Culture
Arts, society, and contemporary cultural analysis
📚 39 publications
📄 323 articles
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan in Nature: As a contender in the race to build an error-free quantum supercomputer, IBM has be...
- IBM has unveiled two unprecedentedly complex quantum computers
- Geoffrey Hinton: What Is Understanding?
- Amitav Ghosh: How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies
A group of archaeologists has proposed “applying a model of how humans expanded to the different islands across the Paci...
- A group of archaeologists has proposed "applying a model of how humans...
- "The reason there are no weird blogs anymore is that it's more...
- 22 Thanksgiving Main Dishes That Are Better Than Turkey. I've been trying...
Today roughly half the countries in the world have a below-replacement fertility rate — and so David Runciman asks, “Are...
- Today roughly half the countries in the world have a below-replacement fertility rate — and so David Runciman asks, “Are we doomed?”
- Upon publication, The Picture of Dorian Gray was condemned as “vulgar” and “poisonous.” It’s now a modern classic
- Not only nature, but human nature, is being redefined by an anti-limit culture. Is this progress?
An extract from The Enigma of Arrival...
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Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been readin...
- What We’re Reading: One of America’s Greatest Drops in Gun Violence — Ever
- ‘In Goats We Trust’
- The Small City That Became the Composting Capital of a Nation
How to read a book deeply...
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Today is open mic day at The Honest Broker...
- Share Your Picks for the Best Movies, TV Series, Books & Music of 2025
- The Man Who Cured Himself with Laughter
- A Young Reader Asks for Help
I mouthed a wow when toggling. Such simple and lovely work by Baggy Studio. / via Roarvale (on Threads)...
- One of the best light toggles on a website, perhaps ever
- Does the news reflect what we die from?
- The art of Irene Saputra
Roundup 11/11/2025...
- A surreal occult adventure in occupied Paris, an offbeat real-time nuclear rom-com thriller, and more
- Predictions markets and the suckerfication crisis
- Talking Zohran and Kalshi with John Ganz and Jay Kang
To win the argument for universal basic income, advocates must confront the myth that less work means less worth....
- The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into
- Galveston’s Boom-and-Bust History of Migration
- What Socialism Got Right
Two people meet, discover an uncommon electricity flowing between them, exhilarate each other into forgetting the abyss ...
- How to Fix Breakdowns in Communication
- Against the Cartesian Myth of Work/Life Balance: André Gregory’s Extraordinary Letter to Richard Avedon about the Nature of Creativity
- Words: Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Language
Anglo-American edition...
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A chat with the SF writer, activist, and author about his world-conquering coinage and how workers can take back the int...
- How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow
- What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
- Understanding the tech oligarchy and its gilded rage with Jacob Silverman
A recording of my L'Abri Friday Night Lecture...
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Gen Z’s love affair with socialism has less to do with rent and more to do with resentment....
- Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Zohran Mamdani Supporters
- Helicopter Parenting Won’t Get Your Child into Harvard
- Literary Gatekeepers Must Be Gatekept
The Syllabus Doesn't Matter...
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Florence’s leading medieval family turned a banking career into political power and paradigm shifts in art and science. ...
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On intrinsically disordered proteins and seeing the invisible...
- Chaos Biology and Protein Dragons
- It's a Fungi World, Sycophantic AI, the Secret of the Bowhead Whale, and More
The outlet just won recognition for speaking truth to power. Condé Nast responded by eliminating its entire politics sta...
- Teen Vogue's Award-Winning Journalism Was Too Much Trouble for Condé Nast
- Fox News Ran AI-Generated Racist Videos as News, Then Tried to Cover It Up
I’m purposefully not looking at my bookshelf to make sure I only pick books that I’ve thought about so much that they im...
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When “Inquiring Photographer” was an actual job....
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My new book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, has been on store shelves for a month now,...
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we're not crumbling with shorter days & colder weather this year...
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Finding the negative space around machine capabilities is not a new challenge — but it is more important today than ever...
