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05 Jun Friday links: changing the mood Abnormal Returns Finance 05 Jun [Note] The improvement to code quality that drops the coverage metric 40%! Dan Q Tech 05 Jun Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Jun Goodbye To All That Persuasion Culture 05 Jun There Aren't Any Good Arguments Against Lab Meat Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 05 Jun 🌻 conversations on culture in the AI age @jasmine’s substack Culture 05 Jun “To see like a dog in a work of art is to have moral perceptions about human beings” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun Summer Fridays, Open Thread Kottke.org Culture 05 Jun "AIs like talking about sweetness, loudness, quiet, age and beauty. There is a lot of insisting," says Malin Hay, "as well as a lot of promising" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun There are two types of anti-woke intellectuals. The first type criticizes ideas; the second is consumed by them Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun Psilocybin is doing what decades of philosophy couldn't: turning committed materialists into reluctant mystics Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun Harold Bloom, flatterer. John Ashbery was “THE POET ABSOLUTE,” yet A.R. Ammons’s work was “larger and better” — and then there was Henri Cole Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun Denis Johnson's life was a mess. His prose, somehow, was immaculate. How to explain the distance between life and art? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun The humanities spent decades decentering the human. Now Big Tech is doing it better Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun A Billionaire Explains Why American Business Now Feels like the Mafia BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 05 Jun Imagine a metastasizing heap of incalculable, forgotten junk. That’s what we’re all storing away in “The Cloud” Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun To anyone in love with the precious, fleeting things of this world, resistance to disappearance seems only natural and proper. And yet Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun The publishing midlist isn't shrinking. It's growing faster than the pool of available readers Arts & Letters Daily Culture 05 Jun Don't dethrone consciousness! The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 05 Jun Illustrated break-downs of how common objects work .... Kottke.org Culture 05 Jun A Second Look at CAIE: Correcting What I Got Wrong About Calamos’s Strategy Larry’s Substack Finance 05 Jun The Peripheral Programmable Mutter Tech 05 Jun How Benjamin Franklin innovated to prevent counterfeiting of US currency notes Mostly Economics Economics 05 Jun OpenAI Offers A New Policy Blueprint Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 05 Jun Tyler and Alex Speak to OpenAI Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Jun Quoting Andreas Kling Simon Willison Tech 05 Jun 10 Friday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 05 Jun America, the Inessential Nation Paul Krugman Economics 05 Jun What LLM speed looks like when generating output FlowingData Tech 05 Jun Has Gold Lost Its Safe Haven Status? Robin J Brooks Economics 05 Jun Inequality at WSJ The Grumpy Economist Economics 05 Jun Western hemisphere fact of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Jun Zigging to the bottom Koenfucius Psychology 05 Jun Six days to go… Klement on Investing Finance 05 Jun Silicon Valley’s Biggest Payday. Yet! On my Om Tech 05 Jun Rubber rationing in World War II Marginal Revolution Economics 05 Jun Thursday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 05 Jun (VERY PARTIAL) CROSSPOST: ALEX HEATH: SubStack Is Opening Up to AI: Interviewing CEO Chris Best Grasping Reality Economics 05 Jun The Next Import Bill May Arrive as Cognition The Cutting Floor Culture 04 Jun The Oversight Board knocks Meta over unwarranted account bans Platformer Tech 04 Jun AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy Simon Willison Tech 04 Jun Correction Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 04 Jun A Precarious Balance Persuasion Culture 04 Jun Revisiting the SpaceX Valuation: A Post-Prospectus Update! Musings on Markets Finance 04 Jun Very Necessary Qualifications of a Great Storyteller The Marginalian Life 04 Jun Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence One Useful Thing Tech 04 Jun [Note] The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act [contains spoilers] [RSS Exclusive!] Dan Q Tech 04 Jun “Descartes Against Humanity” and Other Games Designed by... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun The Life and Death of Sports Fans Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun Stochastic Parrots & Subturing Minds: THURSDAY INFORMATION SOCIOLOGY Grasping Reality Economics 04 Jun The official trailer for season three of Silo . Looks... