1. Chinese modular innovation.

2. “Are you an emerging scholar passionate about scientific discovery and innovation, and interested in joining a community of classical liberal scholars for a year? We’d love to hear from you. Apply below…”  New Mercatus program.

3. State media control influences large language models.

4. The best intellectual biographies of the last twenty-five years.  An excellent thread, though it will induce you to spend some money.

5. An undervalued Jack Butler Yeats.  Up for auction, I have seen many worse paintings priced in seven figures.  Elsewhere, here are some major works up for auction.

6. Patrons seem to tip less on the weekend? (WSJ)