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
Paracelsus & the Womb of Being
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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ wants to rehabilitate the fashion industry’s brutal early 2000s workplace culture, but it can’t quite hide how much it misses it
Jake Flanagin at the Los Angeles Review of Books: The scariest thing about Meryl Streep’s performance in The Devil Wears Prada 2 might be just how relatively unscary it is. The character of Miranda Pr
The Fate Of Willa Cather’s Archives
Liz Cettina at the LARB: The original 1915 edition of The Song of the Lark ends with a scrapbook in progress. By the novel’s conclusion, the protagonist, Thea Kronborg, has become an accomplished sing
Friday links: disposable software
Coffee Break: More on American Science, An NIH Grant Long Overdue, An Experimental Model, and Further Thoughts on AI
Part the First: Back to the Past in Science and Medicine. The future of basic science in the United States looks grim for everyone from the aspiring graduate student to the full professor who has met
How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron
Max Kozlov in Nature: In the fraction of a second before a person speaks, their brain weaves together complex grammar, precise vocabulary and the underlying meaning of the language. Now, researchers h
I am obsessed with these two ads
I didn’t know what a near-infrared LED mask was a week ago, and now I am obsessed with this ad from Omnilux. Because there’s a lot going on. The aesthetic of the mask itself is wild: the lines look l
Panahi’s Laboratory
Mehrdad Babadi at The Point: In Taxi (2015), Jafar Panahi stages a brief but haunting moment that, in retrospect, feels like the seed of his most recent film, It Was Just an Accident (2025). Near the
The Great Books Are for Everyone
How Zena Hitz brings the humanities to thousands of people via the Catherine Project
What happens when poetry, and poets, meet technology?
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The Warfare Of The Future Is Already Here
Nathan Gardels at Noema: When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 with a direct assault on Kyiv, the conventional odds were that Russia’s post-Cold War military prowess, replete with a world-class
DeBriefed 19 June 2026: Bonn talks end in ‘gridlock’ | Energy’s ‘new era’ | Oceans in climate negotiations
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate... The post DeBriefed 19 June 2026: Bonn talks end in ‘gridlock’ | Energy’s ‘new era’ | Ocean
Midtown Manhattan Meetup
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Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference
Two weeks of tense UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, have produced few tangible outcomes... The post Bonn climate talks: Key outcomes from the June 2026 UN climate conference appeared first on Carbon
On the Extinction of Fear
Fear extinction, ghosts of predators past, and fear's inescapable root
How Woo Are You?
Take a survey to break the woo taboo.
Promising ‘Liquid Biopsies’ May Not Be Ready for Primetime
Joshua Cohen in Undark Magazine: An emerging technology seeks to help revolutionize the world of cancer diagnosis: Multi-cancer early detection tests aim to spot signals for different types of cancer
And, in Less than 24 hours, the US Is Already in Breach of the Islamabad MOU: CHAOS MONKEYS GONNA CHAOS WATCH
Sixty Days to Peace, Zero Days to Breach: Trump’s Islamabad MOU’s ink has not even dried, and the Iranians are noting the failure of the US to live up to its day zero obligations…
The secret cause of the industrial revolution
In 1688, England swept away the encrusted vetocracy that had held back economic growth for centuries. Could we do the same today?
The Status Anxiety Behind Fertility Decline
Is anti-natalism a luxury belief?
AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It
Shelly Fan in Singularity Hub: AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on “explainable AI,” today’s most advanced systems remain black boxes for the most part. Scientists c
People Are Marrying Holograms and Making Friends with Chatbots. But Can AI Bring True Happiness?
How AI companions enable the junk-food version of happiness sold by materialistic, externally-oriented societies.
Active Management’s Persistent Failure: A 2025 Perspective
Charles Ellis’s classic work, Winning the Loser’s Game—first published as a book in 1985, building on his landmark 1975 Financial Analysts Journal article— highlighted a sobering reality for investors
Weekly Dose of Optimism #198
Midjourney Scanner, Laser Phase Plate, Valar Goes Critical, Anduril CCA, Reindustrialize + Extra Doses
Global Convenience
I would like to go to Toronto and shop at this convenience store. / via BrandNew
Colombia’s Right-Wing Offensive and the Politics of Order
As Colombia heads toward a high-stakes presidential runoff this coming Sunday, left-wing Senator Iván Cepeda and far-right millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella have ramped up efforts to reach t
tokenalysis and john henry
I have a few things to write about, but am now conscious of what ought to be going here and what ought to be going into the manuscript… so, instead of more stuff about governance and the problem facto
NYC’s Democratic Primary: Socialists vs. Pro-Israel Oligarchs
Next week’s elections in New York have typically been talked about as contests between candidates, often Democratic party centrists and socialist insurgents. But given the large sums of money flooding
The World Cup Is Exposing FIFA’s Ugly Partnership With Power
The World Cup has already highlighted what a horrible cohost the United States is. Africa’s leading referee, Omar Artan of Somalia, was a visa for entry into the United States, as was the head of the
Claire Valdez on Taking the Mamdani Coalition to Congress
New York City’s “Commie Corridor” has become the beating heart of the country’s resurgent socialist left — the place where tenant organizers, young workers, and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
To Win, Germany’s Left Has to Keep Changing Itself
It’s been nearly two years since and — formerly editor of ’s German edition — took over as cochairs of Germany’s democratic socialists, Die Linke. The duo won a large majority at a party congress in
Converting Coal Plants to Natural Gas
For the better part of the last several hundred years, coal was the fuel of choice for generating power.
Dragoncatcher: De-datafication
Friday Poem
Won’t You Celebrate With Me won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up
CROSSPOST: ADA PALMER: I Am a Huge Machiavelli Fan!
From “murderous Machiavel” to patriot-diplomat: Ada Palmer rereads Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, dropping him back into his world of papal warlords, collapsing city-states, and patriots desperate to...
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