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"Now it is the wealthy child who is sent out to enjoy the freedom and adventure of camps and screenless schools, while working and underclass children are kept indoors and screened up." @JohannKurtz on how our kids lost the privilege of roaming freely https://t.co/6mXSpyjQyB

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

New episode of Wading Through AI is up! Demetri lays out the factors driving the seemingly relentless need for AI companies to scale up:
https://t.co/IwnsvTnlbz

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

If you're going to come at Matt Bruenig, you best not miss

https://t.co/GLA0eG4x3p

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

You need to read this by the incomparable @SarahLongwell25

https://t.co/Xp1Im3bRpA

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

If you are a marketing leader or a sales leader, you may want to consider sending this latest newsletter post to your product counterpart or to your product-focused founder. It explains what you’ve been trying to tell them for a while.

https://t.co/lUYkvZJ9U8

[Francis Fukuyama @FukuyamaFrancis]

A New State Capitalism https://t.co/EXObcOqqBm

[Substack @Substack]

.@Zack_Fritz has the stats on pyrotechnic risks: "Firework safety has improved dramatically over the past 50 years. By weight, firework use is up more than 1,000% since the mid 1970s, while firework injuries have risen just 17%" https://t.co/b3hCnX1s8m

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A memoir by a Hollywood superagent, a Wharton prof's secrets to stronger social connections, and a harrowing scenario of how global biological warfare could unfold: summer book picks from Charles Duhigg @cduhigg https://t.co/WpIn8m06aD

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"The first draft of anything is shit" - Ernest Hemingway

[The Free Press @TheFP]

For centuries, scrolls burned to a crisp by Vesuvius seemed permanently sealed. Now AI is helping scholars recover books the ancient world thought lost forever, writes Spencer Klavan. https://t.co/pm9fuLG6IW

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Important post from @ElenaVerna

https://t.co/FrdRNaHUjV

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How do professional creatives sell their ideas to get an enthusiastic "yes"? Method Studio reveals how to craft an influential pitch, from three of the ad industry's top Chief Creative Officers https://t.co/hHWrF3Ylcx

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Read: https://t.co/jcvHxnJ3MI

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The most motivational thing you'll read this week: @sahilbloom on the seven lies he stopped telling himself - link in replies

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Stay safe y'all

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@KhoaVuUmn You got me 😂

[Helen Lewis @helenlewis]

This interview with Darializa Avila Chevalier by the New York Editorial Board is just so good. Proper, crunchy wonkish questions and follow-ups. I'm often quite down about the current state of the media but the fact this exists on Substack is so cheering:

https://t.co/jNYYWqjDNx

[Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht]

AI policy will be national defense policy. We subsidize AND constrain it. What's that logic?

Few economists think more about national defense than @RebelEconProf.

This week's newsletter is where he starts to lay out how to think about the trade-offs
https://t.co/wR2f9oV5Ra

[rayne fisher-quann @raynefq]

Wrote abt a problem with "heteropessimism discourse," which is really the problem with everything discourse: so much of it relies on a basic language that implies all our problems are new, unprecedented, and vaguely getting worse
https://t.co/cZkeZhwmGI

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

We should teach kids to appreciate this country.

https://t.co/ubuP8WWK4z