How Jeffrey Epstein Became a Public Intellectual
It's amazing what money can buy nowadays
Our Modern Mistake
People hate to be given direct orders, especially if they will have to visibly follow such orders, and especially if they feel rivalrous with those who give orders.
Pizza, Grape Soda and Cream Cheese Babies: An Inquiry Into Yet More Epstein Internet Nonsense
I first aired my general scepticism of the Epstein mythology last July, and I think that piece has held up well.
Saturday discussion post
50 Surprising Facts
MOAR facts
Ars Technica on Wikipedia blacklists
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered
tante.cc on Acting ethically
Acting ethically in an imperfect world Artifacts and technologies have certain logics built into their structure that do require certain arrangements around them or that bring forward certain arr
The Most Important Skill in AI Right Now: How to Know When to Stop
Maximum productivity also means maximum burnout and other, worse things
Coming Clean
We are running another huge sale on paid subscriptions, in the hope of including all of you among the privileged class of readers able to get past our paywall.
How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
How popular is Elon Musk?
Silver Bulletin favorability ratings for the world's richest man.
How To Overcome Adversity
Lessons from Ernest Shackleton
Infantile Drives and their Ethical-Political Consequences
Sex and Society circles the original scandal of psychoanalysis February 23rd
Saturday links: too good to ignore
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
‘A different set of rules’: Thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship data centers.
Reading List 02/21/26
Welcome to the reading list, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.
How to Build Pro-Worker Governance in Cleveland
Rust Belt cities like Cleveland face a much more hostile landscape for passing pro-worker policies than major cities like New York. But a range of policy options is available to legislators who want t
Links 2/21/2026
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Rob Urie: No Exit – How Obama’s Bank Bailouts Produced Trump
Profiling the Democratic Party's doom loop, starting with the Obama "get out of jail free" cards to financiers after the crisis.
Cuba’s Revolution Always Had an Internationalist Spirit
Sixty years ago, delegates from all over the world gathered in Havana for the Tricontinental Conference, forging ties of solidarity and resistance. The anniversary came last month, just as the US step
Top Links 1020 A bad time for US equities. Keynes on the state. Cities without ground & Pol Roger.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse
Michael Hudson explains how industrial capitalism was radical in aiming to free economies and markets from rent-seeking and financialization.
Talking With Ro Khanna
The progressive Democrat representing Silicon Valley on wealth, technology and more
Suggested Readings
A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure
Israel’s Economy Has Problems, but It’s Not Collapsing Yet
In spite of the Gaza genocide, Israel still has plenty of customers for its high-tech exports, especially the weapons it produces. But it is experiencing a debilitating brain drain as secular, highly
<cite>Survivor</cite> Has Become a Bleak Mirror of Modern Capitalism
When Survivor debuted in 2000, its appeal stemmed from the tension of clashing values, with some contestants taking a nakedly transactional approach and others appealing to the common good. In recent
Team USA is proving that world-class skiing doesn’t require PFAS wax
U.S. ski techs reflect on competing at the first Olympics banning waxes with "forever chemicals."
The Right’s Civilizational New World Order
Civilizationalism, the idea that world politics revolves around culturally bounded civilizations led by great powers, is energizing the Right on both sides of the Atlantic. It is key to the effort to
CROSSPOST: JOSH MARSHALL: Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision
Josh Marshall & I have the same view of the corrupt & craven John Roberts, & his corrupt & craven right-wing Supreme Court majority...
Republicans are complaining about a redistricting war they started
An avoidable, somewhat pointless fight is roiling America’s House maps.
Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence
The good, the bad and the ugly of AI. The post Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Dragoncatcher: Artificial general economy
An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His...
An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork.
Cozy Girl Lifestyle is a Rational Response to a Winner-Take-All Culture
parleys don't hit and followers don't accumulate, but hot chocolate never fails
The Judiciary as the Last Bastion of Intellectual Conservatism
The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs
“Rather than being a footnote to premodern folly, the Rosicrucian affair turns out to sit at the narrative center of the modern world”
“Rather than being a footnote to premodern folly, the Rosicrucian affair turns out to sit at the narrative center of the modern world”
"What is it to live near to light, in sustained awareness of it? How does it braid itself into our sense of revelation, our communion with grace?
"What is it to live near to light, in sustained awareness of it? How does it braid itself into our sense of revelation, our communion with grace?
For leftists, philanthropy is often simply an expression of plutocratic power. How then to make sense of the surprisingly radical Garland Fund?
For leftists, philanthropy is often simply an expression of plutocratic power. How then to make sense of the surprisingly radical Garland Fund?
The Farmer Who Glimpsed a Rare Volcanic Birth
Dionisio Pulido watched as Paricutín tore through his fields—suddenly, scientists flocked there from around the globe The post The Farmer Who Glimpsed a Rare Volcanic Birth appeared first on Nautilus.
Dragoncatcher: The new funnel?
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