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weekly link roundup (November 2, 2026)

It’s (US) Election Day! If you are an American citizen, go vote! But also: even on Election Day, there are links.

  • This week in , Akhil Bansal and Georgia Bradley argue that now-cheap GLP-1 injector pens can improve emergency medicine b...
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weekly link roundup (October 27, 2026)

  • Is migration scalable? This week in , writes about how Nepal used migration to reduce extreme poverty.

    • is collecting reports of discrimination and harassment in EA and AI safety. EA can be a bleak place to be a woman, and I am glad...
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weekly link roundup (October 21, 2026)

  • This week in , we explore one of the big questions in development: is there anything that can replace the factory as an engine of growth?

    • has a very good new piece on how countries should think about growth post-AGI.

    • Foreign ide...

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What was JD Vance up to at that immigration press conference last week?

Good question!

tldr:

Good job helming a trillion-dollar company, Satya. Now let’s make sure it doesn’t happen again. Sources: WSJ and IndiaWest.

Background

On Thursday, JD Vance announced two new initiatives aiming to - depending on...

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weekly link roundup (October 14, 2026)

this week’s list is being written at 35,000 ft while on a lot of cold medication. it may not be coherent.

  • This week, hosts a Lant Rant.

  • Anthropic is hiring social scientists to train Claude to be a better social scientist.

  • N...

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  • Luke Eure

    The US should be Talent-Maxxing. Working on this at Lighthouse HQ, writing about it here. Striving to be one in the multitude of drops. Not idly sitting.

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    Caroline is an Associate Professor at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Her research explores the cause and consequence of scientific capacity in low- and middle-income countries.

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