The Best One Yet 🕶️ “Smuggle, Inc.” — Mexican Drug Cartels’ biz. Crocs’ microdrama. AI’s Sci-Fi essay. +Self-Blowing Snowblower
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Feb 25, 2026 They unpack how Mexican drug cartels operate like Fortune 500 companies, from smuggling to money laundering. They explore Crocs' bold move into paid microdramas as a marketing experiment. They debate a sci‑fi style AI essay that imagines a 2028 intelligence crisis and what it means for policy and markets.
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Act Now To Manage AI Displacement
- Act now to design policy before structural displacement compounds into systemic failure.
- The hosts recommend agreeing on the problem and enacting measures like transition taxes or a Shared AI Prosperity Act while markets still look healthy.
Fiction As A Catalyst For AI Policy
- Fictional futures can shift policy by reframing risk as imminent rather than hypothetical.
- The Substack essay painted a 2028 crash that turned abstract AI threats into an actionable market-failure narrative for regulators.
Brands Enter Microdrama To Boost Sales
- Brands are embedding themselves into new entertainment formats to regain growth.
- Crocs produced a five-episode microdrama centered on gibbets and flirty shoe-planting after revenue shrank in 2025 for the first time in a decade.
