Tuesday assorted links

1. “Montana Man Sentenced for Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting.“

2. Dikembe Mutombo, RIP (NYT).

3. Rick Rubin asked me to make for him a Spotify playlist of some of my favorite classical performances.  Quite subjective and arbitrary.

4. How are “Top Five” publications distributed across economics departments? And the spreadsheet.

5. “The IRS says American hostages who had been held in Russia for years still have to pay the full penalties under the law for failure to file their taxes while they were trapped abroad.”

6. The artificial sublime.

7. Apologies, there was an error in the “France fact of the day” post, explained here.

8. Claims: “basically one thing that’s happening globally right now is that american ideological strains escaped from america. they’re incredibly potent and while americans have been selected for resistance the rest of the world is naive. basically brain smallpox but for the old world”

9. Switzerland and Italy redraw border due to melting glaciers.

10. NotebookLM.  Beats the Turing test, to say the least.