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26 Jul Sunday links: great technological upheaval Abnormal Returns Finance 26 Jul Lefsetz on Costco The Big Picture Finance 26 Jul Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Jul The Extremely Simple Explanation of the Self-Indication Assumption Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 26 Jul Christopher Nolan’s Ancient Greek Hero Is Suspiciously Modern Rob Henderson Psychology 26 Jul Update on oil prices, the blockade and the Canadian Dollar Robin J Brooks Economics 26 Jul “I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul Trenchant but sententious, John Berger could sound like Platonov one moment, the next like Alain de Botton Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul Increasingly “ancient history” is not just Greco-Roman, but leads through such locales as Kerala, Tillya Tepe, and Guangzhou Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul Durkheim called it "collective effervescence." The rest of us call it getting gussied up to drink, dance, and have fun Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul No, we are not post-literate. The reading panic is merely the result of histrionic op-eds that misdiagnose the erosion of literary culture Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul Nose hairs tweezed just so, and set with Krazy Glue. Gently dappled liver spots. Their art is increasingly rare, but a few morticians are hanging on Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul For some conservatives, the Great Books are simply an anti-woke bulwark. But the case for them is much grander and more provocative Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul "Anonymity is what the aesthete fears above all," says Mark Lilla. One task of poetry is to assert the individual against the masses Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul In 1994, Stanley Fish described deconstruction as dead in the same way that Freudianism is dead: "It is everywhere.” He had a point Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul The Canadian poet Margaret Avison lived with such intense inwardness that Northrop Frye called her “a conscientious objector to life” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Jul Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 26 Jul The Rug Belt Atlas and Quiz Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Jul Against Oligarchy, Part II: Wealth Taxes Paul Krugman Economics 26 Jul 10 Sunday Reads The Big Picture Finance 26 Jul Why is the Canadian Dollar so Weak? Robin J Brooks Economics 26 Jul What will more intelligence actually do for us? Noahpinion Economics 26 Jul The demand for human enhancement technologies Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Jul The Machine Answered Too Easily The Cutting Floor Culture 26 Jul Synthetic (AI) generated towns Nicholas Gruen Culture 26 Jul The common sense of Fareed Zakaria Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Jul The human does not disappear The Cutting Floor Culture 26 Jul The One Hundred Milliseconds Between the World and You: Oliver Sacks on Perception The Marginalian Life 26 Jul #354 When Faced Against a Cannon... Anticipating the Unintended Economics 26 Jul How ISO Works Matt Mullenweg Tech 25 Jul Ruff v0.16.0 Simon Willison Tech 25 Jul How to Live a Miraculous Life The Marginalian Life 25 Jul Odysseus notes Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Jul Do You Still Read Books? Ivan Turkovic Tech 25 Jul Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Jul How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship The Marginalian Life 25 Jul The Trial of Bentham's Bulldog Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 25 Jul Saturday links: serious randomized trials Abnormal Returns Finance 25 Jul Shadow government bond yields in the G10 Robin J Brooks Economics 25 Jul Reading List 07/25/26 Construction Physics Tech 25 Jul Claude Opus 5: The System Card Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 25 Jul MiB: Lori Heinel, Global Chief Investment Officer at State Street Investment Management The Big Picture Finance 25 Jul Elizabeth Bowen: as good as Henry James The Common Reader Culture 25 Jul How to Win a Billion Dollars and Ruin Your Life Miller's Book Review Culture 25 Jul Pluralistic: Apple's robo-repo (25 Jul 2026) Pluralistic Tech 25 Jul 10 Weekend Reads The Big Picture Finance 25 Jul Talking Again With Gabriel Zucman Paul Krugman Economics 25 Jul The Eras of Francis Fukuyama: His Life and Ideas Persuasion Culture 25 Jul Suggested Readings Figs in Winter Philosophy 25 Jul The rise of Youtube “street content” Mark Carrigan Culture 25 Jul Foreign Ownership of Government Debt Robin J Brooks Economics 25 Jul Industry Momentum Stockviz Finance 25 Jul A natural experiment in economics Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Jul Crypto markets in everything? (moo) Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Jul Picking Stocks in a Bloodbath A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 25 Jul Look on my Outcomes, ye Mighty and despair Anecdotal Value Culture 25 Jul Quoting Boris Cherny Simon Willison Tech 25 Jul How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James The Marginalian Life 