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun Can You Run the Music Industry without Musicians? The Honest Broker Culture 04 Jun On this date in 2004, the Killdozer rampage took place .... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun My twenty-minute AI talk for the Swedish company Sana Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Jun Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun We Are Manipulating the Weather Every Day Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun Quoting Emanuel Maiberg, 404 Media Simon Willison Tech 04 Jun In Britain, A Tragic Murder Was Followed By Mass Confusion Persuasion Culture 04 Jun As time passes, efforts to document the Tiananmen Square... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun AI #171: False Flag Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 04 Jun Thursday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Jun How Long Does It Take to Plan a Bridge? Construction Physics Tech 04 Jun “ Cameron’s World is a web-collage of text... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun Thought-Terminating Jargon Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 04 Jun Should there be a Library of Britain? The Common Reader Culture 04 Jun Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. Now there’s data to back it up Arts & Letters Daily Culture 04 Jun The dons of Oxbridge have traded the BBC for podcasts. Is this decline or progress? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 04 Jun Not simply trivia, not simply a hobby — for the believer, quiz verges on a way of life Arts & Letters Daily Culture 04 Jun Comparing SpaceX IPO against past offerings FlowingData Tech 04 Jun Protocol Politics Never Met a Science Culture 04 Jun Right-libertarians must believe in God. But if they do, they are doomed! Wollenblog Philosophy 04 Jun AI Is Growing the Pie — But Not Sharing It Equally Larry’s Substack Finance 04 Jun Dissertation Defense Video + Digital Essay The Base Camp Philosophy 04 Jun USPS Reissues Popular Mister Rogers Stamps Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun Official Corruption, Obsession, Hidden Crimes Rob Henderson Psychology 04 Jun Wednesday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 04 Jun At The Money: Grab Your Summer Rental Soon Now! The Big Picture Finance 04 Jun Ted Chiang is emphatic: LLMs are nowhere close to being... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun Longform links: suspicious markets Abnormal Returns Finance 04 Jun A compute tax is a REALLY dumb idea Economic Forces Economics 04 Jun ✚ Visualization is not the goal FlowingData Tech 04 Jun Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has... Kottke.org Culture 04 Jun On the Inevitability of an AI Bubble A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 04 Jun Arguing for the billionaire wealth tax FlowingData Tech 04 Jun CA Logic Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Jun Ebola outbreak trajectories FlowingData Tech 04 Jun 10 Thursday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 04 Jun Illegal Tariffs, Round 3 Paul Krugman Economics 04 Jun On family affection Figs in Winter Philosophy 04 Jun Rural Industrialism Over the Field Culture 04 Jun The euro as a safe-haven currency amid geopolitical tensions and policy uncertainty Mostly Economics Economics 04 Jun Gold is NOT displacing the Dollar Robin J Brooks Economics 04 Jun Should we recriminalize marijuana? Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Jun Pluralistic: Delusion as a service (04 Jun 2026) Pluralistic Tech 04 Jun Fund managers tell you when they will outperform Klement on Investing Finance 04 Jun I'm kind of over the whole "Anti-monopoly" movement Noahpinion Economics 04 Jun Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic Andy Masley Tech 04 Jun Law professors prefer AI over peer answers Marginal Revolution Economics 04 Jun Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance The Marginalian Life 04 Jun Anti-AI nostalgia and the cult of the past Sean Goedecke Tech 03 Jun Do Semiconductor-Manufacturers' Stocks Really Mean that the Economic Future Is that Bright for Investment & Hence for Employment? Or Is It, This Time, Really, different? CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 03 Jun What Should Japan Do? Robin J Brooks Economics 03 Jun Einstein and the Eagle: How Relativity Is Saving Earth’s Rarest Raptor The Marginalian Life 03 Jun Can you go 82-0? “The objective of 82-0 is to... Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun Psychedelic Sheep Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 03 Jun Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976) Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun Choose Book Review Finalists 2026 Astral Codex Ten Culture 03 Jun Maintaining Everything That Matters Protocolized Culture 03 Jun Paul Giamatti appears on The Tommy Tiernan Show .... Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun Russia’s Oil Is Getting Hammered Persuasion Culture 03 Jun The creative power of not knowing Maria Konnikova Psychology 03 Jun Haiku is a generative music album for MacOS.... Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun Wednesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Jun Wednesday links: the returns to being rich Abnormal Returns Finance 03 Jun Rise in remote work a factor in young worker unemployment FlowingData Tech 03 Jun Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: “Fuck the Empire!” Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun “As far as artist signatures go, Jan van... Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun Trump Signs Executive Order For AI Testing Prior To Frontier Model Releases Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 03 Jun Shining a Light on Private Credit Larry’s Substack Finance 03 Jun The grand tour’s most enduring truth: Even the most miraculous work of art is born not just into history, but also out of it Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Jun Harold Bloom read everything, praised lavishly, and struggled mightily with self-doubt Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Jun Alasdair MacIntyre believed that Western morality, having lost its rationale, had been replaced by something thinner: mere moral passion Arts & Letters Daily Culture 03 Jun Richard Feynman’s formula for the best holiday restaurant Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Jun The Most Important Decision For Animals in American History Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 03 Jun Good news! As of June 1, a transmission line is... Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun 5 Things I Am Thinking About The Big Picture Finance 03 Jun The Three Ways to Make a Living Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun Is parenthood selfish or selfless? It’s both. Small Potatoes Psychology 03 Jun The end of forward guidance - Good, let's use rules Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 03 Jun Gold overtakes Treasuries as central bank reserves Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 03 Jun Personal finance links: winning at life Abnormal Returns Finance 03 Jun You Can and Should Blame Young People When They Act Like Lazy Cheaters, Actually Freddie deBoer Culture 03 Jun TIL that Muji once sold a car . “The Muji Car 1000... Kottke.org Culture 03 Jun Forming better decisions through known, unclear, and presumed framework Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 03 Jun The current inflation divergence - trimmed mean versus core PCE Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 03 Jun They're Building AI PCs, Will Users Come? Spyglass Tech 03 Jun Muriel Siebert: First woman to buy a seat at the New York Stock Exchange Mostly Economics Economics 03 Jun The Battle for Second Place The Cutting Floor Culture 03 Jun Generational hostility to AI Mark Carrigan Culture 03 Jun China’s mercantilist squeeze on developing countries Mostly Economics Economics 03 Jun Open Thread: Your Summer Reading? Miller's Book Review Culture 03 Jun Sweden to face surplus housing? Mostly Economics Economics 03 Jun Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs Simon Willison Tech 03 Jun Trump Has Given Up Paul Krugman Economics 03 Jun Animal Spirits: The Biggest Short Squeeze of All-Time A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 03 Jun 10 Wednesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 03 Jun Welcome to the Postmodern Presidency Persuasion Culture 03 Jun Why Are Men So Bad at Making—and Keeping—Friends? Plain English Culture 03 Jun K-Pop growth before the global phenomenon FlowingData Tech 03 Jun The Latest Oil Price Panic Robin J Brooks Economics 03 Jun [Note] Optional AUP Dan Q Tech 03 Jun Sentences to ponder Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Jun Bigger city, lower property yields Klement on Investing Finance 03 Jun How U.S. Bank Stock Prices Respond to Geopolitical Risk Mostly Economics Economics 03 Jun Consent-based laws and aggregate fertility Marginal Revolution Economics 03 Jun The Three Elements of the Good Life The Marginalian Life 03 Jun India’s Organ Donation System Fails Its Own Ideals Mostly Economics Economics 03 Jun Tuesday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 03 Jun Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding The Common Reader Culture 03 Jun Some Beliefs Are Load-Bearing Pointing at Things Life 03 Jun An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection The Marginalian Life 03 Jun After being needed The Cutting Floor Culture 03 Jun An economist's case against the AI jobs-pocalypse Platformer Tech 02 Jun Hoover Monetary Policy Conference 2026 Overview Essay The Grumpy Economist Economics 02 Jun Hoover Monetary Policy Conference 2026 The Grumpy Economist Economics 02 Jun The Islamic Republic Is More Dug in Than Ever Persuasion Culture 02 Jun Microsoft's new MAI models Simon Willison Tech 02 Jun Why China got rich and India didn't David Oks Economics 02 Jun The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time , including... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun datasette-agent-micropython 0.1a0 Simon Willison Tech 02 Jun Do Not Resign From Life The Convivial Society Culture 02 Jun micropython-wasm 0.1a1 Simon Willison Tech 02 Jun The Best Thing About The Satanic Panic . “There’s... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun Václav Havel, Writing from Prison, on How to Hold Your Failure The Marginalian Life 02 Jun The Housing Market Recession A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 02 Jun Big if true Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Jun JS Crossword . “This crossword uses some... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun California Brown Pelican Simon Willison Tech 02 Jun AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next? On my Om Tech 02 Jun Does Liverpool FC have a data science problem? Pertinent Observations Life 02 Jun Daft Punk, Medieval-Style Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun Tuesday links: stretching your brand Abnormal Returns Finance 02 Jun Frozen To -22 Degrees, BYD’s New EV Just Charged To 97%... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun The Dashboard Cannot Discover The Cutting Floor Culture 02 Jun You’ve heard of effective altruism, but what about “effective accelerationism”? Adherents believe that the solution to our cultural ills lies in technology Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Jun Sensitivity readers promise authenticity but deliver essentialism. Who really benefits when identity polices the imagination? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Jun They’re doing a film adaptation of Tomorrow, and... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun Trivial pursuits. How do you know if a game — whether elegant, complex, or embarrassingly simple — truly matters? Arts & Letters Daily Culture 02 Jun Tuesday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Jun Philanthropy Needs Ambitious Projects Immediately Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 02 Jun CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: How Much More Software Do We Really Need? Grasping Reality Economics 02 Jun #346 Rebuilding Anticipating the Unintended Economics 02 Jun The Birds of Palestine Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun Clippings 12 ~ Above target Investment Ecosystem Clippings Finance 02 Jun CAIE and Autocallable Structured Note ETFs: A Risk Analysis Larry’s Substack Finance 02 Jun TIL that Andreessen Horowitz owns/runs the NYC Tech Week... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun Farewell Ai2 Interconnects Tech 02 Jun If You Take the Weasel Job Then You Must Be the Weasel .... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 02 Jun She's the Monster. He's the Villain. Rob Henderson Psychology 02 Jun Research links: bored overtraders Abnormal Returns Finance 02 Jun The tide and the waves of social change Optimally Irrational Economics 02 Jun Melancholia and creativity Mark Carrigan Culture 02 Jun Re the Patagonia vs. Pattie Gonia case : the company... Kottke.org Culture 02 Jun Inklings #015 📧 Spyglass Tech 02 Jun [Repost] Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked Dan Q Tech 02 Jun Academics Must Wake Up on AI (with Alexander Kustov) Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 02 Jun Being Useful is More Attractive Than Being Rich Of Dollars And Data Finance 02 Jun The US Exports Intelligence Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Jun Robot Vaudeville Summer Lightning Culture 02 Jun Why You Should Be a Techno-Skeptic After Babel Culture 02 Jun Notes on Bakhtin Henrik Karlsson Life 02 Jun Stop Your Chirping! Paul Krugman Economics 02 Jun 10 Tuesday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 02 Jun Jeremiah Johnson on Why Gen Z Isn’t Actually Doomed Persuasion Culture 02 Jun Meta-ethics, Star Trek, and Samurai Figs in Winter Philosophy 02 Jun How much more software do we really need? Noahpinion Economics 02 Jun Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend Pluralistic Tech 02 Jun The Summer of 'Super Apps' Spyglass Tech 02 Jun How the weak Yen pushes up US yields Robin J Brooks Economics 02 Jun Population in Japan continues decline FlowingData Tech 02 Jun The rise of China in academic research Mostly Economics Economics 02 Jun Which analysts add value? Klement on Investing Finance 02 Jun *The Republic of Love* Marginal Revolution Economics 02 Jun The Razor’s edge of progress: How King Gillette built an