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Politics
Governance, policy analysis, and democratic discourse
📚 20 publications
📄 190 articles
On October 28, Rio de Janeiro’s police besieged the Penha favela for 15 hours, killing at least 121 people in the city’s...
- The Making of the Penha Massacre
- The Zohran Mamdani Model of Exuberant Good Cheer
- The Whitewashing of Ahmed al-Sharaa
Deconstructing a statistical myth...
- Did prison just replace mental hospitals?
- Tuesday discussion post
- What if Italy joined the Central Powers in World War I?
How Trump's second term is reshaping America and the world....
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It's not entirely Chuck Schumer's fault, but the party needs new leadership....
- Trump made a huge blunder on the shutdown. So why did Democrats cave anyway?
- SBSQ #26: Do prediction markets make polls useless?
- A 10/10 night for Democrats
Trade Specialization Does Not Make War Less Likely And Cannot Be Undone Quickly...
- The Greatest Illusion
- Fictional Intelligence: Imagining the Future of (Nuclear) War
- Weekend Update #158: The Long Dark Winter Has Come Early
Explaining the ideological roots of America First...
- Why Trump Declared War on Immigrants
- Start Demagoguing Against the Old
- Human Attraction Is Not about Words
As hospice care is increasingly dominated by private equity firms, an antitrust response, while necessary, has the poten...
- Hospice Commodification and the Limits of Antitrust
- The Long Anti-Tax Tradition of American Oligarchy
- Weekly Roundup: Nov 7
With Latin America in Trump’s cross-hairs, a report from Buenos Aires on the social stalemate that allowed far-right fir...
- Martín Mosquera: The Meaning of Milei
- Dylan Riley & Robert Brenner: The Long Downturn and Its Political Results
- Owen Hatherley: Architecture of the Future?
Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece...
- Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes
- The Shutdown Surrender
- Bullet Points: November 7, 2025 edition
apropos of no recent celebrity controversies, I swear...
- If You Were to Say "White People Have Good Genes," Yes, That Would Be Racist!
- I Love It When Older People Dote on My Baby
- Things That Don't Work and the Tail Wagging the Dog
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published an amazing story about an anonymous professor in Hessen and his run-in ...
- How a German domestic spy agency classified a random man as a "potential right-wing extremist" for no reason and nearly ruined his life
- German Foreign Minister whines that he's "not a wimp" and Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks of his government's impending "failure" as our political chaos deepens
- World's most obnoxious carbon dioxide hysteric decides that there are worse things than carbon dioxide
To defeat autocracy in America, we need as many different people campaigning in as many different places as possible...
- The Biggest Tent
- You Are Not Supposed to Believe in Anything
- You Are Not Supposed to Believe in Anything
It's the sovereignty, stupid...
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Epstein the International Fixer, What The Trump-Xi Deal Means, The Triumph of the Managerial State, Pittsburgh vs. Cleve...
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AI Adoption, A Long-awaited Reform, and the Economics of Tech Substitutions...
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The past year has shown that the concept of “abundance” has legs....
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The authorities picked a side this week and lied about it. They turned their backs on Jews and the law-abiding public - ...
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Economics
Markets, financial systems, and economic thinking
📚 18 publications
📄 150 articles
Senate Democrats threw a teetering Trump administration a lifeline by folding on the U.S. government shutdown. Let's par...
- Coffee Break: Senate Dems Throw Teetering Trump a Lifeline
- ‘An Indictment of the Trade Union Movement’: Why No One is Organising Seasonal Workers
- Links 11/12/2025
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze...
- Top Links 919 US banking deconvergence. Halloween tariff nightmares. When internal combustion peaked & Keynes in China.
- Top Links 918 Military contractor buybacks. How Chinese consumer confidence collapsed. From Napoleonic fortress to hotel & Kot d'Azur.
- Top Links 917 Is the US in the midst of a productivity surge? China's social safety net. Scholars v. academics & Building a ruin.
Lying has worked for Trump in the past. Is this a lie too far?...
- War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Grocery Prices Are Way Down.
