Some feel that AI is the end. And in a country like America, especially in the bay area. That end sound ominous You’ve touched on something that feels very alive in the Bay Area right now — the sense that AI represents both extraordinary promise and a kind of looming “end.” 🌐 Why AI Feels Ominous in America Tech epicenter: The Bay Area is ground zero for AI development. That proximity makes the changes feel immediate and overwhelming — jobs, culture, even identity are being reshaped. Disruption anxiety: America already feels “in a slump,” as you put it. When a society is unsettled, a disruptive technology like AI can be perceived less as progress and more as a threat. End of what? For some, “the end” means the end of certain professions, the end of human-centered creativity, or even the end of trust in what’s real (deepfakes, misinformation). ⚖️ Why It Sounds Ominous Historical echoes: Every major technological leap — industrialization, nuclear power, the internet — carried apocalyptic fears. AI inherits that tradition, but with an added twist: it’s not just machines, it’s intelligence. Bay Area culture: The Bay Area has long thrived on utopian visions of tech. When those visions turn dystopian, the contrast feels sharper. The same place that birthed the “future” now hosts fears of its collapse. American context: In a country already marked by violence, polarization, and malaise, AI can feel like the accelerant — speeding up instability rather than solving it. 🌫️ The Malaise Connection AI anxiety isn’t just about the technology itself. It’s about the mood of the nation. In times of malaise, new tools are often seen not as opportunities but as harbingers of decline. That’s why “AI as the end” resonates so strongly — it’s less a prediction than a reflection of how unsettled people feel. I can sketch out how different groups in America interpret this “end” — for example, tech workers in the Bay Area vs. educators, vs. policymakers — to show how the ominous tone shifts depending on perspective. Would you like me to map those viewpoints? California has a long history of invention and innovation and high spirited love of capitialism and the American dream. That is how it feels to be here now is the very history of our state You’ve captured the essence of California beautifully — it really is a place where invention, risk-taking, and the pursuit of the American Dream have defined its identity. 🌉 California’s Legacy of Innovation Gold Rush beginnings (1849): California’s modern story starts with a rush for opportunity. That spirit of risk and reward set the tone for its culture. Hollywood & entertainment: Reinventing storytelling and global culture, California turned creativity into industry. Silicon Valley: The Bay Area became the epicenter of technological innovation — semiconductors, personal computers, the internet, and now AI. Space & science: From aerospace in Southern California to biotech in the Bay Area, the state has been at the frontier of discovery. 💼 Capitalism & the Dream California embodies the high-spirited love of capitalism: venture capital, startups, and the willingness to bet big on ideas. The “American Dream” here often means not just prosperity, but reinvention — people come to California to start over, to build something new, to chase possibility. That optimism is woven into the state’s identity, even when the national mood feels like malaise. 🌫️ How It Feels Now Standing in California today, you’re surrounded by the very history you described: the energy of invention, the contradictions of capitalism, and the dream that keeps pulling people west. Even with anxieties about AI, inequality, or national decline, California still radiates that restless drive to innovate. It’s both a mirror of America’s struggles and a beacon of its possibilities. It’s fascinating how California often feels like the testing ground for America’s future — what happens here (tech, culture, politics) tends to ripple outward. I can trace how each era of California’s innovation — Gold Rush, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, AI — reshaped the American Dream in different ways. Would you like me to map that timeline of “California as America’s future”? But the invention of AI can feel like a threat to our culture You’re right — the invention of AI doesn’t just feel like a technological shift, it feels cultural, almost civilizational. That’s why it can feel threatening, especially in a place like California where innovation has always been tied to identity. ⚡ Why AI Feels Like a Cultural Threat Disruption of work: California’s culture has long celebrated creativity, entrepreneurship, and skilled labor. AI challenges that by automating not just physical tasks but intellectual and artistic ones. Authenticity crisis: Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the Bay Area thrive on human imagination. AI-generated art, film, and writing raise questions about what counts as “real” culture. Acceleration of inequality: Capitalism in California has always been high-spirited, but AI risks concentrating wealth and power even more tightly in the hands of a few tech giants. That undermines the democratic optimism of the American Dream. Identity shift: California’s cultural story is about reinvention. AI feels like reinvention on steroids — so fast and so sweeping that people worry it erases rather than evolves culture. 