abundance revolution Mostly Economics Economics 02 Jun Monday’s Trailheads Scattershot Culture 02 Jun Open Thread 436 Astral Codex Ten Culture 02 Jun Pasted File Editor Simon Willison Tech 02 Jun micropython-wasm 0.1a0 Simon Willison Tech 02 Jun To Be or Not to Be in Oikonomia Mostly Economics Economics 02 Jun The Only Three Distinctions Between People The Marginalian Life 02 Jun Inference Is Unlikely to Ever Be a Low Marginal Cost Operational Node, & the Other Reasons Why the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs Ought to Fail Grasping Reality Economics 02 Jun A Trip Through the Venice Biennale, Interregnums, and Protocol Art Scenes with Simon Culture 01 Jun Stochastic Parrots on the Palatine Hill: Monday MAMLMs Grasping Reality Economics 01 Jun Is the Monaco Grand Prix decided at qualifying? Entropic Thoughts Tech 01 Jun 2026 Protocol Symposium: New Nature Protocolized Culture 01 Jun Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations The Marginalian Life 01 Jun Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked Simon Willison Tech 01 Jun MIKE BEGGS: Zombie Marx: (PARTIAL) READING Grasping Reality Economics 01 Jun Re: The Truly Abominable Kevin Hassett: Steve Durlauf Does the Work of the LORD: LIFE IN THE 2000s Grasping Reality Economics 01 Jun I’ve probably featured this before but always worth... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun Ten New Albums I'm Recommending Right Now The Honest Broker Culture 01 Jun When Median Take-Home Pay Packets Only Rise Once a Generation for a Half-Decade Span: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 01 Jun A quick update! Maria Konnikova Psychology 01 Jun Star Wars Influences: Dam Busters Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun We're building a different kind of AI newsroom Understanding AI Tech 01 Jun Transcript: Remembering Jonathan Clements with Jason Zweig and William Bernstein The Big Picture Finance 01 Jun Bee Champion Matt Mullenweg Tech 01 Jun The chimera of universal coverage in a large, diverse country Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Jun “Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun In Post-War Japan, the US Used Quiz Culture to Help... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun Monday links: a captured agency Abnormal Returns Finance 01 Jun Meet the Ukrainian Stunt Pilot Who Shoots Down Russian Drones Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun The Fruitless Things The Cutting Floor Culture 01 Jun "Information commons" sounds democratic. But it suggests that knowledge is something you retrieve, not carry Arts & Letters Daily Culture 01 Jun "The age when you can run a literary magazine on trust is over. You can either decide AI submissions are fine, or you can filter for them" Arts & Letters Daily Culture 01 Jun He appeared to be a pauper, but John Chapman, aka Johnny Appleseed, was quite successful, owning 1,200 acres across three states Arts & Letters Daily Culture 01 Jun Clothes Are Nice. Fashion Biz, Not As Much! On my Om Tech 01 Jun Can ChatGPT Forecast Stock Price Movements? Larry’s Substack Finance 01 Jun Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World .... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun It’s Ideology, Stupid Persuasion Culture 01 Jun I found the actual reason AGI isn't real Mo Tech 01 Jun Warsh politics starts inside the Fed Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views Finance 01 Jun Monday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Jun “ Serena Williams has announced her sensational... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun Adviser links: inordinate time Abnormal Returns Finance 01 Jun We Ate the Feed The Cutting Floor Culture 01 Jun Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 01 Jun The Illuminated Windows of NYC Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun YouTube Beats AI to Disrupting Hollywood Spyglass Tech 01 Jun A different game Global Inequality and More Economics 01 Jun EAG London 2026 Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 01 Jun Legendary film editor Marcia Lucas died last week .... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems Import AI Tech 01 Jun Roost is a messaging app where messages aren’t... Kottke.org Culture 01 Jun [Note] Sending a test email from WordPress/ClassicPress using WP-CLI Dan Q Tech 01 Jun The Transformation Problem Was Not Something Karl Marx Overlooked! & Other Topics: HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (& Metholodology, & Philosophy Grasping Reality Economics 01 Jun Open and closed models are on different exponentials Interconnects Tech 01 Jun CHINA: THE THREE MINDS Cosmographia History 01 Jun LLMs Were Mostly (But Not Entirely) Useless at Extra-Textual Tasks Involved in the Composition of My Next Novel Freddie deBoer Culture 01 Jun Pogroms, American Style Paul Krugman Economics 