My Picks

Jimmy Fallon Pokes Fun at Trump’s ‘Pinky Herman’

Trade deals need to be set in strategy, not expediency

Revisiting those colliding blocks that compute π

Evicted

How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

Why can’t India’s government build a decent website?

Herbalist and author Rachelle Robinette on rebalancing how you work and live

Short Squeeze as a Service

The Art of Losing and the Art of Beckoning Love Back: The Story Behind One of the Greatest Poems Ever Written

Opinion | The Congressional Stock Trading Meme

Has Rick Ross Used His Luxury Home Gym Yet?

India’s scheme to attract dollar deposits from abroad is fine—but pardon local rupee savers their envy

Losing my religion

Open Thread 439

Strategies Are Not Algorithms

Comet Ice

New orca behavior unlocked. They’ve been known to sink...

Brazil Lost 80 Percent of Its National Museum Collection in One Night. Here's How It's Fighting to Rebuild

Home-schooling is taking off

How Will Jhana AI Transform Legaltech in India? - analyticsindiamag.com

Loss aversion is not what you think it is

Why Americans can’t seem to quit Little House on the Prairie.

Nammalvaar – 2987

HOLY RIVERS OF TAMIL NADU

Seeing like an agent

Jane Austen July Vlog #2

The Curious About Everything Newsletter #45

Storytelling — Just Add Dinosaurs

Any thoughts about Morrison’s Animal Man?

Women’s progress at work is stalling

Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else

RFK Jr. Has Packed an Autism Panel With Cranks and Conspiracy Theorists

Time Change

The Weekend With Jean Pierre Consuegra

Consciousness Is a Continuum, and Scientists Are Starting to Measure It

It’s 2020 and you’re in the future

Tuesday assorted links

Safety at the End of History

The Odiyans of Malabar

Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Looking for work

Amish Shah Wins Democratic Primary in Swing Arizona House District

The Supreme Court Is Building Its Own Massive Police Force

Of friends who use coding agents heavily, the happiest seem to fall into two camps: a) Controlled: 1-2min cycles, no context switching, still in control of the code, using the agent "to type faster" b) Delegated: Vibed in the background, while something else (eg design) is their primary focus

Think ‘Shark Tank,’ without the teeth

John and Yves Berger’s Letters on the Nature of Art—and the Art of Nature

aesthetics (junkyard of notes, links)

VIX and buy signals

Political minefields: On the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Wooden Way: A Cross-Pennsylvania Pilgrimage to the Golden Age of Thrills

Indonesia gives its best-known entrepreneur a decade in jail

31 Products In Amazon's "Most Wished For" Section That Are Totally Worth The Hype

Flux 3

Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh

There’s Nothing Provincial About This Three-Volume Icelandic Saga

Rahul Gandhi, Opposition are amplifying youth concerns. BJP government is stifling them

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp

Dassault Systemes to Buy ArisGlobal for Up to $2 Billion

Never trust a T-Rex

Do Cats Experience FOMO?

Why Oil Doesn’t Explain Trump’s Venezuela Gambit

The first bottle had borne a hand-drawn label of a red snake surrounded by blue squiggles, and no…

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Percent

‘Voices in the Mirror’ Honors the Legacy of Pioneering Photographer Gordon Parks

Five Indians students win silver in global school debate contest - The Hindu

Mnemonic portraits for 19,023 human genes

Tomato Cheddar Toasts, Anyone?

Against truth

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?

Oil Prices Roar Back, Threatening Economy and GOP’s Midterm Hopes

India’s F&O boom needs adequate protections

Are you more likely to die on your birthday?

In the Future, Every AI Lab is a Neocloud for Fifteen Minutes

Chartbook 234: Whither China? Part III: Policy hubris and the end of infallibility

Business

The Best Cake Slices in NYC, According to Food Baby

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026

The White House’s MAHA Gatekeeper

Nordic Knots Turns the Tennis Court Into a Graphic Rug Collection

America should not imprison frontier AI

Five Inspirations | Ratchapoom Boonbunchachok

Coming of Age in Florida’s Turbulent Waters

U.S. Military Presence in Jordan Makes It Iranian Target

‘Extraordinarily Profitable Fiduciary Rapport’

Use This Time of Crisis to Be Transformed

Tesla Profit Falls Even as Car Sales Rebound

Casa Antonio®

How Can Anyone Trust This Crew With Anything?

Electronics can now be printed onto living tissues

Piaule Catskill Feels (and Tastes) Like a Deep Exhale

Ahead of the India-US deal, strike a careful balance