link.dump.06.04.2026

nazis, pinecones, Christians, and gamers

dumptruck of pinecones

I read a lot of random stuff. Link Dumps are the things I think are worth remembering. You can always check out my Link Dump Tag if you’re looking for even more to read and please forward to anyone else you think might find these interesting.

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1. Nazi leadership had stellar IQ scores. One of the more elegant condemnations of measuring intelligence I think I’ve ever come across, even if it wasn’t intended to be a condemnation.

2. Multiple Discovery gets a deep dive with Derek Thompson. A favorite topic of mine.

3. Noah Smith talks about the big messaging pivot with AIs.

4. Pinecone Cowboys! This is a hell of a job and an interesting piece, though I think it’s interesting that coming back to it one of the subjects of the piece was concerned enough to call them up about their reporting.

5. Chicago Cubs argue that, legally, just because you can see the Cubs playing from a restaurant doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be paying the Cubs anyways.

6. A Mental Model for Agentic AI Work. This is one of those pieces that does an amazing job in recontextualizing something in a way that I find very valuable.

7. Triumph of Capital by Matt Yglesias is worth saving just to come back to his graph. Holy hell, talk about disparity.

8. Weird projects I shipped with AI. I envy Sean Goedecke’s gumption in doing this stuff when he’s done with his day job but I’m not interested in emulating him much...some very cool shit though.

9. NYT has a good piece on Texas senate hopeful Talarico’s Christianity. Texas will be answering soon I guess.

10. YouTube surpasses Netflix for number of daily users.

11. Two thirds of Americans between 5 and 90 are gamers. That’s kinda fucking cool.

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