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25 Oct How central bankers spend their time Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Oct Emergent Ventures India, 20th cohort Marginal Revolution Economics 25 Oct The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct “What does it feel like to commune with AI spirits? It is a shot of caffeine. It is a dizzy spell. It is a download from the universe.” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct What happened to Scientific American? The political pendulum has swung back and forth, leaving a once hallowed magazine in shambles Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct What made Cormac McCarthy a great writer? The sound of his prose, in its full excess and strangeness Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct Historians have often created heroes, but few have themselves become one. Marc Bloch is the rare exception Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct We’re in the midst of an attention crisis. All is disruption and distraction. John Berger saw it coming – and foresaw its consequences Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct “Liberalism’s deepest grounding,” Judith Shklar writes, is the belief “that cruelty is an absolute evil” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct Howl at 70: “The last poem to hit the world with the impact of news and grip it with the tenacity of a pop song” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct [Article] Ascending Dan Q Tech 25 Oct Artists can be intellectuals, but no real artist is pure intellect. That was Marcel Duchamp’s problem Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct A wild sprite haunting the West Yorkshire moors? Not quite. Emily Brontë’s legend distracts from what we know about her life Arts & Letters Daily Culture 25 Oct #365 Tunnel Boring Machines Aren't Boring Anticipating the Unintended Economics 25 Oct Don't anthropomorphize big tech companies Sean Goedecke Tech 24 Oct The concentration problem in equities Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 24 Oct The periods of pain in equities Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 24 Oct The historical great divide in the bond market Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 24 Oct On Learning to Ride Your Brain Contraptions Tech 24 Oct Econvitals Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Oct Torsten Slok Beats the AI-Bear Drum: CHARTS OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 24 Oct Stop! Ontology time! lcamtuf's thing Tech 24 Oct Asset management business - all about scale Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 24 Oct Why are cybersecurity losses not worse? Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Oct Impactful Places to Donate Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 24 Oct Is China driving up oil prices? Robin J Brooks Economics 24 Oct A Guilty Person’s Idea of How an Innocent Person Would Behave Rob Henderson Psychology 24 Oct The StockViz MCP Server, Intro Stockviz Finance 24 Oct Saturday links: cognitive fitness Abnormal Returns Finance 24 Oct It Doesn’t Matter What You Call It: Emily St. John Mandel’s Worlds of Trouble Miller's Book Review Culture 24 Oct Reading List 10/24/26 Construction Physics Tech 24 Oct When Ahead, Get More Ahead frantic.im Tech 24 Oct AI Solved Hundreds of Open Math Problems. Now What? Curt Jaimungal Science 24 Oct Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life The Marginalian Life 24 Oct Lisa Graves at the Brattleboro Literary Festival Paul Krugman Economics 24 Oct Suggested Readings Figs in Winter Philosophy 24 Oct Malcolm Gaskill on Why Our Ancestors Weren't as Superstitious as We Think Persuasion Culture 24 Oct Less is more Stockviz Finance 24 Oct What’s Priced into Brent at $117? Robin J Brooks Economics 24 Oct Cybersecurity ETF Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Oct I guest host an NYT podcast with Michael Kratsios, Trump science advisor Marginal Revolution Economics 24 Oct battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map Simon Willison Tech 23 Oct Your Book Review: The Ghost In My Brain Astral Codex Ten Culture 23 Oct What if the madness can’t be fixed with better government? Nicholas Gruen Culture 23 Oct A Tale of Two iPhones Spyglass Tech 23 Oct Quick Study Simon Willison Tech 23 Oct What the PHP Bug Shows Us About Humanity and Machines Persuasion Culture 23 Oct The Hackening Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 23 Oct How to install an app on your Commodore 64 Anil Dash Tech 23 Oct Pluralistic: Critique and writing (23 Oct 2026) Pluralistic Tech 23 Oct Markets Are Always Different This Time A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 23 Oct Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Simon Willison Tech 23 Oct On cyber-security and cyber-stupidity Maria Konnikova Psychology 23 Oct Friday links: bond math Abnormal Returns Finance 23 Oct Is China Driving Up Oil Prices? Robin J Brooks Economics 23 Oct The One Question I Can’t Stand at Restaurants. “The idea... Kottke.org Culture 23 Oct Primer for geospatial embeddings