Links: Week of 15 Aug 2026

LANGE by Joe Weisenthal. A great example of what non-coders can now do.

And another one here:

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Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil · Aug 12

This is really fun:

Someone made a little app that let's you drive a car over India's inflation rate.

Can you make it through the chaotic 1970s? Glide through the 2020s?

Give it a try: https://timeseriesofindia.com/economy/play/inflation-peaks/

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the art of staying in touch

Having moved cities over ten times myself (yes, I’m tired), I’ve begun to learn the same lesson of how distance reshapes closeness, and how friendship bends without always breaking.

I cannot repeat this enough. This should be priority #1 for everyone.

But that is not enough. Other scams are also getting more sophisticated and will get more so with AI. This is something that has been at the back of my mind for a while now.

What other defesive steps can one take? Awareness is one. Does diversifying your assets across platforms make it safer or weaker? Is there resonable insurance available for this? Even if you make a mistake and fall for a scam?

Every disease is a policy failure

In 1950, the shortest-lived 1 percent of babies born in France lived less than three months. But for babies born after that, that 1 percent started surviving longer and longer: up to six months for those born in 1960, three years in 1970, 18 years in 1980, and 25 years in 1990.

Ordinary Abundance

If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained.

I can never have too much gratitude for the era I get to live in. Perhaps the future will be even better but the difference today versus just a 50 or 100 years ago is enormous - medicine and technology are miracles.

Will factory farming fix itself?

In wealthy countries, consumers and companies have shifted to producing and purchasing more cage-free eggs. Today, 45 percent of American, 62 percent of European, and 82 percent of British hens are kept in cage-free facilities. That amounts to hundreds of millions of hens spared from cages each year. Hens get two to three times as much floor space, which means each egg costs one or two cents more to produce. Richer consumers are willing to absorb those small costs.

Men also want it all

And yet, when we asked men what was more important to them — career success or getting married and having children — 44% of men prioritized family while 41% prioritized work, around the same shares as women. Among conservative men, the share prioritizing getting married and having children was even higher.