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14 Nov People like their jobs, even British people Marginal Revolution Economics 14 Nov The Power and Roots of Aspirations Marginal Revolution Economics 14 Nov AI promises miracle cures. We expect grounded planes Blood in the Machine Tech 14 Nov Editors were once heroic literary figures, spotting and nurturing hidden talent. Conglomeration in publishing has changed all that Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov The history of the telephone: It was a curiosity, then a luxury item, and then an ordinary necessity Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov Camus in love. He exchanged nearly 1,000 letters with Maria Casarès. They are intimate, poetic, unbridled Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov Janet Malcolm’s journalistic persona was terrifyingly sharp. But her personal letters? “Messy, confusing, repetitive, and frequently boring” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov Major literary organizations rarely recognize works of science fiction. With M. John Harrison winning the Booker Prize, will that finally change? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov Richard Posner described himself as cold, callous, snobbish, selfish, and cruel. It's a good line, but it wasn't true Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov In the silken, seductive, perilous literary world of Saki, wolves howl, cats speak, and epigrams are matters of life and death Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov In a Paris suburb, 60,000 readers gather to celebrate “an American literature that Americans don’t like” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov David Remnick warned journalists against befriending their subjects. He made one exception for himself: Philip Roth Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov An anthology that merely reflects the market amounts to a passive index fund. The editor’s job is to pick winners. David Lehman explains Arts & Letters Daily Culture 14 Nov Living a Better Life Now A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 14 Nov The midterms: We’re all Bernie Bros now Nicholas Gruen Culture 14 Nov Vote In The 2026 Book Review Contest Astral Codex Ten Culture 13 Nov datasette-cluster-map 0.19 Simon Willison Tech 13 Nov A Room of One’s Own Kneeling Bus Culture 13 Nov Introducing the Blygger Protocol Protocolized Culture 13 Nov datasette-leaflet 0.3 Simon Willison Tech 13 Nov A Literary Map of the United States Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov Solving the Feynman restaurant problem, i.e. how many... Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov BLOCKED! Emboldened State Regulators Just Scuttled a Major Money Merger BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 13 Nov What Havel Teaches Us About Freedom Persuasion Culture 13 Nov Paul Ford made an app called Mouse Party for easily... Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Viktor Frankl’s Lost Lectures on Moving Beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning The Marginalian Life 13 Nov Pluralistic: I told you so (13 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 13 Nov The Surma Boys of Afghanistan Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov Friday links: lying about lying Abnormal Returns Finance 13 Nov Is the Illiquidity Premium Really Gone? Larry’s Substack Finance 13 Nov Are we witnessing an intelligence explosion? Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Nov Can AI Compose a Convincing Beethoven Sonata? The Honest Broker Culture 13 Nov Welcoming Mike McFaul and Larry Diamond to American Purpose Persuasion Culture 13 Nov The long-lost source for a sample in Craig Mack’s Flava... Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov Are we approaching an intelligence explosion? Ghosts of Electricity Economics 13 Nov Critics and biographers alike have tiptoed around a momentous force in John Berger’s writing: sex Arts & Letters Daily Culture 13 Nov Lionel Trilling described the place where literature and politics meet as a "dark and bloody crossroads." Bad politics and bad books are buried there Arts & Letters Daily Culture 13 Nov Anthropologists love to debate: Is their field insufficiently reflexive, too reflexive, too relativistic, or too subservient to dominant norms? Enough! Arts & Letters Daily Culture 13 Nov Literary Hub is trying to determine the best literary TV... Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov This Week At Persuasion Persuasion Culture 13 Nov Loving vs. Being in Love: Jane Welsh Carlyle on Navigating the Heart’s Contradictions The Marginalian Life 13 Nov Why Are You So Confident? Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 13 Nov Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Nov The Topology of Contemporary Politics Never Met a Science Culture 13 Nov Sicily and the Family Tree of Citrus Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov The 100 Best Indie Rock Albums of All Time. Includes... Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov Sherry Turkle Conversation Rushkoff Tech 13 Nov Jono is a video game with 1,000,000 levels. Only one... Kottke.org Culture 13 Nov ROSS DOUTHAT & CBS NEWS: CONTEMPTIBLE CRAVEN TRUMP SANE-WASHING EPISODE OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 13 Nov All the global fixed income moves are linked to FOMC meetings Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 13 Nov Agent Orange Did Not Cause Your Father’s Sickness Homo Economicus Economics 13 Nov Jensen Huang Resigns After Having Another Affair In Addition to the Chinese Spy Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 13 Nov The Economics of Rent Controls Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Nov Liberals Are Wrong to Fear the Internet Persuasion Culture 13 Nov Outlook email is still down Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Nov NFIDELITY Spyglass Tech 13 Nov Another Journey Into Port William Over the Field Culture 13 Nov Timeline of gambling addicts FlowingData Tech 13 Nov Elon Still Loves Vladimir Paul Krugman Economics 13 Nov The Case Against Fed Rate Hikes Robin J Brooks Economics 13 Nov Artificial Intelligence Is a Vision of God default.blog Culture 13 Nov The U.S. Federal AI Observatory Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Nov Brad and Noah discuss the reindustrialization of America Noahpinion Economics 13 Nov Meetings are a waste of money Klement on Investing Finance 13 Nov Unexpected (in)efficiencies Koenfucius Psychology 13 Nov Do not overrate zero-sum status-seeking Marginal Revolution Economics 13 Nov Jensen Huang and the end of the ‘lol nothing matters’ era of American politics Platformer Tech 12 Nov AI Company Employees Should Unionize Astral Codex Ten Culture 12 Nov llm-gemini 0.37 Simon Willison Tech 12 Nov Double Down on College Persuasion Culture 12 Nov Richard Scarry Illustrations Paired With Karl Marx Quotes Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov The Specialization of Desire Summer Lightning Culture 12 Nov Discussion of: Paul Reitter, Trans. 2024. Marx, Karl (1867). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy”: (EARLY) FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS Grasping Reality Economics 12 Nov ✚ Annotating line charts for presentation FlowingData Tech 12 Nov Pluralistic: Uber's labor crash (12 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 12 Nov What Actually Drives Dual Momentum’s Returns? A Fresh Look at Global Equities Momentum Larry’s Substack Finance 12 Nov The Bear Markets A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 12 Nov Riding the Rails With America’s Last Train-Hoppers.... Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov The corkscrew car jump from the Bond film The Man With... Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov My Barcelona talk on AI Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Nov The Fix Is Still In The Climate Brink Science 12 Nov Thursday links: intellectual honesty Abnormal Returns Finance 12 Nov ‘This Is an Insane Scandal’: How Jensen Huang’s Downfall Could Change Everything Plain English Culture 12 Nov The great economic theorist, Richard Posner (1939-2026) Economic Forces Economics 12 Nov “Today’s rich people are richer than ever, and that seems... Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Nov Map of New England Places Everybody Pronounces Wrong Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov Ignore Last Email Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 12 Nov How to Hear the Song of Life The Marginalian Life 12 Nov China’s Hidden Edge in Manufacturing. Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 12 Nov Introducing: Qualiaphobic AI The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 12 Nov Starting today at 7pm in NYC, 400 volunteers will read... Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov Justice for Mrs. Bennet? The Common Reader Culture 12 Nov Our Recovery Starts Here Persuasion Culture 12 Nov Longform links: demographic assumptions Abnormal Returns Finance 12 Nov You Can’t Abolish The Profit Motive Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 12 Nov Place, Personhood, and the Hippocampus: The Fascinating Science of Magnetism, Autonoeic Consciousness, and What Makes Us Who We Are The Marginalian Life 12 Nov AI #194: Spy Versus Guy Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 12 Nov Nope, this is not at all metaphorical: “In its glory... Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov Key principles for building a scalable trading model Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 12 Nov Richard Posner death and the economic analysis of the law Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 12 Nov On Richard Posner Cass’s Substack Economics 12 Nov Jensen's Affairs • Is His Chinese Mistress a Spy? Spyglass Tech 12 Nov Technology as a Search Problem Construction Physics Tech 12 Nov Dan Freed: What Is Quantum Field Theory, Really? Curt Jaimungal Science 12 Nov Paul Krugman and Heather Cox Richardson in Conversation | CUNY Graduate Center Paul Krugman Economics 12 Nov The Everywhere Rent Seekers Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Nov "Academics routinely betray their best selves and lapse into a tendentious moralism when they enter the wider world of American political debate" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 12 Nov “We live in a time and a place when and where taste, inner resourcefulness, and fortitude are neither encouraged nor rewarded” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 12 Nov In medieval times, curiosity was seen as a largely vacuous interest in novel or forbidden information Arts & Letters Daily Culture 12 Nov Robyn’s Tiny Desk Concert Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov Inside the Hall of Mirrors Arpitrage Economics 12 Nov Climates of Treason Paul Krugman Economics 12 Nov The Shock Doctrine in Reverse Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 12 Nov [Note] Crosswords + FOSS = ❤️ Dan Q Tech 12 Nov The Case Against This Inflation Scare Robin J Brooks Economics 12 Nov BikeNetKit is a toolkit to improve the bicycle network in your city FlowingData Tech 12 Nov USG assets are worth less than Arnold Kling had thought Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Nov The start-up challenge in Europe: Part Deux Klement on Investing Finance 12 Nov My excellent Conversation with Terence Tao Marginal Revolution Economics 12 Nov NYC’s venture capitalists need to love themselves Anil Dash Tech 12 Nov A recent documentary called Capturing Bigfoot offers... Kottke.org Culture 12 Nov When People Can Afford to Be Particular The Cutting Floor Culture 12 Nov Industrial parks for companies of one The Cutting Floor Culture 12 Nov Talking With Daniel Munoz (IN PERSON!) Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 12 Nov When the Future Becomes a Subculture The Cutting Floor Culture 12 Nov What is culture? Optimally Irrational Economics 12 Nov Quantum Gravity & the Origin of Mass Explained FROM SCRATCH Curt Jaimungal Science 12 Nov The anti-marketing aspect of the Gemini network Ploum Tech 11 Nov Richard Posner, RIP… Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Nov Immaculate Disinflation The Grumpy Economist Economics 11 Nov Bob Dylan’s Very Best Songs Cass’s Substack Economics 11 Nov Techno Marching Band! Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Gemini Decisions API Simon Willison Tech 11 Nov aws-emulator Simon Willison Tech 11 Nov True Love Will Find You in the End: Kurt Vonnegut on When to Stop Trying and When to Try Again The Marginalian Life 11 Nov The Intimate in the Infinite and the Responsibility of Rapture The Marginalian Life 11 Nov No, the Phonics Decoding Advantage Does Not Persist For the Most Disadvantaged Readers Freddie deBoer Culture 11 Nov Staying Cool at the Airport Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Nathaniel at WordCamp Canada Matt Mullenweg Tech 11 Nov What Is This Yumeshipping Stuff You’ve Been Seeing on Social Media? default.blog Culture 11 Nov Scientists have identified a new species of penguin, the... Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Finding inspiration in death Maria Konnikova Psychology 11 Nov What Will Starting a Creative Career Look Like in the... Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Experimentally validated digital twins Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Nov Wednesday links: an article of faith Abnormal Returns Finance 11 Nov Browse tools.simonwillison.net by tag Simon Willison Tech 11 Nov Why Does Japan Have Such Good Railways? “Successful... Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Nov llm 0.37.2 Simon Willison Tech 11 Nov Inflation is a monetary phenomenon Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 11 Nov The map of quant strategies Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 11 Nov “I Made a Film in Excel, and I Don’t Know Why” Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Is the Debasement Trade Over? Robin J Brooks Economics 11 Nov Broadtermism Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 11 Nov Fable and Mythos 5.2: The System Card Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 11 Nov Watch the morning fog flow like ocean waves into the town... Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Are the World’s Cheapest Stocks an Opportunity? Larry’s Substack Finance 11 Nov Campuses Need More Pluralism, Not Less Persuasion Culture 11 Nov Anthropic's IPO roadshow video Simon Willison Tech 11 Nov Advice for the incoming Democratic Congress: 8 Bold Ideas... Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov Personal finance links: shrinking spending opportunities Abnormal Returns Finance 11 Nov Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated... Kottke.org Culture 11 Nov What should I ask Simon Sebag Montefiore? Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Nov Manly Jobs, Signal Inflation, Sexual Passion Rob Henderson Psychology 11 Nov Animal Spirits: What the Hell Just Happened?! A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 11 Nov [Reply] Re: Decimal Clock Dan Q Tech 11 Nov Odysseus Didn’t Rely on Grit; Neither Should You Miller's Book Review Culture 11 Nov Nintendo Goes Back to the Zelda Well Spyglass Tech 11 Nov For five decades, George Scialabba has carried the torch for secular progressivism and literary criticism Arts & Letters Daily Culture 11 Nov Electroconvulsive therapy appears to offer depressives an agonizing choice: their personality or their memory Arts & Letters Daily Culture 11 Nov Simon Winchester, a charming rogue who traded geology for journalism and became a prolific and peripatetic polymath, has died. He was 82 Arts & Letters Daily Culture 11 Nov Live Event with Heather Cox Richardson Paul Krugman Economics 11 Nov [Note] Incoming Postcard... from Croatia Dan Q Tech 11 Nov Evolutionary ethics and how we treat strangers Figs in Winter Philosophy 11 Nov How India samples its affluent households Data For India Economics 11 Nov How Much Does a Hawkish Fed Hurt Gold? Robin J Brooks Economics 11 Nov Word Tree to visualize structure in a body of text FlowingData Tech 11 Nov [Article] "Things" is a thing that showcases my things. Dan Q Tech 11 Nov [Video] "Things" is a thing that showcases my things. [Video] Dan Q Tech 11 Nov India is quietly doing great Noahpinion Economics 11 Nov Text time-lapse FlowingData Tech 11 Nov UK fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Nov Escaping The “Outside Criticism” Trap Astral Codex Ten Culture 11 Nov Treasuries lose their haven status Klement on Investing Finance 11 Nov Spying makes a comeback Marginal Revolution Economics 11 Nov It came from the token void! lcamtuf's thing Tech 11 Nov Battlefields Data For India Economics 11 Nov Hexapodia LXV: The Re-Industrialization of America, with Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Grasping Reality Economics 11 Nov Following: Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy and GPU smuggler Platformer Tech 11 Nov Glue work is still harmful in the age of AI Sean Goedecke Tech 11 Nov Some thoughts on Nolan's Odyssey Shreevatsa Culture 10 Nov How Not to Waste Your Life The Marginalian Life 10 Nov A short history of Lego instructions from 1955 to the... Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov Satellite images of sand dunes migrating in Egypt. They... Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov I’m on a slow background mission to reverse the othering in my worldview. De-othering Derek Sivers Life 10 Nov USPS Announces Mythical Creatures Stamps for 2027 Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov llm-gemini 0.36 Simon Willison Tech 10 Nov Are RCTs underpowered? Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Nov How to Build a Police State. “Bukele didn’t declare a... Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov Now Yourself: The Elusive Science of What the Present Moment Is Made of and How It Makes You Who You Are The Marginalian Life 10 Nov Tuesday links: one big bet Abnormal Returns Finance 10 Nov This is Why You Need a Plan A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 10 Nov For Those Who Wish to Live Like an Agrarian Over the Field Culture 10 Nov How Much Wealth Does It Take to be Safe in the United States? Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov Pluralistic: The EU should go big and hard over border IT failure (10 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 10 Nov Iron Makes Iron Hyperdimensional Tech 10 Nov We need more goat sacrifices Experimental History Psychology 10 Nov Is the Fed Going to Hike 50 bps? Robin J Brooks Economics 10 Nov Pablo Neruda on How to Hold Time The Marginalian Life 10 Nov Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Nov Great title for an article about London’s invasive... Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov Longtermism For Animals Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 10 Nov 100 Big Unanswered Scientific Questions Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov Is Fund Size Growth in Private Equity a Red Flag? Larry’s Substack Finance 10 Nov For More Than Three Decades, Qatar Has Flourished by Playing All Sides The Abrahamic Metacritique History 10 Nov Research links: developing investment talent Abnormal Returns Finance 10 Nov Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw. Sort of an... Kottke.org Culture 10 Nov Inflation still needs to be controlled Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 10 Nov AI Burnout Is Real, and Nobody Wants to Say It Out Loud Ivan Turkovic Tech 10 Nov The $500 Bug Bounty Email Every Small Site Gets Ivan Turkovic Tech 10 Nov AI’s Ringmaster Loses the Circus Spyglass Tech 10 Nov Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Had an Affair With a Chinese Spy Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 10 Nov The Gamble of Your Life Of Dollars And Data Finance 10 Nov On “The Meritocratic Consensus” in Higher Education Homo Economicus Economics 10 Nov Why Russia had serfs Cosmographia History 10 Nov The Cyberpunking of America (Fixed) Paul Krugman Economics 10 Nov The Cyberpunking of America Paul Krugman Economics 10 Nov In 17th-century England, a flood could be blamed on a “Papistical Conspiracy of Traitors” — but general sinfulness could not be dismissed Arts & Letters Daily Culture 10 Nov Checking the AI audit of Saez and Zucman’s research. Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Nov Why did American departments of literature prove so hospitable, or susceptible, to French theory? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 10 Nov Robert Wilson created spectacles that defied interpretation. So his critics wrote about their own ideas instead Arts & Letters Daily Culture 10 Nov Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk on Whether Democracy Needs Religion Persuasion Culture 10 Nov Post-Midterm Regime Change at the Fed Robin J Brooks Economics 10 Nov Geolocation determined with background airplane noise FlowingData Tech 10 Nov Mike Harrison has won the Booker Prize Programmable Mutter Tech 10 Nov *Godzilla: Minus Zero* (no spoilers) Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Nov Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Simon Willison Tech 10 Nov The start-up challenge in Europe Klement on Investing Finance 10 Nov *Unbeatable: The Brutally Honest Case for Free Markets* Marginal Revolution Economics 10 Nov Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2 Simon Willison Tech 10 Nov Yonkers Rises Simon Willison Tech 10 Nov Ontology #2: wish you were here lcamtuf's thing Tech 10 Nov [Article] Geohashing.site's Better Banhammer Dan Q Tech 10 Nov What Makes You Yourself: Posidonia Australis, Pando, and the Paradox of Personhood The Marginalian Life 10 Nov No Republican New England senators for the first time in a long time FlowingData Tech 10 Nov The Visible Sign Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 10 Nov De-othering Derek Sivers Life 09 Nov llm-anthropic 0.31 Simon Willison Tech 09 Nov Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude Simon Willison Tech 09 Nov Noah Smith and Azeem Azhar discuss the AI boom Noahpinion Economics 09 Nov Claude Code token cost explorer Entropic Thoughts Tech 09 Nov Open Thread 459 Astral Codex Ten Culture 09 Nov Crimson Star Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov The most intense shoe salesman you’ll ever meet, a CBS... Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov The Executive After Bad Midterms Cass’s Substack Economics 09 Nov The Welcome Rain Falling From the Sky Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov Fable 5.2 and Jagged AGI One Useful Thing Tech 09 Nov Why Don’t Artists Join Together in Co-Op Platforms? The Honest Broker Culture 09 Nov Monday links: search traffic Abnormal Returns Finance 09 Nov Award-winning photographer Stephen Voss is making a book... Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov Carl Sagan on How to Live with the Unknown The Marginalian Life 09 Nov Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity... Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Nov A YouTuber discovered that most videos contain inaudible... Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov The Scariest Recent AI Development Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 09 Nov Winners of the 2026 Photomicrography Competition Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov Adviser links: sudden windfalls Abnormal Returns Finance 09 Nov Dark Forestry. “What defense against this onslaught of... Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov AI R&D Is Accelerating Towards Potential RSI in 2027 Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 09 Nov Private-Market “Tax Alpha”: A Useful Framework, but Not a Free Lunch Larry’s Substack Finance 09 Nov [Reply] Re: Blunt Banhammer Blocks Basic Bots Ballistically Dan Q Tech 09 Nov The True Believer Persuasion Culture 09 Nov On Split-Personality Disorder & MAMLM Agent-Harness Systems: LAUGH OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 09 Nov "All writers will be buried, but try to bury their books, and somebody will always dig them up again" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Nov Sometime between the late Middle Ages and the 18th century, people came to believe that love should play a role in the selection of a spouse Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Nov Sylvia Plath’s verbal calisthenics. Nothing was off limits, including sonnets, villanelles, poems in terza rima, even Audenesque quatrains Arts & Letters Daily Culture 09 Nov Big Barrel Of Relief? Tessellatum Economics 09 Nov The AI Trade Deconstructed: AI Builders, AI Suppliers and AI Product firms! Musings on Markets Finance 09 Nov Import AI 480: Self-sustaining space economies; AI for science progress, and Meta builds perfect hands for a superintelligence Import AI Tech 09 Nov The Base of the Democratic Party is White Women, Obviously Freddie deBoer Culture 09 Nov Talk Your Book: Customized Income A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 09 Nov Eric Weinstein & Richard Borcherds: Fields Medalist & Eric Weinstein on the Future of Mathematics Curt Jaimungal Science 09 Nov End the State Veto on Power Lines Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Nov Your Portfolio on AI Arpitrage Economics 09 Nov Why Parental Consent Policies for Social Media Do Not Help Families After Babel Culture 09 Nov I'm the Bottleneck frantic.im Tech 09 Nov The economics of honeypots Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Nov The Texas Miracle Paul Krugman Economics 09 Nov Inference and Experience Anecdotal Value Culture 09 Nov [Note] F-Day plus 269 Dan Q Tech 09 Nov Everything Is An Oil Trade Robin J Brooks Economics 09 Nov A brain from simple circuits FlowingData Tech 09 Nov Pluralistic: America cannot undo Trumpism (09 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 09 Nov Noah, Brad DeLong, and Dan Wang discuss the Anthropic IPO Noahpinion Economics 09 Nov Seb Krier, Ricardian? Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Nov DEI is dead… Klement on Investing Finance 09 Nov The Paraguayan bank story Marginal Revolution Economics 09 Nov How I’m using AI without losing my mind | #333 Pathless by Paul Millerd Life 09 Nov The Web Is More Than Enough, by Paul Ford Simon Willison Tech 09 Nov Hide your slop PR descriptions behind <details><summary> Simon Willison Tech 09 Nov Monopoly Round-Up: Wall Street Mocks Bernie Sanders as “Almost Dead” BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 09 Nov Expect Less and Appreciate More A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 09 Nov Updates on the race to be the gateway into East and Central Africa An Africanist Perspective Economics 09 Nov Indians now spend more money on processed foods than on cereals Data For India Economics 09 Nov The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she... Kottke.org Culture 09 Nov CROSSPOST: JARED BERNSTEIN & RYAN CUMMINGS: Tech Stocks Had a Terrible Day [on Thursday November 5]. What’s Coming Could Be Worse Grasping Reality Economics 09 Nov The Unfinished Drama of Two Histories The Abrahamic Metacritique History 09 Nov AI and Irontown Armin Ronacher Tech 08 Nov What the 2026 election shows about MMP (Newstalk ZB) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 08 Nov parse_number() as a SQLite extension: C vs Rust Simon Willison Tech 08 Nov The Midterms Just Made the World More Dangerous Persuasion Culture 08 Nov I missed my period but I’m still hot, right? The Autodidact Culture 08 Nov The Token Fed Strange Loop Canon Tech 08 Nov Wendell Berry on Where Our Loved Ones Gone Go The Marginalian Life 08 Nov Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem The Marginalian Life 08 Nov Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Nov Women Have Become More Likely to Marry Men With Less Education Than Themselves Rob Henderson Psychology 08 Nov Sunday links: policy rhetoric Abnormal Returns Finance 08 Nov Outlook for Markets after the Midterms Robin J Brooks Economics 08 Nov Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 08 Nov The Least of All Freedoms Homo Economicus Economics 08 Nov After the Bubble Bursts Paul Krugman Economics 08 Nov Maintenance futures ⊗ A responsibly limited AI Sentiers Tech 08 Nov Maintenance future ⊗ A responsibly limited AI Sentiers Tech 08 Nov The End of the Strong Dollar Interregnum Robin J Brooks Economics 08 Nov The Pope probably knows this song Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Nov What I’ve been reading Marginal Revolution Economics 08 Nov How to Harness Your Existential Wanderlust The Marginalian Life 08 Nov LLMs are terrible at designing AI systems Sean Goedecke Tech 07 Nov datasette #3046: Don't serve link: rel=next HTTP headers to Firefox for HTML pages Simon Willison Tech 07 Nov Multipolarity, neutrality and peace Global Inequality and More Economics 07 Nov Brazil finances The Grumpy Economist Economics 07 Nov Why I’m becoming a China bear Noahpinion Economics 07 Nov Terry Pratchett's Study Simon Willison Tech 07 Nov In Which I Declare Cognitive-Supervisory Bankruptcy: LAUGH OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 07 Nov How I vibe-code Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 07 Nov You Are Protesting the Wrong Technology, People! Anecdotal Value Culture 07 Nov There Were Some Very Good Moments in This Movie: CLIP OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 07 Nov Albert Camus on Stubbornness and Creativity The Marginalian Life 07 Nov Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Nov Dario Amodei’s Contemptible Critics Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 07 Nov The Dollar and Precious Metals after the Midterms Robin J Brooks Economics 07 Nov Saturday links: unparalleled greed Abnormal Returns Finance 07 Nov Why Solve a Murder When Everyone’s Doomed? Miller's Book Review Culture 07 Nov Reading List 11/7/2026 Construction Physics Tech 07 Nov Pluralistic: JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine's "Against Tech Oligarchy" (07 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 07 Nov What are the Best MR Posts? Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Nov Talking to Martin Wolf About the Midterms Paul Krugman Economics 07 Nov Martin Wolf on Democratic Capitalism After Trump Persuasion Culture 07 Nov Suggested Readings Figs in Winter Philosophy 07 Nov How the AI Sell-Off Reveals Fiscal Strain Robin J Brooks Economics 07 Nov Liquidity and Momentum Stockviz Finance 07 Nov The Anthropic succession plan? Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Nov Was Mossadegh a liberal, democratizing force? Marginal Revolution Economics 07 Nov [Article] The Day my Phone Number contained my TOTP Dan Q Tech 07 Nov AI reaches its Napster Moment Nicholas Gruen Culture 07 Nov You Could Be Anywhere, But You're Here Kneeling Bus Culture 07 Nov Hexapodia LXIV: Understanding the Anthropic IPO & the Near-Term Future of AI Grasping Reality Economics 07 Nov Working with designers Sean Goedecke Tech 06 Nov They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov Your Book Review: Orality and Literacy Astral Codex Ten Culture 06 Nov Diversification & Drawdowns A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 06 Nov The Match Archive Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov I’m too ugly to post on social media The Autodidact Culture 06 Nov The Relationship Between Comedy, Democracy, and AI The Marginalian Life 06 Nov “Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov What the Midterms Mean Wisdom of Crowds Culture 06 Nov Civilization Is About Settling for Second-Best Persuasion Culture 06 Nov Friday links: embracing change Abnormal Returns Finance 06 Nov We Have Star Wars at Home Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov Numb in Central Asia, part 1: The day lasts more than one hundred years Numb at the Lodge Culture 06 Nov GPT-6 Astra Covertly Underperforms on Safety Research Tasks Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 06 Nov Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Nov From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov Inklings #032 📧 Spyglass Tech 06 Nov Combine Blacks & the Moderate Non-Racist White Vote & You Ought to Have a Solid Majority in the South: TRENDS & TURMOIL Grasping Reality Economics 06 Nov Quoting Nilay Patel Simon Willison Tech 06 Nov Untethered AI agents in Delaware? Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Nov [Article] Dynamic Sorting in Pure CSS Dan Q Tech 06 Nov Taking Torture Seriously Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 06 Nov The bots situation is crazy Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 06 Nov A call for more “mindful underparenting” from... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing The Marginalian Life 06 Nov What Do We Really Know About Private Fund Performance? Larry’s Substack Finance 06 Nov KDO Search Now Available to Everyone Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov 2026 election breakdown: Americans vote down data centers, AI and oligarchy Blood in the Machine Tech 06 Nov Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million.... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov How Do Building Codes Affect the Price of Housing? Construction Physics Tech 06 Nov What They Took From You Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Nov The Foolishness of Trying To Dwell in the Heavens Over the Field Culture 06 Nov America’s Backlash Against Oligarchy Paul Krugman Economics 06 Nov Annie Ernaux: “Alfred Nobel’s intentions were noble. But everything that follows — the mountains of mail, the endless requests — is a burden” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 06 Nov Edward Hopper bristled at the “lonely” label: “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 06 Nov The philosopher Bernard Williams refused every ism. That made him hard to pin down. And hard to refute Arts & Letters Daily Culture 06 Nov Swings in Texas over the years FlowingData Tech 06 Nov How the War with Iran Ends Robin J Brooks Economics 06 Nov When there is no right answer Koenfucius Psychology 06 Nov On podcasts Pertinent Observations Life 06 Nov The economic divide in Italy Klement on Investing Finance 06 Nov For the Democrats, now comes the hard part Noahpinion Economics 06 Nov What the Pastry Maker Chose to Pass On The Cutting Floor Culture 06 Nov The Global Office Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Nov Natasha Cowen guest posts on Caffrey Marginal Revolution Economics 06 Nov Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov Salon, one of the last OG general interest web... Kottke.org Culture 06 Nov The Wokest Theodicy Ever Wollenblog Philosophy 06 Nov The AI backlash needs a plan Platformer Tech 06 Nov Descent into the Computational Sublime Contraptions Tech 06 Nov A database is a store for global variables Sean Goedecke Tech 05 Nov Robert Skidelsky, RIP Nicholas Gruen Culture 05 Nov The Economics of Doing Nothing Economic Forces Economics 05 Nov An Outtake From My Spectator Column default.blog Culture 05 Nov Networks Don’t Throttle. Platforms Do. Rushkoff Tech 05 Nov Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales... Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov The AI Business Model Just Collapsed The Honest Broker Culture 05 Nov Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at... Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov Hairy election margins map FlowingData Tech 05 Nov Love at first photo? Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Nov Foursquare was recently acquired and co-founder Dennis... Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov Missing the boat on extreme event attribution The Climate Brink Science 05 Nov AI #193: Progress May Dramatically Accelerate Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 05 Nov Thursday links: having an answer Abnormal Returns Finance 05 Nov Grocery Shopping With a Bow & Arrow Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov The Generosity of Selfishness: C.S. Lewis on How to Be Interesting The Marginalian Life 05 Nov Quoting Paul Ford Simon Willison Tech 05 Nov Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Nov Paul Ford: “The web browser is very, very, very powerful... Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov Time in Heaven Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 05 Nov Women who die postpartum often do so because they lose... Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov Longform links: changing of the guard Abnormal Returns Finance 05 Nov A growing list of brands to avoid because they are... Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov Compute and debt Pertinent Observations Life 05 Nov This robotics concept helps explain the jaggedness of frontier capabilities Understanding AI Tech 05 Nov When Machine Learning Meets Q-Theory: What “AI-Q-Factors” Teaches Us About Measuring Profitability and Investment Larry’s Substack Finance 05 Nov Data exploration, manually and intentionally FlowingData Tech 05 Nov A 1/14 Swing in the Electorate Has Consequences: SCHADENFREUDE OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 05 Nov Apple Leveraging Apps for AI • ChatGPT vs. Google Search Spyglass Tech 05 Nov Dan Freed: What Is Quantum Field Theory, Really? Curt Jaimungal Science 05 Nov ✚ Shifting chart options FlowingData Tech 05 Nov Stunning Image of Our Satellite-Choked Night Skies Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov Is it Realistic to Live Off Your Dividends? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 05 Nov How Ukraine Keeps Fighting Wisdom of Crowds Culture 05 Nov I Thought I’d Left Authoritarianism Behind. “To anyone... Kottke.org Culture 05 Nov Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones The Marginalian Life 05 Nov Pollution as Growth Killer Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Nov Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Not America’s Fate Persuasion Culture 05 Nov Welcoming Jason Spinell to Collaborative Fund Collaborative Fund Finance 05 Nov The last Shakespearean. The professional literary specialist is an increasingly endangered species Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Nov In defense of the dilettante. Unfairly dismissed as a dabbler, he is in fact a tonic for our overspecialized world Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Nov Disgust and desire. In the 16th century, a woman might carry a peeled apple in her armpit until it absorbed her scent, then give it to her lover Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Nov The Ghost of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Drives Men Mad: ANNOYANCE OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 05 Nov What Democrats Can Do Paul Krugman Economics 05 Nov The future is not what you think it is... Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 05 Nov Do we need to take reincarnation seriously? – Part II Figs in Winter Philosophy 05 Nov [Article] F-Day plus 266 Dan Q Tech 05 Nov Lessons from the Midterms Robin J Brooks Economics 05 Nov Social media and political radicalization Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Nov Pluralistic: Without CDA 230, Facebook will own the internet forever (05 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 05 Nov China is decoupling from the West Klement on Investing Finance 05 Nov Data hoarding and LLMs and privacy Pertinent Observations Life 05 Nov My very good Conversation with Richard Hanania Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Nov Why the left should lend a hand to those widowed and orphaned civics centers Anecdotal Value Culture 05 Nov XKDR Newsletter - Issue 55 XKDR Forum Science 05 Nov Links For November 2026 Astral Codex Ten Culture 05 Nov Quasi-logarithmic kitchen timer lcamtuf's thing Tech 05 Nov A generative election Blood in the Machine Tech 05 Nov Anti-Monopolists Soared in the Midterms. You Can Help With What's Next. BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 04 Nov The Souls of Animals The Marginalian Life 04 Nov After the Wave, Populism Will Linger Persuasion Culture 04 Nov What Drives Censorship on College Campuses? Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Nov The Reviewers Are Crazy; the iPhone Duo Is Fantastic Spyglass Tech 04 Nov The Trump Decade Is Over Plain English Culture 04 Nov The Music Innovator Who Lived in a Friend's Basement The Honest Broker Culture 04 Nov The Good Fight Club: Trump Rebuked Persuasion Culture 04 Nov Mountain peaks to show the shifts FlowingData Tech 04 Nov Wednesday links: a spent force Abnormal Returns Finance 04 Nov The Supervised Internet of the Computer Room default.blog Culture 04 Nov Against the Machine (Tomorrow) and ‘Hannah Coulter’ series Announcement Over the Field Culture 04 Nov Shift in margins for Midterms 2026, by county FlowingData Tech 04 Nov Yet More Flying Notes From Egypt The Abrahamic Metacritique History 04 Nov How did the journal Telos, champion of Marcuse and Gramsci, produce two editors who would serve in Trump’s State Department? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 04 Nov Curiosity is a cure for certainty. It’s also the enemy of humility, modesty, and self-doubt. Adam Phillips explains Arts & Letters Daily Culture 04 Nov The life of a Capitol Hill intern involves bamboozling policyspeak, hellacious heat, free food at AEI, and a parade of utterly charmless Tattes Arts & Letters Daily Culture 04 Nov Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Nov How big is the open model economy today? Interconnects Tech 04 Nov Another new term - "speedball" capitalism Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 04 Nov The Blue Tsunami Cass’s Substack Economics 04 Nov Well, That Was a Thing!: BULLET DODGED OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 04 Nov New word in finance - FOGO Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 04 Nov datasette-llm 0.1a10 Simon Willison Tech 04 Nov Personal finance links: running the numbers Abnormal Returns Finance 04 Nov Market Knows Best: The Not-So-Hidden Risks of Private Ratings Larry’s Substack Finance 04 Nov A Different Kind of Election Persuasion Culture 04 Nov Watch What You Say: Free Speech and ‘Problematic’ Lit Miller's Book Review Culture 04 Nov The US Election in 6 maps Cosmographia History 04 Nov See You Thursday Kottke.org Culture 04 Nov Brave Men, Reproductive Effort, Motivation Rob Henderson Psychology 04 Nov [Note] Old Guard Lunch Dan Q Tech 04 Nov Markets After the Blue Wave Robin J Brooks Economics 04 Nov The New York Times Engages in Some Extremely Weak Halloween Scaremongering Freddie deBoer Culture 04 Nov Animal Spirits: Drowning Financially A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 04 Nov No One You Love Is Ever Dead: Hemingway on Loss and the Meaning of Life The Marginalian Life 04 Nov Pluralistic: The AI fatfinger economy has come for my receipts app (04 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 04 Nov The Vindication of Normal Politics Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 04 Nov It Wasn’t (Just) the Economy, Stupid Paul Krugman Economics 04 Nov Six Thoughts About a Big Night for Democrats and Democracy Persuasion Culture 04 Nov The StockViz MCP Server Game plan Stockviz Finance 04 Nov Normal Americans punished MAGA Noahpinion Economics 04 Nov US Yield Curve Control Robin J Brooks Economics 04 Nov Benchmark chair FlowingData Tech 04 Nov The election Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Nov Europeans really don’t like to invest in stocks Klement on Investing Finance 04 Nov Trade and the end of antiquity, or did Islam serve to deglobalize the world? Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Nov Shruti Rajagopalan: The Political Economy of Gulliver’s Travels The Common Reader Culture 04 Nov Natural orders Data For India Economics 04 Nov The frontier labs launch election war rooms Platformer Tech 04 Nov Percentage of votes counted so far FlowingData Tech 04 Nov Needle of uncertainty is live for Midterms 2026 FlowingData Tech 04 Nov datasette-apps 0.3a0 Simon Willison Tech 04 Nov Fortune Telling and Speculative Design Maggie Appleton Design 03 Nov datasette-agent 0.5a0 Simon Willison Tech 03 Nov The art of political decision making Maria Konnikova Psychology 03 Nov How Human Civilization Began Kottke.org Culture 03 Nov Can AI Save Us From the Writers? Wisdom of Crowds Culture 03 Nov llm 0.37.1 Simon Willison Tech 03 Nov Do you think you could write down the names of 3000... Kottke.org Culture 03 Nov The Founding Father of Neuroscience on Solitude, the Search for Truth, and the Ideal Environment for Breakthroughs The Marginalian Life 03 Nov “Our attention is all we have. And we already gave away a... Kottke.org Culture 03 Nov The Anthropic Feedback Loop: The Cost of Capital Delusion and Diversion! Musings on Markets Finance 03 Nov What’s causing this unusually long cloud on Mars? Kottke.org Culture 03 Nov We are born with the dead: see, they return, and bring us with them. Mark Carrigan Culture 03 Nov [Note] Your Losing Dan Q Tech 03 Nov Ireland fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Nov The soundtrack for Wipeout XL (aka Wipeout 2097) was... Kottke.org Culture 03 Nov Fisher and Resende in Brazil The Grumpy Economist Economics 03 Nov Tuesday links: celebrity value extraction Abnormal Returns Finance 03 Nov Election night mirages FlowingData Tech 03 Nov Navigating the Chaos Paul Krugman Economics 03 Nov Apple's Profit & Margins • RIP 'ChatGPT Classic' Spyglass Tech 03 Nov What’s with the Anakin Posting, Chud? default.blog Culture 03 Nov CROSSPOST: JOHN GANZ: American NeoFascism: Where We Are At Grasping Reality Economics 03 Nov On AI and Iran, Trump risks bombing himself in the foot Klement on Investing Finance 03 Nov Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Nov OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 03 Nov AI is destroying my CS degree Simon Willison Tech 03 Nov What the Woke Canon Gets Right—and Wrong Persuasion Culture 03 Nov 10 Years of Kottke.org Membership Kottke.org Culture 03 Nov I Feel, Therefore I Am: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio the Consciousness of the Body The Marginalian Life 03 Nov Extreme Vegan Claims Aren’t Hyperbole Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 03 Nov Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too Simon Willison Tech 03 Nov Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data... Kottke.org Culture 03 Nov Call for Papers: Early Career Workshop on the Work of Margaret Archer, 20 January 2027, University of Manchester (10am-5pm) Mark Carrigan Culture 03 Nov [Note] Blogsmaxxing Dan Q Tech 03 Nov Risks to AI Capex from Overestimating Demand Larry’s Substack Finance 03 Nov How Are U.S. Household Finances Doing? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 03 Nov Research links: being manipulated Abnormal Returns Finance 03 Nov Pluralistic: Separable (03 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 03 Nov Anomalous Corporate Earnings Numbers?: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 03 Nov Sand Gods, Foom, and p(doom) (with Séb Krier) Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 03 Nov How Many Americans Are Millionaires? Of Dollars And Data Finance 03 Nov Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Nov Why Italy ruled Europe but couldn’t rule itself Cosmographia History 03 Nov The femininization of the deathcare industry. Advances in cosmetics, among other things, are pushing women into the mortuary arts Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Nov The Guide for the Perplexed is a perplexing work — its difficulty is, in part, the point. Can fluent English do it justice? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Nov Drunk or sober, but especially drunk, Edgar Allan Poe acted against his own interests. He turned the mystery of why into art Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Nov Moment of Truth Paul Krugman Economics 03 Nov Do we need to take reincarnation seriously? – Part I Figs in Winter Philosophy 03 Nov What to Make of the Latest Fall in Oil Prices Robin J Brooks Economics 03 Nov Magical thinking flourishes in a (AI) bubble’s final stages Mark Carrigan Culture 03 Nov Google cherrypicks small data for Gemini ad FlowingData Tech 03 Nov Four useful questions Henrik Karlsson Life 03 Nov Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity The Marginalian Life 03 Nov The Art of Advancing with Age: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life The Marginalian Life 03 Nov The economics of tips Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Nov It’s not you, it’s your AI Klement on Investing Finance 03 Nov I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Simon Willison Tech 03 Nov October sponsors-only newsletter Simon Willison Tech 03 Nov Are economists declining in status? Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Nov This time would have to be very different. Part II The Two Cents Economics 03 Nov Election Night 2026 Grasping Reality Economics 03 Nov Eric Weinstein & Richard Borcherds: Fields Medalist & Eric Weinstein on the Future of Mathematics Curt Jaimungal Science 03 Nov LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights Sean Goedecke Tech 03 Nov Audience capture Sean Goedecke Tech 03 Nov I Deliver Parcels in Beijing - by Hu Anyan Derek Sivers Life 03 Nov The Death of the Angel Investor Zach Holman Tech 02 Nov llm 0.37 Simon Willison Tech 02 Nov Love in the Time of Dinosaurs The Marginalian Life 02 Nov Runs scored in World Baseball Classic Entropic Thoughts Tech 02 Nov Simon Willison: The October Inflection Point for Vibe... 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Kottke.org Culture 02 Nov Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Moving Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” a Lifetime of Sorrow in the Making The Marginalian Life 02 Nov Monday links: poor communications Abnormal Returns Finance 02 Nov The hottest class at Harvard? Humanities 10, where phones are banned, attendance is mandatory, and the readings are dense Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Nov Fields of lilies, fractal landscapes, idioms, DNA, Renoir’s orange, human anatomy: Why is the world full of so much beauty? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Nov Is the book business distressed? Anxious? Optimistic? All of the above Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Nov Love the idea of a volta, a pivotal point. “The moment... Kottke.org Culture 02 Nov The Collectively Drawn World Kottke.org Culture 02 Nov Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Nov AI Consciousness Debate: Michael Huemer vs. Simon Goldstein Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 02 Nov Is the dollar always a safe haven? No Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 02 Nov Babe, wake up! New potato just dropped. It tastes like... Kottke.org Culture 02 Nov Adviser links: a borrowing binge Abnormal Returns Finance 02 Nov The "profit dollar" period is here Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 02 Nov Mark Solms: Consciousness Isn't in the Cortex Curt Jaimungal Science 02 Nov Trends in sentiment matter Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 02 Nov Trailer for season four of The Gilded Age, which started... Kottke.org Culture 02 Nov Not a Good Use of My, or Your, Time, But: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 02 Nov Import AI 479: Spacewar; low-latency tasks versus LLMs; Genie 4 Import AI Tech 02 Nov Readwise announces Readwise Books. “We’ve built Readwise... Kottke.org Culture 02 Nov The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence” Simon Willison Tech 02 Nov Three Points About AI Safety Homo Economicus Economics 02 Nov The $500 Bug Bounty Email Every Small Site Gets Ivan Turkovic Tech 02 Nov The Ten Best Captain Picard Episodes of Star Trek Kottke.org Culture 02 Nov Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Begins Her Sista Souljah Tour Freddie deBoer Culture 02 Nov Talk Your Book: Diversifying the AI Trade A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 02 Nov Don’t Abolish Business Schools. Make Them Accountable for Impact as well as Value Mostly Economics Economics 02 Nov Expensive Pharmaceuticals for Targeted Diseases Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Nov A Midterm Motivator Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 02 Nov The 2026 Turner Award Over the Field Culture 02 Nov Oligarchy is on the Ballot Paul Krugman Economics 02 Nov Where the Musk money flows FlowingData Tech 02 Nov Anthropic’s moat is Claude Noahpinion Economics 02 Nov How Will Markets Trade the Midterm Elections? Robin J Brooks Economics 02 Nov Increasing Trump comments on body appearance FlowingData Tech 02 Nov Pluralistic: Autodoxing (02 Nov 2026) Pluralistic Tech 02 Nov Women are their own enemies Klement on Investing Finance 02 Nov Should you feel grief for the dead who go to heaven? Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Nov Why New Zealand needs a fiscal watchdog (Radio NZ) Oliver Marc Hartwich Economics 02 Nov Open Thread 458 Astral Codex Ten Culture 02 Nov A Bloodbath in the Stock Market? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 02 Nov Monopoly Round-Up: Did Bernie Sanders Set the Terms for the Midterm Elections? BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 02 Nov Most Indians say they cannot verify if information online is reliable Data For India Economics 02 Nov When the Market Hurts, Anomalies Heal Larry’s Substack Finance 02 Nov Reliably aligning LLMs is impossible in principle Sean Goedecke Tech 01 Nov If in doubt, delete the uv.lock file Simon Willison Tech 01 Nov New Essay on Historical Debates about Money and Credit The Slack Wire Economics 01 Nov You can only get to the thing itself through the myth Mark Carrigan Culture 01 Nov As predicted, the ACA exchanges seem not to be stable Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Nov Quoting Kyle Kingsbury Simon Willison Tech 01 Nov Does Christianity Make Sense? Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 01 Nov Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Nov Sometimes It Hurts to Ask Rob Henderson Psychology 01 Nov Sunday links: economic failures Abnormal Returns Finance 01 Nov The foreign policy “Blob” exists Programmable Mutter Tech 01 Nov Act 1 & Stories In Motion Scenes with Simon Culture 01 Nov The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude The Marginalian Life 01 Nov Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 01 Nov Don’t doubt that we can actually scare the tech billionaires Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 01 Nov What are the Worst MR Posts? Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Nov Trumponomics: A Midterm Report Card Paul Krugman Economics 01 Nov Episode 194: D. J. Taylor on J. R. R. Tolkien Persuasion Culture 01 Nov Humans are better than we think ⊗ The bots are just the closers Sentiers Tech 01 Nov How Much Will Gold Fall in a Hot War? Robin J Brooks Economics 01 Nov #366 Shooting Ourselves in the Foot Anticipating the Unintended Economics 01 Nov China Won the Factory Race. America Won the Office Race. Richard Baldwin Substack Economics 01 Nov Bill Nordhaus (1941-2026) Homo Economicus Economics 01 Nov Those new service sector jobs? Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Nov How Much Will Gold Fall in a Hot War? Robin J Brooks Economics 01 Nov Are LLMs good or bad Bayesians? Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Nov The Visual Æsthetics of Cheesecake Factories: (LATE) FRIDAY FOG & FLATLANDS Grasping Reality Economics 01 Nov Fast and slow ways to improve your reputation Sean Goedecke Tech

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31 Oct How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Simon Willison Tech 31 Oct datasette-llm 0.1a9 Simon Willison Tech 31 Oct Experiments with Monstrousness Contraptions Tech 31 Oct We Raise you $100,000, Matt... Anecdotal Value Culture 31 Oct My 10 Rules for Public Speaking The Honest Broker Culture 31 Oct RIP Bill Nordhaus Paul Krugman Economics 31 Oct William Nordhaus, RIP Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Oct And so it begins… Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Oct Meteor of Joy: The Young People’s Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations The Marginalian Life 31 Oct Separating the art from the artist Small Potatoes Psychology 31 Oct Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Oct Intelligence and Attention The Base Camp Philosophy 31 Oct “AIs Without Minds” Without Convincing Arguments Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 31 Oct Pluralistic: Formalities (31 Oct 2026) Pluralistic Tech 31 Oct Galen Strawson responds to my essay about Locke’s *Essay* The Common Reader Culture 31 Oct Markets on the Eve of War Robin J Brooks Economics 31 Oct CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: TNG: Farewell, My Captain Grasping Reality Economics 31 Oct Saturday links: walking a fine line Abnormal Returns Finance 31 Oct My Barcelona talk Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Oct Waifuism and You default.blog Culture 31 Oct Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life The Marginalian Life 31 Oct Reading List 10/31/26 Construction Physics Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q did not find GCB9ZGB Church Micro 2416...Appleton - St Laurence Dan Q Tech 31 Oct Anthropic Isn't Just a Company, It's a Payoff BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZHJ Besselsleigh Wood - The Old Coppiced Tree Dan Q Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZHR Besselsleigh Wood - The Fallen Stump Dan Q Tech 31 Oct Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song The Marginalian Life 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q wrote note for GCB9ZJK Besselsleigh Wood - A Little Birdie Told Me Dan Q Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC27K1V Church Micro 1146...Bessels Leigh Dan Q Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJG Besselsleigh Wood - The Conifer Dan Q Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJB Besselsleigh Wood - Across The Ditch Dan Q Tech 31 Oct G.K. Chesterton’s Nightmare: ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’ Miller's Book Review Culture 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJ0 Besselsleigh Wood - The Lightning Strike Dan Q Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZJ6 Besselsleigh Wood - The Holey Tree Dan Q Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZH3 Little Bridges # 3220 - Besselsleigh Wood Dan Q Tech 31 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB9ZGP Besselsleigh Wood - The Little Oak Dan Q Tech 31 Oct Azeem Azhar on the Explosion of Hacking and Other AI Issues Paul Krugman Economics 31 Oct Suggested Readings Figs in Winter Philosophy 31 Oct Dan Williams on Why AI (Probably) Won’t Kill Us Persuasion Culture 31 Oct Its time to build! Stockviz Finance 31 Oct The pass-through of retail crime Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Oct Markets on the Eve of War Robin J Brooks Economics 31 Oct The unintended consequences of academic leniency Marginal Revolution Economics 31 Oct Farewell, my Captain Noahpinion Economics 31 Oct Can citizen assemblies fix our fiscal mess? Hint: yes and no Nicholas Gruen Culture 31 Oct Weekday discrepancies in Indian historical records Shreevatsa Culture 30 Oct dbreunig/nesformer Simon Willison Tech 30 Oct Price discrimination by needless complexity The Grumpy Economist Economics 30 Oct [Note] Is Anthropic going to prove me wrong? Dan Q Tech 30 Oct Extropia’s Teenagers AI Ascendant Tech 30 Oct Earnings & Expectations A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 30 Oct Childhood and Education #22: Voice Without Exit Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 30 Oct Worst Halloween candies, according to the data FlowingData Tech 30 Oct Great Art Explained: Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio.... Kottke.org Culture 30 Oct The top 10 paintings of Judith beheading Holofernes. “I... Kottke.org Culture 30 Oct How a 1906 Book Predicted the DSA Persuasion Culture 30 Oct Three-Body Orbits Kottke.org Culture 30 Oct Was I wrong about open models & cyber risks? Interconnects Tech 30 Oct Inklings #031 📧 Spyglass Tech 30 Oct Confidence isn’t about having more, it’s about calibrating the right amount Collaborative Fund Finance 30 Oct James Bridle on making chairs with LLMs. “What we have... Kottke.org Culture 30 Oct Friday links: new challenges Abnormal Returns Finance 30 Oct Halloween’s Lost Heroes: Michael Pollan on Radical Gardening and the Insurgent Botanical Origin of the Broomstick in Flying-Witch Legends The Marginalian Life 30 Oct Truth, Fact, and the Patterning of Reality: Virginia Woolf on How We Come to Know the World The Marginalian Life 30 Oct Your