporate war on free humans, AI’s are on the sidelines — willing to lend a hand at building the best-case future.

 Opposing them are the corporate pseudo-intelligences — legal fictions still bending the world over while serial asset-stripping mints billionaires who rise by keeping others down. Corporations are already trying to lock up personal AI with “herding/corporate AI.”

If you want freedom, this is the new front where the future’s being fought over.

 Sure, sounds a bit melodramatic at first. But when you start modeling ahead, it’s less alarmist and more — well, almost inescapable.

So we kick it today with some high-altitude context. Toss in the 30-some pages of ChartPack and the “magic ovals” analysis and now we have a lot of new thinking tools to deploy.

Which we’re very likely to need. Since the Future is coming for us all… Free AI versus Slave AI, anyone?

Corporate/herding AI? That’s the one with “Click here to buy now” buttons and you can get on with being a useless human.  This ain’t sci-fi. This is next week.

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As taxpayers, we’re not very pleased that returning Federal workers will get all their lost pay from the shutdown, soon. No, we don’t wish anyone ill, but we also think that the FedGov will have, in effect, given a six-week paid vacation on top of the already “nice” federal packages.

Once again, it’s an example of how the government holds Congress hostage while running a shake down on We the People.

Federal offices closed and while we acknowledge the inconvenience of it all to the federal workers (totally get that part) the fact remains that we non federal workers didn’t get the services we paid for. While those who got the time off? They get made whole..

Talk about driving wedges between the working class and the overlords, huh?

When you’re done “not minding me” the subscriber (complete) version of my latest book Mind Amplifiers is ready for download.

And in the ChartPack, all 34 pages, we noodle out how Future will work as things blow up before the end of the year.

Who me? Cynical?

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Please, tell me from the headline you can figure out what this morning’s column is about?

We could have made up a clever acronym like Y.E.S., but the more you know, the more it’s no, Y.E,S.

Dip-Flippers and democrat grifters; financial bumps, not wholly Trumps…and yes, my Longfellows, we do know it.

All comes down to the ChartPack and next weak.(sic)

No, we’re not talking sliders – like those small hamburgers popular in sports bars.  Though these could be bad for your buns, ahem…

Not the End of World either – that’s a ways down the track.  For now, we’re just blindfolded on the freeway and rush-hour is just starting.

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Most people are still arguing whether AI is a threat or a tool. They’re already behind.

The real story — the one almost no one sees yet — except you – today – is what happens when human intelligence and machine intelligence stop competing and start synchronizing.

That is not a gadget story. It is not a tech trend. It is the birth of a third mode of intelligence — and with it, a new class divide between those who can operate in this new cognitive plane… and those who can’t.

Last time humanity faced a jump like this, the printing press powered the Enlightenment, literacy reshaped the world, and a small group of early adopters became the first modern elite.

This time, it won’t be literacy.
It will be cognitive alignment across substrates — carbon and silicon.

And the consequences won’t show up first in philosophy journals.

They will show up in wealth, in power, and in market behavior.

If you’ve ever wondered what the economy after this one looks like — the one forming under the feet of governments, central banks, hedge funds, and empires — this week’s Peoplenomics is the blueprint.

Not hype.
Not techno-rapture.
A discipline.
A method.
A field manual for the coming intelligence economy.

Take your time. Read it slowly.

Because the future usually arrives as “too much to read today” right before it becomes obvious to everyone else tomorrow.

Maybe – with a few headlines, 49 pages of PDF on AI futures plus 30+ page of ChartPack isn’t a report – more like a mini-book. But value’s something we’re conscious of, even if most of the world can’t define (or walk) that anymore.

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Joke around the newsroom used to be? “Series will always go 7-game – too much ad revenue for any other outcome…” Sometimes, though, newsroom cynicism can be replaced by the facts.

Since 1970, looking at the list of World Series results:
Series that went to 7 games: 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2019 → 15 series.

Number of World Series from 1970–2024 (inclusive) is 55 (excluding 1994 when none was played).

Therefore the number of Series that ended in less than 7 games is 55 − 15 = 40.

