Historic low unemployment plus higher minimum wages in low margin industry that has already been using more automation only means more and faster automation

DECENTRALIZE!

Study the grid. Interesting situation where the more good stuff happens on either side of the grid (renewables on one, electrification of everything on the other), the harder things get for the grid.

Great dive by Ryan McEntush

a16z.com/decentralizing…

NOT EVEN ONE MILE OF ACTUAL TRAIN HAS BEEN BUILT

NYT’s Morning Brief is now citing Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 and Substack on geopolitics now

'Across the board, key components for hardware/bio/etc are frequently 10x+ cheaper, 10x+ smaller, and 10x+ faster today than in the early 2000s.'

This One Weird Trick can improve your life and the world

Complete and utter defeat for the anti-test crusaders

Finally a sane decision from this place

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some more context on china's industrial robots

This podcast explains why this is happening.

open.spotify.com/episode/5axHxi…

How is it that a decent chunk of the world's most productive people are also total video game addicts?

couldn't agree more newcomer.co/p/we-need-self…

Medium's new policy on AI writing

This new satellite will connect hundreds of millions of people to the internet.

And ensure American warfighters stay connected and safe.

When I was growing up iMovie felt like magic despite its shortcomings. In hindsight the product I actually wanted was Captions Desktop, we just didn't have the technology yet. Now we do thanks to the great folks at Captions -- try it out!!

From the standpoint of reducing work and creating household leisure time, the three most important inventions of the last 150 years may have been the vacuum cleaner, refrigerator, and electric washer-dryer.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Regulation can kill innovation.

See our new blog on how regulatory hurdles and anti-nuclear sentiment caused cost overruns of ~$345 billion in the development of US nuclear plants - rendering nuclear energy less cost-competitive than natural gas today.

arkinv.st/4aHVkqu

I love stuff like this. We've always been complaining about the same things

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