Mark and I caught up on Friday and as usual there was a lot of link sharing and discussion of the world. He shared this gem of a post from ye olde days of 2010.
New Aesop Rock is coming.
AI is getting very good at fighting health insurance denials. What do you have to lose?
The new new Superman looks good. I’m kind of excited. Feels like we kinda need a Superman right now.
Tyler Cowan on “Liberation Day”:
This is perhaps the worst economic own goal I have seen in my lifetime. I cannot think of any credentialed economist colleague—Democrat, Republican, or independent—who would endorse it.
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Skylight Social won’t make a dent in TikTok and maybe that’s not the point. Regardless, I think short form video is doing serious harm to our attention, especially in kids. All that said, it’s nice to see things happening on the AT Protocol.
Jon Haidt’s appearance on The Ezra Klein Show was a good listen. If you’ve read The Anxious Generation, you will have some idea of what to expect, but I thought the conversation was insightful and Ezra’s questions were generally good. He’s had some great guests on recently.
People will die. Diseases will not be cured. Treatments will not be developed. And so on. This is very very bad for America.
I’m excited to play around with ente, a new open-source, encrypted and private photo service and app that has been in the making for some time. I’m not sure I can be bothered to switch away from Apple Photos and Google Photos, which I find to be a better product, but I love ente’s mission.