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Creatix Obituary / October 12, 2025 Diane Keaton—the Oscar-winning actress whose quicksilver wit and singular style made her a generational original—died on October 11, 2025 , at 79 . Best known for Annie Hall , The Godfather films, and Father of the Bride , she moved with ease between comedy and drama for five decades, turning “the wife” or “the outsider” into moral centers and engines of story. As of publication, her family and representatives had not released a cause of death . ( Reuters ) Beyond acting, Keaton directed, produced, wrote bestselling memoirs, and became a tastemaker offscreen, reviving historic homes, championing photography, and codifying a fashion language of menswear tailoring, hats, and ease that countless admirers tried to imitate but never quite matched. She never married, but later in life adopted two children and often said motherhood reframed her ambitions and her days. Tributes from collaborators and friends—spanning Robert De Niro to Goldie Hawn—have unde...

Creatix / October 10, 2025 When markets lurch lower, the paradox of wealth shows up in neon: the more you have, the more you stand to lose. A 2.7% market drop may sound modest, but across the U.S. equity universe it translated into roughly $1.8 trillion in paper value erased today. Easy Comes, Easy Goes. Today’s move: S&P 500 −2.7% , Nasdaq −3.6%, Dow −1.9%. ( AP News ) Scale of loss: With the total U.S. market around $67T recently, a −2.7% swing ≈ $1.8T . ( MacroMicro ) 1) Wealth’s Volatility Tax Wealth compounds upside, but it also amplifies downside . A 2.7% dip on $10,000 is lunch money; on $10 billion, it’s an empire’s quarterly R&D budget. This is the volatility tax on affluence: identical percentages, wildly different dollar amounts. That’s why drawdowns feel existential to the already-successful—because their “losses” are measured in hospitals not built, films not financed, labs not funded. 2) “Easy Comes, Easy Goes” (and Why the Rich Spend) In the past year,...

Creatix / October 9, 2025 The center of attention gravity has shifted hard toward video. In time use, TV/video still dominates U.S. leisure: the BLS finds Americans spend ~2.6 hours/day watching TV, while reading for personal interest is far lower and skews older (teens average ~9 minutes/day; 75+ average ~46 minutes). ( Bureau of Labor Statistics ) People are still reading books, just less time overall: Pew has long found a solid majority report reading at least one book in the past year (historically ~3 in 4 adults), even as digital habits rise. ( Pew Research Center ) Audio is the reading-adjacent format growing fastest: U.S. audiobook revenue jumped ~13% in 2024 to ~$2.22B; e-books also ticked up. ( Homepage ) Younger audiences are especially video-first (YouTube/TikTok), and sizeable shares now get news directly on those platforms. ( AP News ) Outside the U.S., the pattern’s similar: UK data show shrinking broadcast TV but huge overall video use; separate polling fo...

Creatix / October 8, 2025 We live in an age of astonishing mastery: we splice genomes, map billions of galaxies, and build machines that can translate, diagnose, and compose. Yet the more precise our instruments become and the deeper we go in knowledge, the more profound our ignorance appears. At the outer rim of knowledge sits a simple, disarming truth: we do not know what reality is, where it ultimately comes from, or how many realities there might be. Our best theories simply illuminate slices of the cosmos (e.g. how matter behaves, how spacetime curves, how information flows), but they do not answer the basal “why” or the full “how.” This is not defeatism; it’s a clear-eyed inventory of what we have and what still eludes us. The Unknown Origins Standard cosmology uses a model of an expanding universe that began, as far as our equations can track, in a hot, dense state. But “the Big Bang” is a placeholder label for a boundary of explanation, not an explanation itself. Was it a begin...

Creatix / October 7, 2025 OpenAI has not publicly announced plans for an initial public offering (IPO). But the scale of its newly signed compute deals and its current losses make a blockbuster capital raise through an IPO increasingly likely. Any such IPO could challenge all-time records if ChatGPT and its parent company keep current execution and future expectations on track. OpenAI—the creator of ChatGPT—has secured unprecedented compute capacity across the industry through deals with NVIDIA, AMD, CoreWeave, and its own “Stargate” data-center program. The explosive adoption and cultural ubiquity of ChatGPT provide powerful demand-side momentum to justify this scale. These commitments lock in the compute needed for ChatGPT to keep expanding its “magic,” but they also concentrate execution risk across chips, power, construction, software, and demand. Because OpenAI is currently operating at a loss, it will need to raise substantial capital to fund these obligations—making an ...

Creatix / October 5, 2025  AI Is a New General-Purpose Utility—But Don’t Confuse the Map for the Terrain AI is a new general-purpose utility with echoes of electricity, the telephone, and the internet, yet it differs in cost structure, reliability, governance, and how value accumulates. Treat the analogies as maps, not the terrain: borrow what travels, discard what doesn’t. Why These Analogies Keep Showing Up Electricity → a silent, ambient upgrade to everything—lights and engines everywhere. Telephone → real-time presence at a distance—voices (and later data) connecting everyone. Internet → networks, standards, and distribution—information flowing everywhere. AI → automated cognition or cognition-as-a-service—augmented cognition everywhere. AI behaves like a general-purpose technology (GPT) with wide spillovers, long S-curves, and heavy dependence on complements (data, tooling, org change). That’s the overlap. The breakpoints are where AI’s economics and risks di...

Creatix / October 4, 2025 Bad Bunny's and MAGA's Anti-Immigration: Different Drumbeats, Potentially Similar Outcomes Summary Bad Bunny’s recent work centers Puerto Rican place-attachment, critiques displacement and gentrification, and foregrounds the refrain “No me quiero ir de aquí” (“I don’t want to leave here”). In parallel, U.S. immigration enforcement includes policies intended to reduce unauthorized migration and, at times, encourage “self-deportation” (voluntary return) through a mix of incentives and penalties. Although the motives and methods are fundamentally different—cultural pride and community rootedness vs. state enforcement—the observable outcome in both cases could be fewer people leaving home or more people returning . Below is a neutral, sourced comparison. Bad Bunny’s Throughline: Stay, Belong, Resist Displacement Residency framed around staying home. In summer 2025, Bad Bunny staged a 31-date San Juan residency titled “No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí” (“I ...

Creatix / October 2, 2025 IHere’s a tighter, logically ordered version of your piece—with clean sections, crisp comparisons, and a sample 90-day contingency plan (including realistic visa/entry routes for a U.S. citizen). 1) Why Americans Are Game-Planning Emigration (2025) Many Americans—perhaps a record number—are at least pondering where they might go if crisis turns relocation from daydream to rational plan. In a worst-case, apocalyptic WWIII scenario implicating the United States, Europe, Israel, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and others, the criteria shift from “nice to have” (weather, beaches) to distance, stability, governance, food/energy resilience, and low strategic profile . That’s why New Zealand often tops shortlists, alongside Iceland, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Switzerland and a few other far-flung candidates. 2) How to Judge a “Haven”: A Quick Framework Target value: Alliance posture, foreign bases, and critical military or industrial nodes raise targeting risk...