What I'm reading.
Thought provoking pieces from the web, with occasional notes and highlights. Updated weekly.
worksinprogress.co
Progress unmoored
Michael Hopkins
Aeon
Why poetry is a variety of mathematical experience
distill.pub
Feature Visualization
Chris Olah
LessWrong
SolidGoldMagikarp III: Glitch token archaeology
mwatkins
NBER
Does Entry Remedy Collusion? Evidence from the Generic Prescription Drug Cartel
www.vitalcitynyc.org
The Stubbornness of Sticky Fingers
thepointmag.com
Last Boys at the Beginning of History
Mana Afsari
Academy of American Poets
Love Is Enough
Compact
The Biden Administration Did Not Take Place
blog.codingconfessions.com
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
NBER
Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital
Christina L. Brown
The Atlantic
The Anti-Social Century
manhattan.institute
America’s Disorder Problem
The New York Times
This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction
Jason Nark
www.henrikkarlsson.xyz
6 lessons I learned working at an art gallery
stephango.com
40 questions to ask yourself every year
Steph Ango
ScienceDirect
Social media as an incubator of personality and behavioral psychopathology: Symptom and disorder authenticity or psychosomatic social contagion?
Elsevier Inc.
Financial Times
Why America’s economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
noahpinion.blog
"Paycheck-to-paycheck" and five other popular myths
The New Republic
Wealthcare
www.thenewatlantis.com
A Pattern of Noncompliance
City Journal
How to Accelerate Science
Asterisk Magazine
Is Wine Fake?—Asterisk
NBER
The Digital Welfare of Nations: New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
Erik Brynjolfsson
Serious Eats
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Is Mexican Coke Better? | The Food Lab, Drinks Edition
Editorial Process
The Boston Globe
Can we please have less political art now?
vitalik.eth.limo
From prediction markets to info finance
Harper's Magazine
Both Sides Now, by Tess McNulty
Tess McNulty
manhattan.institute
The Lifetime Fiscal Impact of Immigrants
Daniel Di Martino
The New York Times
An Obesity Drug Prevents Covid Deaths, Study Suggests
situational-awareness.ai
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
The Atlantic
Host
David Foster Wallace
HEY
Where at least I know I'm free
Slow Boring
People need to hear the good news about climate change
Quillette
The Racism Treadmill
The New York Times
Keeping the Lights on at the Met Museum Is an Art in Itself
Sopan Deb
The New York Times
Why GPS Is Under Attack
Jeremy White
The Free Press
Condoleezza Rice: Juneteenth Is Our Second Independence Day
Condoleezza Rice
Compact
Behind the Ivy Intifada
Musa al-Gharbi
Compact
René Girard and the Rise of Victim Power
Geoff Shullenberger
London Review of Books
Art and Memory
Julian Barnes
UnHerd
America’s censors have committed their Guernica The culture war was won years ago
Fairer Disputations
After Chivalry
The Atlantic
The War at Stanford
Theo Baker
theintrinsicperspective.com
The end of (online) history
Erik Hoel
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
Facts vs Opinions
The Free Press
Things Worth Remembering: C.S. Lewis on Keeping Calm in Chaos
Douglas Murray
United States Department of Justice
Russian Nationals Charged With Hacking One Cryptocurrency Exchange And Illicitly Operating Another
WIRED
How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Byron Tau
honest-broker.com
The State of the Culture, 2024
Ted Gioia
HEY
The reality of the Danish fairytale
World Economic Forum
Davos 2024: Special address by Javier Milei, President of Argentina
The Guardian
For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her
Lisa Selin Davis
Reason
Monkey Herpes, Face Eating, and the Pork Chop Gang: How Public Records Laws Created the Florida Man
C.J. Ciaramella
Marginal Revolution
Why Do Poor People Commit More Crime?
Alex Tabarrok
Harper's Magazine
The Hofmann Wobble, by Ben Lerner
Quillette
Gaza and the Asymmetry Trap
Michael Walzer
The New Yorker
The $1.8-Billion Lawsuit Over a Teacher Test
Emma Green
The Atlantic
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
James Somers
Air Mail
The War at Home
Kat Rosenfield
The Atlantic
How the Media Got the Hospital Explosion Wrong
Quillette
It’s Not the Occupation
David Benatar
National Affairs
The Truth about College Costs
Dan Currell
secondbest.ca
AI and Leviathan: Part I
Samuel Hammond
UnHerd
Elites don’t preach what they practise
Ed West
The Atlantic
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff
Quillette
The Stanford Rape Hoax
Lona Manning
DER SPIEGEL
Gangs, Corruption and Collapse The Slow and Steady Demise of South Africa
Fritz Schaap, Bartholomäus Grill, DER SPIEGEL
The Stranger
The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't
Katie Herzog
meltingasphalt.com
Ads Don't Work That Way
www.astralcodexten.com
Bride Of Bay Area House Party
Scott Alexander
Right Is The New Left
The Atlantic
The Burden of Proof Is on the Language Police
Keith Humphreys
Aeon
Why does the quantum world behave in that strange, spooky way? Here’s our simple, four-step explanation (no magic needed)
Pirate Wires
The Burning of America's Library
Kat Rosenfield
Slow Boring
How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
CNN
Databricks
Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
Mike Conover
The New Yorker
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
Evan Osnos
Quanta Magazine
Mathematician Proves Huge Result on ‘Dangerous’ Problem
Kevin Hartnett
The New Yorker
The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa’s Illegal Gold Mines
Kimon de Greef
The New York Times
‘Can I Please Use Your Phone?’
