Overnight News: Charlie Kirk yearns for Obi-Wan Kenobi, but might he have summoned the Death Star instead?

I address the idea of scaling in “Nine Empathies” – the empathy for the idea itself that enables us to grow so far beyond other animals: To farm is to feed your family, but to teach farming is to feed millions, and to master and teach the theory of farming is to feed seven billion bellies every day.

Much warned since the days of the Robber Barons, we have arrived at scaled humans: Jack Dorsey can silence the President of the United States, who in his turn can do – what? Jack squat. The tech oligarchs, at least, and perhaps all billionaires – minus Trump – have scaled: They can destroy anyone at will, and no one – not even the man who brought Kim Jung Un to heel – can do anything about it.

In the links, Charlie Kirk is begging Elon Musk to save-us-obi-wan-scoobydoo!, and he thinks he’s just making entreaties among everyday crime bosses. Why Don Corleone is the preferred mafioso – and why he, too, won’t turn on Turning Point – is a mystery, but here’s worse news for Charlie:

Elon Musk has scaled on the tech oligarchs. He has the high perch and the ability to fake meteor strikes – garage-band ‘rods from god’ – and soon he will have nukes in space. At the moment he is sui generis – homo novis, 3G-humanity – and if he wanted to take over everything right now, he probably could.

Damn one dam and it’s a brand new day – for somebody. Swallow hard on that…

In other news:

Housing Wire: Housing starts hit highest pace since 2006.

Redfin: Housing Market Update: Homebuyers Undeterred by Declining Listings—Pending Sales up 32%, New Listings Down 10%.

Housing Wire: Hispanic households to grow the most over next 20 years.

The Epoch Times: Ideological Alignment Pushing America Toward Totalitarianism, Experts Warn.

Charlie Kirk: Elon Musk Should Build Us a Better Internet.

Christopher Bedford: The Fracturing Of America: A Weak Government, Complicit Media, And Radical Silicon Valley Might Have Finally Set It All Off.