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History offers warnings about technological optimism
Paul Krugman
Jun 07, 2026
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/ai-and-the-pitfalls-of-innovation?r=3azmy&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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The Old Campaign Playbook Is Dead
How do you win elections in the era of social media and AI? This week on Galaxy Brain, Rob Flaherty, the deputy campaign manager for Harris’s campaign, joins Charlie Warzel to discuss this new media landscape and its implications for future campaigns.
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Dear President Ozymandias
Look on his works and despair.
NYTimes: Two Comedians Walk Into a … Friendship
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America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/opinion/project-2025-2029-democrats.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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The War Trump Can’t End
“In a zero-sum negotiation, Iran’s monomaniacal focus is a greater currency than American military power,” @ksadjadpour argues:
Use It or Lose It
America’s core freedoms can be guaranteed only if citizens exercise them, @AdrienneLaF writes.