Wednesday assorted links
1. A new taxonomy of work, for the AI era. Thread here. 2. On Morel’s Invention (NYT). 3. Iranian brick architecture. 4. How do non-profits use cash windfalls? 5. The…
1. A new taxonomy of work, for the AI era. Thread here. 2. On Morel’s Invention (NYT). 3. Iranian brick architecture. 4. How do non-profits use cash windfalls? 5. The…
1. The Romans and sex. 2. Apartments that expand at the touch of a button. 3. Has this guy composed more songs than anybody else? 4. Psychoanalyzing Elizabeth Holmes. 5.…
1. Planets more habitable than Earth? (NYT) 2. Those new service sector jobs: “Cambiar de vida: cómo irte a contar pingüinos en la Antártida por hasta 2500 euros al mes.”…
1. Palo Alto Networks (cybersecurity firm, check out YTD). 2. OAI doing math again. Quasi-Riemann! And just one metric of import. 3. The AI agents pitching literary magazines. 4. Redux…
1. It seems there is no evidence for the concept of a fertility rebound. 2. We will tell children nasty stories, but mostly only show them positive images. 3. Deregulation…
1. Diving northern gannets. 2. Guatemala update. 3. Tech-utopian project coming in Uruguay? 4. “Toy sales among adult-only households have now outpaced households with children for toy sales, growing 16%…
1. Competitive market behavior with LLMs? 2. Prophets of the Marginal Revolution. 3. The university after AI. 4. Which African nations are spending on education? 5. @mattyglesias: “In an all-or-nothing…
1. Crime and drunkenness map of England and Wales (that was then, this is now). 2. Cesar Aira says he will stop writing. 3. Toward a post-cultural state? 4. Madrid has…
1. Ruxandra on AI and the remaining roles for humans. 2. The buildings of university architecture departments. Most of them I like. 3. Dean Ball on the coming of untethered…
1. At least one in four NFL players, and possibly much higher, ends up with brain disease (NYT). As I read the results, probably most of them do. 2. On…