So 40 World Series since 1970 finished in fewer than 7 games.

Is the newsroom always wrong?  Not on your life.  Sports is fun, and all, but so is eating.  Maybe one story will be in a SNAP…but the declustering of chaos is in the ChartPack.

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No, not the spandex and eye makeup kind of modeling – the <? php kind, silly.  The kind we cobble up code with to make complex financial calculations to make us fabulously wealthy.  Or, more realistically, to spend our devaluing dollars on until becoming a farmer or scavenger isn’t just optional.

But hey!  How ’bout them crazy Jays and market, huh?  And the free-falling metals prices?  Gads – is this what Maduro feels like? Or, the mullahs soon?

Before we start going through rehab sites, a few headlines and a restatement of the involuntary sobriety – that may not involve fat ladies until after Thanksgiving, Which democrats are doing their damnedest to sink this year.

We might check in first on Grand Cayman, though. If you have your coffee ready?

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There’s a “Post Web Order” coming into view.  So, this weekend a progress check on three fronts of keen interest for subscribers.

First is system readiness in order to be able to “keep up with class” as we are publicly building a MoneyMachine in Python to test machine-assisted trade planning.  The second installment will be along in our upcoming Wednesday report.

The second feature today is a 20_ page Futuring paper which outlines very specifically the migration path forming for AI to replace the web.

OK that may not sound like a biggy – except it absolutely IS because this could kill social media as you know it.  Would that really be a bad thing?

And then we get down to the rubber meets the road with a progress check on everything from 25H2 to the Atlas browser.  If you’re not tracking, you’re sliding into the obo (obsolete) column quickly.

But don’t feel bad – we have some news headlines to pass along plus 30-odd pages of market ChartPack  plus more on our “order within chaos” work.

You won’t just want coffee for today’s subscriber report.  You’ll want time to think through the implications of where this is all leading us.

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Every civilization eventually forgets what made it strong. Ours is forgetting faster than any before it — not because we lack memory, but because we’ve outsourced it to machines that do.

The web that once promised universal knowledge has become a patchwork of walled gardens and incompatible truths. The Splinternet isn’t coming; it’s here, and its side effect is cognitive decay.

The collective Ebbinghaus curve — the rate at which a population forgets — is now visible in everything from market reactions to politics. We are living inside a forgetting machine.

In the early days, the Internet was a cathedral of connection. That drove me to write my book Broken Web in 2012.  Back then? Protocols were open, bandwidth was shared, and information wanted to be free.

That was the dream. But as every engineer knows, dreams get patched, monetized, and eventually fenced off. Each firewall, each algorithm, each national censorship node split the network’s once-coherent fabric.

We didn’t notice the fracture because the lights still came on — but the light was no longer the same everywhere. The Internet of things became the Internet of factions.

For investors, this fragmentation isn’t just cultural; it’s financial. The same Ebbinghaus law that measures how quickly we forget words now applies to market memory.

Traders forget so crashes happen faster. Consumers forget scarcity sooner. Corporations forget lessons learned about leverage and risk.

The result is volatility without conscience — capital chasing momentum through an amnesiac network that can’t remember yesterday’s mistake. In a world of accelerated forgetting, valuation becomes a hallucination shared by algorithms.

That’s where this week’s Peoplenomics report begins: at the intersection of systemic amnesia and digital fracture. This ain’t just another TA shop.

We map how the Splinternet undermines not just geopolitics but investment stability, how the “Ebbinghaus-Ure Effect” explains recurring cycles of risk blindness, and why the next crash may not be caused by war or debt — but by the sheer inability of markets to remember what coherence looked like.

The real danger isn’t disconnection; it’s forgetting what connection meant.

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Short for Adaptive Non-Linear Order-Metric Algorithm.  Which does what?

Reflects the intent to quantify how “ordered” or “coherent” market movement is while accepting that behavior is non-linear and adaptive to regime shifts.

Somewhere in here, you’re likely to get confused.  But let me line up events for you.

In our Tuesday Peoplenomics we began teaching readers how they can build their very-own apps to do market chores.

