Tech Monopolies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) youtu.be/jXf04bhcjbg via @YouTube

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What's interesting in light of these data is that the price of Brent is quite steady and not particularly high. Does the "market" know something? Or is behaving irrationally? I guess we'll know in a few months. nytimes.com/2026/06/12/busin…

I just open sourced my "Is this slop?" simple test

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Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left, and the consequences could be even more disastrous. youtube.com/watch?v=KpTZbq-e…

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Justin Ehrenhofer and Luke Parker discuss the history of Generalized Bulletproofs and the desire to implement them in Monero with FCMP . RSS feed for it, until they set up an official one: media.rss.com/plaintext/feed… x.com/MagicGrants/status/205…

"We now live in a world where populations are on the verge of crashing...Educated urbanites now have birth rates far below replacement...The modern world could turn out to be an evolutionary proving ground just as intense as the Bronze Age" thefp.com/p/humanity-is-stil…

Highest and lowest fertility occupations for American women

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got nerdsniped by @BloodReaver to finally release this - also added sound effects! apps.repebble.com/ed8f618edf…

This u-shaped curve is present in other countries too, e.g. the U.S. It's clear to me that modernity subdues the desire to reproduce in most people, and the availability of contraception and abortion makes it easy to have sex while avoiding pregnancy. As fewer people have children, we see the gradual collapse of the social infrastructure that both supports parents and also cajoles young adults into becoming parents. Having children comes with trade offs, especially financial, and most modern people just don't care enough about having children to tolerate those trade offs, especially when it comes to having big families. Three things seem to inoculate against this: 1. Having an unusually strong desire to have children, and a willingness to tolerate the trade offs, usually motivated by a sense of spiritual purpose (@CRPakaluk's book is superb on this). 2. Being a member of a religious subculture that has preserved its pro-natal social infrastructure. 3. Being either so rich that the financial trade offs don't matter very much, or so poor that the welfare state will absorb those trade offs on your behalf. That seems to be what's happening with the u-shaped chart.

"In the modern era, dogs originally bred to be our sentinels and hunting companions have proved to be very effective at what biologists call brood parasitism. That is, they (unwittingly) exploit the parental instincts, resources and care of another species, much like cuckoos who leave their eggs to incubate in the nests of other birds. The American Time Use Survey reveals that the average amount of time spent on pet care has risen persistently in recent decades. Americans are spending less time with their friends, less time caring for elderly relatives, and the birthrate is at a record low. Into this lonely breach, the dog has emerged as a willing receptacle for emotions that might otherwise be directed toward humans." My column on "pet parents" for @WSJFreeEx wsj.com/opinion/free-express…

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This probably looks bad to people outside of tech, but let me tell you its infinitely worse than you think. This speaks to a team so incompetent I would believe theyre illiterate.