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The Family of Man: CHART OF THE DAY
The Zhang-Moorjani-&-al. map of archaic DNA; the knotty question of when, exactly, we became us; & how we appear to be an evolutionary long-shot...
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2026-08-12 0.1% 1-Month 3.4% 12-Month Inflation CPI Release: CHART OF THE DAY
The Consumer Price Index came in in line with expectations: the calm number and the silent Chair: what July’s CPI release says, and what Kevin Warsh…
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Brad DeLong
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OpenAI's Zero-Day Leviathan Breaches Hugging Face's Black-ICE Security Wall: How I Think You Should Think About the Latest "AI Goes Rogue…
No Malice In It, No Mind In It Either: What Really Happened When Zero-Day Leviathan Showed Up at the Hugging Face Cyberparty...
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CROSSPOST: MICHAEL SELLERS: Trump Thinks Iran Is Ready to Deal. Iran Thinks Trump is. Who's Right?
You Cannot Surrender to a Clown Darth Vader Who Cannot Keep from Altering the Deal: Iran, Trump, & the Strait-of-Hormuz State of Affairs...
Aug 11
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Brad DeLong
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The Grave of Karl Polanyi: PICTURE OF THE DAY
On analyzing market, bureaucracy, democracy, ideology, ethnicity, and all the other fictions and systems we East African Plains Apes have imagined into…
Aug 11
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Trump's Lackies Say He Is Powerless to Increase Affordability Because of Things Biden & Powell Did Five Years Ago: CHARTS OF THE DAY
Yes, that is the message that Trump lackey Kevin Hassett—and why did he get to have a career after his monstrously cynical and behemothly stupid and…
Aug 10
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Brad DeLong
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Late Summer for the Internal Combustion-Engine Vehicle Sector: CHART OF THE DAY
But late summer, not yet autumn: internal-combustion engine production is only dying slowly, and its predominance in the global vehicle fleet is dying…
Aug 10
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(PARTIAL-)CROSSPOST: PETER CONTI-BROWN: Trump Continues His War Against Fed Independence
Piece behind Peter's pay wall; his subheadline: "After a brief reprieve, Trump is back with his pretextual war against Lisa Cook, which is in fact a war…
Aug 8
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Brad DeLong
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PODCAST: Hexapodia XIII: Cory Doctorow: Mandated Interoperability: We Can't Make It Work, or Can We?: HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES
From 2021-05-04: That week with special guest Cory Doctorow; Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 < [Length of Weekly Podcast] < 60:00; the key insight…
Aug 6
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Brad DeLong
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CROSSPOST: SEAN ILLING: You Can't Have Homer, Nietzsche & Jesus
Sean's subheadline: "Thoughts on 'The Odyssey' and the incoherence of the cultural Right"; is the Christian Essence the Golden Rule, or is it the…
Aug 6
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CROSSPOST: DAN FROOMKIN: The Reflecting Pool Story Is About Trump's Grip on Reality, But the Press Corps Won’t Go There
Dan's subheadline: "Journalists are treating his ‘vandalism’ claim as if it were a normal, disputable argument. But it’s completely delusional"; Dan has…
Aug 5
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Brad DeLong
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Exploring Truly Useful Use Cases for "AI"?: QUESTION OF THE DAY
Can I get it to teach me things I do not already know?; or, experimenting with "attention" on Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485...
Aug 5
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