Tiny bits of good news out there

When social media usage is tracked to measure actual consumption on phones & not self-reported, political content consumption follows a power law, w/ the vast majority of impressions & watch time coming from a very small # of power users, most interactions are v. short & variable

Note to self: never underestimate your ability to see patterns where there are none.

Fukuyama explains why AI is not going to solve most of our problems. In the material world, intelligence is not the bottleneck

The Econ Nobel prize this year goes to Twitter account Bob63728 for his impressive work on "Isn't This Obvious?" and "Any people can just tell you that without a study."

Daniel Kahneman being lumped in with grindset writers

Veblen wins again: "Many of the guests on its leafy terrace spend more time photographing their cocktails than drinking them." economist.com/finance-and-ec…

"Haha look at this nerdy, bootlicking conformist. That's so cringe, dude, everyone is laughing at you. Nonconformity is what makes you cool, how can you not know that? Everyone is doing it but you. Read the room."

Ah yes... Woke Disney continues to struggle.

I give up.

The Blue Jays last appeared in the World Series in 1993 and yet have won a championship more recently than any Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup.

its crazy that our whole economy now is seven different guys in silicon valley each trying really hard not to be the first to run out of stock-pumping schemes

Another war brought to an end by Donald Trump.

Hearing the Toronto Rangers were primed for a big year until the FBI started sniffing around...

What if gambling wasn’t legal or illegal, but a secret third option: We build a magical glowing city in the middle of the desert where all vices are legal, but the system also regulates itself by making you feel really gross if you’re ever there for more than a few days.

Every startup now is like "We found a cool way to monetize undermining the social contract!"

Quite an epic AI typo in The Journal today. The Paramount exec is named Cindy Holland and they wrote “Cindy the Netherlands”

There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.

Some excellent analysis from the folks at LISPOP. ⬇️