Link Roundup 2026-07-05
So I used to do this sort of thing here a lot.
I'm trying it again, but here. So here we go.
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
"I advise to go long on laser tag arenas because you can definitely turn a data center into one of those. There’s not much else you can do with them, unfortunately. A bubble is a way for insiders to pump, and then dump, some mania to the normy investors, to people who’ve been flushed into the capital markets because they’ve been denied a defined-benefits pension and who are only really offered market-based pensions. That means you have to be the sucker at the table. You have to put your money into the market if you don’t want to die homeless and starving after you retire."
Jank on the sequel to one of my favourite PC games, Duskers.
[Text Me When You're Done(https://feeld.co/magazine/pleasures/text-me-when-youre-done/text-me-when-youre-done-burial-come-down-to-us)
A regular column at Feeld, but this one in particular is on Burial's beautiful Come Down To Us.
"The song he played was by the electronic musician called Burial. Possibly “song” is not the right word. It lasted thirteen minutes, during which time I re-experienced my entire life: bus rides, ice skating, Satie on the piano, a dream where I couldn’t stop running, hiding in the coat closet, pages from my diary on fire, the cold lake at night, at the hospital saying it was an accident. Snow started falling before my eyes, although it was July and I was wearing a slip dress. When it was over I felt electrically shocked."
Does Playing Grand Strategy Games Make Me a Fascist?
"One of the tropes about Paradox games is that if you play it for more than a thousand hours, you’re either a trans woman or a fascist."
Shelfies #68: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Shelfies is a newsletter where authors show pictures of their bookshelves and talk about them. That's it.
The LRB on spy author Len Deighton.