Ellis Hamburger: I spent seven years at Snapchat. I thought things would be different.

Source: Social media is doomed to die – The Verge

Why was America — and not just America — better at building in the 1970s?

Source: Opinion | The Story Construction Tells About America’s Economy Is Disturbing – The New York Times

Liberal, libertarian and conservative legal scholars came to surprising agreement on changes, including term limits for Supreme Court justices.

Source: Opinion | How ideological foes united on ideas for amending the Constitution – The Washington Post

But Hall’s book is worth struggling with because he’s right about two big things. First, that the flattening of the energy curve was a moment of civilizational import and one worth revisiting. And second, that many in politics have abandoned any real vision of the long future. Too often, the right sees only the imagined glories of the past, and the left sees only the injustices of the present. The future exists in our politics mainly to give voice to our fears or urgency to our agendas. We’ve lost sight of the world that abundant, clean energy could make possible.

Source: Opinion | The Dystopia We Fear Is Keeping Us From the Utopia We Deserve – The New York Times

Prioritizing “engagement” has made Twitter a hotbed of misinformation.

Source: Opinion: Here’s a simple way Elon Musk could make Twitter better | Ars Technica

RISC-V chips could give Intel Foundry Services some much needed volume.

Source: Intel’s strategy for outflanking Arm takes shape with bet on RISC-V | Ars Technica

Along with Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh and early sound recordings enter public domain – The Verge

First small-scale demonstration of a full-stack production line.

Source: Researchers demonstrate complete solar-powered hydrocarbon production | Ars Technica