Longform links: neck-snapping velocity
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
7 hours ago
2 MIN READ
Books
- An excerpt from “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare” by Katrina Mason. (bloomberg.com)
- An excerpt from “The Science of Repair: How People who Believe in Facts Can Build a Better Future” by Gwen Ottinger. (behavioralscientist.org)
- A review of “Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity” by Paul Kingsnorth. (thenewatlantis.com)
- A profile of Melissa Auf der Maur, on the publication of her memoir “Even the Good Girls Will Cry.” (oldster.substack.com)
Profiles
- Peter Attia built a big public presence. His friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has put it all at-risk. (bloomberg.com)
- A profile of Trevor Milton, who’s career has been revived by a Trump pardon. (wsj.com)
- Cesar Chavez legacy is being called into question. (nytimes.com)
- How Hungary’s Victor Orban has lined his own pockets. (ft.com)
Gambling
- A first hand account of getting sucked down the sports gambling wormhole. (theatlantic.com)
- In the U.S., when will the push back against gambling begin? (giftarticle.ft.com)
Foreign policy
- Marco Rubio says no one died due to USAID cuts. That is demonstrably false. (youtube.com)
- The U.S. doesn’t have a great track record on regime change. (nytimes.com)
Construction
- Why manufactured housing has never really taken off. (construction-physics.com)
- How data centers affect our lived environment. (theatlantic.com)
- How location affects architecture. (unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com)
Longreads
- Lindsay M. Chervinsky, “From the very beginning of the United States, Americans have rejected a standing army enforcing domestic law in their cities.” (thebulwark.com)
- There’s a lot to learn from what happened from Minnesota. (nytimes.com)
- Wide swaths of the country are seeing a structural loss of workers. (panoptica.ai)
- More college-educated Americans are facing economic precarity. (theatlantic.com)
- The GIving Pledge has fallen on hard times. (nytimes.com)
- Why modern movies don’t feel real any more. (youtube.com)
- How Banksy was unmasked. (reuters.com)
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