Instapaper Weekly – Aug 24, 2025

The week's most popular stories Top Highlight AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event theatlantic.com Good enough has been keeping me up at night. Because good enough would likely mean that not enough people recognize whats really being built–and whats being sacrificed–until its too late. What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises? What if we spend so much time waiting and arguing that we fail to marshal our energy toward addressing the problems that exist here and now? That would be a tragedy–the product of a mass delusion. What scares me the most about this scenario is that its the only one that doesnt sound all that insane. Save Most Popular Friday Aug 22, 2025 The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants vox.com Late Thursday afternoon, the Supreme Court handed down an incomprehensible order concerning the Trump administration’s decision to cancel numerous public health grants. The array of six opinions in National Institutes of Health v. American Public... Save Thursday Aug 21, 2025 Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make bloomberg.com Hi everyone, and welcome to a special edition of Game On about a very special game that we’ll be playing quite soon. It’s surreal to write, but it’s true: Silksong will be out on Sept.... Save Wednesday Aug 20, 2025 There’s Something Very Dark Happening to Millennials and Gen Z Adults slate.com Illustration by Hua Ye Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. About 3 million Americans die every year. Compared with other... Save Tuesday Aug 19, 2025 ‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? theguardian.com Daniel Rothman works on the top floor of the building that houses the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, a big concrete domino that overlooks the Charles River in... Save Monday Aug 18, 2025 The End of Handwriting wired.com People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An... Save Sunday Aug 17, 2025 College Students Have Already Changed Forever theatlantic.com A college senior returning to classes this fall has spent nearly their entire undergraduate career under the shadow—or in the embrace—of generative AI. ChatGPT first launched in November 2022, when that student was a freshman.... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2025 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 310663 · Brooklyn, NY 11231