Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 363 articles
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For his recent London run of shows, Fred Again coaxed Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter out of his helmet and in front of the...
- Ultra-Rare DJ Set From Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter
- Test footage from a slime simulator game made by former...
- A list of chain restaurants whose names contain unusual...
Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Oliver Sacks, Rebecca Solnit, Bronson Alcott, Michael Pollan, Jamaica Kincaid, and more...
- Gardening and the Creative Spirit: 200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Rewards of Soil and Seed
- The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
- Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth
How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic — expert...
- How to define a color. A seemingly simple task came to require scientific and industrial — as well as aesthetic — expertise
- Updike and the Jews: the men grotesque, hairy, hunched; the women dumpy and frizzy
- Oliver Sacks and the art of annotation. His marginalia spanned 10,000 books, the chronicle of a life well read
Photos! Scripts! Movies! Lots to click around here! And though I wish there was context for images on the home page, the...
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This story about green schools was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused ...
- Schools Are Saving Big By Going Green
- Who’s Afraid of ‘The Night of Controversies’?
- What We’re Reading: Lessons From the ‘Grandmother Cacao’
A review in the Sunday Times...
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Learn to love things, not control them...
- Tolkien's Guide to Re-Enchantment
- Book Club Recap: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Why Do Certain Numbers Keep Appearing?
I never talked about my pain. But it kept getting worse and worse....
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Roundup 03/29/2026...
- A sharp new book on A.I., psyops, and magic; an entertaining video essay on video stores; and more
- Soy Right ascendant
- A perfect Cold-War spy thriller, a malevolent folk-horror flick with a fantastic soundtrack, and more
Advice for a flourishing future...
- What should a university AI czar do?
- For the love of God, learn to paragraph
- Why did it take a NYTimes investigation?
Donald Trump’s Big Oil bonanza is an environmental disaster — but the industry’s reaction exposes a larger truth about c...
- The Grand Old Illusion of ‘Ethical’ Capitalism
- How ‘Tiny Shortcuts’ Are Poisoning Science
- What America Could Learn From Asia’s Robot Revolution
How irony, mediocrity, and intellectual cowardice took over the art world...
- The Rise of the Un-Intellectual
- 10 Novellas That Will Change Your Life
- Are Literary Agents Writers’ Friends?
Every headline says the IOC banned trans women from the Olympics. The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women w...
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that's the artist's vocation for ya...
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For middle and high school, I went to a Catholic school, run by Benedictine monks, called The Saint Anselm’s Abbey Schoo...
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On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop...
- AI's aesthetics of failure
- The first basic income for workers impacted by AI has begun sending out $1,000 monthly payments
- Conan O'Brien, tech critic
Kurdish plans to enter the war remain in limbo as Washington equivocates on support while Tehran seizes the initiative b...
- How the Kurdish Offensive in Iran Unraveled
- Permanent Games For Progress
- The World Needs Your Great Work
For my part, I knew that I had fallen in love with Dry Leaf when another cow—or was it a horse?—ambled through the frame...
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old enough to know that most of it does not matter & young enough to still care about all of it anyway...
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Life is a complicated thing buried in the simplicity of having no choice but to live it....
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The beast, the man, the poets - a reflection on solitude...
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Policymakers should prepare for the fact that the coming shocks to have long lags; and that the cadence of global crises...
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Plus, why I'm done writing about vibe-coding...
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Answering your questions about agents, query letters, book proposals, and writing....
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On the importance of rural shows and competitions...
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Mr Beast; entertainment, pain, & everything you need; project management....
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Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 183 articles
After a blitz by restaurant industry lobbyists, Chicago’s city council voted last week to maintain the subminimum wage f...
- Chicago City Council Just Stabbed Tipped Workers in the Back
- How Thoreau Challenged America to Live Up To Its Own Ideals
- Increase the Inheritance Tax
Both sides want to dictate the terms—but neither truly can....
- Can America and Iran Reach a Cease-Fire?
- America’s New Way of Economic War
- The War in Iran Could Become Like the War in Ukraine
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Who should be the #1 pick? Our new NBA draft model says teams still overvalue potential and undervalue production....
- PRISM 2026 NBA draft rankings
- How our PRISM NBA draft model works
- COOPER women's NCAA basketball ratings
The Ranged War and the Ukrainian Destruction of Russian Baltic Oil Terminals; Ukraine Helps The Gulf States...
- Weekend Update #178: Two Weeks Into The Russian Spring Offensive And The Ukrainians Have Gained Territory
- Ukraine Is Starting To Wage Systems Warfare
- Live with Phillips P. OBrien and Bohdan Zhelobchuk
Sam Moyn and Jamelle Bouie on legislative supremacy, Mariano Féliz on Argentina's debt sustainability, Ntina Tzvouala on...
