Tuesday assorted links

1. Pre-history of progress studies and links.

2. Do institutional investors raise housing prices? 

3. Alex Sarr leads the NBA in blocks.

4. History LLMs.

5. The new Middle Eastern Cold War.  Likely to be one of the better and most important of essays from this year.

6. What did Mondrian borrow from Marlow Moss?

7. “An AI artist named Sienna Rose has 3 songs getting streamed in the Spotify top 50 and I’m pretty sure nobody knows it’s an AI artist“