Longform links: the decline of books
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
11 hours ago
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Global
- Germany is spending big to revive its rail system. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- Sweden’s wage inequality is markedly lower than the U.S. (arindube.substack.com)
- Why Russia has hobbled its own internet. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- North Korea’s economy is booming. (wsj.com)
Musk
- SpaceX, like Tesla ($TSLA), is above all a big bet on Elon. (bloomberg.com)
- Nothing Musk says, or does, seems to affect his businesses. (axios.com)
AI
- The non-AI companies have benefited from AI. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- How back office jobs are put at risk by AI. (nytimes.com)
States
- States are going out of their way to subsidize data centers. (popular.info)
- ICE detention facilities are going up whether localities want them or not. (bloomberg.com)
Longreads
- How finfluencers can make extravagant claims and get away with it. (noemamag.com)
- What does it mean to have unlimited digital storage? (libertiesjournal.substack.com)
- How the destruction of USAID helped the Ebola wave spread more quickly. (slate.com)
- Adam Gopnik, “The most American thing about the American Revolution was its revolutionary claim that belonging need not be fixed by birth, blood, or station, that citizenship could be chosen, extended, and remade.” (newyorker.com)
- Putting your name on a box of Oreos is commerce, not art. (experimental-history.com)
- Marriage is not just one thing. (theatlantic.com)
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