Infinite Regress

Clayton Davis for Variety: The smartest defense is baked into the movie’s DNA.

Frequent Infinite Regress linkee Ruxandra Tesslo wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about why we can’t get new cancer cures.

Alex Tabarrok writes that it doesn’t matter if the workers’ share of GDP shrinks because of AI.

My quarterly Now page update is up.

Dan Luu: Ed Zitron’s AI prediction track record.

I did it.

Elizabeth Preston for the Audubon magazine: Are Crows Really Our Friends?

Calling it now: “quietly” is Word of the Year 2026.

Haven’t mentioned it in a while, but my move away from Apple continues.

Michael Peel and Antonia Cundy: The cowboy clinics selling unproven longevity treatments.

The more I think about Dan Wang’s book Breakneck the less I think of it.

One of many, many details at Meow Wolf Denver.

Kyla Scanlon: How to Get Rich in America.

Part deux of the rainbow bonanza in Cherry Creek North this weekend.

OK, some of it is Apple’s agressive post-processing.

Saloni Dattani: Every disease is a policy failure.

This chart is a close relative to “you are not stuck in traffic, you are the traffic.”

“How can you not like Ted Lasso?”

Tom Peteet: Do You Speak Creatinine or Cystatin C?

John Gruber: Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection.

🍿 22 Jump Street (2014) was even better than its predecessor, with the best credit sequence in recent memory.

PSA: there is a word for “the day after tomorrow”.

Apple rejected an astronomy app from the iOS App Store because “it was astrology”.

📺 Only Murders in the Building, Season 5 declined in quality by quite a bit near the middle, enough to have me stop watching.

Adam Mastroianni: Incentives are for losers.