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Favorites: Reasoning Traces, Model Exploits, and Chatbot Tics
August 23, 2026 — A 1% property tax hike cuts home prices 22%, Nate Silver's model calls Texas Senate race Lean D, a chart maps GDP per capita across…
 • David Watson
Favorites: Walkable Streets, Warming Deaths, and Wartime Grids
August 19, 2026 — VS Code runs inside a terminal window, Nate Silver frames Ossoff and Harris as a pincer on Newsom, San Francisco crime falls below…
 • David Watson
Favorites: Chess Sets, Currency, and Cyber Sabotage
August 6, 2026 — A French trial links daily AI chats to more loneliness, Michigan's primary ends with gracious concessions, Trump's 'voluntary' AI…
 • David Watson
Favorites: Minecraft Clones, Mosquito Drones
August 2, 2026 — San Francisco cuts its inclusionary housing rate to 5%, Claude maps the Iliad's Catalog of Ships and flags translation errors, Trump's…
 • David Watson

July 2026

Favorites: Housing Hearings and Hypersonic Freight
July 30, 2026 — A cybersecurity eval runs Anthropic's models with no sandbox, California draws 51% of May electricity from solar, a Berlin FT commenter…
 • David Watson
Favorites: Reward Hacking, Drowned Cities, and Kosovo
July 23, 2026 — Grad students now make up a quarter of UAW membership, US prisons shrink as crime falls, confidence in higher education keeps sliding.
 • David Watson
Favorites: Senate Deals, Dementia, and Traffic Routing
July 12, 2026 — Texas weighs gutting its property-tax advantage, New York finally scraps a residential cap, Washington legalizes scissor stairs.
 • David Watson
Favorites: Massing, Shovel Blades, and Attention
July 10, 2026 — Platner earns nothing from the oyster farm that defines him, a single infusion cuts LDL cholesterol by 62%, a professor moves the final…
 • David Watson
Favorites: Hidden Words, Prediction Markets, and Clean Power
July 6, 2026 — Ukraine salutes the American Dream, Tom Clancy trashes The Sum of All Fears on its commentary track, Ossoff imagines the founders touring…
 • David Watson
Favorites: Birthright Citizenship, Border Panic, and Bridgewater
July 2, 2026 — Advanced-degree pay bumps reward useless credentials, the median Supreme Court vote drifts right by arithmetic, Caplan sours on the…
 • David Watson

June 2026

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