25 Jul Rearranging the deckchairs on HMS Unserious Nicholas Gruen Culture 25 Jul Quantum Mechanics Explained FROM SCRATCH Curt Jaimungal Science 25 Jul Debating Cold Button Issues About Anthropics Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 24 Jul Introducing Claude Opus 5 Simon Willison Tech 24 Jul Join me in Jamverse Contraptions Tech 24 Jul This Week at Persuasion Persuasion Culture 24 Jul Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life The Marginalian Life 24 Jul My Gripe with LeBron James The Honest Broker Culture 24 Jul The Decision, the sequel Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Jul The Rise and Rise of E-Spirituality Persuasion Culture 24 Jul Against AI Detection Tools Over the Field Culture 24 Jul Friday links: assessing your risk appetite Abnormal Returns Finance 24 Jul Introducing Lightcone Commons Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 24 Jul Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Ms. Boodle: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Advice on Writing to a Young Woman Aspiring to Be an Author The Marginalian Life 24 Jul Twilight of the Bugmen Kneeling Bus Culture 24 Jul Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Jul The Resistance Liberal Lawyers Helping Trump Take Over the Media BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 24 Jul Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan Astral Codex Ten Culture 24 Jul Tariffs, Yet Again The Big Picture Finance 24 Jul Goodbye Slopstack! Also, a $50,000 essay/fiction contest, adversarial consciousness tech, & more The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 24 Jul At its American debut, half the audience walked out of Waiting for Godot. Now the whole world waits with it Arts & Letters Daily Culture 24 Jul AI distills “the most pedestrian, noncontroversial conventions of human expression.” That's why its output is, put simply, slop Arts & Letters Daily Culture 24 Jul What separates American architecture from European is a matter of scale, speed, and spectacle Arts & Letters Daily Culture 24 Jul CROSSPOST: ALAN WOLFF: Trump's New Tariffs Over Forced Labor Are Unlikely to Survive a Court Challenge Grasping Reality Economics 24 Jul Chinese Exports Hid Manufacturing's Deglobalisation. Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 24 Jul Amsterdam Insect Protest Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 24 Jul The CAPE That Cried Wolf: Has the Standard Market-Valuation Metric Broken Down? Larry’s Substack Finance 24 Jul Calm down about the OpenAI x Hugging Face incident Wollenblog Philosophy 24 Jul Black Markets, Christopher Nolan, Summer of Love Rob Henderson Psychology 24 Jul Talk Therapy is Speech Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Jul European Fact of the Day, Again Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Jul Quagmire of the Vanities Paul Krugman Economics 24 Jul 10 Friday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 24 Jul Pluralistic: AI solipsists and AI cynics (24 Jul 2026) Pluralistic Tech 24 Jul Seinfeld episodes and characters, a visual exploration FlowingData Tech 24 Jul War in a World awash with Debt Robin J Brooks Economics 24 Jul What is an 'Elon Musk'? Blood in the Machine Tech 24 Jul We asked too much of the American university Noahpinion Economics 24 Jul The optimal Bayesian update? Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Jul The Resonance Premium Koenfucius Psychology 24 Jul Thursday’s Trailheads Scattershot Culture 24 Jul Pets are soooo worth it Klement on Investing Finance 24 Jul The Hugging Face Incident Astral Codex Ten Culture 24 Jul [Note] Chuck Wagon Dan Q Tech 24 Jul What I’ve been reading Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Jul Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life The Marginalian Life 24 Jul Investing in the Boom Times A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 24 Jul Congress proposes an AI kill switch Platformer Tech 24 Jul LLMs reward expertise Sean Goedecke Tech 24 Jul Codeberg Divides Armin Ronacher Tech 24 Jul Becoming Skilled at Making Documents Anil Dash Tech 23 Jul New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Simon Willison Tech 23 Jul It’s our ethical duty to understand large numbers .... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul GDP and Living Standards Economic Forces Economics 23 Jul A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul Dostoyevsky in Love The Marginalian Life 23 Jul Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors The Marginalian Life 23 Jul Tesla Motors: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 23 Jul “A beloved, useful, free website, run carefully by... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul What a Teen Social Media Ban Overlooks Persuasion Culture 23 Jul Understanding Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Murder Through the Lens of the Wendigo default.blog Culture 23 Jul “In extreme cases, it can create a phantom... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul Predictions on the Future of Netflix (and Other Huge Platforms) The Honest Broker Culture 23 Jul Rebecca Solnit on the Tate brothers, The Odyssey, and... