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

Brazilian Agribusiness Seeks Revenge

The centrality of agriculture to world capital cannot be underestimated. In the decade leading up to 2025, the of the world’s agricultural exports rose by 34 percent to nearly $2.3 trillion, outstrip

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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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

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) – 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

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