Moche disk, gilded copper, 200 BC to 600 AD. The animals are deer.
The Moche hunted deer by driving them into nets, and this net design
may symbolize a deer hunt.
Excellent Tyler Cowen interview with archaeologist Kim Bowles about the Roman economy, good corrective to lots of nonsense economists have spouted about it.
Still uploading chapters of The Voice from the Darkness at Royal Road.
According to US government data, American women aged 40-44 now have a higher birth rate than women 15-19. The most fertile age group is now 30-34. (Twitter/X)
An economist takes a serious look at theories that say the exploitation of African slaves caused the industrial revolution.
Ukraine captures a Russian position using only air and ground drones.
Nigeria's religious censors ban most erotic writing, so local women have turned to publishing their erotic work on WhatsAp. (NY Times)
A vast gray market has emerged in GLP-1 drugs, with people using them to treat everything from addiction to concussions. (NY Times)
Being around babies makes people want babies. (Twitter/X) I suppose this is one reason why fertility decline seems to accelerate once it gets going.
Great Scott Siskind piece on Viktor Orban and the sliding scale from democracy to dictatorship. A sample: "I spent the first half of my writing career calling out biased left-wing experts, the flood swept all those people away, and now we’re ruled by germ-theory-denialists and Waffle-House-teleporters. Not a day goes by that I don’t want the old biased experts back. To paraphrase Cormac McCarthy, you never know what worse institutions your bad institutions have saved you from."
A claim that AI is causing the collapse of online communities for writers.
Unique circular temple of the Hellenistic period found in Egypt.
"Mirror towns" as a partial solution to Britain's housing crisis, short video on Twitter/X.
Noah Smith says it is our consumer choices that define us as individuals: "on a personal level, it seems clear to me that the standard story we grow up hearing — that your job is what makes you you, while what you consume is dictated by corporations — has it exactly backwards. Consumption shapes you into a unique individual, while your job exists at the whim of the collective." And this mighgt become even more important after AI takes your job.
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