Nabil Ayers
The New York Times
How Henri Matisse (and I) Got a ‘Beautiful Body’
Nick Riggle
Every
How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
raohacker.com
In defense of personalized ads (and the free internet)
The Bulwark
The Mismeasure of Ideology
Oliver Traldi
www.astralcodexten.com
ELK And The Problem Of Truthful AI
making us think
www.astralcodexten.com
Can This AI Save Teenage Spy Alex Rider From A Terrible Fate?
The Atlantic
Camille Paglia Can’t Say That
betonit.ai
A Theory of Cancel Culture
Compact
Is South Africa America's Future?
Rian Malan
The Atlantic
The Things I’m Afraid to Write About
Sarah Hepola
McSweeney's
Unused Audio Commentary by Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002 for The Fellowship Of The Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) DVD, Part One
TOM BISSELL
The New York Times
Money Can’t Buy Class. Or Can It?
Kaitlin Phillips
Outland
The Trouble with DALL-E
Kevin Buist
Compact
Why Does Las Vegas Exist?
Freddie deBoer
The Atlantic
The ACLU Has Lost Its Way
Lara Bazelon
Scott Alexander
Sort By Controversial
Scott Alexander
The New Yorker
Backpack
Tony Earley
The Washington Post
Trump’s ‘emoluments’ battle: How a scholar’s search of 200 years of dictionaries helped win a historic ruling
Fred Barbash
London Review of Books
After the Fall
The New York Review of Books
Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction
Madeleine Bunting
The New Yorker
My Brain: The All-Hands Meeting
Hallie Cantor
The Guardian
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets
Ian Leslie
WIRED
If Ads Don't Work, Can Publishers Strike Subscription Gold?
Erin Griffith
The New York Times
Is a Life Without Struggle Worth Living?
Adam Etinson
The Atlantic
Two Dark American Truths From Las Vegas
JAMES FALLOWS
The Guardian
The curious case of the alien in the photo – and a mystery that took years to solve
Les Carpenter
The New Yorker
Common Venmo Charges, Decoded
Olivia de Recat
WIRED
The Tricky Art of Podcast Ads Is About to Get Even Trickier
Charley Locke
FiveThirtyEight
The Media Has A Probability Problem
Nate Silver
WIRED
Meet the Font Detectives Who Ferret Out Fakery
Glenn Fleishman
Vox
A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain
Julia Belluz
The New Yorker
How St. Augustine Invented Sex
Stephen Greenblatt
The Guardian
Mystery of sonic weapon attacks at US embassy in Cuba deepens
Associated Press in Washington
The New Yorker
The Voynich Manuscript and Truth on the Internet
Jo Livingstone
The Guardian
'Plagiarists never do it once': meet the sleuth tracking down the poetry cheats
Will Storr
The New York Times
The Problem of ‘Living in the Present’
Kieran Setiya
The Atlantic
What the Octopus Knows
Olivia Judson
Ars Technica
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The mysterious Voynich manuscript has finally been decoded [UPDATED]
Annalee Newitz
The New York Times
What the Rich Won’t Tell You
Rachel Sherman
retractionwatch.com
“I placed too much faith in underpowered studies:” Nobel Prize winner admits mistakes
Alison McCook
TechCrunch
Why ‘TAM’ doesn’t matter to me
Matt Heiman
Bloomberg
Your Sushi Is Probably Made by Robots
The Atlantic
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
Alston Chase
New York University
NYU guidelines for respectful philosophical discussion
The New Yorker
Hurricane Harvey, and Public and Private Disaster in Houston
The New York Times
The Secret Life of the City Banana
Forbes
That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket
Bloomberg
This Startup Uses Night Lights to Forecast GDP
Gareth Allan
Ars Technica
Glitch art: Meet the artist who knitted Stuxnet into a scarf
Rayna Stamboliyska
The Washington Post
Kidnapping for ransom works like a market. How it is organized is surprising.
Anja Shortland
Harper's Magazine
The Mercenary Position
James Marcus
Harper's Magazine
The Boeing Formation
Ken Silverstein
The Economist
Chattering classes
The Wall Street Journal
Blue Feed, Red Feed
Jon Keegan
The Economist
The barbarian establishment
The Economist
The way ahead
Vogue
On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue
Joan Didion
Harper's Magazine
Red Light Therapy, by Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
jstor.org
The Moral Threat of Bicycles in the 1890s
Livia Gershon
Quartz
How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code
Keith Collins
Fortune
My Year in Startup Hell
Dan Lyons
The Atlantic
What Does the Internet Actually Look Like?
Emily Anne Epstein
The New York Review of Books
Liberal, Harsh Denmark
Hugh Eakin
The New Yorker
The Philosophers
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The Economist
Gained in translation
Lapham's Quarterly
Happy All the Time
Lynn Stuart Parramore
Nature Publishing Group
CRISPR, the disruptor
Heidi Ledford
The New Yorker
