THE SWAMP LOG
2025 Annual Letter: Technology is the Cake, Geopolitics is the Icing
Kevin Xu
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16 min read
We’ve Had a Nationwide Immigrant Strike Before. We Can Do It Again.
Kamala Harris has Liz Cheney Syndrome
Nate Silver
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13 min read
Assessing Brink Lindsey's "the Permanent Problem"
CPUs are Back: The Datacenter CPU Landscape in 2026
From the Old Editor: "We Care If It's True. We Don't Care Why."
Twenty-one reactions to Wuthering Heights
Henry Oliver
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20 min read
How Yelp Built “Yelp Assistant”
Israeli cabinet deepens annexation of West Bank; Cuba is running out of jet fuel; Bad Bunny vs. Trump
Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill
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Drop Site
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22 min read
Contemporary Metaphysics (2026) #401
Good Bunny. Bad Super Bowl. Defund ICE.
Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol
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The Bulwark
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10 min read
How Close Were Epstein’s Ties to Russia, Really?
Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol
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The Bulwark
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17 min read
Import AI 444: LLM societies; Huawei makes kernels with AI; ChipBench
Jack Clark
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Import AI
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14 min read
A Brief History of Xenopus
Asimov Press
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17 min read
First Draft: 🏈 Bad Trump, Good Bunny
Asawin Suebsaeng
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Zeteo
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14 min read
When Evidence Can Be Deepfaked, How Do Courts Decide What’s Real?
The Walrus
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18 min read
The Fertility Problem Is Getting Worse with Time
Richard Hanania
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10 min read
DoorDash and the dilemma of affluence
Matthew Yglesias
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Slow Boring
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13 min read
The Takaichi Era begins for real
Noah Smith
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Noahpinion
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13 min read
Monopoly Round-Up: The $2 Trillion Collapse of Bitcoin and Terrible Software Companies
Matt Stoller
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14 min read
Little Mouse
Hal Johnson
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10 min read
How the Little Guy Moved
February 8, 2026
BREAKING: I found the real "coverup" in the Epstein Files!
Michael Tracey
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10 min read
The Streaming Wars Were Just Plain Weird
Do Layoffs Work – Assessing the Wider Impact
PLA Tremors and the Chairman in Charge
Bill Bishop
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Sinocism
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19 min read
Onboarding in the Tower of Babel ("Vice Nimrod" - Part One)
PILCROW
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14 min read
Why All Mammograms Should Incorporate A.I.