There’s no guest this week, so it’s just Jeff left to his own devices. The results are predictably unpredictable.

First, Jeff responds to some reader comments about yesterday’s piece on our coming crisis of population decline.

Then there’s Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read pushing back on progressive legislators who want the state to divest its retiree pension program from fossil fuel companies, teeing up a intra-Democratic Party fight.

Finally, Jeff made an artificial intelligence writing program called ChatGPT answer questions like “Is Kamala Harris Smart?” “Why does Joe Biden slur?” and “Who killed Mary Jo Kopechne?” The results were, at least to Jeff, hilarious.

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