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09 Sep Spaceships : A version of Asteroids where “you are not... Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep De-Homogenize the University Persuasion Culture 09 Sep Wednesday links: a moment of sheer luck Abnormal Returns Finance 09 Sep What should I ask Kevin Roose? Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep Profitability: The Common Thread Behind Quality, Defense, and Value Larry’s Substack Finance 09 Sep Reading Max Weber in the Age of AI Weltinnenpolitik Economics 09 Sep Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth? Ghosts of Electricity Economics 09 Sep Limited Inerrancy: Limited Plausibility Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 09 Sep Helen Vendler spent a lifetime writing about lyric poetry, yet her criticism always started from frustration, not certainty Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep The extraordinary achievement of Moby-Dick is to unroll the blank sheet on which modernity will write itself Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep The nonfiction collapse. We’re nearing the point where one fiction blockbuster could outsell the entirety of the nonfiction bestseller list Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Literature without lust? For Leslie Fiedler, the American canon comprised adventure books, sea tales, and other prepubescent diet fare Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep He burned with no causes, claimed Tom Stoppard. That detachment let him dramatize ideas his committed peers couldn't touch Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Once again this year, Vinita Prabhakar assigned her college students a short story she'd taught for a decade. This time, she lost her job Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep During the golden age of Oxbridge dons, intellectual elites were treated as a national treasure. Then came Margaret Thatcher Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep The political right often acts in bad faith in its attacks on academia; in response, academics lapse into tendentious moralism Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Pauline Kael was useless as a guide to movies. She was indispensable as an autobiographer of the Age of Cinema Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Gooey, disgusting AI slop is everywhere these days, including the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Here comes the AI police Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Sep Tomorrow: Against the Machine Reading Group Over the Field Culture 09 Sep The shifting Overton window Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 09 Sep 1873 - the first depression and monetary mistakes Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 09 Sep Personal finance links: taking a walk Abnormal Returns Finance 09 Sep GPT-6 Astra: The System Card, Alignment and What Comes Next Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 09 Sep The 101 Plays Itself . The five lanes of highway 101 in... Kottke.org Culture 09 Sep Culture Becomes a Dark Forest The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 09 Sep How Long Till Death Revokes Your Library Card? Miller's Book Review Culture 09 Sep Next Wins Appeal Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep When will average people feel AI’s impact? Interconnects Tech 09 Sep Adding Injury to Insult, Canada Edition Paul Krugman Economics 09 Sep Animal Spirits: Everywhere Millionaires A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 09 Sep 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 09 Sep Pluralistic: Anti-vax/anti-trust (09 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 09 Sep [Note] Dan Q Tech 09 Sep China Doesn’t Set Global Oil Prices Robin J Brooks Economics 09 Sep [Article] Hot take: AI peaked with Taco Bot 3000 Dan Q Tech 09 Sep Liberalism needs a new philosophy of immigration Noahpinion Economics 09 Sep Terence Tao on the paradox of solving mathematical problems FlowingData Tech 09 Sep Reading sentences to ponder Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep The price momentum of lottery tickets Klement on Investing Finance 09 Sep Reasons to go to college Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Sep Comparative Advantage Revisited The Slack Wire Economics 09 Sep Expected Time of Arrival Data For India Economics 09 Sep Neuromancer, Chapters 10-12: A Doll’s House Freddie deBoer Culture 09 Sep Quoting Terence Tao Simon Willison Tech 09 Sep Why we should anthropomorphize AI agents Sean Goedecke Tech 09 Sep I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots Ploum Tech 09 Sep Cancer Capital: It sucks for founders, too! Anil Dash Tech 08 Sep On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Simon Willison Tech 08 Sep Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5 Simon Willison Tech 08 Sep The Beginning of the End of History Persuasion Culture 08 Sep The Hidden Fault Lines in Private Credit Funding Larry’s Substack Finance 08 Sep Better AI code comment detector Entropic Thoughts Tech 08 Sep Will the end of reading be the end of democracy too? The Common Reader Culture 08 Sep Kahlil Gibran on the Courage to Weather the Uncertainties of Love The Marginalian Life 08 Sep CROSSPOST: JOHN QUIGGIN: US Navy Defeated Again Grasping Reality Economics 08 Sep The End of a Golden Era For Investors A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 08 Sep Tuesday links: a meme asset Abnormal Returns Finance 08 Sep Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep Americans are indifferent to art but obsess over art heists. "It’s as though a nation of teetotalers chooses, year after year, to hang out in bars Arts & Letters Daily Culture 08 Sep Rachel Cusk’s new novel was billed as “literary scandal of the year.” Strip away the controversy and it’s instantly forgettable Arts & Letters Daily Culture 08 Sep Babitz bubbles, Renata revivals, Hardwick hurricanes: How NYRB Classics built its name by resurrecting old and overlooked novelists Arts & Letters Daily Culture 08 Sep The Physicist Who Says Spacetime Has No Points Curt Jaimungal Science 08 Sep How bad are the bond market returns? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 08 Sep The Discipline and the Discipline Never Met a Science Culture 08 Sep Latest open artifacts (#24): Motif-3, GLM-5.3, Hy4-preview and open model licenses Interconnects Tech 08 Sep Where are we going to get the needed copper? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 08 Sep How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on the future Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 08 Sep [Repost] Why Are We Taught to Memorise and Not Learn? Dan Q Tech 08 Sep The gold real rate change in sensitivity Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 08 Sep Some Navier-Stokes updates Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep Research links: a meaningful shift Abnormal Returns Finance 08 Sep AI's Mixed Messages • Siri AI's Potential Developer Problem Spyglass Tech 08 Sep Corporate vs Treasury Debt Duration The Big Picture Finance 08 Sep God Help Us, Let’s Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques Astral Codex Ten Culture 08 Sep The Predictable Disaster of No-Chase Policing Homo Economicus Economics 08 Sep Living Poor to Die Rich Of Dollars And Data Finance 08 Sep Where’s the Beef (Coming From)? Paul Krugman Economics 08 Sep Astra Is Hard to Monitor Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 08 Sep “What is this? A dilemma for ants?” Wollenblog Philosophy 08 Sep No Doing, No Learning Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep Interest Rate-Hike Expectations: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 08 Sep 10 Tuesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 08 Sep Sarah Longwell on How Democrats Can Defeat Trump Persuasion Culture 08 Sep How to find happiness with Cicero Figs in Winter Philosophy 08 Sep Will Oil Prices Spike Again? Robin J Brooks Economics 08 Sep UN votes to support map projection that accurately shows the size of Africa FlowingData Tech 08 Sep Ed Elson and Scott Galloway interview me on AI Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep Southeast Asia as the new investment hub Klement on Investing Finance 08 Sep Will new transportation technologies increase urban density? Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Sep What Became of the Asian Century? The Cutting Floor Culture 08 Sep Monopoly Round-Up: The Enshittification of the American Hamburger BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 08 Sep How to Break Free from the Tyranny of Certainty: The Japanese Concept of “Ma” The Marginalian Life 08 Sep Teaser trailer for You Can See Everything from Nathan... Kottke.org Culture 08 Sep Automatically detecting AI text in my browser Sean Goedecke Tech 07 Sep llm 0.35 Simon Willison Tech 07 Sep What BDC Discounts Tell Us About Private-Credit Values Larry’s Substack Finance 07 Sep Creepy crawlies Simon Willison Tech 07 Sep Quoting Jakub Pachocki Simon Willison Tech 07 Sep You Cannot Unsee 'You Can See Everything' Spyglass Tech 07 Sep Recursion into madness lcamtuf's thing Tech 07 Sep How Not to Waste Your Wildness The Marginalian Life 07 Sep South Korean aspirational markets in everything Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Sep Video compressor Simon Willison Tech 07 Sep An Alien Mind: Jakub Pachocki Warns Us Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 07 Sep Who is Holding the App Store Line? Spyglass Tech 07 Sep Mercator ↔ Equal Earth Simon Willison Tech 07 Sep Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Sep Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity The Marginalian Life 07 Sep Joe Schmid and Noah McKay Are Wrong About Fatima Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 07 Sep Tanya Luhrmann: The Experience Is Real. But Is God? Curt Jaimungal Science 07 Sep The marriage of the sun and the moon Numb at the Lodge Culture 07 Sep Adviser links: managing client transitions Abnormal Returns Finance 07 Sep Power to the laypeople! Optimally Irrational Economics 07 Sep Transcript: Bill McNabb, Vanguard former Chairman and CEO The Big Picture Finance 07 Sep Is AI a form of life? Small Potatoes Psychology 07 Sep Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman Import AI Tech 07 Sep [Article] The Husbands by Holly Gramazio Dan Q Tech 07 Sep When a Mentally Ill Person Kills, How Much Confinement is Long Enough? Freddie deBoer Culture 07 Sep The Rise and Fall of Crime Homo Economicus Economics 07 Sep J. Bradford DeLong: Professor of Economics, Emeritus Grasping Reality Economics 07 Sep Neo-Nazis and the Impotence of Trumponomics Paul Krugman Economics 07 Sep CROSSPOST: RILEY CEDER & J.D. SIMKINS: Navy Not Returning to Damaged Bahrain Base ‘Anytime Soon,’ Top Officer Says Grasping Reality Economics 07 Sep Talk Your Book: AI Winners & Losers A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 07 Sep Broke and in search of a sinecure, Edgar Allan Poe went to Washington in 1843 to try to meet the president’s son. A fiasco ensued Arts & Letters Daily Culture 07 Sep Sumerian tablets, Soviet cybernetics, Google server banks — human history can be seen via our ever more elaborate data apparatuses  Arts & Letters Daily Culture 07 Sep A wine so thick you could write with it. Pâté made from cat meat. What did boys obsess over in the Renaissance? Food Arts & Letters Daily Culture 07 Sep 10 Labor Day Reads The Big Picture Finance 07 Sep Elon Musk & His DOGE & DogeCoin Adventure: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 07 Sep Invasion of the “meat proxy” butterfly catchers Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 07 Sep What the Rise of Germany’s AfD Means Robin J Brooks Economics 07 Sep AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs Noahpinion Economics 07 Sep Capital gains vs. wealth taxes Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Sep Open Thread 450 Astral Codex Ten Culture 07 Sep Trust by Protocol Protocolized Culture 07 Sep Organic farming isn’t that much of a boon Klement on Investing Finance 07 Sep #360 Grossly Debated Parameter Anticipating the Unintended Economics 07 Sep Pluralistic: How corporate America built a better Roach Motel (07 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 07 Sep Emergent Ventures winners, 59th cohort Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Sep It’s a Concentrated World A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 07 Sep Minimum temperatures in India are rising faster than maximum temperatures Data For India Economics 07 Sep I Long to Read More in the Book of You: Moomins Creator Tove Jansson’s Tender and Passionate Letters to the Love of Her Life The Marginalian Life 07 Sep Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? Armin Ronacher Tech 06 Sep Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI Simon Willison Tech 06 Sep OpenAI and the Wiki Incident Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 06 Sep Insurance price sentences to ponder Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Sep Amazon is Polluted The Honest Broker Culture 06 Sep The True Purpose of Tarot The Marginalian Life 06 Sep Signs and Existence The Abrahamic Metacritique History 06 Sep Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Sep How to Apologize: Reflections on Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and the Vulnerabilities of Being Human The Marginalian Life 06 Sep The Sex Organs of the Machine World default.blog Culture 06 Sep Sunday links: randomly correct Abnormal Returns Finance 06 Sep Do doomers believe what they say? Small Potatoes Psychology 06 Sep The purpose of DNS is to spread scams Simon Willison Tech 06 Sep The Economic Meltdown of Iran Robin J Brooks Economics 06 Sep Some Status Games Are Worth Playing Rob Henderson Psychology 06 Sep What Daily Stock Returns Tell Us About the Economy Larry’s Substack Finance 06 Sep (NOT A) CROSSPOST: HALINA BENNET: The Return of Institutional Purpose [to Academia] Grasping Reality Economics 06 Sep Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 06 Sep Weaponized Interdependence Paul Krugman Economics 06 Sep The Bizarro Code Cass’s Substack Economics 06 Sep GPT-6 Astra Reviews ‘The Social Roots of Delusions’ Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 06 Sep In Memory of Jeffrey Williamson: SATURDAY “SLOUCHING” & FRIENDS Grasping Reality Economics 06 Sep 10 Sunday Reads The Big Picture Finance 06 Sep The future is not tech-forward ⊗ Models don’t go rogue Sentiers Tech 06 Sep There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get Simon Willison Tech 06 Sep What is the Debasement Trade? Robin J Brooks Economics 06 Sep Introducing Onus - The Code Is Generated, The Responsibility Is Still Mine James Randall Tech 06 Sep Onus James Randall Tech 06 Sep Quoting Zach Kehs Simon Willison Tech 06 Sep [Repost] Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings Dan Q Tech 06 Sep Our oldest technologies The Cutting Floor Culture 06 Sep *Why Not Bolivia?* Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Sep Erich Fromm’s 6 Rules of Listening: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist on the Art of Unselfish Understanding The Marginalian Life 06 Sep Astra’s “Reasoning Effort” Might Not Mean What You Think Teen Different Tech 05 Sep Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers Simon Willison Tech 05 Sep Discussing Catholicism With Dustin Crummett Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 05 Sep The Curiously Playable Universe Contraptions Tech 05 Sep How to Reconcile Your Most Painful Mistakes: The Life-Shaping Difference Between Regret and Remorse The Marginalian Life 05 Sep How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship The Marginalian Life 05 Sep Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilities Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 05 Sep Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep Looking Askance Yet Again at MuskWorld: WEIRDNESS OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 05 Sep Using Blender with coding agents on macOS Simon Willison Tech 05 Sep Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep MiB: Bill McNabb, Vanguard former Chairman and CEO The Big Picture Finance 05 Sep Saturday links: things that haven’t happened before Abnormal Returns Finance 05 Sep Is the Fed going to hike? Robin J Brooks Economics 05 Sep ThothBot Makes an Appearance in My RA-Group Telegram Chat: FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS Grasping Reality Economics 05 Sep My Sons Read ‘Middlemarch’ and Sided Against Dorothea Miller's Book Review Culture 05 Sep The Kalshi Citizen Debt Forecast (CDF) Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep 10 Weekend Reads The Big Picture Finance 05 Sep Day Off Paul Krugman Economics 05 Sep Jared Diamond on Whether Leaders Make History Persuasion Culture 05 Sep Suggested Readings Figs in Winter Philosophy 05 Sep Will the Fed Hike? Robin J Brooks Economics 05 Sep Doomsayers were doomed and India bloomed Stockviz Finance 05 Sep Pluralistic: Google skates (05 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 05 Sep America is still beating China in the AI race Noahpinion Economics 05 Sep Mein Ingeborg Bachmann Studium Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep Is Lichtenstein an actual monarchy? Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Sep Interpersonal important and urgent work Pertinent Observations Life 05 Sep XKDR Newsletter - Issue 53 XKDR Forum Science 05 Sep The Most Important Thing to Remember About Your Mother The Marginalian Life 05 Sep A Wallet Is Not Sovereignty. Continuity Is. The Cutting Floor Culture 05 Sep The Odyssey: the last word Nicholas Gruen Culture 05 Sep Latent Powers Armin Ronacher Tech 04 Sep The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting Simon Willison Tech 04 Sep This Week At Persuasion Persuasion Culture 04 Sep How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Don’t Celebrate Lindsay Clancy Persuasion Culture 04 Sep Just one more thing.... Anecdotal Value Culture 04 Sep The real AI jobs apocalypse Blood in the Machine Tech 04 Sep More on lower rates The Grumpy Economist Economics 04 Sep Will Young People Ever Buy a House? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 04 Sep YouTube Videos I’m Recommending Right Now The Honest Broker Culture 04 Sep The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji Astral Codex Ten Culture 04 Sep The Worst Case Is Still on the Table The Climate Brink Science 04 Sep Friday links: living with leverage Abnormal Returns Finance 04 Sep Who is the marginal. bond buyer? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 04 Sep The diesel fuel shock - the driver of concern Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 04 Sep Why America Is Losing the New Cold War Persuasion Culture 04 Sep Nobody Knows Anything, Rate Expectations Edition The Big Picture Finance 04 Sep A Brief Reminder Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 04 Sep OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis Simon Willison Tech 04 Sep We are at the Will Smith eating spaghetti phase of computer use Mo Tech 04 Sep How are the market valuations for the U.S: insurers doing? Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep Inklings #025 📧 Spyglass Tech 04 Sep Persona Launch Party: In Defense of Human Nature with Francis Fukuyama Wisdom of Crowds Culture 04 Sep 19 robotics companies to watch Understanding AI Tech 04 Sep Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: The System Card Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 04 Sep Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep How America Is Retreating From Its Tariff War Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 04 Sep Old-New Anti-Semitism The Abrahamic Metacritique History 04 Sep Private Equity 25-Year Track Record Larry’s Substack Finance 04 Sep We Can’t Help Hurting People by Abandoning Basic Epidemiological Rigor Freddie deBoer Culture 04 Sep Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep 10 Friday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 04 Sep Ingots We No Longer Trust Paul Krugman Economics 04 Sep Estimating a much stronger than usual El Niño FlowingData Tech 04 Sep Pluralistic: Amazon achieves enshittification inception (04 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 04 Sep [Article] F-Day plus 204 (no content??) Dan Q Tech 04 Sep Did Japan Just Intervene Again? Robin J Brooks Economics 04 Sep Shout it from the rooftops (of the data centers) Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep Instant judges Koenfucius Psychology 04 Sep It’s not me, it’s you Klement on Investing Finance 04 Sep August newsletter is out Simon Willison Tech 04 Sep The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Share price numbers for the Hugging Face incident Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Sep Reasons to Lower Rates The Grumpy Economist Economics 04 Sep Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions The Marginalian Life 04 Sep Google gets away with it Platformer Tech 04 Sep Radical responsibility means treating people like tools Sean Goedecke Tech 04 Sep Cancer Capital: VC didn’t use to work like this Anil Dash Tech 03 Sep OpenAI's AGI Eras Tour Spyglass Tech 03 Sep Astra, doing poetry Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep Lessons from Victor Niederhoffer’s Life The Big Picture Finance 03 Sep Talking Midterms and Data Centers with Rep. Ro Khanna from California’s Silicon Valley Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 03 Sep AI, tools and transformation Benedict Evans Tech 03 Sep Wendell Berry on Solitude and the Two Great Enemies of Creative Work The Marginalian Life 03 Sep GPT‑6 Astra Simon Willison Tech 03 Sep Thursday links: solvency is a necessity Abnormal Returns Finance 03 Sep How Will the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Affect Housing Supply? Part III Construction Physics Tech 03 Sep I Taught a Short Story. My College Fired Me For It. Persuasion Culture 03 Sep When you should sell to the lowest bidder Economic Forces Economics 03 Sep Form a curve, make a pot FlowingData Tech 03 Sep And it begins…(a good start…) Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data Understanding AI Tech 03 Sep How to Invest When Your Portfolio Gets Bigger A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 03 Sep This Isn’t About Parasocial Attachment default.blog Culture 03 Sep CROSSPOST: PAUL KRUGMAN: Imperialist Delusions & the Price of Fuel Grasping Reality Economics 03 Sep [Repost] Why I Stopped “Creating Content” Dan Q Tech 03 Sep Autumnal Open Thread Kottke.org Culture 03 Sep Ok I'm a little worried now Mo Tech 03 Sep Numbers, numbers, numbers Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep Retraining Workers for “AI”: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 03 Sep Liquidity Without Liquidation: How Much Can You Withdraw from a Tax-Aware Strategy Without Blowing Up Its Tax Benefits? Larry’s Substack Finance 03 Sep In 1970, 1 in 13 four-year degrees was in English. Today it's 1 in 60. What happened? “Canon" became a dirty word Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Sep A tour through Eve Babitz’s letters reveals that this glamorous, supremely insouciant writer was once boring Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Sep “As intellectually undistinguished as it is possible to be”: F.R. Leavis’s torching of C.P. Snow brought passion back into cultural life Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Sep How to go broke from Bill Eckhardt Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 03 Sep World Order drives currency dominance Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 03 Sep Greek Film Festival 2026: a Melbourne viewing guide Nicholas Gruen Culture 03 Sep AI #184: Post Post Mortem Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 03 Sep ✚ Making a bunch of line charts FlowingData Tech 03 Sep Longform links: intellectual humility Abnormal Returns Finance 03 Sep Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem... Kottke.org Culture 03 Sep The Postmodern Defense of Lindsay Clancy Rob Henderson Psychology 03 Sep How Much Redistribution Will AI Require? Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep 10 Thursday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 03 Sep Logistics of fueling aircraft and feeding sailors with a limited supply chain FlowingData Tech 03 Sep The idea of a university (and that of a professor) Figs in Winter Philosophy 03 Sep Imperialist Delusions and the Price of Fuel Paul Krugman Economics 03 Sep Why you won’t get a flying car Noahpinion Economics 03 Sep The Meltdown of the Iranian Rial Robin J Brooks Economics 03 Sep Pluralistic: Preparing for a post-Trump internet (03 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 03 Sep Who Owns What China Builds? The Cutting Floor Culture 03 Sep Why office workers are turning against AI Blood in the Machine Tech 03 Sep College EA Meetups Everywhere: Times & Places Astral Codex Ten Culture 03 Sep Something to Lose The Cutting Floor Culture 03 Sep BM Snaps Matt Mullenweg Tech 03 Sep Book Review 4/26: A Man of the World: Tom Mboya, the Cold War and Decolonization in Kenya (by Daniel Branch) An Africanist Perspective Economics 03 Sep Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep The costs and benefits of working for a large asset manager Klement on Investing Finance 03 Sep My excellent Conversation with Michael Moritz Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Sep The Creative Power of Uncertainty: Polish Poet Wisława Szymborska’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech The Marginalian Life 03 Sep Italo Calvino on Reading and Sex The Marginalian Life 03 Sep tweet Derek Sivers Life 03 Sep Finding Emily The Common Reader Culture 03 Sep Bangalore India hospital flow Derek Sivers Life 02 Sep The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity The Marginalian Life 02 Sep $150 Trillion Global Economy (2030) The Big Picture Finance 02 Sep READING: LEWIS CARROLL (1895): What The Tortoise Said To Achilles Grasping Reality Economics 02 Sep llm-openrouter 0.7.1 Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep Birthright Citizenship and Reasoning by Analogy Cass’s Substack Economics 02 Sep Wendell Berry on Hope, Despair, and the Measure of Effective Protest The Marginalian Life 02 Sep How the LSAT Become the Ticketmaster of Law School Admissions BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 02 Sep The Viking Alliance Is Coalescing: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 02 Sep llm 0.34 Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep Neuromancer Book Club, Chapters 7-9: The City of Dub Freddie deBoer Culture 02 Sep Nobody Can Test AI Models Anymore Mo Tech 02 Sep How to Have Enough: Wendell Berry on Creativity and Love The Marginalian Life 02 Sep Observable notebooks get a rewrite FlowingData Tech 02 Sep New Insights into the Accrual Anomaly — And Why They Collide with a Rational-Pricing Story Larry’s Substack Finance 02 Sep llm-anthropic 0.28 Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep The Scaling and Profitability Trade off: Venture Capital's Weakest Link! Musings on Markets Finance 02 Sep Wednesday links: attracting attention the wrong way Abnormal Returns Finance 02 Sep Richard Fontaine interviews me about AI Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Sep Join Frank and Yascha in London on Sunday! Persuasion Culture 02 Sep CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: Did Trump’s Tariffs Achieve Trump’s Goals? Grasping Reality Economics 02 Sep llm-gemini 0.34 Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep How Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom Understanding AI Tech 02 Sep The Puzzle of Hell Solved? Wollenblog Philosophy 02 Sep Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Sep Four More Arguments Against Inerrancy Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 02 Sep Siegfried Kracauer believed films could foretell political disaster. What does his approach make of today’s cinema? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Sep Soviet censors mangled Vasily Grossman's wartime journalism. The original copy reveals a palimpsest of what propaganda demanded Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Sep Modern diet and food-fad notions obscure a basic truth: For most of human existence, we have lived in the shadow of starvation Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Sep Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep [Article] It took 13 years to notice my invalid vehicle registration certificate! Dan Q Tech 02 Sep If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em Open Questions Philosophy 02 Sep Personal finance links: supercharged fraud Abnormal Returns Finance 02 Sep Back to the Frontier AI Races • Netflix Out-YouTubes YouTube Spyglass Tech 02 Sep Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 02 Sep Bad Strategy, First-World Problems, Heterodox Dating Rob Henderson Psychology 02 Sep Regional variations in seasonal temperatures Data For India Economics 02 Sep Books: Indispensable When You’re Indisposed Miller's Book Review Culture 02 Sep Open Science Met Social Justice. They Don't Get Along. Speak and Regret Psychology 02 Sep Animal Spirits: The Next Michael Burry A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 02 Sep 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 02 Sep Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) Pluralistic Tech 02 Sep The Hits Keep Coming Paul Krugman Economics 02 Sep Anatomy of the Global Bond Market Sell-Off Robin J Brooks Economics 02 Sep Efficiency or resilience? Democracies can only pick one Klement on Investing Finance 02 Sep India enlists 3 million people to count the full population FlowingData Tech 02 Sep [Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9EXXC Shady Seat on The Green Dan Q Tech 02 Sep We are all ‘in hock to the bond market’ Klement on Investing Finance 02 Sep Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy Astral Codex Ten Culture 02 Sep Quoting Rick Brewster Simon Willison Tech 02 Sep The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form The Marginalian Life 02 Sep America is still poised for a data center boom Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Sep The College Wage Premium in the Generative AI Era Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Sep Philip Hensher: How Can You Kill a Book Like That? The Common Reader Culture 02 Sep You are here Data For India Economics 02 Sep The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing The Marginalian Life 02 Sep How Special Is Programming as a Token-Infall Attractor?: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 02 Sep How to protect yourself from workslop Sean Goedecke Tech 02 Sep I Don’t Have a Smartphone… Ploum Tech 02 Sep VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital Anil Dash Tech 01 Sep Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep The First Cosmographia History 01 Sep Gina Trapani: The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep Joan Didion on Letting Go The Marginalian Life 01 Sep The 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship The Marginalian Life 01 Sep How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love The Marginalian Life 01 Sep 2 Odysseus 2 Ithaca: Emily Wilson is completely... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep Can Someone Finally Architect Personal Assistant AI? Spyglass Tech 01 Sep Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep Codex bundles LibreOffice Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Climate vs Fascism with Bill McKibben & Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 01 Sep Gathering in the Vineyard The Base Camp Philosophy 01 Sep Who values democracy? Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Sep The Fed Chairman Who Would Prefer Not to Say: Warsh’s Silence as a Position, Not a Puzzle: TUESDAY MACRO OUTLOOK Grasping Reality Economics 01 Sep Why is every dev suddenly posting about this Mo Tech 01 Sep The dollar cycle is heading down? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 01 Sep GeoJSON Map Viewer Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Minimum Viable Soul default.blog Culture 01 Sep 14 Questions I’m Thinking About A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 01 Sep How Blackwing Pencils Are Made Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep What I Learned on the Open Road Persuasion Culture 01 Sep Cooling down less in the evening FlowingData Tech 01 Sep Tuesday links: the electric revolution Abnormal Returns Finance 01 Sep Industry Standard Tools . “Every trade has a small... