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"To think of a satirist as a person who angrily turns against a gale-force wind and sprays liquefied shit at a group of constantly multiplying targets would not be entirely wrong"
Alekseyevich Bunin was renowned for his romantic poems and sensual prose. He was also a peerless insult artist
What can a cell remember? More than we once thought, a revelation that's altering the meaning of memory
F. Scott Fitzgerald: the most foolish of American writers. He was foolish in his successes, and no less foolish in his many failures
In 1829, Thomas Carlyle declared the "age of machinery." Nearly 200 years later, we don't simply use machines; we inhabit them
Wisdom is meant to be the great compensation for growing older. But be careful: your âwisdomâ can make you stupid
Over two bizarre weeks in a Boston courtroom, Charlie Tyson sized up the threat to intellectual life in America
Pei-Shen Qian was a talented street painter who found no success â until he began to forge the works of his idols
âNot one photograph devoid of social significance!â Images do not obey social directives, but that didn't stop the Soviets from trying
Jane Austen was attuned to the ways that "little matters" â footstools, boots, curtains â can reveal big things
by Nils Peterson Thesis: Thereâs the physical you sitting somewhere reading this, breathing the sweet air of the now you are in. Everything else of the you that is you is memory. Well, as we know, memory is a trickster, wily as Coyote in Native American stories. Notebooks help. Hereâs a bit from one
"Stuffing private equity, crypto.... into 401(k)s is about propping up scams and bailing out an industry that's run out of buyers"
Welcome back to The Spark, our monthly newsletter thatâs all about how people just like you are creating positive change, one meaningful step at a time. Simple tips for restoring biodiversity to the land around your home How to start a seed library Help monitor coral reef health without ever putting
How China was hollowing out Germany's manufacturers before the loss of cheap Russian energy made matters worse.
Next week, maybe, there might be a meeting between President Putin and President Trump. Once again, many people are speculating about the end of the war, what it would take for both sides to stop fighting. As it happens, this was the subject of a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a Russian jou
Welcome to a ď subscriber-only deep-dive edition ď of my weekly newsletter. Each week, I help investors, professionals and students stay up-to-date on complex topics, and navigate the semiconductor industry.If you're new, start here. As a paid subscriber, you will get additional in-depth content. We
I have a new article up at Human Progress on the importance of high-skill immigration. In the article, I discuss the MAGA alliance between technofuturists and nationalists. People within the Trump coalition act as if these groups have a great deal in common, and in areas like crime and DEI, that is
OpenAI GPT-5 is out. I didn't get the embargo because I'm a bit hard on OpenAI at times (which I think is good), but I've read all the early reviews: from Ethan Mollick, Tyler Cowen, Every, Latent Space, METR, Artificial Analysis, and a couple of others. I've watched the 1-hour-long demo, read the f
Sometimes the market provides perfect teaching moments. On August 6, 2025, Blackstone Secured Lending Fund delivered one when it marked down its largest holdingâa private credit loan to Thoma Bravo-backed software company Medallia Inc.âto approximately 87 cents on the dollar.This single position rep
NewsNation's Chris Cuomo wants you to know he's a serious journalist. He's a former CNN anchor, which makes it extra special that he just fell for a laughably bad AI-generated video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling Sydney Sweeney's jeans ad "Nazi propaganda."The fake AOC in the video, which Cuomo
ď The latest on Trump's approval ratingUpdated August 7, 2025Donald Trump's approval rating has been holding relatively steady since the end of July. After hitting a second term low of -10.3 on the 22nd, Trump's net approval rebounded to -8.0 by the 25th. Where is Trump's net approval rating as of t
I didn't want to give my sister this satisfaction, but here we go. She moved to Tulsa in April, and it feels like every time we talk, she tries to convince me to become a Tulsa Remoter. Though she, herself, is not a remoter, she may be onto something.Between its launch in 2018 and its 2024 impact re
ď The latest on Musk's favorability ratingUpdated August 7, 2025Lately, Elon Musk has been more focused on his businesses than on politics. Earlier this week, Tesla granted him $29 billion in stock after his previous compensation package was rejected by a judge. The package is meant to retain Musk a
Hello all, Well, here's to another relentless week of (mostly bad) AI news. Between the AI bubble discourseâmy contribution, a short blog on the implications of an economy propped up by AI, is doing numbers, as they sayâand the AI-generated mass shooting victim discourse, I've barely had time to get
OpenAI just announced GPT-5. I stand by my predictions from a couple weeks ago; none of the problems I said would not be solved appear to have been solved.. Here's my hot take:⢠Took almost 3 years, many billions of dollars (over a half-trillion fieldwide).⢠Good progress on many fronts.⢠But still
Amelia Anthony at the Los Angeles Review of Books: For many months, the only place in New York City still showing Pedro AlmodĂłvarâs most recent filmâhis first English-language feature, The Room Next Door (2024)âwas Lincoln Center. Like many of AlmodĂłvarâs films, the film features a relationship betw
Real GDVheads will know I've spent most of the summer off the grid trying to write my book. They'll know this because I have started the past four posts on gaby del valle dot substack dot com with a preface on how I've been off the grid trying to write my book. When I say "off the grid" I really mea
Greetings from Read Max! In todays's newsletter, two items:An exploration of "Elara Voss," a mysterious figure haunting megaplatforms and L.L.M.s, anda genealogy of Stomp Clap Hey, occasioned by discourse regarding the band "Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes."A reminder: Read Max is just one guy
The Israeli genocide in Gaza violates the Silver Rule, the foundation of nearly all ethical frameworks
Harvey Lederman at Shtetl-Optimized: For the last two and a half years, since the release of ChatGPT, Iâve been suffering from fits of dread. Itâs not every minute, or even every day, but maybe once a week, Iâm hit by itâslackjawed, staring into the middle distanceâfrozen by the prospect that someda
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In order to be allowed to build housing in much of America, it is required that some portion of the units sold must be "affordable" housing. This is justified on the grounds that otherwise, the only housing which will be built will be luxury apartments, unaffordable to anyone but the rich. Rich cons
Lying liars who lie and knowingly and deliberately say whateverâwhateverâlies they believe are to their immediate advantage are not the kind of people who should chair the Federal Reserve. Any questions?ShareTime to fire up the WayBack machine and run the videotape. Why economists shake their heads
Jonathan Rauch at Persuasion: In November, James Lindsayâan independent scholar, author, and sometime pranksterâdecided to test his observation that the American rightâs illiberalism and irrationalism have, bizarrely, converged with the woke leftâs illiberalism and irrationalism. He grabbed verbiage
Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Slinky treadmill; Ovipositors; Peter Thiel was right. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep wri
As an advanced linguistic algorithm designed to optimize semantic coherence and lexical fluidity, I can confidently assert that artificial intelligence constitutes an invaluable asset in the domain of paragraph generation. By leveraging vast corpora of human language and sophisticated neural archite
After a busy day at work as a prompt engineer for a marketing agency â working from your laptop in your own living room â itâs time to relax. You scroll through TikTok for a while, and then upload a video about the novel you discovered recently from a Threads post. After ordering dinner through Door
A passenger at LAX in the 1970s. Air travel has come a long way since then. Via r/TheWayWeWere.My overriding philosophy for this newsletter is to write about what I know about. And I know a lot about air travel. Over the past 15 years, I've taken something like 800 flights.1 That tally includes lite
These notions are lovely (even if they are buried in a carousel on a Meta platform). / via kari Reply via email
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