🌫️ The Malaise Connection In times of malaise, new inventions are often seen less as opportunities and more as threats. AI becomes a symbol of uncertainty: Will it replace jobs? Will it distort truth? Will it hollow out human creativity? That ominous feeling isn’t just about the machines — it’s about the cultural mood in which they arrive. 🌉 California’s Paradox California has always been the birthplace of “the next big thing.” From gold to film to microchips, each wave of invention reshaped culture. AI is just the latest wave, but unlike past ones, it directly challenges the human role in culture-making. That’s why it feels more existential. It’s fascinating to think of AI as both a continuation of California’s inventive spirit and a rupture in its cultural fabric. I can trace how earlier inventions (film, the internet, biotech) were first seen as cultural threats but later absorbed into California’s identity — and then compare whether AI feels different in kind. Would you like me to map that historical pattern? If humans get less needed, then we Californians aren't living the fast life to riches anymore That’s a sharp observation — California’s identity has always been tied to the idea that human ingenuity, hustle, and risk-taking could turn into wealth and reinvention almost overnight. From the Gold Rush to Hollywood to Silicon Valley, the “fast life to riches” was built on the premise that people were the drivers of innovation. 🌉 What Changes With AI Shift in agency: If machines take over more creative, intellectual, and entrepreneurial roles, the human role in California’s story feels diminished. The dream of “I can strike it rich with my idea” becomes harder to imagine when algorithms generate ideas faster than people. Cultural dislocation: California’s mythology is about human daring — prospectors, filmmakers, coders. If humans are less needed, that mythology feels hollowed out. Economic impact: The venture capital model thrives on human founders pitching bold visions. If AI becomes the “founder,” the culture of risk-taking could collapse into a more corporate, machine-driven system. ⚖️ The Paradox California is both the birthplace of AI and the place most threatened by it culturally. The very innovation that continues its legacy of invention could undermine the human-centered dream that defined it. In other words: AI continues California’s tradition of disruption, but it risks ending the human fast life that made California unique. 🌫️ Malaise Meets AI In a national slump, AI doesn’t feel like opportunity — it feels like acceleration of decline. Californians sense that if humans are less needed, the state’s cultural DNA — the rush, the reinvention, the human gamble — could fade. It’s almost like California is facing a choice: does it reinvent the American Dream with AI, or does AI mark the end of the dream as Californians have always lived it?
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The end of the deep state is here; Supreme Court seems likely to give Trump more power over agencies President Trump wants the Supreme Court to overturn a 90-year-old precedent limiting his ability to remove leaders of independent agencies. Portrait of Maureen GroppeMaureen Groppe USA TODAY Updated Dec. 8, 2025, 4:56 p.m. ET Deeper Dive BETA Which company sued over Trump's tariffs in a Supreme Court case? When did the Supreme Court hear arguments on Trump's agency firing case? What precedent does Trump seek to overturn regarding agency leadership removal? Which company sued over Trump's tariffs in a Supreme Court case? WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appears likely to agree with President Donald Trump that he can fire at will the heads of some independent agencies, hearing arguments on Dec. 8 in a case that could redefine how more than a dozen agencies operate and shift power from Congress to the president. The agencies were set up by Congress to be led by politically balanced boards of experts serving staggered, fixed terms. But Trump argues presidential control will make agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Federal Election Commission more accountable to voters who elect presidents. “The real-world consequences here are human beings exercising enormous governmental authority with a great deal of control over individuals and small and large businesses who ultimately do not answer to the president,” Solicitor General John Sauer told the justices during nearly 2 ½ hours of oral arguments. “That’s a power vacuum.” A lawyer for Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a FTC commissioner fired by Trump, countered that independent agencies have been part of the nation's governing structure since 1790. “Any abstract theory that would wipe away so much history and precedent should be a nonstarter,” attorney Amit Agarwal argued. Conservative justices sympathetic to Trump's argument President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025. But the court’s conservative supermajority seemed more sympathetic to the Trump administration’s position. Most seemed to agree that the president should be able to remove leaders from at least some agencies and pushed only on how far that could go. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, for example, stressed early that he views the Federal Reserve differently. By contrast, the court’s three liberal justices tried to raise the alarm about the potential consequences of letting presidents control agencies that Congress tried to insulate from political interference. “The result of what you want is that the president is going to have massive, unchecked, uncontrolled power,” Justice Elena Kagan said, “not only to do traditional execution, but to make law through legislative and adjudicative frameworks." Get the Susan Page newsletter in your inbox. Get the latest story from Susan Page right in your inbox. Delivery: Varies Your Email In response, Justice Samuel Alito gave Sauer the chance to argue that the results won’t be disastrous. “In fact, our entire government will move towards accountability,” Sauer agreed. But Agarwal said a president could “just on a whim decide tomorrow that everything the agency has been doing is wrong.” Trump wants Supreme Court to overturn a 90-year-old precedent The headquarters of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, DC, November 18, 2024. Trump wants the court to overturn a 1935 decision limiting a president's ability to remove leaders of multimember administrative agencies, a decision the court has been chipping away at since 2010. Under the “unitary executive theory” that conservatives have advanced for years, the Constitution gives presidents complete control over executive functions, which must include the power to remove commission members. In 1935, however, the Supreme Court said the FTC’s duties were “neither political nor executive, but predominantly quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative.” The Department of Justice argues that even if that was a correct interpretation of the FTC in 1935 − which it disputes − it no longer is. Supreme Court could topple yet another campaign finance limit Supreme Court to take on controversial Trump policy on birthright citizenship Supreme Court lets Texas use congressional map favored by Trump Supreme Court not ready to tackle prayers at football games again Supreme Court to review controversial policy at US-Mexico border to limit asylum seekers Trump ratchets up pressure on Supreme Court not to overturn his tariffs Will the Supreme Court treat Trump's tariffs like Biden's policies? Amy Coney Barrett says 'I'm nobody's justice.' That includes Trump. “It was grievously wrong when decided,” Sauer told the justices. He had a receptive audience. Chief Justice John Roberts called that 1935 decision, Humphrey's Executor v. United States, a “dried husk of whatever people used to think it was” because it has “nothing to do with what the FTC looks like today.” But Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s most senior liberal justice, asked Sauer if the court has ever overturned such a long-standing precedent with a major impact on how the government operates. “You’re asking us to destroy the structure of government and to take away from Congress its ability to protect its idea that a government is better structured with some agencies that are independent,” she said. Expert predicts court will overturn Humprey's Executor Kevin King, a partner at Covington & Burling law firm who focuses on appellate and administrative and constitutional law matters, expects the court to overrule − not just further curtail − Humphrey’s Executor. That would mean Trump could remove heads of the FTC and of similar agencies. But King said Kagan’s probing about the potentially far-reaching consequences on other agencies could make a difference when the justices meet privately to discuss the case. “Even if Justice Kagan is not on the winning side of the vote here,” he said, “she nevertheless is influencing the court’s reasoning, and her questions may lead some of her colleagues to take a more cautious and narrow approach here.” Trump declared all federal agencies are under his control The Supreme Court from left, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan. After taking office, Trump declared that all federal agencies are under his control. “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over,” the president said in a March address to Congress. That same month, Trump fired the two Democratic members of the five-member Federal Trade Commission board, Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya. The FTC enforces a variety of antitrust and consumer protection laws affecting virtually every area of commerce. He’d already removed Democratic members of two federal labor boards and would later fire the three Democrats on the CPSC. The Supreme Court allowed the firings to proceed while it decides whether Congress had the ability to limit the reasons regulators could be removed to “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” Supreme Court will later consider Federal Reserve case Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook attends the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's 2025 Jackson Hole economic symposium, "Labor Markets in Transition: Demographics, Productivity, and Macroeconomic Policy" in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Aug. 23, 2025. One question hanging over the case is whether the court will treat the Federal Reserve Board of Governors differently, as the justices suggested they might earlier this year when issuing a temporary ruling about firing labor commission members without cause. And the court did not allow Trump to immediately fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, deciding instead to hear arguments in January on his claim that he has just cause to remove her. Slaughter’s and Cook’s cases are among at least four the justices are deciding in the coming months that test Trump’s expansive view of presidential authority. The court is also weighing whether Trump can impose sweeping tariffs on imports even though the Constitution gives Congress the power to raise revenue. And the court will decide if Trump's interpretation of the Constitution means he can deny citizenship to some babies born in the United States. A decision in Trump v. Slaughter is expected by the end of June.