FlowingData Tech 23 Oct China Shock 2.0 Was Bigger Than 1.0 Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 23 Oct This Week At Persuasion Persuasion Culture 23 Oct Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Oct Here’s Why Experts Keep Being Wrong About the Future Persuasion Culture 23 Oct “US households are paying 62% more for drinking water... Kottke.org Culture 23 Oct “Lobster and duck at the Johnson White House.” The success of Ralph Ellison’s individualist crusade resulted in an extreme version of public life Arts & Letters Daily Culture 23 Oct “God knows most novels are shit, but nobody is out here suggesting we all just stop writing them” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 23 Oct “There was a generation of liberal arts majors for whom Foucault’s The Order of Things was more exhilarating than any contemporary novel, and I was one of them” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 23 Oct Birth / Death Wisdom of Crowds Culture 23 Oct Performance Pertinent Observations Life 23 Oct Valuation Spreads Continue to Favor Value Stocks Larry’s Substack Finance 23 Oct [Note] Hide and Seek London Dan Q Tech 23 Oct How to Be Transformed When Things Fall Apart The Marginalian Life 23 Oct What happens to math going forward FlowingData Tech 23 Oct Prediction Markets Are Accurate Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Oct Protecting Americans from Medicine Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Oct Open Thread #Potato Kottke.org Culture 23 Oct The AI Story Wall Street Doesn’t Want to Hear Plain English Culture 23 Oct The Starlink-Ukraine Scandal, Phase 2 Paul Krugman Economics 23 Oct The greater of two (or more) evils Koenfucius Psychology 23 Oct The big tech defectors you’re not hearing about Blood in the Machine Tech 23 Oct What a Global Debt Crisis Looks Like Robin J Brooks Economics 23 Oct Understanding India's undertrial population Data For India Economics 23 Oct Podcast with Rabbi David Wolpe Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Oct The civil service may save us all Klement on Investing Finance 23 Oct Will bystander economies be able to finance their governments? Marginal Revolution Economics 23 Oct Four years of ignorance, cupidity, and spleen Numb at the Lodge Culture 23 Oct AI consciousness and fictional characters The Common Reader Culture 23 Oct The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet The Marginalian Life 23 Oct Introducing Machine Gods Platformer Tech 23 Oct [Article] Incognito (Weird Web October) Dan Q Tech 23 Oct Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages Sean Goedecke Tech 22 Oct From Eyeballs to Annual Run Rates (ARR): Buzzy Pricing Metrics and the Anthropic Trade! Musings on Markets Finance 22 Oct “an interesting linguistics find! so I’m reading this... Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct The Flipbook of the Rings Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct The Race for Bond, James Bond Spyglass Tech 22 Oct An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the... Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct San Francisco Meetup This Saturday Astral Codex Ten Culture 22 Oct DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video) Simon Willison Tech 22 Oct France Catches on Fire Robin J Brooks Economics 22 Oct Ursula K. Le Guin on the Meaning of Life The Marginalian Life 22 Oct Nathaniel Hawthorne on How to Look and Really See The Marginalian Life 22 Oct When AI comes for purpose FlowingData Tech 22 Oct Elon Musk Just Threatened the Coming Democratic Majority BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 22 Oct Railpass simulates a train ride in your browser window... Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct How Long Do Wealth Shocks Persist? Less Than Three Generations in England, 1700–2026 Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Oct Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation Simon Willison Tech 22 Oct After 14 years, I finally built my dream personal finance app Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 22 Oct This Is What It’s Like to Spend Your Life in Prison.... Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct Don’t Monetize Me, Bro! The Honest Broker Culture 22 Oct ✚ Avoiding charts by default FlowingData Tech 22 Oct The Winners of the 2026 International Pano Awards Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct Panpsychism holds that everything is conscious to some degree. To make sense of this elusive theory, consider the principle of sufficient reason Arts & Letters Daily Culture 22 Oct Somewhere in the 1980s, education became “learning,” and reading became a skill for completing tasks. We're living with the consequence Arts & Letters Daily Culture 22 Oct The elites of Victorian Britain woke up late, drank and feasted excessively, and were obsessed with rugby. How to explain their vast accomplishments? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 22 Oct Introducing the Museum of Delight The Marginalian Life 22 Oct Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Oct How to Hold Your Heart with Golden Hands The Marginalian Life 22 Oct What Is Teaching Without Knowledge? Anecdotal Value Culture 22 Oct “Scientists have made a breakthrough toward the... Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct Quoting Armin Ronacher Simon Willison Tech 22 Oct Trump Derangement Syndrome Has Been Vindicated Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 22 Oct AI #191: The Hackening Begins Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 22 Oct When “Beat the Market” Meets the Real World: An Out-of-Sample Test of an Intraday Momentum Strategy Larry’s Substack Finance 22 Oct The title of this video is The Fastest Downhill Run Ever.... Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct How I Think About Investing in Bonds A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 22 Oct Longform links: inequality and alienation Abnormal Returns Finance 22 Oct Reading Groups Update Over the Field Culture 22 Oct Humanism and Its Discontents Ever Not Quite Tech 22 Oct CROSSPOST: SASHA GUSEV: Vibe Heritability The EJW Symposium on Gregory Clark on Genetics & Social Mobility Grasping Reality Economics 22 Oct Technological Progress and the Meaning of Work Ghosts of Electricity Economics 22 Oct A project of one’s own Henrik Karlsson Life 22 Oct Modern Principles of Economics! Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Oct [Repost] There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability Dan Q Tech 22 Oct It’s Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk Paul Krugman Economics 22 Oct Gaius Blossius, the revolutionary Stoic Figs in Winter Philosophy 22 Oct Cost of electricity from investor-owned vs. public FlowingData Tech 22 Oct What Makes the Fed Hike Next Week? Robin J Brooks Economics 22 Oct France and the limits of liberalism Noahpinion Economics 22 Oct A simple point about the intertemporal regulation of AI Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Oct Europe’s fragmentation impacts research Klement on Investing Finance 22 Oct Do mass shootings in universities lead to permanent effects? Marginal Revolution Economics 22 Oct Clothes diversity Pertinent Observations Life 22 Oct A brief reply to Ed West about reading The Common Reader Culture 22 Oct Meet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search Engine Kottke.org Culture 22 Oct [Article] Dem Bones! (Weird Web October) Dan Q Tech 21 Oct Misaligned! Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 21 Oct Script dependencies with Nix Entropic Thoughts Tech 21 Oct “A SpudCell can grow, copy its DNA, divide in two, and... Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct Why Global Trepanation? Astral Codex Ten Culture 21 Oct Bastardica is “a foundry for bastard web fonts. Mix,... Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct How did life on Earth arise? Three of the biggest... Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct Pluralistic: Adversarial interoperability is a team sport (21 Oct 2026) Pluralistic Tech 21 Oct Team Human is Over. Long Live Team Human Rushkoff Tech 21 Oct More on Elizabeth Holmes and prison Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Oct NYC’s Fastest Bike Messenger (1985) Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security Simon Willison Tech 21 Oct CROSSPOST: ROBERT RUBIN: In Six Decades of Public Life, I Never Thought I Would Write This Piece Grasping Reality Economics 21 Oct Talking With Simon Goldstein About Why Biological Naturalism is False Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 21 Oct The Library Is Closed. Feel Free to Come In. “In... Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct The Deep Roots of France’s Omnicrisis Persuasion Culture 21 Oct Tiny People in a Big World is like a birdwatching guide,... Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct Wednesday links: a modest gatekeeping role Abnormal Returns Finance 21 Oct Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Simon Willison Tech 21 Oct Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Oct Arundhati Roy: "Vitiating the fundamental relationship between humans and language will undermine all semblance of social coherence" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 21 Oct A profusion of Plath. Never has so much of her work – journals, letters, prose, poems – been available. Is it too much? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 21 Oct Why is the French Debt Sell-Off so Bad? Robin J Brooks Economics 21 Oct Most authors have little cash. Scammers target them anyway. Why? Their egos make them good marks Arts & Letters Daily Culture 21 Oct Link Loop is basically a 2D version of Portal. Looks fun! Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct Nature is Wrong About AI Consciousness Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 21 Oct The Bots Are Just The Closers Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 21 Oct Bad Company, Socialism, Jealousy Rob Henderson Psychology 21 Oct Ambient Earth Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct “Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a... Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct How New Information Technology Affects Asset Pricing Anomalies Larry’s Substack Finance 21 Oct Personal finance links: statistics vs. stories Abnormal Returns Finance 21 Oct Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward... Kottke.org Culture 21 Oct Corrective for a Broken Heart The Marginalian Life 21 Oct Air Rage Did Not Get Worse During the Pandemic Homo Economicus Economics 21 Oct Animal Spirits: It’s a Bloodbath A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 21 Oct Bookish Diversions: Books Are Alive and Well Miller's Book Review Culture 21 Oct Trump is Destroying Americans’ Healthcare Paul Krugman Economics 21 Oct After the Blue Wave Persuasion Culture 21 Oct In memoriam Paul Krugman Economics 21 Oct Debunking the Latest Oil Price Myths Robin J Brooks Economics 21 Oct “You Can See Everything” and the nature of liars Noahpinion Economics 21 Oct Leopards in motion! Pertinent Observations Life 21 Oct Rising to top net worth, by age FlowingData Tech 21 Oct One reason I do not love AI writing, or even AI-assisted writing Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Oct Career risk trumps investment risk Klement on Investing Finance 21 Oct The Causal Effect of Foreign Ideas on U.S. Innovation Marginal Revolution Economics 21 Oct The bargain behind industrial power The Cutting Floor Culture 21 Oct The (non) rule of three Data For India Economics 21 Oct Joel Kaplan leaves Meta Platformer Tech 21 Oct How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living The Marginalian Life 21 Oct Explicit Account Routing in OpenCode with CLIProxyAPI Karan Sharma Tech 21 Oct [RODEN] Digger Is Good, Notebooks, Please Be Weirder Craig Mod Culture 20 Oct eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise Simon Willison Tech 20 Oct Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 20 Oct CROSSPOST: ALICE EVANS: Stop Pink-Washing Patriarchy Grasping Reality Economics 20 Oct Thinking about the future of AI shouldn’t feel like choosing from a buffet Andy Masley Tech 20 Oct I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a... Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right? Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct Against Against Handover Astral Codex Ten Culture 20 Oct New book from James Gleick about the history of the... Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer Simon Willison Tech 20 Oct French Yields Are Worse Than You Think Robin J Brooks Economics 20 Oct This Could Be Ukraine's Worst Winter Yet Persuasion Culture 20 Oct “Astronomers for the first time have identified a green... Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct Saving for the machines Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Oct varieties of attentional experience Personal Canon Culture 20 Oct Tech People Don’t Know What’s Going to Happen Either A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 20 Oct The Case for Hell Wisdom of Crowds Culture 20 Oct Buying lottery tickets makes sense Small Potatoes Psychology 20 Oct The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct Pluralistic: The death of history's most successful publisher (20 Oct 2026) Pluralistic Tech 20 Oct Tuesday links: housing market ennui Abnormal Returns Finance 20 Oct Latest open artifacts (#25): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, American-made models, and new regulatory controls in the US & China Interconnects Tech 20 Oct James Marriott on the End of Reading Persuasion Culture 20 Oct CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: The Op-Eds About Higher Education Need to Stop Until We Figure Out What the Hell Is Going On With the Op-Ed Contributors Grasping Reality Economics 20 Oct Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without... Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct How to Grow Old without Letting Life Become a Parody of Itself The Marginalian Life 20 Oct The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence The Marginalian Life 20 Oct The canonization of Peter Hujar. Known for his photographs of the oversexed New York art scene, his work is finally receiving its due Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Oct White paint — initially made from lead soaked in vinegar and then mixed with a binder — has a rich history. And unhinged critics Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Oct After his mother died mysteriously, a German doctor began to suspect a respected forensic scientist. Things got stranger from there Arts & Letters Daily Culture 20 Oct 30 Months on the Exponential (in Charts) One Useful Thing Tech 20 Oct Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Oct Private Law For AIs Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 20 Oct Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through... Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct EBITDA, EBITA, or EBIT? What 39 Years of Data Say About the Best Measure of Operating Income Larry’s Substack Finance 20 Oct Research links: incentive contracts Abnormal Returns Finance 20 Oct How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct The families of quantitative signals Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 20 Oct The multiple years of double-digit returns Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 20 Oct We often get big stories wrong - be a skeptic? Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 20 Oct How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James The Marginalian Life 20 Oct Spending on “Tokens”: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 20 Oct Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the... Kottke.org Culture 20 Oct The chokepoint view has a massive blind spot Programmable Mutter Tech 20 Oct Everything Is Changing, and Nothing Is Changing Plain English Culture 20 Oct The Traitor in Chief Paul Krugman Economics 20 Oct On the indispensability of logic Figs in Winter Philosophy 20 Oct What is the Average Net Worth by Age? [2025 Latest Data] Of Dollars And Data Finance 20 Oct Increasing number of shots in movies FlowingData Tech 20 Oct European Hypocrisy on Russia Robin J Brooks Economics 20 Oct The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere lcamtuf's thing Tech 20 Oct How much growth do higher taxes cost? Klement on Investing Finance 20 Oct The net fiscal impact of immigration should include gains from trade Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Oct On Brazilian food Marginal Revolution Economics 20 Oct 14 YouTube Videos I’m Recommending Right Now The Honest Broker Culture 20 Oct Laypeople support technical fields for technology, not art Sean Goedecke Tech 20 Oct MacBeeb James Randall Tech 19 Oct My obituary for programming Simon Willison Tech 19 Oct Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife The Marginalian Life 19 Oct NixOS is making me less afraid Entropic Thoughts Tech 19 Oct NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds... Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct Why France is Systemic Robin J Brooks Economics 19 Oct Do you believe in life after death? This is a great... Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct What is a Differentiable Manifold? Curt Jaimungal Science 19 Oct Live with Jonathan Cohen and Douglas Rushkoff Rushkoff Tech 19 Oct A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past... Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct Four Direct, Reasonable, and Important AI Questions (Which the AI People Will Ignore) Freddie deBoer Culture 19 Oct The California billionaire tax is very likely a net revenue loser Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Oct Why We Broke the Orélien Story Persuasion Culture 19 Oct Open Thread 456 Astral Codex Ten Culture 19 Oct Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and... Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct Years before Darwin, an evolutionary treatise rattled Tennyson’s faith, but didn't break it. "Science was still a delight and a visionary promise” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 19 Oct A Ph.D. certifies expertise in a discipline. But ignorance is a precondition for thinking something new. James Miller explains Arts & Letters Daily Culture 19 Oct Janet Malcolm's sentences were cold, clear, and clean. Rarely did she turn those sentences on herself Arts & Letters Daily Culture 19 Oct Monday links: the race to the bottom Abnormal Returns Finance 19 Oct Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Oct You Can See Everything Cass’s Substack Economics 19 Oct How not to detect warming acceleration The Climate Brink Science 19 Oct Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,... Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct If Every Blade of Grass Screamed Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 19 Oct Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from... Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct Adviser links: updated plans Abnormal Returns Finance 19 Oct Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump Kottke.org Culture 19 Oct I Can See Everything Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 19 Oct AI is ushering in an age of personal media Understanding AI Tech 19 Oct Hirosi Ooguri: Could AI Find Physics We Can’t Understand? Curt Jaimungal Science 19 Oct Continuing the Fight for the Living World with Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 19 Oct The NHL Sanctions Hockey Heartthrobs default.blog Culture 19 Oct When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love The Marginalian Life 19 Oct Import AI 477: In which I tell the IMF the Singularity has begun Import AI Tech 19 Oct Talk Your Book: The Case for Value and Momentum A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 19 Oct When Software ‘Bots Go Feral: MONDAY MAMLMS Grasping Reality Economics 19 Oct No, DataCenters are Not Crowding-Out Other Investments Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Oct The history of Britain in 7 maps Cosmographia History 19 Oct Donald Trump is Politically Bankrupt. Be Very Afraid Paul Krugman Economics 19 Oct AI Is Killing Higher Ed. Here’s How to Save It. Open Questions Philosophy 19 Oct Calculation volumes for AI training FlowingData Tech 19 Oct The Dark Side of China’s Export Boom Robin J Brooks Economics 19 Oct Data centres