Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the changing nature of ware in the age of drones.
Quote of the Day
"Misinformation and disinformation don’t actually need to convince anyone of anything to have an impact. They just need to make you question what you’re seeing."
(Ryan Broderick)
Books
- A Q&A with Jonathan D. Cohen author of "Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling." (awfulannouncing.com)
- An excerpt from “Rich Girl Nation: Taking Charge of Our Financial Futures” by Katie Gatti Tassin. (wsj.com)
- A Q&A with Dalla Riva, author of "Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves." (numlock.com)
AI
- Joshua Rothman, "In our current reading regime, summarized or altered texts are the exception, not the rule. But over the next decade or so, that polarity may well reverse: we may routinely start with alternative texts and only later decide to seek out originals..." (newyorker.com)
- Do we really want AI to write history? (nytimes.com)
Social media
- Good luck getting help from Meta ($META) if your accounts are hacked. (theglobeandmail.com)
- How social media ruined America. (noahpinion.blog)
Medicine
- How childhood leukemia became increasingly treatable. (ourworldindata.org)
- How researchers developed a new class of non-opioid painkillers. (newyorker.com)
- How ivermectin became the go-to treatment for every ailment among a segment of MAGA. (theatlantic.com)
Longreads
- Multi-manager hedge funds are paying up, big time, for stock picking talent. (wsj.com)
- The culture war has come for the advertising industry. (on.ft.com)
- Redeveloping a big, empty shopping mall isn't easy. (nytimes.com)
- How to build a cult of personality: first make yourself inescapable. (forkingpaths.co)
- What humans learned about culture from animals. (aeon.co)
- On the power of showing interest in people. (moretothat.com)
- How 'Jaws' changed the summer movie going experience. (on.ft.com)
