*The One and the Ninety-Nine* [review]
Luke Burgis's moving new book
Intergalactic Torture Chambers
Why factory farms may spread to the stars
Pluralistic: How the Epstein Class recruits (20 Jun 2026)
Today's links How the Epstein Class recruits: Oh wait, THAT'S what this was?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MPAA blasted in WSJ; RFID skimmers; Post-Soviet inventions; "F
Is Big Tech Facing Its âBig Tobacco Momentâ?
Recent years have seen a legal losing streak for Big Tech. With verdicts allowing liability for consumer harms like addiction and exposure to harmful content, commentators have talked of an industry t
The grave and increasingly obvious limitations of populist politics
I guess thereâs nothing to do about my reluctance to write this post, than to write my way through it.
Our Eight Great Contests
Humanity has seen four great eras so far: animal, forager, farmer, and industry. And each era had two key levels of evolutionary competition: individual and group. This makes for eight great contests
How Trump conquered the Republican Party
My interview with Seth Masket on his new book about the GOP
Saturday links: egotistical monsters
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didnât get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
Brazilian Agribusiness Seeks Revenge
The centrality of agriculture to world capital cannot be underestimated. In the decade leading up to 2025, the of the worldâs agricultural exports rose by 34 percent to nearly $2.3 trillion, outstrip
Why Did Michelangelo Consider Himself a Failure?
Essential advice from history's greatest artist
New World Order
Nothing's being "rolled back" - the world you knew is gone for good.
Is New Englandâs new hydropower transmission line paying off?
The flow has been stop and go for the first few months, but the line shows plenty of potential to boost Massachusettsâ renewable energy supply.
Franceâs Left Can't Abandon Workers to the Far Right
In less than a yearâs time, France will head to the polls to elect a new president. Two of the dominant figures in French politics over the past decade will not be on the ballot. President Emmanuel Ma
Artemis II pennant
That sweet Oxford Pennant to commemorate the NASA mission is back in stock.
Reading List 06/20/26
A new housing bill, General Motors joining the grid-scale battery game, skepticism about data center delays, solid-state air conditioning, and more.
Links 6/20/2026
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Iran War: Iran Insists on All âDealâ Sequencing, Above All Israel Exit of Lebanon, as No Date for Talks Set; Israel Immediately Violates New Lebanon Ceasefire; Strait of Hormuz Open or Not?
Today's Iran war news: The situation is particularly unsettled, so we will limit ourselves to bigger issues.
Top Links 1138 The Bank of Japan gets to 1%! The shale boom-bust. The climate moment in Germany & Nepal after the massacre.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Arindrajit Dube on Wages
Labor economics you should know about
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: Iran Defeated The US Empire. What Happens Next?
A discussion of the plusses and minuses from the US loss against Iran, including possible major changes in the US.
Moscow is Burning
Also: Summer Books
The Mathematical Secrets Hidden at the Heart of Barcelonaâs Sagrada FamĂlia
Is Gaudi's tremendous Barcelona cathedra, the Sagrada FamĂlia. fractal? Or simply mathematically stylized?
What defines Japan's national identity?
A guest post by Hiroko Yoda.
Early Lessons From The US-Iran War
The Three Key Analytical Points So Far
Video: How to Be a Happy Skeptic, a chat with Don Robertson
What is Skepticism? Why are there two kinds? Is it a philosophy of life?
Who Won?
Opus 4.8 does an AI deep dive on 2016 from my old blog
Who was America's Homer?
Surely it was Hollywood...
Friday discussion post
We are off today.
Understanding the Luddites in the age of AI
The Luddites are back in fashion, but too many people still get them all wrong. This is what they really stood for, fought against, and why they matter now more than ever.
A Similitude About Flourishing And Fortune
thoughts that struck me seeing a struggling patch of yarrow
đŞ TWiC: AMD-MEXT, 200G VCSELs, INTC đ
Scattered thoughts across memory, optics, and business.
Pluralistic: The Big Con (19 Jun 2026)
Today's links The Big Con: Making the pile of shit bigger won't increase the number of ponies underneath it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: TVA v SETI@Home; Telemarketers
The K-Shaped Housing Market
How a once-in-a-lifetime housing market is still impacting the economy. The post The K-Shaped Housing Market appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
karlbode.com on The SpaceX IPO Is a Con
The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster This sort of journalism doesn't really care about real consumers, labor, technology, or even whether t
Cory Doctorow: The (real) dead economy
Pluralistic: The (real) dead economy theory (17 Jun 2026) â Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow The true risk of AI to your job isn't: "an AI will do your job." It's: "an AI salesman will
The Independent on Trump knows his deal
Trump knows his deal with Iran is bad. His closing G7 speech made that very clear This was probably the most alarming Trump appearance to date. He was breathless and incoherent, ill-seeming and o
New York Times on
Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defen
msn.com on MSN
Exclusive: Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange Theodore Gillibrand, whose mother is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), has dru
Paracelsus & the Womb of Being
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