Friday assorted links


1. Special tribute issue on James C. Scott.

2. Gauti Eggertsson: “I now find myself replicating papers and experimenting with frontier methods in an evening or a few days using Claude Code. That would have taken weeks before — which in practice meant I wouldn’t have done it at all.”  And yet his vision is still far too conservative.

3. Hobby tunneling?

4. More monuments?

5. The price of war.

6. Is China an expansionist power? And China fact of the day.

7. Paul Graham on branding, design, and watches.

8. António Lobo Antunes, RIP ( NYT).

9. In fact in the Gulf there are too many vulnerable targets.

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