- In Finland, national security is a shared responsibility. (CSM)
- New Female Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Cuts to Early Warning Systems Are Leaving the U.S. Unprepared for Summer Floods
- What Trump Trade Policy Has Achieved Since Liberation Day
- Here’s How Much Aid The United States Has Sent Ukraine
- New Paper on GenerativeAI and Productivity Growth
- Can ChatGPT Exist Without Fossil Fuels?
- Should Food Stamps Pay for Soda? (NYT)
- Global inequality is the result of two centuries of uneven economic growth
- Weird bet on AI. More here.
- Is the Box Office Becoming More Top-Heavy?
- Live Music Industry Shatters Records in Post-Covid Comeback
- How to Deliver CSU’s Gen Ed with AI
- The Hard Right Comes for Japan
- Canceling “The Late Show” Is Bad News for Late-Night TV, Not for Stephen Colbert (NYT)
- You Can’t Just “Control” For Things – Statistical control that is.
- Why US tariffs are deflationary for China
- As Trump comes for Murdoch media, Fox News faces a bind (WP)
- How China Curbed Its Oil Addiction – and Blunted a U.S. Pressure Point (WSJ)
- On Ukraine’s Front Line, a Sky Full of Killer Robots (WSJ)
- Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money?
- Southwest Airlines will start assigned seating in January 2026 (WP)
- From Roman London, a Jigsaw Puzzle for the Ages (NYT)
- China’s ‘New Consumers’ Don’t Want a House. They Want Labubu and Bubble Tea. (WSJ)
- ChatGPT Agent: a big improvement but still not very useful
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Ramblings From Benson
Mostly Dross
Ramblings From Benson