1. The World Bank is backing mega-dams again.
2. Good review of the new McCartney biography.
4. Pick-up truck as Pakistani status symbol.
5. “We’re building Retainit, an AI-powered game for the podcasts you’re already listening to.
We’d love to hear whether CWT listeners enjoy this AI-hosted game show for the Stephen Kotkin episode. Beta users seem to love this feature, but we’d like to gather a lot more feedback!
Our mobile app goes live in public beta next month. Our goal is to build a game that (i) helps avid podcast listeners remember 10x more from podcasts and (ii) is more fun & addictive than Candy Crush.”
6. Ideological bias in immigration studies.
7. Cook Islands plan break with New Zealand.
8. Grok estimates the impact of various economists.
9. “Roy, undeterred, pointed out that the revised legislation Musk and Trump had trumpeted as an improvement, while vastly shorter in length, didn’t actually spend any less money than the original deal.” (WSJ)
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