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		<title>A Brief Thought on Responsibility</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/18/a-brief-thought-on-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his WSJ piece centered on who, exactly, is responsible for AI mistakes—in the present context, AI functionalities &#8220;breaking out&#8221; and hacking other businesses—the news writer had this in his otherwise well worth the read article: When you delegate to &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/18/a-brief-thought-on-responsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another Brief Thought on Responsibility</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A WSJ Letters letter writer representing Share our Strength wrote to protest the paring back of Federal outlays to State SNAP programs. He had this early in his missive, and he was right: We can agree that states should ensure &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/18/another-brief-thought-on-responsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>If He Won&#8217;t….</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/17/if-he-wont/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An essay writer in the WSJ pled, via his headline, For the Love of God, Please Put on Headphones. One recent morning, I was reading the newspaper in a sleepy Manhattan cafe when two young women sat beside me and &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/17/if-he-wont/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Price of Doing Business in the PRC</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Take Driscoll&#8217;s, a grower of fruit—blueberries in particular here—that chose to expand into the People&#8217;s Republic of China. Driscoll&#8217;s invested in the PRC in a big way, sending experts over to expose PRC farmers and consumers to blueberries, to help &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/17/the-price-of-doing-business-in-the-prc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Silly</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/16/silly/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To the point of idiotic. Yet, that&#8217;s the nature of the position of Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei. He has said that he hoped Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, when they meet later this month, could reach an agreement to &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/16/silly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>AI Apocalypse</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The AI Apocalypse is nigh goes the panic-mongering, this time by insiders who should know better. In the near- and medium-term, AI is going to cost more jobs than it creates. Except that, empirically, that seems not to be the &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/16/ai-apocalypse/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dishonesty of the Left and of the Ex-Right</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michigan&#8217;s closet socialist and Progressive-Democratic Party nominee for the US Senate, Abdul el-Sayed, has said that he would mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, &#38; infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetrated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll mourn &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/15/dishonesty-of-the-left-and-of-the-ex-right/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mishmash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a WSJ article about the Great AI Freakout, centered on fears of a supposedly coming AI apocalypse, there was this bit, which illustrates the press&#8217; involvement in potentiating the freakout, all gathered up in one mishmash of…error. Opposition to &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/15/mishmash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Regulate without Interfering with Innovation</title>
		<link>https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/14/regulate-without-interfering-with-innovation/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[eehines]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Congress is looking at ways to regulate artificial-intelligence models that have stepped up their capabilities. Leave aside the manufactured hysteria over the end of humanity within 10 years, as one disgruntled ex-Anthropic employee is pushing. We have, instead, dozens of &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/14/regulate-without-interfering-with-innovation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Iranian Ultimatum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ebrahim Azizi, Iranian Parliament&#8217;s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Chairman: No negotiations. Until Iran&#8217;s terms are met, talks are futile. Works for me. Let the bombing resume, fully, and add in broad-spectrum cyber attacks, both without letup until Iran &#8230; <a href="https://aplebessite.com/2026/09/14/an-iranian-ultimatum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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