Thursday assorted links

by Tyler Cowen November 28, 2024 at 11:36 am

1. The Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi has a Cinnabon on its ground floor.

2. “The UK police detained 3.3k+ people for ‘online trolling’ in one year, and they’re *doubling down* on this policy.”

3. More minimum wage debates.

4. Can architecture reveal the spread of purdah?

5. Drones to map and follow buses?

6. How much should we trust developing country gdp?

7. David Wallace-Wells on the Covid contrarians (NYT). And from Zeynep (NYT).

8. “Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results.”

9. The drone intrusions are probably Russia?

10. Hurdles to DOGE (NYT).