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News

What’s the labor share of national income?

Wikipedia: Timeline of the far future, via Kottke.

Real Engineering: The problems with China’s space program.

[fr] Médiapart : Peut-on échapper à l’austérité budgétaire ?

[fr] Clément Viktorovitch - Libéralisme : l’idéologie maquillée en bon sens, Entretien avec Sylvie Hazebroucq.

Not Just Bikes: The Amtrak train from NYC to Toronto, and how VIA Rail managed to suck even more.

How Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris and Walz is a masterpiece of persuasive prose: a songwriter’s practical lesson in written advocacy.

SMBC: Consciousness, Half, Cell.

Tech

Game Engineering Podcast: Casey Muratori on his work experience.

Primeagen: LiChess case study.

Primeagen interviews DHH, what an excellent chat, regardless of my non-enjoyment of Rails (too much “magic”, horror stories of ex-Shopify friends).

Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene. HN.

Bop spotter.

AI

Batshit crazy AI video hallucination, via Kottke.

Shitty tech

jwz: Legendarily predatory monopolist and AI shill Microsoft wants US taxpayers to pay for their very own nuclear reactor.

jwz: Mozilla’s CEO doubles down on them being an ad company now.

The humble hyperlink, the backbone of the entire internet, is increasingly endangered, via Kottke.

Wladimir Palant: Lies, damned lies, and Impact Hero (refoorest, allcolibri).