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Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI
And vindication for Appleâs unfairly maligned 2025 reasoning paper
A Lot Of Arguments Against Immigration Are Arguments For Anti-Natalism
"The children are taking our jobs"
Sunday links: filtering out the noise
Fame Doesnât Sell Books
Something else is required, even above and beyond talent
"Writing is not a race"
If you spend any time around established literary writers, youâll be subjected to baffling advice about how itâs important not to pursue publication.
Elisabeth Waldo (1918 â 2026) Violinist And Ethnomusicologist
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Plain English
My goal when writing. The post Plain English appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
Texas is giving data centers more than $1 billion in tax breaks each year
The tax break is one of the stateâs costliest incentive programs and soon to be the most expensive of its kind in the nation.
Australian Rules Football Dreams of World Domination
The Australian Football League is a corporation that longs for global expansion. But in its greed and desperation, the league is undermining what makes the game great. Nat Fyfe thanks fans as he leave
Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
Thanks for checking in with us this weekend. Here are the most clicked on items on Abnormal Returns for the week ended...
Orion Samuelson (1934 â 2026) Agricultural Broadcaster
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Trump Making Calls
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Oscar Wildeâs Only Grandchild Reckons With the Shadows of Scandal
Elizabeth Winkler in The New York Times: On the evening of Nov. 30, 1994, Merlin Holland sat in a dim side aisle of the Ăglise Saint-Germain-des-PrĂ©s, the Paris church where, in 1900, Oscar Wilde had
For Roman Workers, Life Was Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Our images of the Roman Empire are dominated by the monuments and lifestyles of wealthy urban elites. An important new history shifts our attention to the 90% of Romeâs population whose brutally explo
Weekend Update #180: The Ukrainians Stop Pretending
Costs And Balances In Russian Oil; The Russian Spring Offensive After 3 Weeks
Sunday Poem
Two Tramps in Mud Time Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily âHit them hard!â I knew pretty well why he had
Afrika Bambaataa (1957 â 2026) Godfather of Hip-Hop
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Dragoncatcher: Tinfoil
Top Links 1070 From coalstate to electrostate. The revenge of the old economy. Killing cities. âThe stance upon the ruined abodeâ
Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze
Links 4/12/2026
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Iran War: Negotiations Fail; US Provokes with Destroyer Entry into Strait, Perhaps Pointing to Next Kinetic Moves
Today's Iran war update: As many anticipated, US-Iran negotiations failed. What comes next?
Africaâs Health Care Only Works for the Wealthy
Years of IMF and World Bank reforms have created two-tiered health care systems across Africa. In Kenya, the private sector is out of reach for most, but public health care has been wrecked by budget
The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: HĂ€xan (1922) Run Time: 1H 45M
HĂ€xan is a movie about superstition, paranoia, and the abuse of power.
The Dollarâs Special Status: Sources and Threats
Will the backwash from Iran threaten our monetary hegemony?
Pluralism in practice
Teaching with and without AI
A peculiar mixture of omniscience and impotence â Electrostates & physics
No.398 â A scathing LLM YouTuber â âWe ran a business LARPâ â Making Sense of Slow AI â Solar power and chili peppers â Skeleton of Three Musketeers hero dâArtagnan
All My Conversation Partners
by Eric Schenck Over the last 10 years, Iâve learned three languages. Egyptian Arabic, German, and Spanish. And the best thing Iâve done for each one? Meet with quality conversation partners so I can
An Undemocratic Union Was Key to CĂ©sar ChĂĄvezâs Sexual Abuse
The horrifying revelations of CĂ©sar ChĂĄvezâs widespread sexual abuse of young women and girls were in part rooted in the culture of unquestioning loyalty and top-down dictation that ChĂĄvez established
US Revisits Georgiaâs Black Sea Port as Strategic Corridors Rise
After failed color revolution attempts, Washington tries reset with Georgia as it seeks to control Middle Corridor access to Black Sea.
Half of Us Have to Put the Knives Away
by Peter Topolewski âWilcox married a police officer who worked crime scenes. He gave her advice on how to protect herself from an attacker: She should always carry keys in her hand when she walked to
Israel and the US Have Been Waging War on Iranâs Development
From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iranâs technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iranâs rulers, they have ta
The New Millennium
by Anton Cebalo The film The Matrix famously froze its simulation in the year 1999. It was chosen as the alleged peak of human civilization. What unknowns might the new millennium bring? Many were und
Lessons from Atlantic City
Everything dies, baby, thatâs a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
How to Make the Impossible Possible: Cristina Campo on the Crucial Difference Between Hope and Trust
âWhat are we, anyway, at our best, but one small, persistent cluster in a greater ferment of human activity â still and forever turning toward, tuned for, the possible,â Adrienne Rich wrote in her cla
Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity
âThe Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to order it to perform,â Ada Lovelace inveighed upon composing the worldâs first algorit
on choosing a life you love
your life is the way you choose to respond to the circumstances
#341 Misaligned Expectations
What to Expect from the Islamabad Talks, Pakistan's Role in the Talks, and Geography Comes Back to Bite
Episode 51 - When What Other People Do Just Doesn't Make Sense
we sometimes get people wrong by assuming they're more like us than they are
Jamaica Kincaid: âI find England uglyâŠI hate England; the weather is like a jail sentenceâŠthe food in England is like a jail sentenceâ
Jamaica Kincaid: âI find England uglyâŠI hate England; the weather is like a jail sentenceâŠthe food in England is like a jail sentenceâ
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