Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 378 articles
Stan Carey at Sentence first: We can show this linguistic fad as having two main stereotyped patterns or formulas, which...
- Don’t have a menty b about this bloggy p (on 3 Quarky D!)
- ‘All It Is Is Pain’: The Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance
- Terence Tao: Why I Co-Founded SAIR (The Foundation for “Science and AI Research”)
Fun word search game from Slate: Pears. (I love any Boggle-esque sort of game. Got 433 today.)...
- Fun word search game from Slate: Pears . (I love any...
- " 'CEO said a thing!' journalism...
- "Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive...
"You’ll long for me when I’m gone... You'll kiss the headstone of my grave... Kiss my face instead!"...
- The Art of Choosing Love Over Not-Love: Rumi’s Antidote to Our Human Tragedy
- Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
- Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
“Revolution” initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?...
- “Revolution” initially signaled destruction. Why did the word take on a more optimistic tenor?
- “One of the most consequential misunderstandings in the history of literary criticism turns on a single Greek word”
- Can an AI be endowed with a sense of morality? Amanda Askell is fashioning a soul for Claude
Elizabeth Goodspeed (web / insta / newsletter) posted about the type in this game she lent design and art direction. It ...
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Some general thoughts and Hollis Robbins in The Republic of Letters...
- Are books and babies compatible?
- Doomed to choose...
- Fierce, wild, intractability. Emily Brontë's untameable spirit
When Sean Tevlin discovered The Group School (TGS) in the 1970s, he found “a much needed safe space.” A struggling teen ...
- Is This the Most Radical School Ever Built?
- What We’re Reading: Eliminating ‘Forever Chemicals’ at the Olympics
- A Century After Vanishing, a Gentle Giant Returns
Introduction (Session 1 of 2)...
- Book Club Recap: Screwtape Letters
- How to See the World as Enchanted Again
- Book Club: Screwtape Letters (Session 1)
A conversation with C. Thi Nguyen on his new book 'The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game'...
- The Philosopher of Games
- My Favorite Music for Meditation
- What I Learned from Binge-Watching Cowboy Movies
People keep running crime footage through AI thinking they’re helping. They’re not....
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Roundup 02/08/26...
- A great cyberpunk urban fantasy novel, a throwback corporate paranoia thriller, and more
- Talking fascism and the suicide right with John Ganz
- A phenomenal alternate-Chinese-history noir, a gorgeous new kids' movie, and more
Microgravity, radiation, and extreme climates pose ethical and biological challenges that researchers are racing to over...
- Will Life on Mars Require a Genetic Rewrite?
- Don’t Let Climate Fatalism Become a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- Benjamin Bratton on Planetary Computation’s Next Phase
Unhappy Birthday Charles Darwin...
- Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties
- We are all sailing away to the sea
- He looks like a blimp
favorites, what i've been up to, & what's coming up...
- notes on january
- snail mail vol 2. - desire & decorum
- neuroaesthetics: why the brain loves pretty things
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A commun...
- Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
- How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism
I don’t often talk about being an immigrant, at least not in any way that could be construed as serious. I rarely write ...
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Higher Ed is at war, after all...
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It has been a good start to the year....
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Not a better education, but elite social formation....
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Freddie DeBoer’s debut novel, The Mind Reels, is about a girl, Alice, who slowly goes crazy, gets medicated, goes crazy ...
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A journey through Uganda’s stunted political development...
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A writer and editor's guide to shaping the last lines of your work — from Rilke to The Great Gatsby....
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A celebration of The Oak and the Larch...
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The Book and the Movie...
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How practical people can create, without being creative...
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Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 168 articles
Despite his later denial, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wanted to keep a line open to Jeffrey Epstein. Emails between...
- Mark Zuckerberg Wanted to Keep in Touch With Jeffrey Epstein
- The Legacy of the International Socialists, 50 Years Later
- Union Coordination Is Essential to Organizing Amazon
Voters have weird views about this, and progressive advocacy groups do a lot that’s counterproductive....
- Americans think everyone is corrupt
- Housing has a pulse ... and a reckoning
- The liberal case for the Olympics
America can’t disengage from the alliance and also lead it....
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If AI is even half as transformational as Silicon Valley assumes, politics will never be the same again....
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Of course Europe can defend itself, indeed it should....
- The Worst Argument Possible
- A Ukrainian Victory Strategy
- Weekend Update #171: The Week Trump Helped Putin Commit Two War Crimes
A recording from Freddie deBoer's live video...
- Live with Freddie deBoer
- The Greatest Tension Within 21st Century Progressivism Remains Unresolved
- Please Join Me, Michael Angelakos, and Jaime Lowe as We Talk Being Bipolar Out Loud on Substack Live
The whistle is sounding in Minneapolis. The question before the legal profession is whether we will hear it, amplify it,...
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An unstudied impression: Donald Trump is like a shark, in that he must always swim forward or risk suffocation....
