Monday assorted links

1. Australia fact of the day: “In 2023-24, for the first time, Australia spent more on in-kind benefits (e.g. the NDIS) than on transfers.”

2. Fine-tuned chatbots seem to work as well as humans for mental health treatments in this RCT.

3. The decline in publicly listed companies is microcaps.

4. The pro-natalist movement in the Trump administration is now being treated by the NYT as a normie thing.

5. Is creative destruction from AI showing up in labor market data?

6. AI art is more likely to look like this than like Rembrandt.

7. A poll on which is your favorite Odyssey translation.