boost the energy transition Klement on Investing Finance 19 Oct Pluralistic: The technopolitics of ad-tech (19 Oct 2026) Pluralistic Tech 19 Oct Can a Million AI Agents Create Superintelligence? Noahpinion Economics 19 Oct Two New Papers The Grumpy Economist Economics 19 Oct What I’ve been reading Marginal Revolution Economics 19 Oct Dead German guys lcamtuf's thing Tech 19 Oct 15 Year Stock Market Returns A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 19 Oct Monopoly Round-Up: Goodbye AI Bubble, Hello Real Economy BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 19 Oct Diversification All the Way Down Larry’s Substack Finance 19 Oct What requirements don't you have? Sean Goedecke Tech 19 Oct Verify You Are Human Scott Smitelli Tech 19 Oct [RIDGELINE] A Notebook Fit for a Walk Craig Mod Culture 18 Oct llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 Simon Willison Tech 18 Oct llm-echo 0.5 Simon Willison Tech 18 Oct *You Can See Everything* (no spoilers) Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Oct The French state crowded out by government spending. The Two Cents Economics 18 Oct 20 Truths about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian: A Ceramics and Lichen Raffle The Marginalian Life 18 Oct How to Unself in Order to Be Who You Really Are The Marginalian Life 18 Oct *This Beautiful Country* Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Oct Nietzsche at the mosque The Autodidact Culture 18 Oct Istanbul Tűrkiye - 12 days in 10 neighborhoods, meeting up with 30 local people for 60 hours of conversation Derek Sivers Life 18 Oct The New Era of Chinese Mercantilism Robin J Brooks Economics 18 Oct Sunday links: capturing AI beta Abnormal Returns Finance 18 Oct Smart People Love New Ideas, Even When They're Bad Rob Henderson Psychology 18 Oct On Believing What We Want Others to Believe Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 18 Oct CROSSPOST: Ben Moll & Alex Imas: Will AI Soon Lead to Double-Digit [Annual Economic] Growth? Grasping Reality Economics 18 Oct Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 18 Oct AI, Rising Inequality and Rising Oligarchy Paul Krugman Economics 18 Oct High Modernism made our world ⊗ Tech hype is cannibalizing the future Sentiers Tech 18 Oct Episode 193: Peter Bergen on Twenty-Five Years of America’s War on Terror Persuasion Culture 18 Oct Financial Stability Risk as AI Debt Sinks Robin J Brooks Economics 18 Oct Why are we ruled by barbarians? Noahpinion Economics 18 Oct Our fascination with screens, demand curves slope downward installment #1637 Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Oct The archaeology tranche of Emergent Ventures Marginal Revolution Economics 18 Oct Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian and the Search for Meaning: Free Livestream This Friday The Marginalian Life 18 Oct Writing is no longer proof of work Sean Goedecke Tech 18 Oct 📈 Now You're Cooking! - Announce Postmortem Games by Mason Tech 17 Oct The Map to the Route of Your Life The Marginalian Life 17 Oct Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being The Marginalian Life 17 Oct Inline rendering with document.currentScript Simon Willison Tech 17 Oct The tyranny of the op-ed lcamtuf's thing Tech 17 Oct In Which a Pedagogical Decision to Keep People from Majoring in Economics Has Massive Consequences: CHART/ANNOYANCE OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 17 Oct Choose Your Own Monster Contraptions Tech 17 Oct [Note] Inelegant Dan Q Tech 17 Oct The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn The Marginalian Life 17 Oct Dislodging the dollar - Not likely Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 17 Oct Perry Mehrling - We will miss you Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 17 Oct Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 17 Oct Hall and Woodford - great choices for Nobel Prize Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 17 Oct Effective Altruists Should Grow a Spine Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 17 Oct Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 17 Oct How big is the AI fear factor in markets? Robin J Brooks Economics 17 Oct Saturday links: decades of research Abnormal Returns Finance 17 Oct Meta shakes up the frontiers, open and closed Interconnects Tech 17 Oct web-edit 0.1a2 Simon Willison Tech 17 Oct How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 17 Oct Anthropic Employment Matt Mullenweg Tech 17 Oct Reading List 10/17/26 Construction Physics Tech 17 Oct The AI challenge: How to maximise economic impact, spread gains evenly Tessellatum Economics 17 Oct Live with Peco & Nicholas Kotar: The Last Upheaval Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 17 Oct Pluralistic: Israeli ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (17 Oct 2026) Pluralistic Tech 17 Oct Is Europe Losing the Future? Paul Krugman Economics 17 Oct Eliot Cohen on Why America Keeps Losing Wars It Should Win Persuasion Culture 17 Oct Video: How to be Stoic Figs in Winter Philosophy 17 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GC8VFV3 Freeland to Hanborough - Bonus