Instapaper Weekly – Jul 5, 2026

The week's most popular stories Top Highlight Toward a Marxist State Theory of the Socialist Market Economy cosmonautmag.com The socialist market economy did not emerge from a theoretical blueprint. As Brdsgaard and Rutten document, it was the product of a specific and contested historical process unfolding across four decades of reform. The 1978 Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee inaugurated substantial economic reform, and in doing so, opted to retain central planning as a primary mechanism of development. By 1984, the Twelfth Central Committee's Decision on Economic Restructuring introduced the concept of "planned commodity economy" the first official acknowledgement that commodity relations were compatible with socialism. The 1987 Thirteenth Congress produced the formula "state regulates market, market guides enterprises." After a period of retrenchment between 1989 and 1991, Deng Xiaoping's 1992 Southern Tour and the Fourteenth National Congress established the socialist market economy as the official goal. The SME was not theorized in advance and then implemented; it was rationalized in the course of being built, under conditions of political contestation Save Most Popular Friday Jul 3, 2026 Half-Baked Product weli.dev The Founder A freshly minted founder decides to get into the oven business. He can’t bake a cake or knead bread, but he knows the kitchen appliance market inside and out. He’s analyzed every business... Save Thursday Jul 2, 2026 BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story theverge.com Twenty-five years ago today, a young, little-known programmer by the name of Bram Cohen fired off a short message to a mailing list for peer-to-peer enthusiasts. “My new app, BitTorrent, is now in working order,... Save Tuesday Jun 30, 2026 ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI theguardian.com In 2017, a 33-year-old political philosopher named Iason Gabriel was told by a friend that he ought to apply for a job at DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Google where much of its AI research... Save Monday Jun 29, 2026 The Vibe Has Shifted Back nytimes.com Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times OpinionDavid Wallace-Wells Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times Listen · 16:58 min June 29, 2026 Remember the vibe shift? In 2024, first as the election approached and then after Donald Trump’s... Save Sunday Jun 28, 2026 The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age theatlantic.com This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Remember when AI was going to take away our jobs and leave humans with nothing to do? So... Save Saturday Jun 27, 2026 Om daringfireball.net Om died two days ago, after a long battle against a bum heart. Om and I often sat next to each other at Apple keynotes. This was not at all surprising or odd, insofar as... Save instapaper.com  ·  @instapaper  ·  unsubscribe © 2026 Instapaper, All rights reserved. P.O. Box 310663 · Brooklyn, NY 11231