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Here are the books that ChatGPT recommends that you read about itself: fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

WHATEVER your goals for the energy system are, rising energy bills are going to stoke more anger towards incumbents. Every incumbent needs a plan to deal with this issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Corruption is a small investment for these corporate donors: “Fourteen of the two dozen publicly named corporate donors face federal enforcement actions or have had such actions suspended by Trump administration officials since the start of his second term, the report states.” wapo.st/4hD7dm0

“Don’t boo. Vote.”

I don't live in Lexington (I'm in the next town over), but I found these op-eds fascinating. Lexington is where the American Revolution started 250 years ago and has since remained a low-density suburb BY DESIGN. What kind of town does it want to be in the future? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/o...

November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/31/n...

Knickers

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

I thought this was a very good essay. Title and subtitle: "The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn from China". Last week my class read Mazzucato's "The Entrepreneurial State" and next week is McGee's "Apple in China", so it is particularly well-timed. www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr...

I asked my grad students to summarize chapters 6, 7 ... no response.

lol look what they hid under the insole

Thanks to @bmcnoldy.bsky.social & @drkimwood.bsky.social for help with this story. We were all struggling to find sufficient words. “It’s this frustrating combination of, scientifically speaking, we know this is possible, but as humans we are flabbergasted at seeing manifest in this way.” -Kim 🧪

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane: STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

Send prayers and support to Jamaica. wapo.st/47u2iz4

This is not only a climate emergency. It is a cultural one, shares Anchorage Daily News. buff.ly/zUpOkHe

Last week I walked the East River waterfront in Lower Manhattan, a portion of the city I worked on in NYC government 20 years ago. Visited the new seawall, the new Seaport area, and Edison’s Pearl Street Station site on Fulton Street.

There are still heroes in journalism. “On Sunday, the newspaper inserted an acknowledgement of the Amazon donation into the editorial – but only once [ @bgrueskin.bsky.social ] noted its absence in a social media post and made inquiries at the paper. It did not flag the alteration for readers.”

One year ago

It's almost as if a major portion of the city was built ignoring this: "In all, 99 percent of what’s been built in the Seaport in the last quarter-century is at risk of flooding by 2050, according to a recent analysis from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council." apps.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/metr...

Oof, this is going to get way worse before it gets better. What a headline! When is the NBA going to realize that this is inevitable? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

As I've said before, and will undoubtedly say again, gambling degrades fans, players, and the beauty of the game. I sincerely hope that the NBA decides that the extra money is not worth the headache of this overshadowing an otherwise awesome start to the season. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

There are many uncertainties in this article except this one: "Worldwide, some 230 million people live less than a meter above sea level, and 1 billion people are within 10 meters of sea level." www.quantamagazine.org/how-soon-wil...

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

A great Monday morning read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/w...

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NYT leading with some story about Santos rather than the largest protest event since 1970. A reminder that the collapse of news into entertainment is one of the reasons we got here.

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

These words work if read with multiple emphases.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Boston understood the assignment. Home of the orginal #NoKings protest.

Boston. Wow.

Chicago “No Kings” protest was over 2 miles long. Pritzker got a huge ovation when he addressed the crowd. Chicagoans do not take kindly to the National Guard and ICE invasion. Trump and the GOP should be very scared. #NoKings #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!

“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

This story is worth reading, especially the part starting last week with “Media School Dean David Tolchinsky terminated Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush on Tuesday afternoon after he refused to censor the Indiana Daily Student.” www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Surveillance pricing: “Loyalty programs have inverted the concept of loyalty: Instead of rewarding frequent customers, companies may actually be charging their loyal customers more.” wapo.st/477Ly1X

Must-read. The entire Trump administration is hostile to government, but Vought is the most dangerous bc he actually knows how it works: “I can’t imagine that the DOGE team knew to target all these little parts of the government without Russ pointing them there,” www.propublica.org/article/russ...

I re-read all of the earlier novels this summer, and was bowled over by how magnificent and funny they are. I sped through this new one too quickly, but the sentence and scene that Scott highlights here does stand out in my memory. The new TV season is just ok so far. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Your daily reminder that THE CONSTITUTION says that Congress appropriates money, and 80 years of law since WW2 says that government cannot be arbitrary and capricious in executing the law, say only for certain states and programs. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/17/s...

Good job Penn and USC! Though it would have been even more powerful if all of the universities, you know, coordinated their rejections ... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Education is the necessary first step: "The confusion over why bills are going up is pushing voters to learn more about the power grid than they ever cared to know." wapo.st/3W6hqgY

The problem with critiquing “everything-bagel-liberalism” is that everything-bagels are far and away the best flavor.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

Many more articles like this are coming across the US .... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

This is uniquely-California-weird: wapo.st/4q5wR6S

A thoughtful appreciation of slow science and “plodding curiosity”. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

TFW you are sorting your time-stamped project files, and realize that the project started six years ago ....