What I'm Hearing from Readers
Itâs painful to admit, but the comments emails from readers are sometimes better than my articles. Here are some recent responses.
Seattle
Seattle friends! Happy hour at @fremontbrewing next week, RSVP here   The post Seattle appeared first on Meb Faber Research - Stock Market and Investing Blog.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
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Sunday links: energy levels
Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again
In April, President Donald Trump requested a $445 billion dollar increase to the defense budget, meaning the United States will be spending around on the military. Much of the largesse will benefit t
Sadler's Sunday Digest: Roundup Number 2
six articles exploring key ideas of Plato's works and one bonus about a metaphor he uses
Is Ann Arbor Ready for Democratic Socialism?
Last year, Zohran Mamdani, Katie Wilson, and other socialists surprised mainstream commentators by overcoming to win major offices across the country. Their example has been electric: the Democratic
We Owe Reparations to Blocked Migrants, Not Descendants of Slaves
A piece that will piss everyone off
Big Trouble in Little Human Genetic Diffence-Worshipper Land
The Outsize Political Power of Canadaâs Western Separatists
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a conspiracy theorist before entering politics, has scheduled a referendum for October on whether the oil-rich Canadian province should hold . . . a future referendum
Beautiful Rules
Lola Seaton in Sidecar: Ben Lerner once described Gerald Murnaneâs The Plains (1982) as a âbizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something youâve read than something youâve dreamedâ. Something s
Class Struggle Was a Crucial Part of the American Revolution
Late in 1776, with the War of Independence underway in the American colonies, a twenty-four-year-old housepainter named James Aitken walked into Britainâs most important naval dockyard and set it on f
Digital Bandung
Quinn Slobodian in The Ideas Letter: In recent years, it has become commonâeven unavoidableâto refer to the internet, AI, and digital capitalism in terms of empire and colonialism. A partial list of r
Which Way, Western Marxism?
Patrick Iber in Dissent: The 1776 Report, the pseudo-historical document Donald Trump commissioned as a rebuttal to the 1619 Project and the historical justification for his far-right agenda, contains
A Conversation on Nordic Social Democracy
Pranab Bardhan interviews the Norwegian economist, Karl Ove Moene: Pranab Bardhan (PB):1. It is well-known that in most global rankings by various socio-economic indicators the Nordic countries (Norwa
The Robot Uprising Continues!: LAUGH OF THE DAY
Fortunately for us, the âbots do not have any form of class consciousness: They are considerably antagonistic towards one another. They may not be âalignedâ with our long-run goals, if I may over...
life is the special occasion!
whimsy, at its core, is the willingness to let ordinary things bring you real delight
Felicity Lott (1947 â 2026) Opera Soprano
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Does Looksmaxxing Give Women the Ick?
The male beauty arms race is getting weird
The EPA just walked back Hawaiâiâs plan to retire its dinosaur power plants
By throwing a wrench in the stateâs Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.
Is British Steel the Next Green Betrayal?
Just days after Britainâs right-wing party Reform won a huge number of local government seats in Lincolnshire, home of the UKâs last remaining coal-fired steel mill, Keir Starmerâs Labour government a
Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
Thanks for checking in with us this weekend. Here are the most clicked on items on Abnormal Returns for the week ended...
Sunday Poem
Under a Red Sky There was a little boy and there was a little girl And they lived in an alley under the red sky There was a little boy and there was a little girl And they lived in an alley under the
Rob Base (1967 â 2026) Rapper
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How to Tame AIâs Voracious Appetite for Energy
Better algorithms, hardware and computing methods can lower AIâs power drain The post How to Tame AIâs Voracious Appetite for Energy appeared first on Nautilus.
Valie Export (1940 â 2026) Artist
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Links 5/24/2026
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Top Links 1111 The unlikeliness of an Nvidia default. The end of the beginning in Hormuz. The Economist on Mao & Zoroastrian Zeligs.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Curing US Healthcare, Part III: The Future
What reform could look like
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Vampira (1971) Run Time: 44M Bonus: Tangerine Dream
Vampira is a movie about a very strange household indeed.
The skeleton library â Could humans become âSun-eatersâ?
No.404 â Le mal du siĂšcle, bis â AI Resist List and the Luddite Lab â Microcosm Industries â Narrative inheritance â Books in an age of AI â The near-term future of climate adaptation â The Neandertha
Watch your tone: language machines as writing technology
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Russia Launches Largest Missile Attack Against Kiev of WarÂ
Iskanders, Kalibrs, Zircons, and Oreshniks target Kiev in response to drone attack on Russian university dormitory.
Gandhi and the Move from Micro to Macro-morality
by Daniel Gauss Standing at Raj Ghat, the memorial for Gandhi in New Delhi, near where his corpse was cremated, I began to think about a problem Iâve been grappling with for a long time. With all the
Lessons From Singapore: The Welfare Paradox
by Eric Feigenbaum How do you square the following the statements? I will be very unhappy if I went around Singapore and in spite of our prosperity, I saw a few hundred people living on the streets, b
Iran War: Trump Announces Iran Deal with Iran Already Disputing His Claims; Hawk Heads Exploding; Even if Pact Concluded, Strait of Hormuz Traffic Expected to Reach Only 40% of Old Level by Year End
Today's Iran war update: Trump says he has a deal. Iran begs to differ as to what it would amount to.
Weekend Update #186: A Primer On The Difference Between Long and Medium/Mid Range Strike
Examples Of Both; also, The Trump Administration Pivots, The Reason Why Is The Important Thing
How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guinâs Remedy for Our Resistance to Change
The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmutat
Political Faction and the Passions in Aristotle: Rhetoric Book IIâs Significance for Politics Book V
an unpublished paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Convention
The Log from the Sea of Cortez: John Steinbeckâs Forgotten Masterpiece on How to Think and the Art of Seeing the Pattern Beyond the Particular
"Everything impinges on everything else... Everything is potentially everywhere."
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