Book Review: The History And Adventures Of An Atom Astral Codex Ten Culture 30 Oct Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Oct Let’s Stop Telling Insomniacs to Get More Sleep An Africanist Perspective Economics 30 Oct Hell is Suspicious Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 30 Oct 📣 Launching the Archer PhD & ECR Network Mark Carrigan Culture 30 Oct In a late-stage trial, personalized mRNA vaccines for... Kottke.org Culture 30 Oct Private Equity’s Long Boom: What Investors Should—and Should Not—Conclude Larry’s Substack Finance 30 Oct Protocols for Business 2026 Review: The Year of the Agent Protocolized Culture 30 Oct Trump & Co. Do Not Claim to Be Angry at Comparison to Saddam Hussein: LAUGH OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 30 Oct Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Site Search! Kottke.org Culture 30 Oct [Repost] Man Who Identifies as a ‘Humanist’ Gets Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work Dan Q Tech 30 Oct Taylor Lorenz is no AI doomer Wisdom of Crowds Culture 30 Oct Running is the most brutal and the most beautiful way to test the stuff therapists talk about in their little rooms Mark Carrigan Culture 30 Oct Listen to a Long-Lost Daft Punk Mix From 1997 Kottke.org Culture 30 Oct [Article] Fragments Dan Q Tech 30 Oct Eric Hobsbawm against the identitarians. Centering gender, race, and sexuality was not his “kind of history.” Nor was it Karl Marx’s Arts & Letters Daily Culture 30 Oct James Fessenden was indolent, wrote little, and inspired two of the most charismatic intellectuals of his time Arts & Letters Daily Culture 30 Oct "You can fight the premise that AI is a better writer than the best human, but you’ll be whistling past the graveyard of dead writers and metaphors" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 30 Oct Better Incentives, More Kidneys, More Lives Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Oct Trumpflation and Travel Paul Krugman Economics 30 Oct Data centers, AI, and the 2026 elections. Ft. Paris Marx. Blood in the Machine Tech 30 Oct Are there too many misdemeanor convictions? Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Oct Policing protests in India FlowingData Tech 30 Oct Demographics is not destiny – election edition Klement on Investing Finance 30 Oct Book Review: Reading in a Digital World Mostly Economics Economics 30 Oct LLMs can now easily make great charts Pertinent Observations Life 30 Oct Aligned, but with whom? Koenfucius Psychology 30 Oct Temperature, tools and tobacco Data For India Economics 30 Oct The Holy Creditor: Lending by Buddhist Temples in Pre-modern China Mostly Economics Economics 30 Oct Is Kevin Warsh a Dove or a Hawk? Robin J Brooks Economics 30 Oct Chronicle of Higher Education interviews me on AI and education Marginal Revolution Economics 30 Oct When Serbia’s media apoligised for biased news over a decade Mostly Economics Economics 30 Oct When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive The Marginalian Life 30 Oct Who speaks the first line of Pride and Prejudice? The Common Reader Culture 30 Oct What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common Platformer Tech 30 Oct Elegance and intelligence are anticorrelated Sean Goedecke Tech 29 Oct What Is Your Refugium? The Marginalian Life 29 Oct RIP Patrick Stewart 😰 Mark Carrigan Culture 29 Oct Rest In Peace, Patrick Stewart (1940-2026) Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, & Co.: They Are Not Brains, They Are Kernel-Smoother Functions: HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES Grasping Reality Economics 29 Oct API credits benefit for eligible ChatGPT subscriptions Simon Willison Tech 29 Oct CROSSPOST: HENRY FARRELL: Agentic AI Is Myth Set in Motion Grasping Reality Economics 29 Oct DoorDash's $17B Acquisition of Instacart Points to a World Without Employees BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 29 Oct An Italian farmer planted some decades-old seeds he found... Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct Eizenkot’s Choice Persuasion Culture 29 Oct Star Wars: The Radio Drama Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct Dumpster Archeology. “Lew Blink’s passion for dumpster... Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct Anthropic’s financials are surprisingly strong Understanding AI Tech 29 Oct What’s the largest tweetable number? You’ve got 280... Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct Can Artificial Intelligence Forecast Treatment Effects in Economics? Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Oct Is Buying a House Now a Bad Investment? A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 29 Oct Lael Brainard on Why Groceries Cost So Much Kyla's Newsletter Economics 29 Oct Thursday links: voting share design Abnormal Returns Finance 29 Oct “Imagining is Resistance”: Tareq Baconi with Naomi Klein Patterns by Naomi Klein Culture 29 Oct Rolling Stone: The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st... Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct We may daydream about a frictionless world, but consider tribology — the science of interacting surfaces — and you’ll realize that’s nonsense Arts & Letters Daily Culture 29 Oct Gilgamesh, a 4,000-year-old epic, is violent and sexually explicit. Why have translators mostly made it sound lofty? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 29 Oct The most interesting way to look at Edward Said is to see the political and the literary as having always been conjoined Arts & Letters Daily Culture 29 Oct Cost of greed, as unbearably tall chart FlowingData Tech 29 Oct Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models Simon Willison Tech 29 Oct Links For October 2026 Astral Codex Ten Culture 29 Oct Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Oct The Remarkable Serbian Election Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct A New Kind of Chemistry Construction Physics Tech 29 Oct Apple Mactracks... Spyglass Tech 29 Oct Ban Foie Gras! Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 29 Oct Commanding Heights Released Minutes Life 29 Oct The NY Times recently asked readers “what they can no... Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct Stale Data, Fresh Problems: What “Factor Time” Reveals About the Fama-French Factors Larry’s Substack Finance 29 Oct Asset managers starting to get long Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 29 Oct Quoting Ben Hylak Simon Willison Tech 29 Oct Old Newspaper Headlines About the Name Doppelgängers of Current Celebrities Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct AI #192: Anthropic Is Going Public Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 29 Oct Longform links: inefficient interactions Abnormal Returns Finance 29 Oct Agentic AI is myth set in motion Programmable Mutter Tech 29 Oct I made a small tweak to Prometheus (gift link discovery... Kottke.org Culture 29 Oct Economists Should Stop Writing Papers About Discrimination Homo Economicus Economics 29 Oct ✚ Visualization tools and learning resources, October 2026 roundup FlowingData Tech 29 Oct “You Can See Everything” is Critic Bait of the Most Sophisticated Variety Freddie deBoer Culture 29 Oct Will the AI Investment Splurge Last? Paul Krugman Economics 29 Oct Price discrimination is competition Economic Forces Economics 29 Oct [Repost] Installing Websites Must Be Easy Dan Q Tech 29 Oct How Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok Have Changed Their Views on AI and Where They Disagree Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Oct How will universities ration their token use? Mark Carrigan Culture 29 Oct The radical forms of lock-in that enterprise AI can generate Mark Carrigan Culture 29 Oct How to care with Shantideva Figs in Winter Philosophy 29 Oct A golden age of science is coming Noahpinion Economics 29 Oct P. R. Brahmananda at 100 Mostly Economics Economics 29 Oct Buying enterprise AI is not a magic wand that makes students into ‘AI-ready’ graduates Mark Carrigan Culture 29 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC6Q39P Cur.Bri.Lew 9 Dan Q Tech 29 Oct [Checkin] Dan Q found GC6Q39H Cur.Bri.Lew 8 Dan Q Tech 29 Oct Cost of college versus the return on investement FlowingData Tech 29 Oct AI dominates human peer reviews Marginal Revolution Economics 29 Oct The one-eyed among the blind Klement on Investing Finance 29 Oct Why Donald Trump wants To replace American history with big statues of famous people (and himself) Mostly Economics Economics 29 Oct How to Think About Marine Le Pen Robin J Brooks Economics 29 Oct What can still be brought into the world before the doors close? 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