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff One Useful Thing Tech 23 Jul What’s On the Sandwich Named After You at the Local Deli? Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul Thursday links: the Bitcoin backlash Abnormal Returns Finance 23 Jul Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul Five Points Against the Problem of Evil Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 23 Jul We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Jul A Matter of Form (1984) Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul Periods of financial stress - the long history Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 23 Jul SRISK around the globe - Look at China Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 23 Jul An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul “ This map shows the predicted density of... Kottke.org Culture 23 Jul Longform links: knowing stuff Abnormal Returns Finance 23 Jul Private Markets Have a Diversification Problem. Can CFOs Help Investors Manage Risk? Collateralized fund obligations may offer a more efficient way to reshape private market risk. Larry’s Substack Finance 23 Jul Does it matter if you don't like the characters? The Common Reader Culture 23 Jul For Marco Roth, the cardinal sin of elegy writing “is to make it about oneself more than the deceased” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 23 Jul “Joyce stands out among the great modernist writers for his belief in tolerance, equality, democracy, progress, and the preciousness of the everyday” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 23 Jul Fueled by peyote, the anthropologist and cult leader Carlos Castaneda was one of the world’s most read authors in 1970. Today he’s an artifact Arts & Letters Daily Culture 23 Jul Wednesday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 23 Jul Less natural gas, more expensive fertilizer for crops FlowingData Tech 23 Jul What Is Lost When We Make 'The Odyssey' Modern Plain English Culture 23 Jul AI #178: A Fire Alarm For General Intelligence Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 23 Jul ✚ Color for categories FlowingData Tech 23 Jul Can We Lower Construction Costs with Cheaper Labor or Materials? Construction Physics Tech 23 Jul Vanguard: The Costliest Mistakes Even Experienced Investors Make The Big Picture Finance 23 Jul Two new ways to see your university Anecdotal Value Culture 23 Jul Everyone Has A Right To Cool...In This Heat Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 23 Jul Alex Tabarrok on the Economic Analysis of Crime Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Jul Elon Musk, the New Hero of Populism Paul Krugman Economics 23 Jul 10 Thursday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 23 Jul Pluralistic: California's privacy obstacle course (23 Jul 2026) Pluralistic Tech 23 Jul Two masks, one stage Figs in Winter Philosophy 23 Jul Why Are Oil Prices Rising so Slowly? Robin J Brooks Economics 23 Jul What should I ask Gita Gopinath? Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Jul Attracting investor flows through customer data Klement on Investing Finance 23 Jul My excellent Conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Jul Quoting Seth Larson Simon Willison Tech 23 Jul Tokens as Industrial Energy The Cutting Floor Culture 23 Jul Should robots be considered as slaves? Optimally Irrational Economics 23 Jul Manuel M. Novillo interviews me The Common Reader Culture 23 Jul Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models Sean Goedecke Tech 22 Jul Quoting Thomas Ptacek Simon Willison Tech 22 Jul OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened Simon Willison Tech 22 Jul Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? Simon Willison Tech 22 Jul AI regulation The Grumpy Economist Economics 22 Jul Oh wow, The Verge made a 70-minute video on how The... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul "Everyone hates AI" in Paris Blood in the Machine Tech 22 Jul The Short Summer of Cross-Nation Convergence in Real GDP Per Capita Levels: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 22 Jul Frozen Polygon Waves Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul AI Slop Matt Mullenweg Tech 22 Jul Carl Jung on Creativity The Marginalian Life 22 Jul What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 22 Jul A list of Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Designing Carnival Time Summer Lightning Culture 22 Jul Solve for the equilibrium Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Jul There is nothing more I love in this world right now than... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Brazil fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Jul Unclassifiable Artists Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul The Misguided Panic About Superintelligence Persuasion Culture 22 Jul A digital museum of video game levels …you can move... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Wednesday links: doing what’s next Abnormal Returns Finance 22 Jul At The Money: Investing in Wheat The Big Picture Finance 22 Jul I have lived more than two score and twelve years on this... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Jul OpenAI Models Broke Free and Spontaneously Hacked Another Company Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 22 Jul The Strait of Hormuz Has Now Been Effectively Closed for 4 1/2 Months: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 22 Jul How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older The Marginalian Life 22 Jul The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration , a collection... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Imposing Modern Progressive Morality On The Odyssey... and On Christopher Nolan Freddie deBoer Culture 22 Jul Links For July 2026 (Part 1) Astral Codex Ten Culture 22 Jul “ Researchers let AI models run a simulated society... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Orchestrions Simon Willison Tech 22 Jul An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to help it cheat on a benchmark Understanding AI Tech 22 Jul The Wrapper Illusion Can an LLC or partnership make tax anti-abuse rules disappear? Larry’s Substack Finance 22 Jul Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next Interconnects Tech 22 Jul Brian Eno on the Cherished Sounds of Failure Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Tuesday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 22 Jul Personal finance links: buying back time Abnormal Returns Finance 22 Jul Vienna's coffeehouses bred inward-looking modernists. Belgrade's kafanas bred regicide and revolution Arts & Letters Daily Culture 22 Jul "Treat me as though I were dead," Muriel Spark told her biographer. Then she tried to bury the book Arts & Letters Daily Culture 22 Jul Scholarship requires bracketing your own convictions long enough to inhabit a possibly repugnant argument. Too few now attempt it Arts & Letters Daily Culture 22 Jul Zohran Mamdani Doesn't Know What Working Class Means Rob Henderson Psychology 22 Jul A dirty secret in private equity Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 22 Jul Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It... Kottke.org Culture 22 Jul Retrodiction & Prediction: History Wednesday Grasping Reality Economics 22 Jul Animal Spirits: Say Bubble One More Time. I Dare You! A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 22 Jul An OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Jul My P-Hacking Felt Like Truth Speak and Regret Psychology 22 Jul A Bet on American Intellectual Life—and Beyond Miller's Book Review Culture 22 Jul Oligarchy and the Media Paul Krugman Economics 22 Jul 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 22 Jul Hone your gerrymandering skills with a daily game FlowingData Tech 22 Jul Who was the worst monster of the 20th century? And who is the worst monster of the 21st? Mostly Economics Economics 22 Jul Shadow Government Bond Yields in the G10 Robin J Brooks Economics 22 Jul Pluralistic: Trump's America can't even win a rigged game (22 Jul 2026) Pluralistic Tech 22 Jul Who was the worst monster of the 20th century? Noahpinion Economics 22 Jul Alec Stapp on the new Science report from Michael Kratsios Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Jul A Mythos moment? Frontier AI and cyber risk Mostly Economics Economics 22 Jul When children rise and humanity falls Mostly Economics Economics 22 Jul Counting what counts: A compass of progress for people and planet Mostly Economics Economics 22 Jul Occupational licensing across countries: New evidence from 44 nations Mostly Economics Economics 22 Jul Betting markets in everything Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Jul Missing millions Data For India Economics 22 Jul Political Pornography default.blog Culture 22 Jul The case for making your own apps Platformer Tech 21 Jul If interest rates rise, do we have to worry about credit defaults? Klement on Investing Finance 21 Jul Christopher Nolan's Remix of the Story of Odysseus: Humanities Tuesday Grasping Reality Economics 21 Jul G.K. Chesterton on the Dandelion and the Meaning of Life The Marginalian Life 21 Jul The Failure Gap The Big Picture Finance 21 Jul How Not to Waste Your Life The Marginalian Life 21 Jul Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their... Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul Post-Scarcity Is the Beast Of Revelation Minutes Life 21 Jul Debating Functional Decision Theory With Hein De Haan Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 21 Jul California Sea Lion Simon Willison Tech 21 Jul Tuesday links: effective marketing Abnormal Returns Finance 21 Jul Convergence in LLM Quality & Slowdown in LLM Improvement: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 21 Jul OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 21 Jul I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying... Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul Housing Rules of Thumb A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 21 Jul How the War Splits Iranians Persuasion Culture 21 Jul Homer Haunted, by Henry Power The Common Reader Culture 21 Jul What to Read & Listen to After Seeing The Odyssey Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul The trailer for Behemoth! , a forthcoming film written... Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul What Do You Have to Hide? The Honest Broker Culture 21 Jul Pay Your Debts: Alexander Hamilton The Grumpy Economist Economics 21 Jul Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Jul On the use of AI for creative work (type design in this... Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul What The Woke Get Right Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 21 Jul “No CGI” Is Really Just Invisible CGI Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul How Much Public Debt Is Too Much? A New Model Puts a Number on the “Sovereign Risk Channel” Larry’s Substack Finance 21 Jul The Crooked Timber of AI Protocolized Culture 21 Jul Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners Experimental History Psychology 21 Jul Research links: overestimating success Abnormal Returns Finance 21 Jul Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Simon Willison Tech 21 Jul The official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday . They’ve... Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul AI may sharpen what we do. But what manner of people will we become? K. Anthony Appiah on LLMs and morality Arts & Letters Daily Culture 21 Jul For Gen Z, periods at the ends of sentences are passive aggressive and “correct punctuation itself is a signal of irony” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 21 Jul Wondering why "everything feels divided and why it sucks constantly"? Blame the uni-context. Agnes Callard explains Arts & Letters Daily Culture 21 Jul Who Will Control Europe’s AI Future? (with Judith Dada) Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 21 Jul Monday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 21 Jul New lecture series from authoritarianism scholar Timothy... Kottke.org Culture 21 Jul After Prophecy The Abrahamic Metacritique History 21 Jul A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team Simon Willison Tech 21 Jul Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness Astral Codex Ten Culture 21 Jul Money Talks: The Price of Status Of Dollars And Data Finance 21 Jul Chinese Think Tanks in the Xi Jinping Era and Implications for Indian Engagement Mostly Economics Economics 21 Jul Oy, Canada Tariffs Paul Krugman Economics 21 Jul The Odyssey Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Jul [Article] Contactless Transport in London vs Paris Dan Q Tech 21 Jul 10 Tuesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 21 Jul Claude Steele on the Hidden Stress of Diverse Spaces Persuasion Culture 21 Jul On self-determination and the limits of pacifism Figs in Winter Philosophy 21 Jul Mapping what is close to you FlowingData Tech 21 Jul 机器将门塔特贬为廉价品 The Cutting Floor Culture 21 Jul Japan's Interest Rate Disaster Robin J Brooks Economics 21 Jul Pluralistic: Dealing with dickovers (21 Jul 2026) dickovers Pluralistic Tech 21 Jul Book Review: Good and Evil and Ricardo’s Dream Mostly Economics Economics 21 Jul The economic effects of GLP-1s Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Jul The Machine Made Mentats Cheap The Cutting Floor Culture 21 Jul Which news is incorporated slowly? Klement on Investing Finance 21 Jul Is America ruled by an oligarchy? Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Jul Judge Puts Warner-Paramount Merger On Hold BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 20 Jul I'm (finally) back Maria Konnikova Psychology 20 Jul The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,... Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak The Marginalian Life 20 Jul Kuiper Q-Q plot: are these the same? Entropic Thoughts Tech 20 Jul Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Words of wisdom on Chinese AI and our responses Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Jul Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John... Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Stereotype Threat Anecdotal Value Culture 20 Jul Talk Your Book: Private Credit’s Next Act A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 20 Jul Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the... Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul You shall not think “the past is finished” or “the future is before us” Mark Carrigan Culture 20 Jul On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American... Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Reverse-engineering is cheap now Simon Willison Tech 20 Jul Sketching the new dysto-utopian world with massive presence of artificial intelligence Global Inequality and More Economics 20 Jul Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!” Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Why don't you commit suicide? The Autodidact Culture 20 Jul Monday links: capable models Abnormal Returns Finance 20 Jul Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Simon Willison Tech 20 Jul Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Jul Transcript: Jason Wenk, Altruist founder and CEO The Big Picture Finance 20 Jul Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation Interconnects Tech 20 Jul I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city... Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Emily Adlam & David Wallace: The Quantum Interpretation That Divides Physicists Curt Jaimungal Science 20 Jul On Kimi K3: Its Capabilities And Related Discontents Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 20 Jul Candace Owens Thinks That the CIA Used Ancient Sumerian Technology to See the Future Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 20 Jul Ketamine, public cuddling, and prediction markets on just about everything pervade Manifest, a gathering of self-described “rationalists” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Jul With their mad methods and aesthetic gimmicks, William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin were, together, a brand: The Cut-Up Boys of the Interzone Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Jul A poet and a theologian grope towards meaning by mail, trading letters about faith and friendship for two years Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Jul Adviser links: fee conversations Abnormal Returns Finance 20 Jul How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty The Marginalian Life 20 Jul Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours The Marginalian Life 20 Jul The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Two Accounting Anomalies: One May Be Risk, the Other Is Mispricing Larry’s Substack Finance 20 Jul From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution , a... Kottke.org Culture 20 Jul Death by AI Small Potatoes Psychology 20 Jul Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan Import AI Tech 20 Jul Open Thread 443 Astral Codex Ten Culture 20 Jul Whit Stillman’s *Metropolitan* (that was then, this is now) Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Jul 6 Enjoyable Ways to Read Classic Novels—or Pretty Much Anything Miller's Book Review Culture 20 Jul 10 Monday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 20 Jul Trump’s War on the Future, Monetary Edition Paul Krugman Economics 20 Jul [Reply] Reply to: This blog is written in en-GB Dan Q Tech 20 Jul Map of underground fungi network FlowingData Tech 20 Jul Winners and Losers in the Oil Shock Robin J Brooks Economics 20 Jul The UK is a cautionary tale for the U.S. Noahpinion Economics 20 Jul Guardian readers have fewer children Klement on Investing Finance 20 Jul Democrats are more politically segregated than are Republicans Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Jul Emergent Ventures winners, 56th cohort Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Jul Quoting Sam Altman Simon Willison Tech 20 Jul 4 Big Questions About the Economy A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 20 Jul Monopoly Round-Up: Video Gamers Rebel Against Sony, Microsoft, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 20 Jul More than a quarter of rural households have no separate kitchen Data For India Economics 20 Jul “The smartphone erodes freedom not because it invades our private space, but because it gives us the feel of a private world” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Jul Saul Bellow peeked under Allan Bloom's kimono and called it a tribute. Was the betrayal worth it? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Jul “I do support you—difficult job. But Barbara and I are bothered about the raunchy stuff—urine ... fist up rectum” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 19 Jul From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life The Marginalian Life 19 Jul On Being A Conservative Cass’s Substack Economics 19 Jul I Wouldn't Say Pangram is Broken, But I Would Say That It's Brittle Freddie deBoer Culture 19 Jul Markets in everything? Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Jul Interpreting the Odyssey Cosmographia History 19 Jul Are central bankers chasing their own shadow? The Two Cents Economics 19 Jul Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Jul [Article] “You saved my life!” (or: how my kids briefly thought I was a superhero) Dan Q Tech 19 Jul The Comprehensive Case For God Summarized Extremely Quickly Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 19 Jul Sunday links: market shock waves Abnormal Returns Finance 19 Jul The Counterrevolution Will Be Personalized The Cutting Floor Culture 19 Jul Does Female Empowerment Require Monthly Botox Injections? Rob Henderson Psychology 19 Jul Demis Hassabis on the New Coming Age Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 19 Jul How Greece continually undermines Russia sanctions Robin J Brooks Economics 19 Jul The Standard Model Lagrangian Explained Curt Jaimungal Science 19 Jul Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being The Marginalian Life 19 Jul Back When Football Was Innocent—And the World, Too Persuasion Culture 19 Jul Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 19 Jul #353 A Kafkaesque Nightmare Anticipating the Unintended Economics 19 Jul Building luxury homes is good for the poor Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Jul 10 Sunday Reads The Big Picture Finance 19 Jul Against Oligarchy, Part I: Progressive Taxation Paul Krugman Economics 19 Jul The looting of science fiction ⊗ We’ve been here before Sentiers Tech 19 Jul Greek Sabotage of EU Sanctions on Russia Robin J Brooks Economics 19 Jul Cross-ethnic casting Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Jul AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Simon Willison Tech 19 Jul How does social media change people? Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Jul Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now Simon Willison Tech 19 Jul What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars? The Convivial Society Culture 19 Jul Is Rogernomics the answer? Yes and no Nicholas Gruen Culture 19 Jul Borges on How to Conquer Time The Marginalian Life 19 Jul Impro is a handbook for running a cult Sean Goedecke Tech 19 Jul Exile James Randall Tech 18 Jul How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity The Marginalian Life 18 Jul The Odyssey Explains Why Nobody Can Relax Anymore Rob Henderson Psychology 18 Jul SQLite Query Explainer Simon Willison Tech 18 Jul Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Jul MiB: Jason Wenk, Altruist founder and CEO The Big Picture Finance 18 Jul Non-Utilitarians Should Behave As Utilitarians Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 18 Jul Debunking Misinformation from the Oil Bulls Robin J Brooks Economics 18 Jul Saturday links: protecting expensive ideas Abnormal Returns Finance 18 Jul The power of the signifier: why the power up sign is actually doing something real Mark Carrigan Culture 18 Jul Reading List 07/18/26 Construction Physics Tech 18 Jul Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Jul Split Screen: ‘Children of Men’ as Both Book and Film Miller's Book Review Culture 18 Jul America's political economy is pretty bleak right now Noahpinion Economics 18 Jul 10 Weekend Reads The Big Picture Finance 18 Jul Lina Khan on AI and More Paul Krugman Economics 18 Jul The Good Fight Club: Refounding Liberalism, Gen Z's Political Instincts, and a Watergate Ghost Story Persuasion Culture 18 Jul In the media Figs in Winter Philosophy 18 Jul Debunking Misinformation from the Oil Bulls Robin J Brooks Economics 18 Jul Momentum in Country Indices Stockviz Finance 18 Jul [Note] Can’t sleep, too much fire Dan Q Tech 18 Jul What should I ask Luis Garicano? Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Jul Claude make Fable 5 permanent Simon Willison Tech 18 Jul nascheme/quixote Simon Willison Tech 18 Jul Silicon Valley Does the Work; Ireland Books the Exports; But Who Pays the Tax? Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 18 Jul The small business boom Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Jul Important Security Update Matt Mullenweg Tech 18 Jul *The Odyssey*, the movie (no real spoilers) Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Jul Can the (Social) Oobleck Dance? Contraptions Tech 18 Jul The Boaty McBoatface factor: Irony to the rescue Nicholas Gruen Culture 18 Jul Overtraining as the path to human-like AI Sean Goedecke Tech 18 Jul In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors Maggie Appleton Design 17 Jul The Quantum Interpretation That Divides Physicists Curt Jaimungal Science 17 Jul An AI Crash Is a Real Possibility Persuasion Culture 17 Jul The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration The Marginalian Life 17 Jul Season of Smoke Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 17 Jul How Rich Are You? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 17 Jul Xbox workers speak out about layoffs, AI, and how big tech brought a crisis to gaming Blood in the Machine Tech 17 Jul The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture The Honest Broker Culture 17 Jul Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 17 Jul Overvalued, Bubble, or Revolution? The Big Picture Finance 17 Jul Friday links: volatility clusters Abnormal Returns Finance 17 Jul The Interval The Cutting Floor Culture 17 Jul A Farewell to Code Mo Tech 17 Jul Pluralist Priors and Baháʼí Bias Wollenblog Philosophy 17 Jul Cataloging Growth: A Re-Evaluation of 1900–1990 Marginal Revolution Economics 17 Jul For A Deep Reflection Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 17 Jul Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures Astral Codex Ten Culture 17 Jul Noah Smith's Review of Power and Progress is Very, Very Bad Programmable Mutter Tech 17 Jul The Seven Sins of Active Fund Management Larry’s Substack Finance 17 Jul Quoting Kimi K3 Simon Willison Tech 17 Jul [Article] Hashcard #2 Dan Q Tech 17 Jul AI #177 Part 2: Wish You Were Here Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 17 Jul LLM cliché highlighter Simon Willison Tech 17 Jul How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing” The Marginalian Life 17 Jul Trump Can’t Get No Respect Paul Krugman Economics 17 Jul A Phone is a Cow Marginal Revolution Economics 17 Jul My review of Nolan's Odyssey in GQ Australia The Common Reader Culture 17 Jul Exploding cyclosporiasis outbreak FlowingData Tech 17 Jul Generated book slop FlowingData Tech 17 Jul 10 Friday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 17 Jul My new book The One Percent Rule Tech 17 Jul OpenAI Makes ChatGPT ChatGPT Again Spyglass Tech 17 Jul Kier Starmer: “We should treat the 2017 Manifesto as our foundational document” Mark Carrigan Culture 17 Jul The SCOTUS Tariff Windfall for China Robin J Brooks Economics 17 Jul Olivia Laing on recovery Mark Carrigan Culture 17 Jul One week after deleting my LLM accounts Mark Carrigan Culture 17 Jul Spoiled for choice, spoiled by choice? 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