Relevant Articles of the week: 9/28/25

A roundup in tech, politics, etc.

Tech:

• How AI is cutting into early career tech workers by a Stanford study:

• New UHK study tinkering with hierarchical controls to achieve large improvements in quadruped robots.

• Humanoid robots are probably overrated

Politics:

• Open denial of corruption investigations by the republicans on fox news

• A data-filled report on the White House deportation efforts courtesy of WSJ

• Comey is being targeted by the WH. Is “Lock Her Up” coming next?

• India and Indian americans scrambling in response to last week’s american royal decree executive order

Miscellaneous Takes on X:

• Scenes from the ICE invasion in Chicago: From a personal perspective, this is horrifying. I don’t want to go downtown at all these upcoming weeks unless I absolutely have to.

• Terrence Tao talks about the psychology of the scaling of the modern world.

Miscellaneous Takes on Substack:

• A Monetarist Teen responds to the recent Tim Harford Article on the state of math in Economics: Also, a more favorable response by the always great Ben Golub

Trying once again to increase my time spent writing. I figure doing a newsletter (in the style of Marginal Revolution). Is a good way to convert my doomscrolling habit into something semi-useful.