deskilling, bread, and bird flu

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

I made the sickle my son used to free me.

1. Jason Furman: he’d pick AI over 20 PhD economists at the CEA
2. Cooking causes 83% of London’s midday fine-particle air pollution
3. A scientist racing gene therapy to cure his own cystic fibrosis
4. The pretraining data commons was an accident — posttraining has no equivalent
5. Are we deskilling our bodies the way GPS deskilled navigation? One of the more unsettling essays this month
6. Fleming may not have actually discovered penicillin the way the story goes