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SEIU Delenda Est
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Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day
Plus: Anthropic, Iran, and midterm voting
Open Thread 423
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Superintelligence is already here, today
It's going to revolutionize science. It also might take control of this planet.
Open Hidden Open Thread 423.5
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2028 Republican primary draft
It’s really hard to know what comes after Trump.
Something feels weird about this economy
Is it AI? Tariffs? The immigration crackdown?
If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?
Thoughts on the fight between Anthropic and the Department of War.
Japan can be America's arsenal
A guest post by Rie Yano.
Is a new teacher better off in Mississippi than in New York?
Generous school spending doesn’t always deliver results
America should be less involved in the Middle East
We need to let friendly countries in the area sort out their own problems.
100 years of increasing leisure
Plus Matt Mahan, true beliefs, A.O.C.’s foreign policy gaffes, and more
Lobsters and the limits of neoliberalism
We don’t need an abundance agenda for *everything*
Gas prices are set to go vertical
It's not exactly a bold prediction to suggest this will be bad for Trump's political standing.
Can Talarico win in November?
Plus, were prediction markets right or wrong about Texas? And did Talarico beat Crockett because he was more moderate?
Solar in poor countries is creating a huge lead hazard
Off-grid systems use cheap old-fashioned batteries that aren’t recycled properly.
The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis
Listen now | Qasar Younis on why staying under-the-radar helped him build a $15 billion company, why emotions are a filter that distorts decision-making, and why the real AI revolution is happening in the physical
AI Tooling for Software Engineers in 2026
Claude Code dominates tool usage, leaders are more positive about AI than engineers, staff+ engineers are the biggest users of AI agents, and more. Exclusive data and analysis from 900+ respondents
How to debug a team that isn’t working: the Waterline Model
A guide to solving team problems (without always blaming the people)
War isn't what it once was
Past precedents are less useful than you'd think when predicting a war's political impact. But Iran still poses downside risks for Trump.
The anti-antisemitism movement is failing
More “calling out” by the same leaders of the same institutions isn’t going to work.
🎙️ This week on How I AI: 5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code & How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
The Library of Alexandria isn’t where most ancient knowledge was lost
Ambassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years."
Three Job Searches, Three AI Roles: What Actually Worked
Listen now | Inside the searches that landed Netflix, OpenAI, and Abridge
Walk Away From The Sea
Lives of the Wild Saints #12
You'll regret it
About nothing it is hardly worth while to waste a word
Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on building AI-powered coding tools, parallel agents, and how the engineer's role is evolving in an AI-first world.
Stop Waiting for the Storm to Pass
The One Shift That Changed Everything About How I Show Up in My Life
📊 PRO: This Week in Visuals
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VFYW: Half Of 666
As one sleuth puts it, "Hell’s Bells! This was an easy one" — for contest #498.
A Third Way for the Humanities
A Declaration
Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Why Are Tech Bros Watching Videos at 3x Speed
Our culture might be boring but it sure is fast
The Monthly Dispatch - What's New in Learning Science? - March 2026
New studies on retrieval practice, seductive details, engagement myths, reading instruction, and the cognitive costs of modern technology
Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI
Yascha Mounk and Dean Ball examine how the fight over autonomous weapons and mass surveillance reveals the impossible choices facing American AI policy.
Trump Blusters But Faces Setbacks at Home
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Bet On It Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 5
Caplan and Candor
The Worst Acquisition in History, Again
Warner Bros.
March 7, 2026
At 8:50 yesterday morning, President Donald J.
March 6, 2026
The Reverend Jesse Jackson died on February 17, 2026, at age 84.
The NFL Media is Structurally Anti-Player
even though the people within it generally aren't
Understanding Iran
A new series
What Motivates Trump?
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
Sunday Thread + Mailbag
Ask your questions below.
🧠 Community Wisdom: Business books that haven’t aged well, vibe coding with your Figma design systems, Claude Code vs. other coding tools and more
Community Wisdom 176
The War He's Always Wanted
A moment of triumph for Benjamin Netanyahu; and of democratic collapse in the US.
How Trump's Antitrust Enforcer Andrew Ferguson May Be Pushing Up Oil Prices
The FTC said former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield helped work with the OPEC oil cartel. The Trump FTC let him off the hook. And now he's back.
Off Today
No interview this week
A History of Operation Breakthrough
Many who look at the high and rising cost of housing see the problem as fundamentally one of production methods; more specifically, that homes could be built more cheaply if they were made using factories and industrialized processes, instead of assembling them on site using manual labor and hand-held tools.
Oil Crises, Past and Possibly Future
What the 70s can and can’t teach us