Tuesday assorted links

1. Did mass species extinctions peak one hundred years ago?

2. Professional Economists Who Were Heads of Government or State, Cabinet Ministers, or Elected Members of Legislatures.

3. Brad Setser on Milei.

4. “Delegating to an AI whose alignment is unknown.”

5. Those new service sector jobs: pumpkinstylists (WSJ).

6. South Korean stock market is the best performing this year (FT).

7. SSC on various “model cities.”