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At least five things for your weekend (#30) - by Noah Smith

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Some weeks there’s not much to write about, and then some weeks stuff just all seems to happen at once. This week is one of those. There’s Biden’s State of the Union, the latest attempt to ban TikTok, a very important primary election in San Francisco, and more. I’m going to be writing about all of those events in the next few days, but in the meantime, my list of interesting things to write about is getting unmanageably long. So I’m going to have to do a few more and longer roundups, just to keep on top of everything. Anyway, first, let’s do podcasts. My friend Stephanie Sher (a tech investor and AI person) and I did a very interesting appearance on our friend Noor Siddiqui’s podcast, which is called Conceivable. Noor runs a startup called Orchid that does genetic screening for IVF, so she talks about a lot of topics related to fertility and childbearing. Steph wanted to do an episode about dating and romance in the tech world, and I somehow ended up getting roped into this. It’s not

At least five things for your weekend (#30) "Are we better off", the economy of Dune, energy abundance, wacky polls, doomscrolling, anger about interest rates, and visualizing urban density Noah Smith Mar 09, 2024 265 52 21 Share Some weeks there’s not much to write about, and then some weeks stuff just all seems to happen at once. This week is one of those. There’s Biden’s State of the Union, the latest attempt to ban TikTok, a very important primary election in San Francisco, and more. I’m going to be writing about all of those events in the next few days, but in the meantime, my list of int

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