Happy Monday, or Mario Day to those who celebrate! (‘MAR10’ - yes, that’s a real thing)

This week’s picks span politics, culture, and tech - and another weird ‘game’ - so there’s something for everyone.

Anyway, enjoy this week’s curations! p.s. we love hearing which link(s) you enjoyed most - just hit reply and let us know!

Top Reads 🗞️

• Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market [No Dumb Ideas] | Reading time: 8 mins

• 50 Thoughts on DOGE [Statecraft] | Reading time: 19 mins

• Music historian Ted Gioia’s The state of the culture, 2025 [The Honest Broker] | Reading time: 8 mins

• Ludic's Guide To Getting Software Engineering Jobs [Ludicity] | Reading time: 35 mins

Get Smarter 🧠

• NASA acquires GPS signals on the moon [NASA] | Reading time: 4 mins

• Vibe Coding Is The Future [YCombinator] | Podcast (‘vibe coding’ from this Andrej Karpathy post)

• Should you be sleepmaxxing to boost health and happiness? [Harvard Health] | Reading time: 5 mins

• Of course, more AI progress — everyone is calling this China’s 2nd ‘DeepSeek moment’. Manus - the first general AI agent 👇

Detours 🦦

• It is as if you were on your phone [Pippin Barr] | Game

• A website that collects movie clips with inaccurate binocular shots [Binocular Shot] | Website

• Every cover of the New Yorker for it’s 100th anniversary [Ben Fry] 👇

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