This is where a major release, safety/capability announcement, notable departure, or board change would sit — with the one-line 'why it matters'.
Example source ↗Government-action items are grouped by jurisdiction (US / China / EU / UK). Major only — real regulation, not incremental benchmarks.
Example source ↗The AI-safety/governance Substack pieces gaining traction this week (Zvi, ACX, Import AI, Transformer…), so you keep up with the conversation, not just the events.
Don't Worry About the Vase ↗Directional shifts only — e.g. a party moving meaningfully on a policy axis. Gossip appears only where it reveals a genuine signal; the interpretation is the value.
Example source ↗What the government is actually doing — the live policy.
Example source ↗Technocratic take matched to the policy domain, from a vetted non-partisan think tank.
Institute for Fiscal Studies ↗The abundance / state-capacity thread: what's actually being built and spent.
Example source ↗Bio-policy, pandemic prep, AMR, and especially the AI×bio intersection.
Example source ↗British sources — LRB, TLS, The Poetry Review, Guardian Books. Runs when there's something worth saying.
London Review of Books ↗The daily dessert — rotating across Warhammer / considered-casual menswear (Derek Guy / illustraman register) / a fiction morsel. The bit that gets you to open it.
Die, Workwear! ↗Fridays only, so they don't pile up unread — Asterisk, LRB, Works in Progress, philosophy.
Asterisk ↗