- Weekly Roundup: March 27
- The Conflict Between Sustainable Debt and Sustainable Life in Argentina
- Of LPE and Legislative Supremacy
Review of Dostoevsky's Demons, Part 2...
- Politics as Consolation for Losers
- Impromptu Interview with James Fishback
- Please Stop Talking about "Zoomers" and "Gen Alpha"
not for the faint of heart...
- Stephen Policoff's "A Ribbon For Your Hair"
- Subscriber Writing, March 2026
- When People Say They Want to Send Their Kid to a Good School, They Usually Mean Schools Without "Bad Kids"
Viktor Orban is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale...
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After years of disappointing productivity growth, are we about to experience an AI-powered breakout?...
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The Federal Republic of Germany is becoming a very stupid country....
- Draft legislation aims to criminalise "sexually suggestive" photographs of fully clothed people in public because AI is scary
- Iran: Competing War Narratives and the Euro Spat
West Asia War Take #3, Virtue Signalling in International Relations, and new Data Confirms Slow Progress of Semiconducto...
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Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 153 articles
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- Links 3/29/2026
- Iran War: More Signs of a Long Conflict and Resulting Severe Economic Damage
- The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: Silence (Chinmoku) (1971) Run Time: 2H 9M Plus Jazz!
Why the U.S. is the “last big petrostate” and why that’s bad for everyone...
- Is America Suffering from the “Resource Curse”?
- Talking with David Roberts
- The Worst and the Dumbest
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 1056 Fertilizer plants out. Warehousing people. Overcoming modernity. Normcore.
- Chartbook 438: "The continuation of critical theory by narrative means" - Alexander Kluge and the anti-realism of feelings.
- Top Links 1055 Trump as the Duke of York. The OpenAI ecosystem. Boost-phase interception & the first AI-war.
As an institution, it seems that it really does not like that my cousin Phil Lord and his partner Chris Miller keep maki...
- Yes, the "New York Times" Has Really Weird Cultural Coverage. Why Do You Ask?
- CROSSPOST: RICHARD BALDWIN: Why Didn’t Trumpian Tariffs Wreck the World Trade System?
- The Vibe-Horsing Coal-&-Steam Revolution of the 1700s
On average, about half of value and growth stocks are new each year as they are not categorized as value or growth over ...
- Why 'New' Value Stocks Outperform: The Hidden Driver Of Value Investing
- The Incredible Structural Alpha
- The Best Defense: What 222 Years of Data Reveals About Protecting Your Portfolio
A timely repost, with some needed clarifications....
- Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI
- AI has the worst sales pitch I've ever seen
- The economic consequences of the Iran war
Easy steps toward a much better world...
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NASA Goes Nuclear, Terraform, Arbor Turbines, Flu Vaccine, Chicken Egg Drugs + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses...
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If you stand for nothing, you will fall for everything!...
- Finding your investment lodestar: In search of an investment philosophy!
- The Price of Risk: An Equity Risk Premium Monologue!
There are corners of the internet that still feel alive; you just have to know where to look. A digital dérive with Alex...
- How to Drift Through the Indie Web Instead of Doomscrolling
- My Current Ecosystem of Internet Artifacts
Read to the bottom to learn of our declining ties with Westarctica....
- Hormuz as the new Suez: What happens if multipolarity arrives before India is a 'pole'?
- Interview: Why Modi went to Israel, India's coordination with UAE and more
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Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 70 articles
Ancestor of humans and other great apes turns up in Egypt
The post New Ape Fossil Could Shift Our Evolutionary Origins N...
- New Ape Fossil Could Shift Our Evolutionary Origins Northward
- The Science Behind Being One of a Kind
- When Fake Supplements Work
Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort...
- When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen
- In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?
- How Writing Changes Mathematical Thought
There is a closing window to stop Waymos from creating omnigridlock....
- Escaping the Ogallala trap
- The algorithm will see you now, Out Loud
- How live sports saved television
Plastic price jumps, crypto-backed mortgages, a proposed AI data center pause, US battery manufacturing, and more....
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It was capital, not education...
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I just recorded a new podcast you can find here. It's my favorite one so far! Hope you enjoy it....
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Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 46 articles
A sweeping plan to build 21 gigawatts of solar plus batteries on 136,000 acres could be a lifeline for Central Valley fa...
- ‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California
- DOGE goes nuclear: How Trump invited Silicon Valley into America’s nuclear power regulator
- To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code
Welcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate...
The post D...
- DeBriefed 27 Mach 2026: North Sea myths debunked | India’s climate plan | IPCC and Indigenous knowledge
- ‘Very alarming’ winter sees Arctic sea ice hit record-low for second year running
- Q&A: What does India’s new Paris Agreement pledge mean for climate action?
Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 47 articles
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- Sunday links: distrust in the system
- Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
- Saturday links: contrived dissent
How does the stock market perform after it's down 10%, 20% or 30%?
The post How the Stock Market Performs After a Correc...
- How the Stock Market Performs After a Correction
- How to Own The Best Stocks
- What’s Middle Class in New York City?
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- The Compound and Friends: These are Cheap Stocks with Catalysts
- Animal Spirits: The Best Stocks in History
- Talk Your Book: What's the Latest in Crypto?
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Following the successful launches of four 351 ETF conversions, we are now preparing to launch the Cambria Global EW 2 ET...
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Good Guys win on Wall Street all the time. It just doesn't get that much attention. Plus - the S&P 500 is breaking down ...
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Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 67 articles
Americans love to gamble. But placing bets on wildfires, floods and storms comes with serious moral and social costs
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an unpublished paper presented at the Cardinal Virtues: Wisdom conference at Viterbo University...
- Human and Divine Wisdom in Anselm of Canterbury
- Episode 50 - The Concept Of Digital Natives
- Virtue In Epictetus' Works
Some wrongheaded folk philosophical views...
- Three Popular Views That Are Provably Wrong
- Let Robots Vote!
- Many AI Debates Are Way Too Philosophical and Theoretical
A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure...
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The post Middle-Power Multilateralism In A Hard Power World appeared first on NOEMA....
- Middle-Power Multilateralism In A Hard Power World
- What The AI Consciousness Question Conceals
- The Architecture Of Cooperation
Last week I realized that today’s rapid cultural evolution, mediated greatly by youth movements, seems encouraged by the...
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Or: towards "Cutrone’s 10 Commandments for Socialist Unity" in a dialectical unity with the necessity of "remembering, r...
- The Fantasy of Sanders Socialism and the Bitter Pill of Trump's Revolution
- The Trumpian Real and Post-Neoliberalism
- Žižek's (Black) Hole
An Excerpt of "Transcendence for Beginners" by Clare Carlisle...
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Part Three: Manuscript Pages 9-14...
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Evil Cabals and Angelic Communities...
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An introduction to pragmatic encroachment, the view that the pragmatic or practical stakes of a belief can make a differ...
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Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 26 articles
Does society benefit more from freedom or control? A philosopher seeks answers from the father of radical behaviourism
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- Behaviour control: freedom and morality
- The capacity to be alone depends on the sense of being held
- How to recognise a phobia (and get help)
excerpts from a forthcoming...
- the club med theory
- better than the other guy would have been
- everything is a nail, or at least it ought to be
Some exceptions and why they matter...
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Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 45 articles
Today's links The cost of doing business: "Market definition" is a denial-of-service attack on antitrust law. Hey look a...
- Pluralistic: The cost of doing business (25 Mar 2026)
- Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law vs "prediction markets" (24 Mar 2026)
- Pluralistic: Understaffing as a form of enshittification (23 Mar 2026)
Visualizing the erosion of American democracy
The Varieties of Democracy project at the University of Gothenburg ha...
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OpenAI's main quest / Anthropic Trumps the DoD / The worst sales pitch ever/ ARC-AGI 3, Spud, and Mythos / The tragedy o...
- Weekly Top Picks #117
- It’s AI, so I Didn’t Read
- The One Thing I Use AI For That Actually Makes Me Smarter
What's your Weissman score?...
- 🍪 TWiC: TurboQuant, AGI CPU, GF Sues Tower, CPU Price Hikes, 400G SiPho, AAOI, ++
- TurboQuant: Inner Workings and Implications
- Grating Coupled COUPE for CPO, and Himax's Fragile FAU Moat
When a model achieves a “top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images” y...
- The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models
- War and AI, the death of Sora, and 3 ways you can catch me live today
- F Cancer
Once upon a time, self-hosting used to be a cost-effective thing. Is it still a good option for fending off SaaS as the ...
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And why AI won’t end our games...
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Once upon a time I kept on meeting architects who had ended up working with the web.
I asked why. Some good answers:
Arc...
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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 450: China’s electronic warfare model; traumatized LLMs; and a scaling law for cyberattacks
- ImportAI 449: LLMs training other LLMs; 72B distributed training run; computer vision is harder than generative text
A translator maintaining a shadow bridge between superpowers discovers something she cannot unsee....
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No.396 — Tough week for Zuck ⊗ Learning in Motion ⊗ The people pushing back on AI ⊗ A wind-powered tumbleweed ⊗ Books, p...
- We’re all living in the “Mirror World” now ⊗ The AI boom is a polycrisis
- Habermas and his coffeehouses ⊗ The case for radical solar optimism
AI Log reviews The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game...
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my new Atlantic essay + Claude editor setup...
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The Trumpist administrative style...
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