- Republicans Are Damaged by Their Own Cruelty
- No Post Today
Killing FAIR, chasing “Personal Artificial Super-Intelligence”: the fast‑second strategy is dead; “PASI” reframes AI as ...
- Wednesday MAMLMs: Notes on Zuckerberg’s "PASI" Pivot: From Adtech Moats to "Superintelligence" Moonshot
- The False Calm Before Steam: The Index H, Malthus, & the Long Slog, for Growth Was Very Real Before It Became Visible in Average Living Standards
- A Note: Reitter Translates Marx as He Was
For decades, investors and academics have debated whether financial markets properly value corporate innovation....
- Does the Market Know How to Price R&D and Innovation?
- Two Paths for the American Economy
- The Strength of Private Debt
Socialist priorities aren't going to retain NYC's key industries or bring down its high costs....
- Mamdani's biggest challenges
- I want the Japanese future back!
- At least five interesting things: Smart Ideas edition (#71)
In the past few years, we have seen the widespread popularity of prediction markets, like Kalshi or Polymarket....
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You have the right to work only but never to its fruits....
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A practical guide of questions and methods to become more media literate individuals...
- How to improve your media literacy
- Books I spent October with: fall edition
- Media to consume this week instead of doomscrolling - 02.11.25
The oldest investment finds new life......
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A review of Raymond Aron’s "Memoires" (a long read)...
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A longer version of my book review...
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Science
Research breakthroughs and scientific understanding
📚 11 publications
📄 78 articles
Can recovery be smoother if we prepare before being wheeled into the OR?
The post Easing the Surgical Rehab with Prehab ...
- Easing the Surgical Rehab with Prehab
- Why Are Narwhals Messing with Hydrophones?
- How Moss Fights Crime
Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an importan...
- New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities
- To Have Machines Make Math Proofs, Turn Them Into a Puzzle
- Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics
Roads are the arteries of cities, making the whole more than the sum of its parts. Cities of the developing world need m...
- Why the developing world needs wider streets
- More articles we would like to commission
- The economics of the baby bust with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Gathering robot training data, “love letters” sent to home sellers, the Napier Deltic diesel engine, jumps in electricit...
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Building industrial literacy...
- Progress books for children
- It is our responsibility to develop a healthy relationship with our technology
Progress on deforestation, but increased threats from wildfires....
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Climate
📚 2 publications
📄 46 articles
Patagonia’s new report highlights how the company acts as a connector, working with local communities and governments to...
- Business With a Backbone
- Trump sets sights on Pacific seafloor near the Marianas Trench
- How government shutdowns give polluters a free pass
The world’s fossil-fuel use is still on track to peak before 2030, despite a surge...
The post IEA: Fossil-fuel use will...
- IEA: Fossil-fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless ‘stated policies’ are abandoned
- Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30?
- Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
Finance
📚 7 publications
📄 49 articles
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- Wednesday links: liquidity and opacity
- Personal finance links: the joy of the journeying
- Tuesday links: capricious moves
Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Xtrackers by DWS: Today’s show is brought to you by Xtrackers by DWS. Find o...
- Animal Spirits: Is a 50 Year Mortgage a Good Idea?
- Why We Can’t Have Another 1929
- Talk Your Book: Public & Private Opportunities in AI
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- Animal Spirits: Is a 50 Year Mortgage a Good Idea?
- Talk Your Book: Public & Private Opportunities in AI
- The Compound and Friends: Eric Jackson and the Search for the Next 100 Bagger
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Mamdani, Trump are just opposite expressions of the same problem...
- There's something worse than recession and we're already in it.
- The Most Extraordinary Companies in History
Something something hedge funds and private equity....
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Psychology
Mind, behavior, and human cognition
📚 5 publications
📄 30 articles
Does psychology truly improve wellbeing? Or merely help us adjust to an ‘insane’ system? Erich Fromm on mental health in...
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Links and recommendations...
- Counter-Empathy, Lean Men, Weimar
- Is Having A Boyfriend Cringe Now?
- Human Progress, Vulnerable Dark Triad, Social Connection
no shame in asking for help...
