Instapaper Weekly – Jun 15, 2025

The week's most popular stories Top Highlight The Gentle Singularity blog.samaltman.com In the 2030s, intelligence and energy–ideas, and the ability to make ideas happen–are going to become wildly abundant. These two have been the fundamental limiters on human progress for a long time; with abundant intelligence and energy (and good governance), we can theoretically have anything else. Save SPONSORED From DoiT The FinOps Guide Teams Actually Use doit.com Grab your free FinOps Ebook today. Get a practical roadmap plus fresh tips on forecasting and sustainability to drive smarter cloud spend. Download Now Most Popular Friday Jun 13, 2025 Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary nymag.com Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in his office on January 30. Photo: U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander C. Kubitza This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign... Save Thursday Jun 12, 2025 Vibe Coding Is Coming for Engineering Jobs wired.com On a 5K screen in Kirkland, Washington, four terminals blur with activity as artificial intelligence generates thousands of lines of code. Steve Yegge, a veteran software engineer who previously worked at Google and AWS, sits... Save Wednesday Jun 11, 2025 The Silence of the Generals theatlantic.com Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. President Donald Trump continued his war against America’s most cherished military traditions today when he delivered a speech at Fort Bragg.... Save Tuesday Jun 10, 2025 Apple’s Liquid Glass was a wild change to my iPhone theverge.com After staring at, scrolling through, and puzzling over Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language on my iPhone for the better part of an afternoon, I don’t hate it. But I also think it needs a... Save Monday Jun 9, 2025 We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state | Robert Reich theguardian.com Now that Donald Trump’s tariffs have been halted, his big, beautiful bill has been stymied, and his multi-billionaire tech bro has turned on him, how does he demonstrate his power? On Friday morning, federal agents... Save Sunday Jun 8, 2025 Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking. nytimes.com OpinionGuest Essay Listen to this article · 11:43 min Learn more By Mr. Rhodes, a contributing Opinion writer, is the author, most recently, of “After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We’ve... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2025 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 310663 · Brooklyn, NY 11231