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New York's Xi'an Famous Foods has been selling its hand-pulled noodles and dumplings out of a ghost kitchen in Alexandria... and a brick-and-mortar location is in the works. washingtonian.com/2025/06/20/new…

Kind of interesting how small the Asian American pop share in DC is—less than 5%, lower than the national avg of 7%—especially compared to neighboring Fairfax County (~20%)

Breaking overnight: Senate parliamentarian has ruled the 10-year state AI moratorium can stay in the megabill. HOWEVER, a number of Senate GOP — like Josh Hawley and Sen. Marsha Blackburn — are very opposed to the language, so expect attempts to remove it on the floor.

I recently visited Asunción, Paraguay for a few days. Some of my thoughts on the city are linked below. What was striking was the total absence of any aesthetic coherence of the city.

Selling federal land for housing is the first real test of Democrats' commitment to the abundance agenda, and the results aren't promising. It's easy for a politician to embrace abundance at a high level. It's much harder when there's a specific policy with tradeoffs and

Countries in Africa that experienced coups from 2020 to 2023

The lengths the NYT will go to avoid having to acknowledge Chicago for anything is unnerving (For anyone interested, the 10 story Home Insurance building of 1885 is widely understood to be the first skyscraper)

Eddie Dekel and me. We met coincidentally in a shelter in Tel Aviv. An Israeli fun….

Wow, this is elegant. If time has three dimensions then three generations of particles with specific mass ratios fall out. Solves charge parity violations and quantum gravity. Makes a lot of predictions that are testable within the next 5 years. worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2…

Arc's first virtual cell model. Am very excited about where this program is going.

No, AI and LLMs are not making us stupider: thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-…

If you oppose the government selling federally owned land, do you instead think it should be aggressively buying more? or do you think the government currently owns the optimal amount and location of land?

'Stupider' is less formal than 'more stupid' and is used more in speech. Thus, stupider is becoming increasingly popular in print.

What other tech has reached its final form?

Anthropic purchased millions of physical print books to digitally scan them for Claude

LLMs don't make you dumber says tylercowen. thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-… He's 100% right, and this is a very important point.

It's interesting that American socialists are anti excellence overall, whereas in Communist Romania educational excellence was aggressively promoted to the point of overdoing it. Everything was hyper-tiered: from school to tiers of olympiad: local, county-level, national.

My excellent Conversation with Austan Goolsbee, conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/austa…, Austan Goolsbee, #Cowenconvos

I hugely enjoyed speaking with Shruti Rajagopalan, mostly about Indian environmentalism, but with some reflections on Indian socialism too. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ide… and read the transcript with references here: mercatus.org/ideasofindia/r… Shruti Rajagopalan