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- The dark horse of AI labs
- What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?
- How Tether became money-launderers’ dream currency
- The gold bull-market has a dirty secret
People are frequently critical of the energy footprint of Bitcoin. It is important to remember that Gold has a footprint too. The gangs’ involvement is spurring violence and…
- The end of the social network
I've believed for a while that social media is a dead end. Actually, more than that, it is dangerous, addictive, and bad for you. It is today's cigarette. This section foretells…
- A New Year’s interview with Volodymyr Zelensky
- When the New York Times lost its way
- The working-from-home illusion fades
- Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars | The Economist
When I was a kid I couldn't wait to get my drivers license, and as soon as I could I wanted a car of my own. Why? I suppose that it represented a sort of freedom and independence.…
- Ukraine seizes the initiative in the east | The Economist
Amazing to see the Ukraine army taking back so much territory from Russia. 🇺🇦
- The Putin Show | The Economist
This article does a great job of showing how the Russian government, through its complete control of the media ecosystem, is framing their war on Ukraine to their people. When you…
- Volodymyr Zelensky on why Ukraine must defeat Putin | The Economist
An intimate interview with Ukraine's President from The Economist. But if weakness means humanity, then it is this weakness that makes Mr Zelensky strong—and it is why the…
- Ten trends to watch in the coming year | The Economist
This list of ten trends to watch in 2022 seems spot on. Democracy v autocracy. Pandemic to endemic. Inflation worries. The future of work. The new techlash. Crypto grows up.…
- Chris Dixon and Packy McCormick on the future of crypto | The Economist
web3 in the Economist. Dixon and McCormick are both leading thinkers on this. I think it goes without saying, but they also have significant financial interest in this vision.…
- Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return | The Economist
Nearing? 😏
- There have been 7m-13m excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic | The Economist
The true impact of Covid-19.
- Cold case - The southern hemisphere skipped flu season in 2020 | Graphic detail | The Economist
These graphs of flu cases in the Southern Hemisphere are amazing. I wonder how much impact we could have on the flu by keeping some of the practices we have learned from Covid-19…
- Lexington - A river runs through it | United States | The Economist
Fly fishing and social distancing. They kept 12 feet apart, mind, while chatting and scrambling down the riverbank. This seemed not only sensible but representative of what…
- Bartleby - A manager’s manifesto for 2020 | Business | The Economist
- Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead - Open Voices
Cory Doctorow writing in The Economist about the unintended consequences of additional regulation of tech giants. Keep this in mind when you hear companies like Facebook start to…
- After 12 draws, Magnus Carlsen is once again the chess world champion - Time is of the essence
The state of Chess at the highest level is amazing. The result is human chess that increasingly resembles computer chess. Chess.com has developed a metric, Computer Aggregated…
- Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience - Programming languages
Guido van Rossum stepping down as BDFL of Python even made it to the Economist! Yay for Python making the pages of the Economist.
- Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s great scientists, has died - Physics
The world lost a bright star with the passing of Stephen Hawking. This obituary ends poetically: No philosophy that puts humanity anywhere near the centre of things can cope with…
- The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do - A memo to big tech
The Economist with a witty memo to Silicon Valley leaders on the threats ahead. You are an industry that embraces acronyms, so let me explain the situation with a new one:…
- How leading American newspapers got people to pay for news - Funnel vision
Whoa, nice call out in The Economist to my friend Jim Bernard and the work his team has been doing at Star Tribune ! 👏 That gives the Star Tribune’s funnel mathematician a…
- What men and women think about their partners’ careers and help at home
This is worth reading just for the graphs. Though it is unclear whether men or women are more accurate, many people are obviously ignorant about the reality of their partners’…
- The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore
The Economist with a very well done piece on the James Damore Google Manifesto situation.
- Twitter users sue Donald Trump for excluding them
What a crazy set of intersecting legal questions! Can the President of the United States block a citizen from reading what he says publicly? Even more interesting is the Terms of…
- The way ahead | The Economist
America’s president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle
- Lviv is not Donetsk: The Ukrainian economy is not terrible everywhere | The Economist
In 2014 Ukrainian GDP fell by 7%; in 2015 it shrunk by an astonishing 12%. The whole economy is indeed in trouble; the hryvnia, the currency, has lost about 70% against the dollar…
- The trust machine
BITCOIN has a bad reputation. The decentralised digital cryptocurrency, powered by a vast computer network, is notorious for the wild fluctuations in its value, the zeal of its…
- The latest American mass killing
WE DO not yet know why a gunman entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday and killed nine people at a prayer meeting, but in a sense it does not...
- Ukraine’s future: President v oligarch | The Economist
FOR the past year, Ukraine’s government has enlisted the help of the country’s powerful oligarchs in fighting its war against pro-Russian separatists. This week a new war opened…
- Gun violence in America: Newtowns horror - The Economist
If America is ever to confront its obsession with guns, that time is now. Americas murder rate is four times higher than Britains and six times higher than Germanys. Only an…
- The LIBOR scandal: The rotten heart of finance
Oh look, yet another place where bankers had self-serving practices that helped them make more money at the expense of everyone else. What may still seem to many to be a parochial…
- Belgian beer: Brewed force
The ceremony with which Belgian beer is poured and drunk betokens a love of beer that no other country can match. Arguments in a Belgian bar will not revolve around anything so…
- Obituary: printf(goodbye, Dennis);
Pure class from the Economist: printf("goodbye, Dennis");
- Last-Place Aversion
- Impartiality: The Foxification of news
The Economist: In the internet age, transparency may count for more than objectivity Pretty good summary of that argument.
- Fields of tears
- Men's clothing: Suitably dressed
- More WikiLeaks: The 24-hour Athenian democracy
- ‘An Atom-Based Product, Developed in Bits’
Glenn Fleishman, writing for The Economist, on the Glif project’s remarkable success at Kickstarter. ★
- A race to the top Economist.com
Why Rupert Murdoch would make a decent owner of the Wall Street Journal
- Why Murdoch wants the WSJ Economist.com
Is there more to Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones than an old man's vanity?