- “Propaganda” aims to persuade.
- Will house prices keep going up? Yes — driven by rising in equality (so there’s a feedback loop). Watch this.
- Lawns are such an environmental, economic and good-taste disaster. Watch.
- Listen to this man’s suggestions on how to reduce your “performance stress”. Semi(?)-related: Testosterone therapy is not an beneficial as men are being told. Listen.
- “The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world.” True.
- Chinese authorities are concealing the state of the economy. Bad news, as undermining macro data is the first public sign of a failing system. Ask the Soviets.
- Who could have guessed: The Saudi’s “fantasy city” construction project is attracting a bunch of rude, corrupt (and probably incompetent) “experts.”
- An extra 230,000 Americans died because of their political opposition (!) to COVID vaccines.
- How Boston became the safest big city in America
- Meta is trying (hard! really!) to limit teen access to its platform, except when it comes to verifying age. Related: A curmudgeon points out all the ways that Gen-Z’ers can save time with AI — while losing whatever is left of their capacity to think.
H/T to PB