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Book of the Day

Katherine Rundell says it's a mistake for adults to discard children's literature

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If you turn to children's fiction, you can, I think, find what endures of us when all our adult compromises and poses are stripped away. You can, I think, find the very meat of the human heart.

Book of the Day

'Seasons of Fury' traces the roots of Islamophobia in the United States

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The way the judges have justified putting people in prison is by saying, 'We don't know if solitary confinement or decades in jail will make them more radical, and therefore we need to keep these defendants in prison for longer.' And with that logic, no one can actually win their freedom.

The Origins Podcast

Physics for Everyone, #4. The Beating Heart of Modern Physics: The Dog Who Didn't Bark in the Night.

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The most beautifully symmetric object in physics is not the intricate snowflake or something like that of Mcsher but rather once again coming back to my cow as a sphere a sphere. There's nothing more beautiful than a sphere because there's nothing more symmetric than a sphere.

The a16z Show

The Next Frontier of AI Video Is Control

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the next challenge may be less about speed and more about control, from camera movement and lighting to characters, motion, and lip sync

Hidden Brain

Why Conversations Go Wrong

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We assume that what's in our head is plain to see to everyone around us. But the thoughts and feelings we have are invisible to others. And when we forget this, and communicate as if our inner world is on full display, conversations go wrong.

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How to Promise and How to Keep Promises from Breaking

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Even the most sincere promise is but a tenuous handshake — not between us and others, but between our present selves and our future selves. Nothing is more discomposing to our self-image than watching ourselves break a true promise on the edge of the awful recognition that our future selves are only ever a fantasy of who we would like to be, not a prediction of who we will become.

Fresh Air

Colin Kaepernick is still fighting – for justice and for his football career

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The NFL tried to send a very clear message that if you protest police killing Black folks, if you fight for a better society and better community, we're going to try to take your career from you. I don't accept that that is going to be the end outcome of this, and will do everything I can to make sure that I change that narrative.

Fresh Air

Is Jared Kushner a 'walking conflict of interest'?

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And so these two very smart real estate guys, not knowing the history, not knowing the complexities, they can parachute in and they can make peace because they're smart and they're quick and they're not burdened by all the baggage of the past.

stratechery.com

Salesforce AI Force, Agents as UI, The Race to Headless

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Salesforce is abandoning UI as a moat, which is a very smart move because it's disappearing for everyone.

The Prof G Pod

America’s $40 Trillion Debt Is Actually Fixable | Office Hours

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Budgets reflect values and our values right now or our tax system reflects our values. Our values are that sweat is less noble than money. And that is the money money makes gets taxed at a lower rate.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]

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The really great venture investments have tended to come from areas that very few people, at the time of first investment, thought would amount to anything. And the skill is in identifying those areas before they become fashionable, before they become obvious, before everybody is clamoring to invest in them.

Diet TBPN

METR and AI Regulation, Zuck Pushes Back on AI Slowdown, Fed Hikes Rates | Diet TBPN

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You can be 22 years old, not graduate from college, go into the Navy, enlist in the Navy, not even in the officer training program, and in 18 months you can be responsible for the security of a nuclear power plant on a submar. Your pdoom on nuclear is completely irrelevant to you doing this job, right?

The Business of Tech

Big Tech’s power problem is bigger than antitrust

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Nations are increasingly spending time trying to regulate what big tech companies do. The content they host, the ads they sell, the harms their algorithms cause to teenagers. But we always never look at what they are, the legal architecture that the state itself hands them.

Pivot

Why is Everyone Freaking Out About AI Right Now? | Pivot

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We have never in the history of the modern economy had a trillion dollar industry that is totally unregulated

The a16z Show

The AI-Native CRM

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Keith believes intelligence can replace much of the rigid schema behind traditional software, and what changes when AI has enough context to reason about a company and its customers.