01 Jun Europe Demands Family Dynasties Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Jun Talk Your Book: Why Rising Rates Won’t Hurt You Anymore A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 01 Jun 10 Monday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 01 Jun [Article] The “ChangeNames.co.uk” Scam Dan Q Tech 01 Jun U.S. names with the oldest population FlowingData Tech 01 Jun Making of the Nairobi Stock Exchange, 1954–1970 Mostly Economics Economics 01 Jun Names from Census data FlowingData Tech 01 Jun Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026) Pluralistic Tech 01 Jun Why is Germany's AfD gaining in the polls? Robin J Brooks Economics 01 Jun UK facts of the day Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Jun Are auditors good stock pickers? Klement on Investing Finance 01 Jun From People’s War to People’s Rule: Rebel Governance and the Foundations of Inclusive Democracy Mostly Economics Economics 01 Jun May 2026 newsletter Simon Willison Tech 01 Jun The political right continues to gain ground in Latin America Marginal Revolution Economics 01 Jun The Different Kinds of Investors A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 01 Jun Monopoly Round-Up: After SpaceX Goes Public, Does the Stock Market Finally Fall? BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 01 Jun Music, the Neural Harmonics of Emotion, and How Love Recomposes the Brain The Marginalian Life 01 Jun Weird projects I shipped with AI Sean Goedecke Tech

May 2026

699 essays

31 May Tech Stock Singularity The Grumpy Economist Economics 31 May datasette 1.0a32 Simon Willison Tech 31 May Truth is Fiction or is it? On my Om Tech 31 May The returns to good data are rising Marginal Revolution Economics 31 May Learning from a Mentally Ill President Paul Krugman Economics 31 May Negative Covenant The Abrahamic Metacritique History 31 May Sunday links: taking a stake Abnormal Returns Finance 31 May The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription Simon Willison Tech 31 May What if it's not just autocomplete? Mo Tech 31 May A new American exceptionalism? Marginal Revolution Economics 31 May Why Some Smart People Never Get Anywhere Rob Henderson Psychology 31 May What Happened to Foreign Aid? Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 31 May The Viking Ráðagerð Further Gels: IMAGE OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 31 May [Article] Converting ISO Country Codes to Flag Emojis Dan Q Tech 31 May Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns Abnormal Returns Finance 31 May The New Inequality Paul Krugman Economics 31 May 10 Sunday Reads The Big Picture Finance 31 May Episode 188: Liaquat Ahamed on 1873 Persuasion Culture 31 May Holding the human line as cyborgs ⊗ A framework for action Sentiers Tech 31 May Four Charts for Sunday Robin J Brooks Economics 31 May The Red Dot The Cutting Floor Culture 31 May The way we treat pigs is a sin Noahpinion Economics 31 May Sunday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 31 May [Note] Ground White Pepper Dan Q Tech 31 May Lifestyle and living standards arbitrage Marginal Revolution Economics 31 May Maybe Matt Mullenweg Tech 31 May Quoting Karen Kwok for Reuters Breakingviews Simon Willison Tech 31 May No Successor The Cutting Floor Culture 31 May Are nicer LLMs less truthful? (Hint: yes) Nicholas Gruen Culture 31 May Build agents, not pipelines Sean Goedecke Tech 30 May How we contain Claude across products Simon Willison Tech 30 May How Phrenology Queered Language: Walt Whitman and the Evolving Lexicon of Love The Marginalian Life 30 May Paul Krugman, Cui Bono from the Coming of the Bio-Info Tech-Attention Economy, & Embarrassing Conceptual Errors by Economists Who Really Should Know Better: CHART OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 30 May I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline Simon Willison Tech 30 May Artist Louise Bourgeois on How Solitude Enriches Creative Work The Marginalian Life 30 May [Note] Wikipedia @ 25: Surface plasmon resonance Dan Q Tech 30 May Irrigation by Protocol: When Vineyards Delegate Decisions to Networks Protocolized Culture 30 May Europe Versus America: A Response to the Critics Paul Krugman Economics 30 May Quoting Daniel Jalkut Simon Willison Tech 30 May How to Destroy a Literary Reputation in One Move The Honest Broker Culture 30 May Saturday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 30 May The Current Balance in This Pause—Not End, But Pause, Perhaps Perpetual Pause—in the War in the Persian Gulf: MOST IMPORTANT THING Grasping Reality Economics 30 May It Doesn’t Make Sense for Greta Thunberg to Transition to Gaza Activism if She Thinks Climate Change Will Kill Everyone Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 30 May Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker Simon Willison Tech 30 May Askēsis & Perception The