September 2025

Friday, 26 September 2025

Libertarianism, 13, Dies in Argentina Chainsaw Accident

Gil Duran: “… collapsing institutions, chronic inflation, and the awkward realization that screeching about free markets doesn’t put bread on the shelves.”

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Study finds hidden fingerprints on our hottest days

Sarah DeWeerdt, Anthropocene: “By tracing the chain of causality back from extreme events to climate change to individual emitters, the analysis could contribute to a legal basis for establishing responsibility for heat waves and implement the ‘polluter pays’ principle.”

Monday, 15 September 2025

War for Ukraine Day 1,298: Putin’s Polish Gambit

Adam L Silverman, Balloon Juice: “My professional assessment is that Russia has now directly and intentionally attacked NATO member states. These are acts of war. These states, and NATO, need to accept reality and respond appropriately.”

Sunday, 14 September 2025

The iPhone 17 Event: Less Awe, More Unsexy & That’s A Good Thing

Om Malik: “The new iPhone 17 Pro only proves that they are the only company that will spend hundreds of millions to build a new cooling gizmo for the phone. … Most companies do vaporware. Apple does vapor chambers.”

Tuesday, 2 September 2025

Stop pretending you know what AI does to the economy

Noah Smith: “… most of the ‘new-graduate gap’ appeared before the invention of generative AI. In fact, since ChatGPT came out in 2022, the new-graduate gap has been lower than at its peak in 2021 … the recent rise in college graduate unemployment is entirely concentrated among men; women are doing just as well as ever.”