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep Quoting Tarn Adams Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Idiosyncratic risk is dominating the equity markets Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 01 Sep Wendell Berry’s Nine Rules The Honest Broker Culture 01 Sep The Power of Ideas Or Ideas of Power The Abrahamic Metacritique History 01 Sep Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Sep This is a fun read: If You Build It, Will They Come? On... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep Academic Alpha: Why the Best “Alternative” Returns Are Hiding in Plain Sight Larry’s Substack Finance 01 Sep The Take-Home Essay Is Dead Open Questions Philosophy 01 Sep datasette-mcp 0.2 Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep No one was more baffled by his celebrity than Albert Einstein himself: "Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me?" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 01 Sep How a spelling quirk and a typesetter's blunder conspired to give us the word "weird" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 01 Sep Even as a young man, Franz Rosenzweig was suspicious: "You believe you are philosophizing, but you are only writing your own biography” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 01 Sep Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! Simon Willison Tech 01 Sep Nationally, unsubsidized ACA premiums to jump *another*... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep On the Loose Hyperdimensional Tech 01 Sep HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 01 Sep Here’s how noise-cancelling headphones work (and when... Kottke.org Culture 01 Sep The Shocks Are Coming - Who Do We Want Be? Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 01 Sep Research links: stock-specific volatility Abnormal Returns Finance 01 Sep Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon Understanding AI Tech 01 Sep Notes on “Slop” Ever Not Quite Tech 01 Sep Transcript: David Booth, Dimensional Fund Advisors founder and chairman The Big Picture Finance 01 Sep AI safety and the data center backlash Andy Masley Tech 01 Sep Which Graduate Degrees Are the Best Investment? 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31 Aug Introducing wrapture Simon Willison Tech 31 Aug Quoting Andrew Digby Simon Willison Tech 31 Aug Lions of today, sheep of tomorrow Global Inequality and More Economics 31 Aug Claude comment detection Entropic Thoughts Tech 31 Aug The Experience Is Real. But Is God? Curt Jaimungal Science 31 Aug A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How a Forgotten Medieval Woman Gave Groups of Birds Their Strange Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith The Marginalian Life 31 Aug Intuition (I Think) Scenes with Simon Culture 31 Aug Yerevan bleg Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Aug How to control an agent swarm Strange Loop Canon Tech 31 Aug Liberalism is a Habit Not a Principle Persuasion Culture 31 Aug 10 Brutally Honest Predictions on the Future of AI The Honest Broker Culture 31 Aug Walter Mitty Effects in AI Incident Analyses Contraptions Tech 31 Aug [Repost] How do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say? Dan Q Tech 31 Aug Sorry to Bother You Freddie deBoer Culture 31 Aug Monday links: the cost of money Abnormal Returns Finance 31 Aug Map of flood in Nepal FlowingData Tech 31 Aug Omarchy is very good and you probably shouldn't install it Mo Tech 31 Aug The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity The Marginalian Life 31 Aug Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Aug The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: Ceramics, Serpentine, and How to Get Over Heartbreak The Marginalian Life 31 Aug OpenAI's Comeback • Hollywood's Ticket Disaster Spyglass Tech 31 Aug Tim Maudlin: Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH Curt Jaimungal Science 31 Aug The refined oil product market is global Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 31 Aug How to Solve the Problem of Divine Hiddenness Wollenblog Philosophy 31 Aug If Babies Don't Go To Hell, Massa Damnata Isn’t Right Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 31 Aug HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 31 Aug Partial knowledge versus full knowledge and storytelling Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 31 Aug Adviser links: the custody shift Abnormal Returns Finance 31 Aug I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China Understanding AI Tech 31 Aug Private Credit’s Private Conflicts: What Happens When the Lender and the Owner Are the Same Firm Larry’s Substack Finance 31 Aug Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI Import AI Tech 31 Aug Back to basics on efficient frontier- it is not stable Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 31 Aug Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to Lake America .... Kottke.org Culture 31 Aug Kids These Days Small Potatoes Psychology 31 Aug Before Godot, Beckett wrote a study of Proust and the redemptive force of art. He spent the next few decades abandoning that faith Arts & Letters Daily Culture 31 Aug The Amazonian river dolphin is 10 million years old and has pink skin. To the indigenous people, they are thoroughly wicked creatures Arts & Letters Daily Culture 31 Aug Yes, its titans were bad writers, narcissists, failed artists, murderers, and Nazis — and yet, it’s okay to love literary theory Arts & Letters Daily Culture 31 Aug How AI will revolutionise peer-reviewed research Optimally Irrational Economics 31 Aug [Repost] The modern app Dan Q Tech 31 Aug Is India's workforce feminising? Data For India Economics 31 Aug Why Are Dissents Rare in the Federal Reserve? Homo Economicus Economics 31 Aug AI and Employment: So Far, So Good Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Aug Talk Your Book: Cash Was Easy…Now What? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 31 Aug From Kakistocracy to Cheatistocracy Paul Krugman Economics 31 Aug 10 Monday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 31 Aug Bob Wright on the Future of Artificial Intelligence Persuasion Culture 31 Aug Open Thread 449 Astral Codex Ten Culture 31 Aug Darth Vader makes the case for Flock cameras FlowingData Tech 31 Aug Market Complacency on US Fiscal Risk Robin J Brooks Economics 31 Aug Spain fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Aug Are We Losing Curiosity? Teen Different Tech 31 Aug Anthropomorphizing AI? Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Aug How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love The Marginalian Life 31 Aug Monopoly Round-Up: Did America Just Set Up an FDA for Big Tech? BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 31 Aug More pre-teens in India have used the internet than people in their 40s Data For India Economics 31 Aug Jerry Seinfeld’s Evergreen Career Advice A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 31 Aug Agency and Agents One Useful Thing Tech 31 Aug #359 Misaligned Cognitive Maps Anticipating the Unintended Economics 30 Aug Understanding ChatGPT Work Simon Willison Tech 30 Aug Clippings 17 ~ Down in the hole Investment Ecosystem Clippings Finance 30 Aug Green Energy, AI, and Planning The Slack Wire Economics 30 Aug Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality The Marginalian Life 30 Aug CROSSPOST: EMILY BENDER: “Stochastic Parrots” Grasping Reality Economics 30 Aug How to Apprehend Reality as It Really Is: Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing The Marginalian Life 30 Aug Russia markets in everything Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Aug Maria Edgeworth and Adam Smith The Common Reader Culture 30 Aug Heroic Virtue Made Easy Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 30 Aug Dolly Parton The Big Picture Finance 30 Aug Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Aug Sunday links: science denial Abnormal Returns Finance 30 Aug Will a September Hike Hurt Gold? Robin J Brooks Economics 30 Aug When Men Become Optional, Babies Disappear Rob Henderson Psychology 30 Aug Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 30 Aug Oligarchy and the Great Evasion Paul Krugman Economics 30 Aug 10 Sunday Reads The Big Picture Finance 30 Aug [Repost] we don’t shame smart glasses wearers enough Dan Q Tech 30 Aug Latent space as a new medium ⊗ The technology killing oil demand Sentiers Tech 30 Aug Will a September Hike Hurt Gold? Robin