Note to subscribers: compiling a reading list is particularly tough right now because a lot of the notably good/bad/important/interesting articles are about the same thing. Rather than over-curate we’re trialing a content warning label. Anything marked 🔶 means “CW: Trump, etc”
Elsewhere on Thursday . . . 
— Payoff’s and probabilities (Morgan Stanley PDF)
— Delaware decides Delaware law has no value (Ann Lipton)
— The Many Sources of Economic Rent – Part 1: Intellectual Property (The Daily Renter)
— From comedy to brutality (NY Review of Books 🔶)
— DOGE Claimed it Saved $8 Billion in One Contract. It Was Actually $8 Million (NYT 🔶)
— It’s Easy To Save Billions In Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up (Techdirt 🔶)
— So based (Garbage Day 🔶)
— Adam Przeworski’s diary (Substack 🔶)
— The rotting of the conservative mind (Alex Massie 🔶)
— The secret pattern (Granta)
— Richard Dawkins interviews ChatGPT (Substack)
— What If We Kissed in the Smoldering Ruins of America (Today in Tabs)