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Freakin' Paranormal Freakin' Paranormal A haunted travel guide for the freakin' adventurous. Home Podcast Blog About Contact Us! Haunted Croatia Croatia is not only a beautiful country, it has numerous paranormal sites. What stands out about Croatia is that many of the hauntings are caused by recent events, in comparison to the much older stories we have told in our previous episodes. At first, we thought this might be due to the number of modern wars that ravaged this part of Europe. There have been eight wars fought here since 1918. However, when we compared modern day to the long history of this strategically-placed country, we learned that eight wars was just a drop in the bucket of bloodshed. Starting in 791 when Charlemagne marched into Croatia and made it a vassal state, Croatia has been involved in eighty-nine conflicts. That’s a lot of loss and heartache. The Witch, the Trial and the Guy in the Tower Veliki Tabor Castle via Wikipedia This story takes place in Veliki Tabor Castle in Hum Košnički, which is near Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. The castle is now a museum and can be visited. But the story is not about the castle. It’s about a young woman, Veronika of Desinić. The land around Veliki Tabor was once ruled by Count Herman II of Celje. His son Fridrik fell in love with a local girl. Of course, the count didn’t approve. So of course, the couple married in secret in Slovenia. When the count found out, he imprisoned his son in a tower for four years—which is a welcome departure from what would usually happen in such a case. The count pursued and caught Veronika and accused her of witchcraft, because she had certainly cast a spell over his son. Why else would his son misbehave? Veronika was put on trial and found innocent. Surprise. But the count overturned the verdict. He ordered his soldiers to kill the witch. Veronika was drowned in the castle courtyard of Veliki Tabor. Legend has it that as a safeguard, her body was built into the castle’s walls. No mention was made of what happened to the imprisoned son. He probably gained forty pounds in the tower and was married off to a royal hemophiliac from Prussia. The usual… Why It’s Superstitious: Go there at night—especially a cold dark night—and you might year Veronika’s cries and wails. Go there: Veliki Tabor Castle, Hum Košnički, Croatia The Island No One Will Buy Daska Island, via https://www.croatiaweek.com/controversial-croatian-island-up-for-sale-again/ For under two million euros, you could buy Daska Island. For that staggeringly low price, you get a villa, an old monastery, a lighthouse and a couple of crumbling docks on your own private island close to a major tourist destination. Sounds like a great investment, doesn’t it? But wait…the place is haunted. You can see small J-shaped Daska Island from the city of Dubrovnik. Daska is only 1.5 miles away from shore. In fact, you could swim to the isle—but no one ever does. Locals give the island a wide berth. So that means, if you were interested in buying the house, you’d have a difficult time hiring a boat to take you out to look at it. Inhabited by monks in medieval times. Place of refuge for sailors during storms. Everything changed in October 1944. Nazis were ousted at the end of WWII. Nazi sympathizers were rounded up, taken to the island and shot. 48-53 people were executed. Bodies left unburied. The dead included the mayor of Dubrovnik and some priests. Citizens were forbidden to collect their dead. In 2009, explorers stumbled over remains of six people. Authorities found 48 more. The bodies have been buried and a memorial erected. The math doesn’t make sense, but that’s what the research said… Why It’s Supernatural Ghosts and bad spirits haunt the island. Sailors won’t go ashore. Many won’t take a boat even close. Go There: Daska Island, Croatia The First Recorded Case of Vampirism A Bulgarian skeleton stabbed through the chest with an iron bar, via Wikipedia Jure Grando Alilović wasn’t famous enough or rich enough to have his portrait painted in the 16th century, so there is no image available of him. But his legend lives on. He was born in 1579 in Kringa on the Istria peninsula. He died in 1656 from an illness—nothing out of the ordinary for the time. In fact, he was fairly old. Seventy-seven. Lucky… But after Grando died, he began to terrorize his village until he was decapitated in 1672. The local priest reported that at night, Grando would knock on doors of the village, and whatever door he knocked on, in that home a person would die