Base Camp Philosophy 30 May Friday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 30 May Saturday links: an infinite comparison engine Abnormal Returns Finance 30 May Markets after the Iran war Robin J Brooks Economics 30 May MiB: Remembering Jonathan Clements with Jason Zweig and William Bernstein The Big Picture Finance 30 May Second Best? The MBR List of 101–200 Greatest Novels Miller's Book Review Culture 30 May Reading List 05/30/26 Construction Physics Tech 30 May 80,000 Hours: The Book Marginal Revolution Economics 30 May How to Win a Trade War Paul Krugman Economics 30 May 10 Weekend Reads The Big Picture Finance 30 May Suggested Readings Figs in Winter Philosophy 30 May Kathryn Paige Harden on How Genetics Shapes Human Behavior Persuasion Culture 30 May Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) Pluralistic Tech 30 May How Quickly Will Oil Normalize? Robin J Brooks Economics 30 May The Fifth Draft The Cutting Floor Culture 30 May How to improve British procurement Marginal Revolution Economics 30 May Teaching a Computer to Play 4X: How the Annhexation AI Works James Randall Tech 30 May Supply is elastic, installment #1637 Marginal Revolution Economics 30 May From Cannons to Chronometers to Factories Contraptions Tech 30 May Anthropic, AI and The “Numbers” Problem On my Om Tech 30 May How Anthropic used AI ethics slop to play the pope and eclipse OpenAI Blood in the Machine Tech 30 May Time, Enlightenment and Romanticism Between Modernity and Divergence Contraptions Tech 29 May Be Kind to Your Local NPCs Kneeling Bus Culture 29 May Friday links: sticking to the rules Abnormal Returns Finance 29 May Slow blogging day today; I spent some time on the KDO... Kottke.org Culture 29 May The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life The Marginalian Life 29 May The Mystery Gasoline Surcharge: How Oil Incumbents Are Trying to Maintain Fossil Fuel Dominance BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 29 May Claude Opus 4.8: The System Card Don't Worry About the Vase Tech 29 May Microsoft Seeks a Surface RT & Copilot+ PC Do-Over with NVIDIA Spyglass Tech 29 May Pope Releases Encyclical On Perils Of Disney’s ‘Star... Kottke.org Culture 29 May The Lowest Consumer Sentiment EVER A Wealth of Common Sense Finance 29 May 1984 and Brave New World Cass’s Substack Economics 29 May Radiohead’s OK Computer reimagined as Nintendo 64... Kottke.org Culture 29 May Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau’s Touching Account of 24 Hours with a Tiny Owl The Marginalian Life 29 May Andor Gave Us One Of TV’s Best Monologues Kottke.org Culture 29 May Friday assorted links Marginal Revolution Economics 29 May "Agentic AI" Is a Bonfire of the Tokens While Fab Capacity, Power Grids, and P&Ls Are the brakes: (NOT THE) READ OF THE DAY Grasping Reality Economics 29 May Why Philosophy Open Questions Philosophy 29 May Infinite Jeffs is an actual physical book you can buy... Kottke.org Culture 29 May Why I Don't Buy Any of the Counterexamples to Consequentialism Bentham's Bulldog Philosophy 29 May What Do We Actually Know About Private Fund Performance? A Major New Study Has Answers Larry’s Substack Finance 29 May This Week at Persuasion Persuasion Culture 29 May What I have been learning doing New Aesthetics Marginal Revolution Economics 29 May What it is like to read Proust The Common Reader Culture 29 May For Sergiu Klainerman, mathematics and physics aren't neighboring disciplines. They're two fields destined to converge Arts & Letters Daily Culture 29 May She called Judith Butler evil and Susan Sontag boring. Camille Paglia is 79 and unrepentant Arts & Letters Daily Culture 29 May Leslie Fiedler, the wild man of American letters, argued that our literature was less realism than repression Arts & Letters Daily Culture 29 May The Luxury-Belief Class Has a New Word for Theft Rob Henderson Psychology 29 May How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?... Kottke.org Culture 29 May Velocity of money: A US-India comparison Mostly Economics Economics 29 May Why Pose Thought Experiments About Fake Versions of History? Freddie deBoer Culture 29 May CROSSPOST: DAN DREZNER: The Trump Administration's Incredibly Slow Learning Curve Grasping Reality Economics 29 May Thursday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 29 May What the Pope Is Telling Us Persuasion Culture 29 May Out now: new Boards of Canada album. Get it wherever you... Kottke.org Culture 29 May Why are Murders Down in Baltimore? Marginal Revolution Economics 29 May The Wrong Fight over AI and Writing Miller's Book Review Culture 29 May Who’s Deranged, Exactly? Paul Krugman Economics 29 May 10 Friday AM Reads The Big Picture Finance 29 May What if the AI boom goes into reverse? Klement on Investing Finance 29 May The AI Boom Has Entered Its 'Wait, Is This Worth It?' 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