2025: Review and Recommendations
Keep it in the ground?
How Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) Works?
How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Asimov Press
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28 min read
Trump's imperial goals in Venezuela; 114 killed in Darfur; Protests in Iran
Ryan Grim & Jeremy Scahill
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Drop Site
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24 min read
Welcome Back to the Office. You Won’t Get Anything Done
The Walrus
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13 min read
The Danger and Foolishness of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, Bill Kristol
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The Bulwark
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13 min read
Import AI 439: AI kernels; decentralized training; and universal representations
Jack Clark
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Import AI
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12 min read
LLM Hallucinations Are Still Absolutely Nuts
Freddie deBoer
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21 min read
Chartbook 423 Some topical material on Venezuela. Hopefully useful.
Adam Tooze
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Chartbook
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14 min read
Making Sense of the Information Ecosystem
The Rise of Masturbation, the Decline of Sex
Richard Hanania
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13 min read
America's Millennial Tolkien
Some Guy
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13 min read
The best movies of the century so far
Hal Johnson
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13 min read
Monopoly Round-Up: A Gunboat Oligarchy Goes After Venezuelan Oil
Matt Stoller
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10 min read
Don't Forget to Elaborate
Weekly Readings #204 (12/29/25-01/04/26)
John Pistelli
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14 min read
My Five Biggest Objections To Trump
Bentham's Bulldog
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11 min read
Matt McManus on George Will's "The Conservative Sensibility"
Venezuela: The Precedents
Where does a liberal go from here?
Noah Smith
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Noahpinion
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15 min read
Why You’re Bad with Money
The Walrus
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16 min read
Weekend Update #166: The Russian Strategy Would Normally Be Seen As A Failure
A new, old type of lawlessness as Trump attacks Venezuela — and an opening for a better America
Chris Geidner
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Law Dork
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10 min read
54 Observations about Mexico
Oz
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13 min read
Trump Is Going For Regime Change in Venezuela
Yascha Mounk
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Persuasion
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11 min read
200. Five Questions About the Maduro Arrest Operation
Steve Vladeck
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One First
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14 min read
8 big ideas for 2026 (and more trends to watch)
For The Record- 03. January. 2026
Kevin Alexander
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10 min read
(Largely) HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: “West”, “North Atlantic”, or “Dover Circle”?