P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

This and That

November 16, 2025

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Items sometimes get posted between columns: they are interstitial. If you’re not the kind of person who stays for the credits, you may have missed When Fascism Comes To America and Nuremberg The Movie ******
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Nuremburg Joke
I didn’t want to make a joke in a serious review of a serious movie, but the number of times Göring effectively said “I know nothing,” makes me wonder if he was the model for Sgt. Schulz in Hogan’s Heroes.
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Important Elsewhere
Doomsday Clock
Everything AI…as far as I am concerned
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New Worst Review Ever
Clive Barnes held the spot for a long time with his review of Drat. But now there is a new worst review ever.
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As Far Down As I Can Place an AI Item
J.P. Morgan calls out AI spend, says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on AI buildout — equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netflix subscriber ‘in perpetuity’

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