Sunday assorted links
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1. His office. 2. The South African bi-oceanic railway. 3. Ethnic politics and class politics. 4. AI-generated preview is going viral, what is the chance they make the movie now? I will pay to see it. Is this a new method of movie evaluation and greenlighting? 5. Ezra Klein on the permitting bill (NYT). 6. […] The post Sunday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .
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