Sunday assorted links
1. Simon Kuper on how to read a riot (FT).
2. “Did a furniture carver in Crouch End crack the code to early human writing?” (FT)
3. Mackenzie Hawkins on how the Chips Act is going (Bloomberg).
4. “Our findings indicate that a surviving [Chinese] revolutionary makes his birth county significantly more likely to receive the central government’s approval for railway investment.” Link here.
5. “Meta is decelerationist to the extent that open source AI deflates billions of dollars in gross margin that the frontier labs would’ve invested in scaling.” Link here. That is Sam Hammond.
6. Ozempic is most prominent in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
7. Travel tips from Nicholas Kristof (NYT).