- Greenland, sine ira et studio
- The internet is awash in metric tonnes of shallow Epstein bullshit
- South Sudanese refugee throws himself and 18 year-old Iranian girl in front of a Hamburg underground train in the latest act of diversity to enrich the Federal Republic of Germany
Imagine if we could set up characters from different novels on dates.......
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Global culture is going to need to change to fix this...
- The Fertility Problem Is Getting Worse with Time
- Michael Tracey Returns to Slay the Latest Epstein Idiocy
- Dark Woke as Redemption for Whites
More civilians are dying now than when Biden was president...
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Gambling should be like cigarettes: Legal but inaccessible....
- We are all going to regret Kalshi and Polymarket.
- On Crypto Crashes and Fake Money
- Jeff Bezos, Moral Cretin
Trade Deal, the Rupee Defence, Market Signals, Semiconductors, and Defence...
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I got back to Thailand at the end of last week after a three-week trip to the U.S., with two of those weeks spent in Was...
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Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 144 articles
CBDCs could create a two-tier wealth system: non-programmable assets for the elite and total digital surveillance for th...
- Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people don’t want them
- Has the Rate of Global Warming More Than Doubled?
- Links 2/12/2026
What I am teaching in my seminar these days: predatory thugs with spears and transitory economic booms with limits—agrar...
- Econ 196 :: Societies of Domination :: Pre-Class Assignment—do before 2026-02-15 23:59 PST
- CROSSPOST: JOSH MARSHALL: Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement
- Econ 210a :: Why the Agrarian Age Stayed Poor: Just What Was the Long-Run Trap Anyway?
Deportations don’t create jobs and will increase deaths of native-born Americans. Who knew?...
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Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 1011 Does AI raise productivity? Jay Z and the class struggle. Gadamer and Derrida in Heidelberg.
- Top Link 1010 Have US tariffs peaked? Is this the final crypto winter? Fei Xiaotong and the fate of Chinese sociology & Troeltsch and the crisis of historicism.
- Top Links 1009 The phases of US wage stagnation and growth. Stress testing. Roman trade routes and existential historicism.
Here’s a New Plan for Everyone Else...
- Corporations Are Winning the Stock Market.
- Direct Lending vs. High Yield Bonds
- Style Investing Meets IPO Markets
BART fare gates; AI and jobs, again; Tariffs and trade deficits; Jon Stewart vs. the economists; H-1Bs; Japan's fiscal p...
- Roundup #77: The Fix-Everything Button
- The Takaichi Era begins for real
- Why America's extremes will both fail
The facts on index-based insurance...
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Why the rich should be Uber-taxed...
- A pedagogical tax
- Why We All Care About Inequality (But Are Loath to Admit It)
- Intellectual narcissism or political relevance
Risk = Danger + Opportunity...
- Data Update 5 for 2026: Risk and Hurdle Rates
- Data Update 4 for 2026: A Risk Journey around the World!
Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, As Rocks May Think, Mouse Brain Computers, Waymo, Contrary Tech Trends + 4 Extra Doses...
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Notes on censorship, deepfakes, creativity, education, mediocrity, political writing, and more....
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Or why protests alone usually don't bring down autocratic regimes...
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3 notes on the big India-EU deal, and lots of links....
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Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 74 articles
New research reveals the neurochemical cocktail brewing in bee brains when they learn
The post A Peek Inside the Minds o...
- A Peek Inside the Minds of Honeybees
- The Spy Who Found T. Rex
- Bird Poop Powered the Success of This Ancient Kingdom
We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electr...
- Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water
- Fed on Reams of Cell Data, AI Maps New Neighborhoods in the Brain
- Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math’s Unruliest Equations
Episode 12 of of the Works in Progress podcast is about how inflation undermines state capacity....
- Inflation in Rome, Weimar Germany and Soviet Russia with Mark Koyama
- Learning about longevity from long-lived animals
- How writing about nineteenth-century cities changed my mind
(This is a chapter of a longer report I’m working on that summarizes and expands the last several years of my work on co...
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Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025...
- Health, biotech, and longevity: How to extend human flourishing
- Climate and energy: Innovation at every level
- Progress for progressives
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Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 41 articles
The EPA’s repeal of the “endangerment finding” could threaten automakers and oil companies — if it survives in court....
- Trump just killed the EPA’s ability to fight climate change. It may backfire.
- Trump’s beef trade deal is a lose-lose gamble that won’t lower prices
- Growing evidence points to link between autism and wildfire smoke
Donald Trump has overseen more retirements of coal-fired power stations than any other US president,...
The post Analysi...
- Analysis: Trump has overseen more coal retirements than any other US president
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months
- Cropped 11 February 2026: Aftershocks of US withdrawals | Biodiversity and business risks | Deep-sea mining tensions
Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 47 articles
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- Thursday links: the drip of good news
- Longform links: solidifying your world view
- Wednesday links: something to gain
Are software stocks a buy here?
The post Updating My Too Hard Pile appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense.
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- Updating My Too Hard Pile
- Animal Spirits: What Would You Do With $3 Million?
