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Apple should have known that Alan Dye lacked taste when it first promoted him, but it’s good that he’s now someone else’s problem. Even better, that someone is Mark Zuckerberg.

Some good news. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Always love it when a Pope visits Turkey. Conspiracy theorists can be so creative.

Anxiety about their kids falling behind may be driving parents' decisions to adopt AI technology, despite personal support for restrictions, from Leonardo Bursztyn, Alex Imas, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, and Christopher Roth www.nber.org/papers/w34488

Better late than never? Now bring back PWA support the same way Chromium does please. @mozilla.org www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox...

Google’s lead in LLMs is not because they know how to design or innovate on a product, but mostly because they’re an aggregator. Using their APIs makes that patently obvious.

"things happen" = burning risotto, breaking a vase, forgetting a friend's birthday "things happen" ≠ violently murdering and dismembering a journalist in a consulate

2/The continuing treatment of Summers as some sort of Peer of the Realm (to use a phrase I take from Sam Haselby) is unacceptable by the economics profession if it serious about addressing the problems documented at the time Casselman wrote. These problems continue today of course.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Big and Little Spoons xkcd.com/3166/

Too bad Frame's display isn’t OLED. It doesn’t even sound that good for an LCD display on paper. I hope reviews prove me wrong, because the form factor is excellent. I don’t need or want one, but I’m rooting for Machine to succeed. Anything that expands Linux’s user base is good news.

The Indispensable Erdogan www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Studying how Elon Musk’s partisan actions have impacted Tesla vehicle sales in the United States, from Kenneth T. Gillingham, Matthew Kotchen, James A. Levinsohn, and Barry J. Nalebuff www.nber.org/papers/w34413

'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3

Every single time I happen to see some clips of Obama doing a speech somewhere for some milquetoast Democrat, I feel like going on a rant for a few hours but then I remember I'm getting old.

Al Jazeera Arabic’s “What’s Hidden is Greater” documentary investigation says it has identified the Israeli soldiers and officers directly involved in the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family, and the ambulance crew who tried to save her. ➤ The report names officers from Israel’s 401st...

This *and* proper Codex support the next day. Codespaces next? I feel spoiled.

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

When inflation surged, Türkiye cut rates and used foreign exchange-protected deposits to stabilize markets. Showing this approach created a destabilizing policy sequence and ultimately backfired, from A. Hakan Kara and Alp Simsek https://www.nber.org/papers/w34287

Trump to Erdogan: "He knows about rigged elections better than anybody. But when I was in exile, we were still friends."

“If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

The comparison of Israel to Sparta is literally what Hannah Arendt predicted would happen back in 1947.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The storied institution that employs arguably the most important living social scientist of our time is ratting them out to the government along with their colleagues just to placate a genocidal regime. Unbelievable shit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

She was, in a sense, my boss for a few years. At least she signed my checks—often earlier than necessary. So I wish her well! www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...

As the AKP systematically removes the democratically elected opposition, the argument becomes "you have to obey the courts or you lose your democratic legitimacy"

Cleaning the new CON-70 was so awful that I ended up throwing it into the trash. How the hell did this design get past Pilot?

the holocaust museum of l.a. was bullied by zionists into taking down a post that said “never again” also applies to non-jews

It's a joyous day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU3O...

This is pretty cool. natalie.sh/posts/bluesk...

gpt‑oss‑20b works so well. I tried it with Ollama first, and for some reason it was slow (not limited by hardware); on LM Studio, it’s lightning fast. I’m skeptical about the limits of LLMs, but being able to run such advanced models locally is pretty neat.

şahane yazı. www.agos.com.tr/tr/yazi/3534...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Mehdi Hasan is a gifted debater, but debates, and not just those against self-proclaimed fascists, are such a useless exercise.

From Dr. Abu Selmiya in Gaza: “This is far more than just an ordinary photo. It stands as a testament to the ongoing genocide targeting medical leaders and academics — dedicated mentors who taught and guided hundreds of medical students in Gaza…”

When are they setting up guillotines?

Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

Turkey's biggest LGBT group banned from Musk's X

I doubt any of these will make it onto the reader’s list (except for one), but oh well. Pasted directly from my Letterboxd ratings. #1 being What Time Is It There? and #10 being No Country for Old Men.

Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

What a smart and eloquent woman. Great interview, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

These kinds of things don't happen overnight. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...