J Brooks Economics 30 Aug *Finding Emily* Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Aug China fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Aug Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley on the Surest Remedy for a Sunken Spirit and What Makes Life Worth Living The Marginalian Life 30 Aug Quick thoughts on GitHub Actions Aug 26 incident Surfing Complexity Tech 30 Aug In defense of Asian American art Noahpinion Economics 30 Aug You have to beat the models at something Sean Goedecke Tech 29 Aug Introducing Hy4 Preview Simon Willison Tech 29 Aug Barry Lopez on the Cure for Our Existential Loneliness and the Three Tenets of a Full Life The Marginalian Life 29 Aug Omnipresent availability risks in cloud software Surfing Complexity Tech 29 Aug Life, Loss, and the Wisdom of Rivers The Marginalian Life 29 Aug Ahhh, relax with the sights and sounds of the Windows 98... Kottke.org Culture 29 Aug Ethical AI Monogamy…? default.blog Culture 29 Aug Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Aug Voting is now open for the 2026 Tiny Awards , featuring... Kottke.org Culture 29 Aug Interviewing Yiyang Zhuge (Zhong Shu) Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Aug I Think LLMs Will Prove to Be Consequential Enterprise Software Freddie deBoer Culture 29 Aug Can People Please Stop Being Morons About the Lindsay Clancy Case? Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 29 Aug MiB: David Booth, Dimensional Fund Advisors Founder & Chairman The Big Picture Finance 29 Aug Heading for a Large, Rapid Fall in Interest Rates?: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 29 Aug Heat waves are disproportionately harming people with... Kottke.org Culture 29 Aug The New Treasury-Fed Accord Takes Shape Robin J Brooks Economics 29 Aug Saturday links: embracing reality Abnormal Returns Finance 29 Aug METR and Redwood Offer Holy #%^@ Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC9BHWG Watercress beds Dan Q Tech 29 Aug Reading List 08/29/26 Construction Physics Tech 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC8ZWZ3 Letcombe Bridges 1 Dan Q Tech 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC4H2MB Church Micro 4008…Letcombe Regis Dan Q Tech 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GC9F5YC GIs in Letcombe Dan Q Tech 29 Aug Scholar Data Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Aug Bookish Diversions: Is Anyone Reading Anything? Miller's Book Review Culture 29 Aug Talking Interest Rates with Ricardo Caballero Paul Krugman Economics 29 Aug 10 Weekend Reads The Big Picture Finance 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC9QWHD Plankton’s cache Dan Q Tech 29 Aug Abigail Marsh on Psychopaths (Rerun) Persuasion Culture 29 Aug Video: How to have willpower Figs in Winter Philosophy 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC93M2N Segsbury Fort Dan Q Tech 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC46RY8 It really is about the (2 millionth) cache Dan Q Tech 29 Aug The New Treasury-Fed Accord Takes Shape Robin J Brooks Economics 29 Aug The Map is not the Territory Stockviz Finance 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC39X1K GH #11 twisted tree Dan Q Tech 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC39WVC G h # 10 Dan Q Tech 29 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GC4H2N6 Church Micro 4009 … Letcombe Bassett Dan Q Tech 29 Aug Costco facts of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Aug What are U.S. Treasury markets really telling us? Part II. The Two Cents Economics 29 Aug A Life of One’s Own: A Brilliant Young Woman’s Forgotten Field Guide to the Art of Knowing What You Really Want The Marginalian Life 29 Aug *Visions from San Francisco Bay* Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Aug Paul Keating as Lennon to Bob Hawke’s McCartney Nicholas Gruen Culture 28 Aug The Tree and the River: A Wordless Love Letter to How Nature Always Wins The Marginalian Life 28 Aug Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Simon Willison Tech 28 Aug How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go The Marginalian Life 28 Aug My Most Contrarian Opinion Right Now A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 28 Aug Inklings #024 📧 Spyglass Tech 28 Aug CROSSPOST: GÉRARD ROLAND: The Berkeley years. Part XXII Grasping Reality Economics 28 Aug What we can and cannot say about climate change and the Nepal disaster The Climate Brink Science 28 Aug The U.S. Federal Fiscal Flow Deficit Problem: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 28 Aug How to Be Reborn Each Day The Marginalian Life 28 Aug Tysons Corner (Alaska) fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 28 Aug I spent an hour convinced Cursor had replaced Git, and I was completely wrong Mo Tech 28 Aug The 3 Bad Types of Humanities Professor The Honest Broker Culture 28 Aug Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart’s Translation Of Rabelais Astral Codex Ten Culture 28 Aug Frank O'Hara packed 100 references into 500 lines. Even his most devoted readers miss most of them Arts & Letters Daily Culture 28 Aug Chock-full of highly original description and impressive sentences, recent literary fiction is boring and utterly devoid of fun Arts & Letters Daily Culture 28 Aug Before puritanism and personality cults made it boring, affect theory brimmed with real intellectual potential. Laura Kipnis explains Arts & Letters Daily Culture 28 Aug Why I Stopped Thinking The Shrimp Welfare Project Was By Far The Best Charity Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 28 Aug Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 28 Aug Friday links: not-so average returns Abnormal Returns Finance 28 Aug Wanted: A More Humble Fed The Big Picture Finance 28 Aug Saying good-bye to Treasury as a safe asset Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 28 Aug Is Trend Still Your Friend? A Microstructural Explanation for the Demise of Short-Term Trend-Following Larry’s Substack Finance 28 Aug Buried Deep in the Archives Over the Field Culture 28 Aug So what about bond risk - MOVE index has moved lower Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 28 Aug More on Treasury buyback operations Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 28 Aug A confession: I p-hacked the k-index Never Met a Science Culture 28 Aug The revolt against Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ is part of a growing storm Blood in the Machine Tech 28 Aug The heat at Jackson Hole Fed meeting - not innovation but inflation Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 28 Aug Meta’s Complicated AI Context Spyglass Tech 28 Aug OpenAI Offers Straight-Laced Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 28 Aug A Big Bet on Explosive AI-Driven Growth Marginal Revolution Economics 28 Aug [Article] Vanity Nameservers (White-Label DNS) in 2026 Dan Q Tech 28 Aug A price, just for you Koenfucius Psychology 28 Aug Make Geography Great Again Paul Krugman Economics 28 Aug 10 Friday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 28 Aug What Our Heroes Tell Us About America Persuasion Culture 28 Aug A third of new webpages written with AI FlowingData Tech 28 Aug Here’s how we’re all going to die Noahpinion Economics 28 Aug What Will Kevin Warsh Say? Robin J Brooks Economics 28 Aug Luke Burgis interviews Patrick Collison on aesthetics Marginal Revolution Economics 28 Aug Weight, wages and wayfinding Data For India Economics 28 Aug Story-telling animals Klement on Investing Finance 28 Aug The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech The Marginalian Life 28 Aug Polling results on capitalism and socialism Marginal Revolution Economics 28 Aug OpenAI’s rogue-hacking investigation leaves major questions unanswered Clear-Eyed AI Tech 28 Aug Slowbalisation Is Mostly China Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 28 Aug How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job Platformer Tech 28 Aug Selling out Sean Goedecke Tech 27 Aug Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Simon Willison Tech 27 Aug Fighting Fascists Together with Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 27 Aug The sobering math of the US bond deficit Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 27 Aug CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: Good News. There’s Already a U.S.