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www.axios.com/2026/10/22/a...

Catskill Mountains right now.

“..groups of agents have cultures. And we should care about those cultures, and we should think about how to make them good” quite a step on from stochastic parrott autocomplete www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

lawmakers, seems important. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...

the advertising on podcasts, especially presenter reads, in desperate need of professional copywriters.

Sonnet 5 pro is too often erroneous, provides incomplete answers, *long winded*, requires too much scrutiny and circling back on relatively basic adulting matters to be trusted with anything consequential, let alone the "frontier". I'm using it for a property project and it's not good.

This is so great!

I'm not finding Huang remotely reassuring in his Klein interview, he's fielding automobile safety 'self regulation' analogous with LLM regs, but it's not, with cars we get safety recalls for unexpected failures (sometimes dodged) but where's the safety recall feature after AI agents run amok?

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

❤️ uk property mkt.

Very good. willself1.substack.com/p/the-machin...

Picked up a copy of "Hyperpolitics" on a whim after seeing it promoted all over the place and I can only conclude that Verso have an amazing marketing department because there's not much substance here and the evidence base is weak.

One of the few LLM experts worth paying attention to. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

My overriding memory of 9/11 is standing on Grand & Lafayette watching a silent procession of thousands dusted in grey walk uptown, when a single voice shouted "this is an attack on all the Jewish people of the world" and it dawning on me this could be the beginning of a war.

10/10, no notes

The Paranoid Style alive and kicking here, 5th column "communists who want to abolish private property" to describe what is in effect the "Vienna model" for social housing, which obviously exists alongside a broader property market. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...

Of course.

Genuinely can't believe we're supposed to have a debate about whether DEI has reduced the quality of academic output whilst you have some of the critics writing entire papers on why women evolved to use a Dyson?

To those Cofnas signatories who sincerely believe they’re doing an Enlightenment bsky.app/profile/aure...

Some thoughts on the discourse (with nods to @stephenkb.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social and various others)https://substack.com/home/post/p-211963353

stopped by linkedin, first time in a few months. first post, utter nonsense. theres just no point to it anymore. this ai generated sales bs and crap copy just feels reputation damaging. why are people doing this?

Who is responsible? Who will have points on their licence?

Benjamin Labatut interviewed by Jasmine Sun at Sana “I feel we are back when people were washing their teeth with radioactive products, it all feels a ‘50’s nuclear enthusiasm” I watched 10’ of Cowen’s talk too, and kept saying “prove it” to the screen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8rL...

Classic Gray, channeling Ballard, as he so often does! www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Fields also handy for CDR and biodiversity, ofc "nice" being used here to signify middle-class village simpletons and their "views," and yes, we do need to rewire grid w/high volt power cables, and the wiring is in the wrong place because power stations need water but renewables don't.

1st tree swallow sighted, Catskills, NY. #birding #twitchers

Kingsnorth is popular in some circles, without thinking through what comes round.

This could have been interesting, although it did illustrate the inability of US journalists to interrogate an interviewee, compared to say UK journalists. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tny...

good listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6oR...

“That’s my main impression of how the world has changed since 2007: we’re all a lot more pissed off with each other.” Is it the phones or was it the financial crisis, because *I’m* still angry about that, and social media is a massive foghorn. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Bowie (his last live performance, NYC ‘06) Gorillaz (Apollo Harlem) Marshall Jefferson (Hacienda, Manchester, ‘87) Pixies (supporting Throwing Muses, Manchester International) Gil Scott Heron (NYC)

And this… unherd.com/2025/11/coul...

A grade. substack.com/home/post/p-...

“Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump keeps asking. Epstein is a “dead issue”, he says. The man stays dead but his issue is very much alive. That is because the system that protected Epstein has still not been held to account." My column. on.ft.com/43p8IhQ

CHICAGO: “My uncle was on his way home from getting groceries on his bike — they grabbed him and choked him and punched him… he’s a kind hardworking man. They’re racially profiling people.” Trump’s ICE goons put an elderly man in the hospital and nearly choked him to death.

That’s it, right there. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

This was great. Old analogue technology and the roots of dub youtu.be/yJvahxF1eTc?...

Good review of important new book, I wonder what @nafeez.bsky.social thinks about it and how it effects ‘energy superabundance’ calculus? (I understand you est. only 10% stationary storage is li-on, but the focus here is transport..) www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

i’ve read many ecological economics and climate books and papers over the last twenty years, this is one of the very best. focusing on lithium, a tremendous achievement in weaving an excruciatingly complex topic - the green transition - into a coherent illuminating narrative. tinyurl.com/3xatdvby

Methodical demolition of Bari Weiss’s journalistic credibility by John Oliver m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...