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• There is no ‘getting back to normal’ with climate breakdown

  July 26, 2026

  As the IPCC report makes clear, there are now only unknown and unfamiliar alternative futures that we can choose from, says political economist Mark Blyth https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/11/no-getting-back-to-normal-climate-breakdown-ipcc-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›

• Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure

  July 26, 2026

  Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/26/age-of-decadence-pleasure-ai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›

• The Truth About Gangs In London

  July 24, 2026

  I talk to top crime reporter David Matthews about the reality of crime, drugs and the “mandem” in the UK https://open.substack.com/pub/ioangrillo/p/the-truth-about-gangs-in-london?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark | WIRED

  July 23, 2026

  MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner. https://www.wired.com/story/for-taylor-swift-madison-square-gardens-controversial-cameras-briefly-went-dark/ more ›

• AI’s solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise | New Scientist

  July 21, 2026

  Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it https://www.newscientist.com/article/2580374-ais-solution-to-87-year-old-riddle-takes-mathematicians-by-surprise/ more ›

• The Case Against Skills

  July 18, 2026

  Use them intentionally, or they could make your AI worse https://every.to/context-window/the-case-against-skills more ›

• AI 2040: Plan A

  July 18, 2026

  A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence. https://ai-2040.com/ more ›

• Someone Used A.I. to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Don’t Recommend Reading It.

  July 17, 2026

  Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yFA.goGV.PyjHouzlY6S3&smid=url-share more ›

• Are LLMs Stifling Political Speech? An Assessment of How AI Models Protect Free Expression | Oversight Board

  July 17, 2026

  The Oversight Board’s first evaluation of large language models (LLMs) shows that some of the world’s most-used models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta https://www.oversightboard.com/news/are-llms-stifling-political-speech-an-assessment-of-how-ai-models-protect-free-expression/ more ›

• Visa says stablecoins will power micro-commerce in AI agentic economy | The Block

  July 16, 2026

  Visa said it expects agentic commerce to integrate a hybrid flow that combines both card and stablecoin rails at different stages of a task. https://share.google/MXkxVpoP6dAMZGGTJ more ›