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What If Most Longtermists Are Wrong About The Primary Aim?
The report that most changed my worldview
Sunday links: a workable balance
The most important investing theme of 2026 is HALO
Repeat after me: Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence
The Limits to Trumpâs Power in America and the World
Henry Farrell in Programmable Mutter: I did the Ezra Klein show last Friday, and it went up on the NYT website this morning. A whole lot has happened in the meantime. The way I think is through talkin
Eternal Recurrences
In The Ideas Letter, Aaron Benanav, Leif Weatherby, and Evgeny Morozov debate AI, capitalism and socialism: Evgeny Morozov knows how to theorize (and, a fortiori, how to intellectually provoke) like f
Trumpâs Dollar
Steffen Murau in Phenomenal World: One year into Donald Trumpâs second term, the global economic order is being given a facelift that wouldnât look out of place at his Mar-a-Lago beach club. The Presi
The Blessing of Burnout: Samin Nosrat on the Faustian Bargain of Achievement and the Simple Substance of the Good Life
We live in a bipolar epoch â on one end, the blamethirsty finger of cancel culture and politicized othering; on the other, the zeal for designating people, real human beings with real human lives, as
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Confederate flags and Shenandoah's timelessness
A startling, splendid, shocking place
We mourn our craft
This is an essay about coding and AI, but feels pertinent beyond. Options to face this precipice include falling off, rappelling down, gliding, wearing one of those wing suits, or some other options I
Billy Bass Nelson (1951 â 2026) Funkadelic Bassist
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The Guardian: here's how Substack makes money...
The Guardian: hereâs how Substack makes money hosting Nazi newsletters. These newsletters werenât even hard to find or subtle: swastikas and in-app recommendations from one antisemitic newsletter to a
The Hinternet Foundation
Programming and Announcements for 2026
Iceberg Crashes
PayPal is one of the great technology stories of the past 30 years. The payments company was founded in the dot-com bubble. The PayPal Mafia of founders and employees who struck it rich when the compa
John FortĂ© (1975 â 2026) Rapper and Fugees Member
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The Two Faces of Neuroticism
Overshoot: The world is hitting point of no return on climate
With warming set to pass the critical 1.5-degree limit, scientists are warning that the world is on course to trigger tipping points that would lead to cascading consequences â from the melting of ice
Performance of mamas: Isabella Rossellini
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The Story of the First Human to Receive Neuralink Implants: âThis Technology Has Brought My Life Backâ
From VOI: JAKARTA â Amid the excitement of the World Governments Summit (WGS) 2026 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), a forum usually filled with majestic speeches, technological futurism and discu
Chuck Negron (1942 â 2026) Singer/Songwriter
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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...
Sunday Poem
my dream about being white âre: Black History Month in the U.S. hey music and me only white, hair a flutter of fall leaves circling my perfect line of a nose, no lips, no behind, hey white me and Iâm
Go Left, Young Writers!
A century ago, a socialist magazine published a manifesto calling for workers to pick up the pen, heralding the dawn of Americaâs proletarian literary movement. Our societyâs need for working-class wr
Links 2/8/2026
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Top Links 1007 US profits. Global public spending. The new nuclear arms race & cultivating your "legitimate strangeness".
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Unions Are Going to Die Unless Something Big Changes Soon
The labor movement isnât just the weakest itâs been in a century. Without a radical and aggressive shift in organizing, US unions could effectively cease to matter in the very near future. Unions are
Federal Reserve 101, Part II: The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Aftermath
Why the Fed did what it did and why its critics were wrong
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Paprika (2006) Run Time: 1H 38M
Paprika is a movie about the boundaries between dreams and the waking world, and what happens when they break down.
The future of being human â For the sake of mutual interdependence
No.389 â The space trash apocalypse â Jeff Bezos, moral cretin â The futures cone reimagined â The Authoritarian Stack â Local energy networks saving lives â Tangible media
The Literature of Limits IV: Hinduism, Forms, and the Infinite
by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad This is the last part of our discussion on the culture of limits (Part I, Part II, and Part III). In Hindu thought limits that define finitude and infinity were never oppos
Charity Is No Substitute for Economic Rights
The United States is a global anomaly in our collective delusion about the power of charity to address human suffering. A far better approach would be to guarantee inalienable economic rights and stru
With ICE Using Medicaid Data, Hospitals and States Are in a Bind Over Warning Immigrant Patients
ICE access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical coverage applications could be used in efforts to remove the
Weed Gummies With Dad
by Eric Schenck Iâve gotten high with my dad about 10 times. Itâs certainly a unique life position to be in. Thereâs a specific routine we follow: I visit my parents for a few days. We catch up the f
<cite>Heated Rivalry</cite> and Modest Fantasies for Monstrous Times
An obscure 19th-century Russian novel about love and class and a 21st-century gay hockey romance might seem worlds apart. But both Heated Rivalry and Molotov offer the same thing: small parables of te
The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence
by Amir Zadnemat Introduction: Flight from Tranquility In the age of noise, we have become refugees from silence. Imagine a world where every moment of wakefulness is filled with sound. From the jarri
Cem Kaya and the Politics of Migration
Today deportations and restricted asylum rights are changing the terms of political belonging around the world. With surreal and darkly humorous archival works, German filmmaker Cem Kaya is exploring
Weekend Update #171: The Week Trump Helped Putin Commit Two War Crimes
Negotiating Over Ukraine, Europe Must Be There; US Sanctions Again, Really?
Postscript
Mass layoffs are a fact of life in journalism. Your favorite writers and editors have dealt with them. But they werenât supposed to happen at The Post. Over the last week or so, Iâve been dealing wit
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