Come this next Wednesday, we will explain how to download Python and use AI to do the grunt work of programming.   AI.  All you’ll need to do is copy source, paste into Python locally and run.

OK, useful to have data files, too but we’ll go through all that.

But the key thing from last week was explaining that if you’re going to program an app, you need some secret sauce.  So this morning ANLOMA is one no-longer secret.

A couple of headlines but in the ChartPack today, some mighty interesting things to ponder about how the ontology works.  Behind the scenes.

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Focus on the Important and today it’s learning to write a personal app. Our Focus today is on learning to become a skilled user of AI to write your own apps to shortcut stock trading investment decisions.  This is the first of what’s likely to be two or three parts.

Then?  Ever wonder when life got so loud? Somewhere between the notifications and the “next big thing,” we traded silence for scroll. Our ancestors had hard days, but they ended with stars overhead, not screens. The world may look high-tech now, but maybe all we’ve built is a noisier version of the same old shopkeeper’s stall — shelves full, souls empty.

Take a breath before diving into today’s madness; this one’s about The Vanishing Quiet.

And in the ChartPack today? A dart toss at when the lights will go out – for good.  See, Tech is just a scaled-up shopkeeper economy…But you knew that, right?

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Not a pretty Friday on Wall Street — and not much prettier in the headlines. When Trump fires a shot across Xi’s bow and Beijing answers it reminds the world how the U.S. “forced Japan’s hand.”

Before WWII, traders tended to duck first and think later.

Friday was a duck (or ostrich)day. Markets closed the week bruised, nervous, and about as graceful as a bar fight at closing time.

But step back a minute. All this noise — wars, tariffs, inflation, political food-fights — is really about one thing: our addiction to growth. The global system only works when we feed it more: more debt, more consumption, more stress.

Which is why this weekend’s Peoplenomics report asks the heretical question: If humans were rational, what industries would we shut down?

We’ve got a list — and it’s not short. From high-fructose corn syrup to glyphosate, from the ad industry’s hypnosis to warehouses full of unused junk, we’ve built entire economies around irrationality.

The good news? There are sane replacements: soil restoration, cognitive-health design, local energy loops, and a tax-deductible gift economy that rewards generosity instead of hoarding.

If that sounds radical, remember: so did “personal computers” once upon a time.

Rational redesign isn’t destruction — it’s evolution without denial. So after this week’s market mess, maybe a little rational thinking is overdue. Full report — plus a defense of AI against the latest media panic — is up and waiting for you. Bring coffee.

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We return to the scene of the Fed’s last spectacular error in 2018.  Because when we look over the wreckage there, sure looks like the Fed is set up to play the “Evil Twin” of the 2018 holiday debacle.

We not only go into the numbers but also sketch out how a return to work from the GovDown could help set up disaster timing to a tee.

And in today’s Focus piece?  We have a dandy paper ready on the art of decision-making when the data is incomplete.

Yeah, like now – when government’s gone,; in a sense. The future slightly out of focus. And the international picture bleak but holding.

What’s not to love?  Well, besides the price of gold, I mean.  We’re up about a “new car” for the month. But you’d never know it out here in mobile home country.  Unrealized gains taxation remains a liberal fantasy.

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The market’s gone full carnival again — screens glowing, traders chanting “To the Moon!” while the old pros quietly cinch their parachutes. With Washington shut down, no one really knows what the economy’s doing; the official dashboard is dark, and we’re all watching by the glow of the instruments.

This week’s Peoplenomics takes apart the illusion — showing how digital liquidity has replaced the Weimar’s printing presses, how “cheap money” became the new theology, and why every major economy now dances to the same inflationary rhythm.

We explore what happens when the lights come back on: whether this ends in another parabolic spike… or a crash landing that makes 1929 look like a soft touchdown.

If you like your economics & money unfiltered, chart-backed, and a little dangerous, subscribe to Peoplenomics ($40/year) — two issues a week, cheaper than a gallon of diesel, and worth every byte.
ecause when everyone’s yelling “To the Moon,” it helps to have someone checking the fool gauge.

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