Reading archive 2025-10-06

How Big Agriculture got its way in the latest MAHA report: Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off.

Government shutdowns have become normal. This one is not.: Many of the administration’s actions have no precedent, which makes it a harder test of both sides.

Riders on the storm: The birds that fly into hurricanes

How I grew a prairie on my balcony—and how you can, too

The most miraculous animal migration is happening in the middle of New York City: If we can help these creatures flourish in NYC, we can help them anywhere.

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy - and four times subprime, this analyst argues - "'So, in summary; you can't create an app with commercial value as it is either generic (games etc), which won't sell, or it is regurgitated public domain (homework), or it is subject to copyright. It's hard to advertise effectively, LLMs cost an exponentially larger amount to train each generation, with a rapidly diminishing gain in accuracy. There's no moat on a model, so there's little pricing power. And the people who use LLMs the most are using them to access compute that costs the developer more to provide than their monthly subscriptions,' he says."