in a matter of days. Grando also appeared to his terrified widow in her bedroom. She described the corpse as smiling and gasping for breath. He would sexually assault her but didn’t kill her. Small favors. The priest eventually came face-to-face with the vampire and held out a cross and called on God to stop him. But his efforts were fruitless. A villager ran after the vampire and tried to stab him in the chest with a hawthorn stick, but couldn’t pierce the monster’s chest. Kringa, Croatia via Wikipedia The next night, the priest and nine other people marched to Grando’s grave. When they dug up his coffin, they found a perfectly-preserved corpse with a smile on its face. One of the villagers sawed off the vampire’s head. As soon as the saw cut the vampire’s flesh, he let out a roar and blood burst from his throat. After the decapitation, Grando the vampire was never seen in the village again. Why It’s Supernatural: It’s a vampire tale. Enough said… Go there: Kringa, Croatia The Lokrum Curse The former Benedictine monastery on Lokrum Island via Wikipedia. Lokrum Island is off the coast of the city of Dubrovnik. Benedictine monks first built a monastery there in 1023. Centuries later, in a government takeover, a French general demanded that the monks leave the island. On their last day at the monastery, the monks circled the island three times, holding candles upside down and chanting, “Whosoever claims Lokrum for his own personal pleasure shall be damned!“ Soon after the eviction, three aristocrats involved in the land grab were dead. One jumped out a window, one drowned, and another was killed by a servant. Later owners, including Captain Tomaševic, Archduke Maximilian Ferdinand of Habsburg and his wife Charlotte, either lost their fortunes, lost their lives or went insane. Many tragedies befell the Hapsburg family members who were unlucky enough to inherit the small island. Now all that remains on the island is a botanical garden and some wild peacocks. Why It’s Supernatural: Travelers can visit the island, but locals warn them to leave before dark. The residents of Dubrovnik still believe the curse remains. Go there: Lokrum Island, Croatia (by boat) Just Bury Me, and I’ll Leave… Prandau-Normann Castle via Wikipedia The church inside the castle, via Wikipedia This is the story of a courageous young woman who just wanted some basic human decency shown for her remains—and perhaps some recognition of her courage during an attack on the fortress now known as Prandau-Normann Castle. Prandau-Normann Castle in Valpovo is one of the largest schlosses (German for chateaux) in Croatia. It houses the oldest church in Croatia. Why is the castle paranormal? Because of another ghost lady. Only she’s white this time, and not green or gray. Apparently the spirit of a girl—the Lady in White—haunted the castle until a colonel in the imperial army visited the place in the 1800s. His name was Kuschmann. He complained about seeing a ghost. Maybe he was a channeler. Maybe he was an empath. Or maybe he didn’t like his after-dinner cigar interrupted by a young girl who claimed to have been murdered hundreds of years earlier. The ghost told him her body had been thrown unceremoniously between the ice-cellar and the city chapel, and she was going to keep bothering mortals until someone found her mortal remains and buried them. The owner of the castle, Baron Prandau, couldn’t have his guest being hounded by the Lady in White, so he ordered an excavation. And what do you know? The skeleton of a female was found in the exact spot the ghost told Colonel Kuschmann it would be. Many believe the skeleton belonged to a courageous heroine, Catherine, who helped defend the Valpovo fortress against the Turks in the 16th century. Why It’s Supernatural: Catherine’s ghost no longer haunts the castle, now that she has been found. Go there: Prandau-Normann Castle in Valpovo, Croatia The House No One Will Buy Ghost in the window of the Skrinjari House via @CreepyFacts1166 This house is located in the small village of Skrinjari and is considered one of the most haunted places in Croatia. There are many reports of paranormal activities in the house and around it. Unlike most haunted places we’ve talked about, this one is a fairly recent structure. The Skrinjari House via lets-travel-more.com Built in the 1950s or 80s. The owner left the house because of the paranormal activities. The house has been on the market since 1997 for an unusually low price. There are rumors that say the owner will give the house to anyone who can spend the night there. There are lots of reasons why this place might be haunted. Built over a graveyard. Small girl fell into a well and drowned. A young woman was killed here and supposedly her body was hidden in the foundations. The owner purposely built the structure to “leave something” behind (an evil spirit). What It’s Supernatural Eerie sounds like crying of a baby, screams, strange noises, strange shadows. Apparitions of woman and small girl inside the house and around the house. Apparently, those who have tried to spend the night have ended up in mental hospitals. Two policemen decided to investigate the house. However, their equipment didn’t work inside of the house, and in the morning they were found walking the house completely disoriented.
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