On Cholera and Obvious Ideas
Easy steps toward a much better world
How to Drift Through the Indie Web Instead of Doomscrolling
There are corners of the internet that still feel alive; you just have to know where to look. A digital dérive with Alex C. from Blog Therapy
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
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Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more.
Sunday links: distrust in the system
Maeve Adams on Rhetoric and Resistance
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Rian Johnson’s personal website
Photos! Scripts! Movies! Lots to click around here! And though I wish there was context for images on the home page, there’s something to be said for mystery. Enjoyed the 16mm b&w short, Evil Demon Go
War on Iran
Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay in The Polycrisis: The illegal war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has triggered the mother of all commodity-supply shocks. In response to the unprov
Normcore
Thomas Meaney on Jurgen Habermas in Sidecar: The funeral cortège for Jürgen Habermas was carried out, appropriately enough, in what still passes for the German public sphere – the national newspapers
Cosma Shalizi Is Aware of All Internet Traditions
Ben Recht over at his substack, arg min: I’ve been wanting to write a summary of the Cultural AI conference I attended at NYU last week, but I’ve been struggling to succinctly capture my thoughts. Tha
The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models
When a model achieves a “top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images” you know something is deeply wrong.
Will the Miracle of Capitalism Destroy Us All?
Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times: In 2003, the literary theorist Fredric Jameson wrote that it was “easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” Trevor Jackson s
Classic Icons and Stunning Contemporary Works
From lensculture: The Photography Show presented by AIPAD will take place April 22-26, 2026 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. This yearly gathering features a wide variety of historically si
Chicago City Council Just Stabbed Tipped Workers in the Back
After a blitz by restaurant industry lobbyists, Chicago’s city council voted last week to maintain the subminimum wage for service workers, keeping them stuck in precarity and poverty wages. The submi
How the Stock Market Performs After a Correction
How does the stock market perform after it's down 10%, 20% or 30%? The post How the Stock Market Performs After a Correction appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Dash Crofts (1938 – 2026) Musician and Member of Seals & Crofts
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Status Is Not Power
‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California
A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley farmers facing devastating water shortages.
How Thoreau Challenged America to Live Up To Its Own Ideals
A new PBS documentary, Henry David Thoreau, reveals the Thoreau often softened in high school textbooks — the abolitionist, antiwar dissident, and ecological thinker whose ideas still challenge a coun
Alexander Kluge (1932 – 2026) Filmmaker and Author
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The Post-Reality Campaign
Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale
Sunday Poem
I Went Out To See All the Downed Trees Nothing was where it was supposed to be or even where it was twenty minutes ago, one of the only times I’ve understood what nature was trying to say to me. But t
A sharp new book on A.I., psyops, and magic; an entertaining video essay on video stores; and more
Roundup 03/29/2026
Increase the Inheritance Tax
For some young workers, the aging of the American population means growing care burdens, while others anticipate a life-changing windfall. Higher taxes on the ever-growing number of inheritances could
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...
Robert Trivers (1943 – 2026) Evolutionary Biologist
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Links 3/29/2026
<a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/Links-3-29-2026.html"><img src="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Zebras.jpeg" "width="300" height="300" class=aligncenter siz
Iran War: More Signs of a Long Conflict and Resulting Severe Economic Damage
The latest Iran war update: both sides dig in, virtually assuring at least a long-ish conflict and economic devastation.
Top Links 1056 Fertilizer plants out. Warehousing people. Overcoming modernity. Normcore.
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Uber Backs Bills to Make It Harder to Sue Them for Crashes
Uber is spending tens of millions on a California ballot measure that could make it harder for riders, pedestrians, and drivers to sue for damages after car crashes. It is part of a broader liability
Is America Suffering from the “Resource Curse”?
Why the U.S. is the “last big petrostate” and why that’s bad for everyone
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Silence (Chinmoku) (1971) Run Time: 2H 9M Plus Jazz!
Silence is a movie about faith and its loss.
Math Science Vision Approvals Budget
Mr Beast; entertainment, pain, & everything you need; project management.
We’re all living in the “Mirror World” now ⊗ The AI boom is a polycrisis
No.396 — Tough week for Zuck ⊗ Learning in Motion ⊗ The people pushing back on AI ⊗ A wind-powered tumbleweed ⊗ Books, plants and playgrounds
ICE vs. High Schoolers
We spoke with high school students in Minneapolis about how they were affected by ICE’s occupation of the city. Students from North High School in North St Paul, Minnesota, marched to their local city
Victory at Charlie’s Place: A Democracy More Like ‘High Noon’ than de Tocqueville
by Daniel Gauss This story goes back to a time when Williamsburg was just starting to become the hipster promised land and just before 9/11. It can be classified as an obscure but, hopefully, interest
Beavers Can Turn Streams Into Carbon Stores – We Measured How Much
Natural engineers can quietly help river landscapes store more carbon for decades to come.
The Sordid History of State Collusion With the Far Right
During the conflict in the North of Ireland, British security forces colluded with loyalist paramilitaries responsible for hundreds of sectarian murders. The record of collusion should be a cautionary
Lessons From Singapore: The Virtues Of Vice
by Eric Feigenbaum In a city-state that fines spitting in public, requires stores to check identification and log purchasers of chewing gum, heavily taxes alcohol and tobacco and bans durian from publ
Weekend Update #178: Two Weeks Into The Russian Spring Offensive And The Ukrainians Have Gained Territory
The Ranged War and the Ukrainian Destruction of Russian Baltic Oil Terminals; Ukraine Helps The Gulf States
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