Crisis And Tennis

The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here

Ed Zitron | Where’s Your Ed At? | 31st March 2026

The 2008 housing crisis was caused by the illusion of value. We are on the cusp of something similar with AI, which is being subsidised and sold at a vastly discounted rate while using infinite resources. “The AI industry has done a great job in obfuscating exactly how brittle its economics really are.” The crisis begins “when somebody actually needs to start making money, or stop losing quite so much” (11,200 words)

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Negative Tennis

Owen Lewis | n+1 | 31st March 2026

Djokovic is frequently compared to a machine. Jannik Sinner, who took the number one ranking from him, “hits the ball harder than Djokovic, plays with less variation, emotes even less than Djokovic on the latter’s most subdued day, and is far less likely to participate in any match worthy of preserving in a time capsule. Perhaps we should have been more grateful that Djokovic made us feel anything at all” (4,200 words)