- Markets Are Now a Beauty Contest on Steroids
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- Animal Spirits: What Would You Do With $3 Million?
- Talk Your Book: The Three A's of the U.S. Economy
- The Compound and Friends: Momentum Stock Slaughterhouse
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Why Hedge Funds Got Better While Private Equity Jus...
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Fun trivia Q: If you were to bucket US stock market returns for the past 100 years into 5% increments from -50% to +50%,...
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Repeat after me: Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence...
- The most important investing theme of 2026 is HALO
- Just when you think you have the key to the market, they change the locks
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Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 24 articles
For many generations of readers, the poetry of William Wordsworth has been an irreplaceable balm for the soul
- by Sam D...
- Existential crisis? Try reading Wordsworth
- Why the search for proof can’t be separated from faith
- The hard art of comfort
Links and recommendations...
- Sex Work, Looksmaxers, Mansplaining
- The Two Faces of Neuroticism
- Art and Human Nature, Heritage Americans, Female Chimpanzees
the digital euro and theories of action...
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The problem with utopia...
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Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 63 articles
David’s handcrafted figurines pay tribute to cultural icons. His latest project takes on his greatest hero, his late bro...
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19 video lectures and 14 podcast lectures on his Introduction and "Offenses Against Oneself...
- Resources On Jeremy Bentham's Utilitarian Ethics
- Can You Be Stoic At A Metal Show?
- Episode 47 - The One Single Thing I'd Like Most To Stress About Ethics
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How evil are humans?...
- The Darkness Within
- The Vulnerable Universe Hypothesis
- What If Most Longtermists Are Wrong About The Primary Aim?
The post Why Human Intuition Is Still Science’s Greatest Tool In The Age Of AI appeared first on NOEMA....
- Why Human Intuition Is Still Science’s Greatest Tool In The Age Of AI
- The Last Yak Herder Of Ladakh
- Extreme Inequality Presages The Revolt Against It
Jessi Jezewska Stevens on the water main....
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On trees, eclipses, and the perils of belief...
- When science worships its own shadow
- Ita est: a new(ish) Stoic motto
- Atheism 101: I–Basic epistemology
Programming and Announcements for 2026...
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Many have long described variation in political opinion in terms of two key dimensions, described either as economic fre...
- The Myth of Libertarian Vs Authoritarian
- Your Deepest Value is Adaption
- Answered Prayer Seems Implausible
The Slovenian School Reading Group starts February 16th...
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Allison Paradise on the gifts from raising the new generation....
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Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 61 articles
Something big is allegedly happening...
- About that Matt Shumer post that has nearly 50 million views
- The literal enshittification of The United States
- BREAKING: LLM “reasoning” continues to be deeply flawed
Today's links Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir: There is power in the union. Hey look at this: Delights...
- Pluralistic: Doctors' union may yet save the NHS from Palantir (12 Feb 2026)
- Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026)
- Pluralistic: The Nuremberg Caucus (10 Feb 2026)
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- Dragoncatcher: Public service announcement
- Dragoncatcher: Flood fill
- Winter Garden: Flood fill vs. the magic circle
What a Melania Cinematographer Hoped to Accomplish
Yeah. So, I mean, to me, the experience was about, yes, being a ...
- The New Yorker on Melania Cinematographer
- OPB on Federal officers use munitions
- Wired on How to Film ICE
As bad as the Industrial Revolution / Nature: AGI is here / Moltbook was fake (of course) / Don't obsess over what AI ca...
- Weekly Top Picks #113
- You Spent Your Whole Life Getting Good at the Wrong Thing
- The Stock Market Has No Idea What’s Coming
Why the "2.5 burger joints" metric doesn't tell the whole story, carbon-water footprint tradeoffs, and why long-term dat...
- AI Datacenters Drink More Water Than You Think
- 🍪 TWiC: Google/AWS CapEx, NVIDIA GPUs, SaaS, TXN+SLAB
- Lumentum: Laser Demand, OCS, CPO and Optical Scale-Up
A first report from our protocol fiction writing group, led by regular Protocolized contributors Spencer Nitkey and Sach...
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Science Has Humbled Us Before. Will AI Deliver Another Blow?...
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What mundane pleasures will I be robbed of by domestic robots?
Sometimes I feel like my job at home is putting things in...
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like t...
- Import AI 444: LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench
- Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition
No.389 — The space trash apocalypse ⊗ Jeff Bezos, moral cretin ⊗ The futures cone reimagined ⊗ The Authoritarian Stack ⊗...
- The future of being human ⊗ For the sake of mutual interdependence
- Why science fiction can’t predict the future ⊗ The straw, the siphon, and the sieve
Mass layoffs are a fact of life in journalism. Your favorite writers and editors have dealt with them. But they weren’t ...
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On reading Plato and Mark Carney...
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Desiderata #38: links and commentary...
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What the Democratic party needs; what it demands; is bold, persistent experimentation...
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Clawdbot and Moltbook: Cosplaying a Future of Independent AIs...
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