-Canada Trade Deal Grasping Reality Economics 27 Aug Bond Vigilantes are Global Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 27 Aug Hidden Open Thread 448.5 Astral Codex Ten Culture 27 Aug Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness The Marginalian Life 27 Aug Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave The Marginalian Life 27 Aug You could use Claude Cowork in your browser, or browse in Cowork. Let me explain. Mo Tech 27 Aug Contra “A Powerful Takedown of The Anthropic Argument For Theism” Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 27 Aug What should I ask Yiyang Zhuge (诸葛一杨), also known as Zhong Shu (仲树)? Marginal Revolution Economics 27 Aug Should “Technological History” Be a Part of Psych Intakes? (Yes.) default.blog Culture 27 Aug Amazon shutting down Mechanical Turk FlowingData Tech 27 Aug Thursday links: messing with market fairness Abnormal Returns Finance 27 Aug 10 Things You Need to Know About Investing in Stocks A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 27 Aug NVIDIA Earnings: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 27 Aug CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: Categories of Contempt: A Typology of my Domestic Political Disgust Grasping Reality Economics 27 Aug Emptying the Tabs… Kottke.org Culture 27 Aug Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 27 Aug The Acemoglu Wars Are All About AI Programmable Mutter Tech 27 Aug What is intelligence? A vice president at Google aims to find out, ignoring decades of lessons from cognitive science and linguistics Arts & Letters Daily Culture 27 Aug A forgotten 1992 theory predicted black holes would appear early in our universe's history. Then the Webb telescope found exactly that Arts & Letters Daily Culture 27 Aug In 1939, a 3,000-year-old trumpet blared across BBC airwaves, briefly bridging Tutankhamun's tomb to 150 million living rooms Arts & Letters Daily Culture 27 Aug AI #183: Pre Post Mortem Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 27 Aug Every Guest Who’s Been on Theories of Everything Curt Jaimungal Science 27 Aug Meta's Poke on the Wrist Spyglass Tech 27 Aug Longform links: entertaining the reader Abnormal Returns Finance 27 Aug ✚ Visualization tools, datasets, and resources — August 2026 roundup FlowingData Tech 27 Aug Teaching the Ocean to Swim Anecdotal Value Culture 27 Aug How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works Construction Physics Tech 27 Aug The Antitrust Academy Marginal Revolution Economics 27 Aug Biden Derangement Syndrome Paul Krugman Economics 27 Aug 10 Thursday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 27 Aug Sexual Morality, Unsolicited Advice, Drug Decriminalization Rob Henderson Psychology 27 Aug Should Central Banks Be Independent? Economic Forces Economics 27 Aug When pseudoscience is in power Figs in Winter Philosophy 27 Aug Is the AI Buildout Pushing Up Yields? Robin J Brooks Economics 27 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GCBX0JC Church Micro 12106…Standlake Dan Q Tech 27 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q found GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake Dan Q Tech 27 Aug Tonight: Against the Machine - You Are Harvest Over the Field Culture 27 Aug When politicians turned against data centers FlowingData Tech 27 Aug Important results on economic mobility Marginal Revolution Economics 27 Aug Take The 2026 ACX Survey Astral Codex Ten Culture 27 Aug With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. Blood in the Machine Tech 27 Aug The performance decay of LLM trading strategies Klement on Investing Finance 27 Aug The least bad way to regulate AI? Marginal Revolution Economics 27 Aug The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak The Marginalian Life 27 Aug Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life The Marginalian Life 27 Aug Meta settles with the states over child safety failures Platformer Tech 27 Aug Factor Investing Is Very Much Alive Larry’s Substack Finance 26 Aug Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Simon Willison Tech 26 Aug The Dismantling Protocolized Culture 26 Aug Quantum Nonlocality Explained FROM SCRATCH Curt Jaimungal Science 26 Aug At The Money: Dividend Growth with David Bahnsen The Big Picture Finance 26 Aug Who Wins As Intelligence Commodifies? Strange Loop Canon Tech 26 Aug On European hypocrisy and warmongering Global Inequality and More Economics 26 Aug Against Modesty’s Bailey Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 26 Aug Daddy’s Girl Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Aug I tested Perplexity Computer. I've never laughed this hard in my entire life. Mo Tech 26 Aug 19 pieces of teaching advice Small Potatoes Psychology 26 Aug [Article] A Postcard from Tony (who the heck is Tony‽) Dan Q Tech 26 Aug The thrill of sleeping with someone new The Autodidact Culture 26 Aug Why Pro-Choicers Should Want to Reduce the Number of Abortions Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 26 Aug Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity The Marginalian Life 26 Aug Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Aug Wednesday links: always in training Abnormal Returns Finance 26 Aug Hegel and ‘Life of M’ The Common Reader Culture 26 Aug Neuromancer Book Club, Chapters 4–6 Freddie deBoer Culture 26 Aug Bill Gates, Doomer • The Mac Mini Morphs Spyglass Tech 26 Aug Leszek Kolakowski, canonized in Poland, remains a stranger in Oxford, Berkeley, and Montreal, the places that sheltered him Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Aug What should we do with “truly depraved,” morally dangerous art? Consider the “worst” of this lot and few easy answers emerge Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Aug Paul Celan's childhood spanned seven languages and one vanishing world. His poetry created space to mourn and remember and survive  Arts & Letters Daily Culture 26 Aug Giving Users What They Want: How Social Media Steers Investors Toward the Wrong Side of Anomalies Larry’s Substack Finance 26 Aug [Checkin] Dan Q did not find GCBX0R7 War Memorial #???? ~ Standlake Dan Q Tech 26 Aug Personal finance links: safely spending a nest egg Abnormal Returns Finance 26 Aug Book Review: Ecosocialism Mostly Economics Economics 26 Aug Kevin Warsh Does Not Understand the Federal Reserve Homo Economicus Economics 26 Aug Data Centers and the Open Access Order Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Aug Animal Spirits: Are Free Markets Dead? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 26 Aug Money without Borders: The History of International Currencies Mostly Economics Economics 26 Aug Can We Be Honest? The Tricky Side of the Truth Miller's Book Review Culture 26 Aug 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 26 Aug Mathematical rivers FlowingData Tech 26 Aug Der Untergang Paul Krugman Economics 26 Aug First we shape our feedback loops; then they shape us Henrik Karlsson Life 26 Aug Most Questions About AI Aren’t About AI Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 26 Aug The death of Market Street Noahpinion Economics 26 Aug The Economic Implosion of Iran Robin J Brooks Economics 26 Aug Quoting Paul Dix Simon Willison Tech 26 Aug Overreaching causal language in the social sciences Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Aug Higher deficits cause inflation Klement on Investing Finance 26 Aug Emergent Ventures winners, 58th cohort Marginal Revolution Economics 26 Aug Cat-monkey, and LLM work Pertinent Observations Life 26 Aug Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person The Marginalian Life 26 Aug Pluralistic: The age of disinvention (25 Aug 2026) Pluralistic Tech 26 Aug The will of the state Data For India Economics 26 Aug Why Political Moderates Are Losing BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 25 Aug Dolly Parton, RIP Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Aug Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance The Marginalian Life 25 Aug EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins! Simon Willison Tech 25 Aug Dolly Parton and Kermit the Frog Sing Everyday People (1987) Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness The Marginalian Life 25 Aug In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for... Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug From Core to Periphery. France in the Eurozone. The Two Cents Economics 25 Aug The Pitfalls of Proprietarianism Weltinnenpolitik Economics 25 Aug How Will This Cycle End? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 25 Aug I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers Andy Masley Tech 25 Aug RIP Dolly Parton, a gem and a hero. She died today at... Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Aug On Writing #3 Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 25 Aug How Our Leisure Time Got Monetized The Honest Broker Culture 25 Aug “Ultimately there are people who want to live, not... Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug Tuesday links: connecting the dots Abnormal Returns Finance 25 Aug AI and constitutions (from my email) Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Aug (VERY PARTIAL-)CROSSPOST: Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis (2002): The Inheritance of Inequality Grasping Reality Economics 25 Aug “ At least 1-in-4 of all the people who have played... Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug Highlights From The Comments On The Substack Religion Debate Astral Codex Ten Culture 25 Aug What’s Upsetting the Bond Market? The Big Picture Finance 25 Aug [Article] Boring Polyamory: Equality and Bedrooms Dan Q Tech 25 Aug Do Models Care About Their Nonlinearity? Teen Different Tech 25 Aug The Edu-Optimists, Part II: CREDO, the Pro-Charter Research Shop That Won’t Take No Effect for an Answer Freddie deBoer Culture 25 Aug More Fucked Today than Yesterday . “I keep wanting... Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug Research links: judgment and accountability Abnormal Returns Finance 25 Aug I went in ready to hate Grok Bot, and now I have eight AI assistants running my business Mo Tech 25 Aug Actually good advice Experimental History Psychology 25 Aug NVIDIA Has a Seven-Day Stock Price Slide, But You Should Not Care: CHART/ANNOYANCE OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 25 Aug Amplifying Noise or Delivering Alpha? The Truth About Finfluencer Stock Recommendations Larry’s Substack Finance 25 Aug Know your non-linear VIX behavior Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 25 Aug Druckenmiller - Vigilante or truth-sayer? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 25 Aug Flock banned Benn Jordan from their recent convention... Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug Begun, the Bundle Wars Have Spyglass Tech 25 Aug Who is the greatest short story writer of all time? According to one data cruncher, it’s not Chekhov or Barthelme, but Joyce Carol Oates Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Aug Admired in his time by Dickens, Byron, and Mary Shelley, Washington Irving’s reputation has been in steep decline ever since Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Aug Book publishing is awash in AI scandals. As one agent puts it, AI slop has gotten so bad it makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like Tolstoy Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Aug Target’s now-pulled children’s Halloween costume is so... Kottke.org Culture 25 Aug Why I Was Wrong to Be Bearish on U.S. Stocks Of Dollars And Data Finance 25 Aug Towards a New House of Lords Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Aug Why Americans are not working FlowingData Tech 25 Aug Losing the Iran War: The Economic Front Paul Krugman Economics 25 Aug 10 Tuesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 25 Aug What philosophy promises Figs in Winter Philosophy 25 Aug The Battle Against the Bond Vigilantes Robin J Brooks Economics 25 Aug Do Minimum Wages Help Workers in Poor and Low-Income Families? Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Aug Knowledge and experience are what count Klement on Investing Finance 25 Aug Profitability of Individual Traders in the Equity Derivatives Segment (FY25–FY26) Mostly Economics Economics 25 Aug Trading Behaviour of Individual Traders in the Equity Derivatives Segment (FY25–FY26) Mostly Economics Economics 25 Aug That was then, this is now Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Aug Occupational Licensing of Uber Drivers Mostly Economics Economics 25 Aug The Vocabulary of Vulnerability: 10 Wonderfully Untranslatable Words from Around the World for Complex and Difficult Emotions The Marginalian Life 25 Aug What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life The Marginalian Life 24 Aug Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness Astral Codex Ten Culture 24 Aug French Fables The Grumpy Economist Economics 24 Aug A curmudgeon tries a language server Entropic Thoughts Tech 24 Aug Death and Sex in Palestine The Abrahamic Metacritique History 24 Aug Pluralistic: How Canada can help Americans and defeat America (23 Aug 2026) Pluralistic Tech 24 Aug The Moomin Strategy for Living with Uncertainty The Marginalian Life 24 Aug Talking About Moral Realism, God, and Factory Farming With Spencer Case Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 24 Aug [Repost] The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto Dan Q Tech 24 Aug Gender parity in fiction writing? The Common Reader Culture 24 Aug The American People Really Hate Data Centers Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 24 Aug [Note] ‘Simplified’ Dan Q Tech 24 Aug Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field... Kottke.org Culture 24 Aug Common sense in charge Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Aug Monday links: everybody hates bonds Abnormal Returns Finance 24 Aug A Teacher Writes to Students Series (76): Mahatma Gandhi’s Economist and Environmentalist Mostly Economics Economics 24 Aug llm-anthropic 0.27 Simon Willison Tech 24 Aug Transcript: Alex Morris, “Buffett and Munger Unscripted The Big Picture Finance 24 Aug Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things... Kottke.org Culture 24 Aug Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Aug Host a University Effective Altruism Meeting Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 24 Aug [Repost] AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say? Dan Q Tech 24 Aug Meat proxy (noun) : “A person who forwards... Kottke.org Culture 24 Aug Adrian Owen: Awake. Aware. Unable to Move. Curt Jaimungal Science 24 Aug When the Ladders Start Building One Another The Cutting Floor Culture 24 Aug Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? “Any stream, from the... Kottke.org Culture 24 Aug Adviser links: doing more and more Abnormal Returns Finance 24 Aug Do Private Equity Firms Know Who Their Skilled Managers Are? Larry’s Substack Finance 24 Aug Academia as a d-index measuring contest Never Met a Science Culture 24 Aug "The thought that Socrates would care about how his icon is fashioned seems strange to me, but the thought that Plato would care is not strange" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 24 Aug History is the story of corrupt elites and the virtuous activists who oppose them. Or so it was, formulaically, for Howard Zinn Arts & Letters Daily Culture 24 Aug Import AI 470: No rights for machines; automating environment generation with SPADE; and building better GPU kernels with Hawkeye Import AI Tech 24 Aug The ultimate scholarly shortcut, the Ars Notoria was said to instantly grant the full range of medieval learning — but at the risk of poisoning one’s soul Arts & Letters Daily Culture 24 Aug Opinion columnist Karen Attiah won her arbitration... Kottke.org Culture 24 Aug NVIDIA & Perplexity • Fable’s Stalled Growth Spyglass Tech 24 Aug Your executable is a SQLite database Simon Willison Tech 24 Aug Academia is Doing Fine, Actually Homo Economicus Economics 24 Aug Talk Your Book: The Alternative to Alternatives A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 24 Aug Trustworthy data visualization FlowingData Tech 24 Aug The Moose That Roared Paul Krugman Economics 24 Aug 10 Monday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 24 Aug What are US Treasury markets really telling us? 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