https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/well/mind/executive-function-tips.html

Pretty good really.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/hbo-max-warner-bros-discovery.html

Why they merged then split. Daytime TV fair doesn’t work for a streaming audience.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake

Semaglutide goes generic in Canada. Maybe invasion delayed while Canada supplies US market?

https://www.dot.state.mn.us/roundabouts/safety.html

No wonder they are popular. Crashes tend to be low consequences vs t-bone of running an intersection.

https://www.startribune.com/trump-races-to-fix-a-big-mistake-doge-fired-too-many-people/601368798

Musk takes the blame. Fed workers needed big raises before DOGE, raises will need to be bigger now.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/08/apple-research-lrms

Encouraging sign that we have hit a hard AI limit for at least a few years. The longer the better.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-golden-age-of-resignations

People with courage and convictions.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-7-2025

An antidote to MAGA lies.

HCR has very much seized her moment. Historians arise.

https://www.twincities.com/2025/06/08/real-world-economics-bonds-part-2-how-this-affects-us/

A very clear explanation that includes appropriate caveats. The balance of debt vs inflation seems inherently unpredictable.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/common-misconceptions-about-covid

I liked this update.

“many of the guidelines … simply hygiene theater”

https://cepr.net/publications/saving-journalism-will-require-some-new-thinking/

Someone agrees with me.

“every adult in the country would have the right to give $100, regardless of whether they owed taxes or not”

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-curious-incident-of-the-trade

Trade negotiator comments are enlightening.

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/corruption-in-plain-sight-is-still

Our culture is broken. It isn’t just legacy media.

https://www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-great-maga-crack-up

This is all you need. Read and feel better.

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/06/03/2155

Apple feels like America. The numbers seem good but it is broken inside. Apple feels know it is broken, eventually investors will figure it out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/asia/vietnam-two-child-policy.html

That demographic transition, driven by female education and falling infant mortality, is as close to a law of physics that sociology has.

It cannot be stopped. Revealed preference applies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/canada/trump-canada-province-trade-beer.html

Canada, where I grew up, is weirder than most understand. The provinces behave more or less like loosely federated nations.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2025

There is a lot of wiggle room in the word “notify”.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/service-costs-arent-exploding-anymore

Not what I expected. This essay deserves a discussion.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cognitive-decline-cover-up

A cover-up led by the NYT.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/06/03/sky-preview/

Time to relaunch Claris to hold everything not OS.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-chinese-drones-could-defeat-america

The NYT devoted a lot of effort to destroy Joe Biden and minimize his achievements and goals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/forensic-genetic-geneology-dna-babies.html

Babies stillborn or left to die by mothers later identified through DNA tracing.

“In England, Canada … infanticide is a separate crime from murder”

https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/

We need journalists trained in anthropology to explain our world. I’m really curious about the female side of this ideology — I suspect they do exist. I’d also like to learn about the surgeons that do cosmetic orthognathic reconstructions (the real deal is $$$$ and technically hard). Fascinating but disturbing tribe.

Terms I learned of: hardmaxxing (surgery), softmaxxing (gym), mogging (emulating arrogance), mewing (it’s funny, not scary).

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taurine-revisited

Lots of interesting taurine physiology.

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-summer-and-confusion-measles

I read this as no major change in ability to get vaccine but uncertain insurance coverage where “shared decision making”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/ai-data-centers-private-equity.html

Reminds me of “dark fiber”. Overbuilt during .com bubble. I think much was used before it was technically obsolete.

Big tech usually leases rather than owns, not clear who Blackstone will sell them to.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/mexico-and-the-road-us-democrats

MAGA without the tax cuts? He doesn’t talk about corruption and its consequences. It is not a grim essay.

The key point is her popularity, similar to Putin’s numbers.

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent-history-of-ai-in-32-otters

I learned things. Good explainer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/business/gen-z-bar-etiquette.html

I never liked tabs. It’s not a Gen Z thing really.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/world/canada/canada-hudsons-bay-stores-closing.html

I remember their glory days.

https://www.twincities.com/2025/06/01/real-world-economics-bond-primer-part-1-understanding-the-market/

Good solid stuff.

https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/go-the-fk-to-therapy

“I have never met anyone more in need of therapy in their life …

… You killed an estimated 300,000 people, mostly children, in your first month working for the federal government”

I suspect his last psychiatrist told him he has a schizoaffective disorder and recommended antipsychotics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/federal-workers-musk-doge.html

The salaries of fed workers are going to have to rise quite a bit. It was already very hard to hire due to low compensation, now there’s no trust.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

“Some current and former Palantir employees have been unnerved by the work.”

Palantir is high grade evil. This sounds similar to China’s social credit database.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/trump-vance-morality.html

Of all the weird things in my recent life, one of the weirdest was developing a modicum of respect for David Brooks. I didn’t give enough credit to his chronic concerns about community and values (social capital). He was right, I was wrong.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/villainy-2

Zach W Classic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.YA7T.1z0vkogrzeCV&smid=url-share

Allegedly he actually go tested. I find that hard to believe. Lots of psychedelics and boatloads of ketamine

“He has denounced traditional therapy and antidepressants.”

He and RFK likely bond over there Scientology-like psych hatred.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/new-route-asthma-treatment-through-liver-all-places

Liver screens out problematic cells. In mice but encouraging. Fixing asthma would be cool.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/taco-trade

It’s probably over as an investment strategy, but the TACO memes do enrage Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/science/dwarf-planet-nine-discovery.html

Not every day we add a planet to the solar system. Even a dwarf planet.

“Pluto, Eris, the large asteroid Ceres … beyond Neptune, Haumea and Makemake” and probably 100 more.

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-age-of-twitter-is-finally-ending

“many of the smartest users have left the platform, so that replies are dominated by activists, trolls, and bored people tossing off rote statements”

More concrete data than I usually see. I wonder if Smith is going to break with Musk. If Noah is abandoning X it’s officially dead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/stock-market-trump-tariffs.html

Buy on the bad news, sell after the chicken squawks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/haiti-erik-prince-blackwater-gangs.html

“expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer.”

“U.N. officials have warned that the capital is in danger of falling under complete criminal control.”

Biden / UN effort failed. So now it’s foreign mercenaries. Prince is said a bad name in the mercenary industry.

https://thenewstack.io/mcp-is-rss-for-ai-more-use-cases-for-model-context-protocol/

I am delighted Jon is writing on this topic. Deserves carefully study

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/homelessness-baby-boomers.html

“he reveled in sports and neighborhood friends but mostly felt lost in class.”

“Analyzing census data at 10-year intervals, he found that throughout their lives late baby boomers had been at least 1.5 times as likely to become homeless as people born roughly a decade later.”

As parents of two dependent adults we think of this every day. Our estate planning is the most complex thing we have ever attempted — and we have loads of degrees and expertise and a reasonable estate. Most such dependents live with parents until the parents die.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/driverless-semi-trucks-aurora-innovation.html

It’s unclear from article what the remote control vs autonomous balance is. They were expected 5-10y ago. Texas is probably best geography.

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-can-do-without-41d

“The Trump family and its business partners have collected $320 million in fees from a new cryptocurrency, brokered overseas real estate deals worth billions of dollars and are opening an exclusive club in Washington called the Executive Branch charging $500,000 apiece to join”

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-we-wrote-in-the-new-york-times

Our son is disabled. The paperwork is obscene. It only makes sense as a way to deny services.

Separately, implementing a work requirement in a non-punitive way would greatly *increase* the cost of Medicaid coverage.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/dogs-humans-emotions/

Sadly journalist doesn’t specify dog left or observer left.

I got 100% on the quiz.