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An investigation...
- Would you still love me if I was a worm?
- Gatekeepers, antisemitism, and the greatest World Series ever
- Five recommendations
Links 'n' updates for Fall 2025...
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Philosophy
Big ideas, ethics, and human nature
📚 16 publications
📄 77 articles
In Southwestern China, a filmmaker follows her father on a search for his childhood home, reshaped by history and time
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I think I'm getting the hang of this whole coming up with catchy names thing!...
- The "Suggesting Some Value Has Some Chance of Being Low In Response to Claims That It Is Large In Expectation," Fallacy
- How Continental Philosophers "Argue"
- Flourishing Futures and Anthropic
A talk at the 2025 Love & Relationships Conference...
- How Difficult Is It To Find An Aristotelian Friend?
- Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Patroness of Christian Philosophers: Inspiration for Contemporary Christian Philosophy
- Video and Podcast Resources On Frantz Fanon's Black Skin White Masks
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HINTERNET EXCLUSIVE: The Bonfire of the Humanities at New College...
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We talk a lot about “unhealthy” emotions, but how do we cultivate the healthy ones?...
- Stoicism and emotions: a guide for modern practitioners
- Suggested Readings
- The art of ataraxia: II—Principal doctrines
The post The Push To Get Invasive Crabs On The Menu In Maine appeared first on NOEMA....
- The Push To Get Invasive Crabs On The Menu In Maine
- The Infrastructure Of Planetary Sapience
- Humanity’s Endgame
In March 1980, the Hunt Brothers tried but failed to corner the silver market....
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This essay presents and explains what’s called Avicenna’s ‘proof’ for the existence of God. It is likely the most influe...
- Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God
- Ecstatic Experiences: The Philosophy of ‘Losing Yourself’
My contribution to Gettierology...
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Preview for our upcoming course with Everyday Analysis...
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Industrialisation created new problems - like climate change - but these problems are still preferable to the grinding p...
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How to boycott the Machine in 10,000 easy steps...
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Technology
Innovation, digital culture, and the future of computing
📚 19 publications
📄 57 articles
Today's links A tale of three customer service chatbots: Two were worse than useless, one betrayed its masters. Hey look...
- Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)
- Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025)
- Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)
I Want You to Understand Chicago
“All uses of force have been more than exemplary,” Bovino stated in a recent depos...
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- Dragoncatcher: Just give me a little break
- Dragoncatcher: Bare metal
- Dragoncatcher: Eyeballs, not assistants
Are we really going to destroy our trust-based society, just like that?...
- AI Video Should Be Illegal
- You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Is
- Why You Can’t Trust Most AI Studies
Video essay, bullet point summary, and Google Doc for your LLM use....
- Executive Brief: Why Co-Packaged Optics Uses External Lasers Instead of Integrated Sources
- Why Co-Packaged Optics Uses External Lasers Instead of Integrated Sources
- Executive Brief: An In-Depth Look at the Viability of X-rays as an Alternative to EUV Lithography (Discussion on the startup Substrate)
November isn’t even half over...
- 5 recent, ominous signs for Generative AI
- Sam Altman’s pants are totally on fire
- OpenAI probably can’t make ends meet. That’s where you come in.
Issue #70: A conversation with Yancey Strickler and Trent Van Epps...
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5 principles of learning science...
- AI tutors should not approximate human tutors
- What does the public really think about AI?
- AI Policy Primer (#22)
Pondering why, despite the fact that bands and musicians have to do it every single night, many suck at stage banter—par...
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Pop-hereditarianism is built on selective credulity...
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Ok spoilers ahead.
But Oedipus Rex a.k.a. Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles is almost 2,500 years old at this point so it’s ...
- Oedipus is about the act of figuring out what Oedipus is about
- Filtered for wobbly tables and other facts
If we can keep it...
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No.378 — Reimagining the way the world works ⊗ Refusing generative AI in writing studies ⊗ World’s largest Indigenous-le...
- The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care?
- Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science
AI Log reviews Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism...
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Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on lattes, ramen, and feedback from readers. If you...
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