Cache #2 Dan Q Tech 17 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCAXYB9 Freeland to Hanborough #04 - Revived Dan Q Tech 17 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCAF07M Freeland to Hanborough #06 - Revived Dan Q Tech 17 Oct How the US Can Get Oil Prices Down Robin J Brooks Economics 17 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCAXZQ5 Freeland to Hanborough - Bonus Cache #5 Dan Q Tech 17 Oct Solving for the equilibrium? Marginal Revolution Economics 17 Oct New Matt Faherty study of the NSF Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Oct Your Book Review: Storm Of Steel Astral Codex Ten Culture 16 Oct Europe to win the AI war: Srsly! Nicholas Gruen Culture 16 Oct The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream The Marginalian Life 16 Oct Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang Simon Willison Tech 16 Oct Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black... Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct Inklings #030 📧 Spyglass Tech 16 Oct Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out.... Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct The Art of Defection Persuasion Culture 16 Oct What’s the Right Level of Interest Rates For the Economy? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 16 Oct Chromatic Inkscapes Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom The Marginalian Life 16 Oct Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness The Marginalian Life 16 Oct Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s... Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct Let’s Kill the Four-Chord Song The Honest Broker Culture 16 Oct Roooobot. Huuuuuman. Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct Carl Schmitt and Antisemitism Cass’s Substack Economics 16 Oct Friday links: one big AI trade Abnormal Returns Finance 16 Oct The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series... Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct A Perpetual Populist Cycle Persuasion Culture 16 Oct Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Oct Florence Sunset Matt Mullenweg Tech 16 Oct What was Unmuzzled OX? Andy Warhol posed with it. So, improbably, did Rodney Dangerfield — in a robe, with a lapdog Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Oct “What is our contemporary digital-infused life if nothing else but a sustained experiment in self-deception?” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Oct For decades, Fredric Jameson refused to train specialists. His students were meant to become intellectuals Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Oct Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record) Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct This Week At Persuasion Persuasion Culture 16 Oct Can chatbots cure loneliness? Small Potatoes Psychology 16 Oct The Beauty of Something Grown Hyperdimensional Tech 16 Oct Credit to GDP ratios - Telling the fiscal story Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 16 Oct I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care... Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct Monthly Roundup #47: October 2026 Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 16 Oct Why Individual Investors Pick Worse Venture Capital Funds — And It’s Not Just About Access Larry’s Substack Finance 16 Oct Good headline: Nine Inch Snails. Kottke.org Culture 16 Oct How Many People Work From Home? Homo Economicus Economics 16 Oct India has more Restrictive Labor Law than Germany Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Oct The Bad News on Inflation Just Keeps Coming Paul Krugman Economics 16 Oct California vs. the tech billionaires Blood in the Machine Tech 16 Oct Warming Stripes as a screensaver FlowingData Tech 16 Oct A New Era of Chinese Mercantilism Robin J Brooks Economics 16 Oct [Reply] Re: My Hobby Is Learning Dan Q Tech 16 Oct The perceived risk profiles of African economies are changing (and that’s a good thing) An Africanist Perspective Economics 16 Oct On Bergman’s *Persona* Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Oct Art-ificial Intelligence? Koenfucius Psychology 16 Oct Pluralistic: Load-bearing (16 Oct 2026) Pluralistic Tech 16 Oct Worse than Schadenfreude Klement on Investing Finance 16 Oct China Shock 2.0 Is Much More Than EVs Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 16 Oct I guest host the NYT podcast and interview Dwarkesh Marginal Revolution Economics 16 Oct Meetups Everywhere 2026: Times & Places Astral Codex Ten Culture 16 Oct Nothing is Boring in America The Common Reader Culture 16 Oct sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust Simon Willison Tech 16 Oct When the future is hard to see, Lea Ypi’s grandmother told her, learn from the past. She knew what she was talking about Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Oct The literary world’s revulsion toward AI nurtures a self-defeating refusal to understand it, and thus how to resist it Arts & Letters Daily Culture 16 Oct Literary culture has changed, often for the worse. 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