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"...the Age of AI is likely to bring labor-market turbulence — not mass unemployment," writes TPN member @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social .
"That, as well as a more rapid rise in living standards, new and better health cures, and an overall science acceleration."
"That, as well as a more rapid rise in living standards, new and better health cures, and an overall science acceleration."
✨ Don’t expect an AI job apocalypse
Goldman Sachs sees meaningful AI-driven displacement, but little evidence that technology will permanently sideline human workers. It's analysis worth paying attention to
fasterplease.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:24 AM
"...the Age of AI is likely to bring labor-market turbulence — not mass unemployment," writes TPN member @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social .
"That, as well as a more rapid rise in living standards, new and better health cures, and an overall science acceleration."
"That, as well as a more rapid rise in living standards, new and better health cures, and an overall science acceleration."
For the first time in 52 years, coal power generation fell in China and India last year.
Electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India in 2025, after a boom in clean energy across both countries.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India in 2025, after a boom in clean energy across both countries.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s
‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:48 PM
For the first time in 52 years, coal power generation fell in China and India last year.
Electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India in 2025, after a boom in clean energy across both countries.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Electricity generated by coal plants fell by 1.6% in China and by 3% in India in 2025, after a boom in clean energy across both countries.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
🌏📉The Daily Dose via theWorld Bank 🌏📉
In 2025, poverty is projected to have fallen in 80% of the world.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
In 2025, poverty is projected to have fallen in 80% of the world.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
🌏📉The Daily Dose via theWorld Bank 🌏📉
In 2025, poverty is projected to have fallen in 80% of the world.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
In 2025, poverty is projected to have fallen in 80% of the world.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...
"I’ve found that trying to make every listening minute count inevitably becomes counterproductive," writes TPN member @chatterton.bsky.social.
"The internal pressure to optimize free time and always multitask is ultimately exhausting, not enlightening."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"The internal pressure to optimize free time and always multitask is ultimately exhausting, not enlightening."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Podcast ‘Productivity’ Trap
Maybe don’t fill every available silence with the sound of people talking.
www.theatlantic.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:33 PM
"I’ve found that trying to make every listening minute count inevitably becomes counterproductive," writes TPN member @chatterton.bsky.social.
"The internal pressure to optimize free time and always multitask is ultimately exhausting, not enlightening."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
"The internal pressure to optimize free time and always multitask is ultimately exhausting, not enlightening."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
For the first time, doctors have restored sight and prevented blindness in patients with a rare but dangerous eye condition called hypotony.
Hypotony causes the pressure within the eyeball to become dangerously low, leading it to cave in on itself.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hypotony causes the pressure within the eyeball to become dangerously low, leading it to cave in on itself.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Revolutionary eye injection saved my sight, says first-ever patient
Nicki's eye had collapsed in on itself, but a new gel injection method has saved her vision.
www.bbc.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:14 PM
For the first time, doctors have restored sight and prevented blindness in patients with a rare but dangerous eye condition called hypotony.
Hypotony causes the pressure within the eyeball to become dangerously low, leading it to cave in on itself.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Hypotony causes the pressure within the eyeball to become dangerously low, leading it to cave in on itself.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🇺🇸📉The Daily Dose via @thetrace.org 🇺🇸📉
In 2025, 41 out of 50 US states saw gun deaths (excluding suicides) fall compared with 2024 numbers.
Shooting deaths have declined for four straight years and in 2025 were lower than any year since 2015.
In 2025, 41 out of 50 US states saw gun deaths (excluding suicides) fall compared with 2024 numbers.
Shooting deaths have declined for four straight years and in 2025 were lower than any year since 2015.
January 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
🇺🇸📉The Daily Dose via @thetrace.org 🇺🇸📉
In 2025, 41 out of 50 US states saw gun deaths (excluding suicides) fall compared with 2024 numbers.
Shooting deaths have declined for four straight years and in 2025 were lower than any year since 2015.
In 2025, 41 out of 50 US states saw gun deaths (excluding suicides) fall compared with 2024 numbers.
Shooting deaths have declined for four straight years and in 2025 were lower than any year since 2015.
"You cannot change the conditions of modern life, but you are the sovereign of what enters your personal space," writes TPN member @angeladuckworth.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Opinion | Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
"You cannot change the conditions of modern life, but you are the sovereign of what enters your personal space," writes TPN member @angeladuckworth.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
🤠3 Things That Went Right This Week🤠
🇧🇷 Brazil has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
🌋The interior of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has been mapped in 3D for the first time.
💉A vaccine for Nipah virus has entered Phase 2 trials for the first time.
theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-pi...
🇧🇷 Brazil has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
🌋The interior of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has been mapped in 3D for the first time.
💉A vaccine for Nipah virus has entered Phase 2 trials for the first time.
theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-pi...
January 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
🤠3 Things That Went Right This Week🤠
🇧🇷 Brazil has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
🌋The interior of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has been mapped in 3D for the first time.
💉A vaccine for Nipah virus has entered Phase 2 trials for the first time.
theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-pi...
🇧🇷 Brazil has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
🌋The interior of Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has been mapped in 3D for the first time.
💉A vaccine for Nipah virus has entered Phase 2 trials for the first time.
theprogressnetwork.org/good-news-pi...
🇳🇴🚗The Daily Dose via @electrek.co 🇳🇴🚗
In 2017, Norway set a formal non-binding target to end fossil car sales in the country by 2025.
Last year, 97% of new car sales in Norway were electric.
electrek.co/2026/01/02/n...
In 2017, Norway set a formal non-binding target to end fossil car sales in the country by 2025.
Last year, 97% of new car sales in Norway were electric.
electrek.co/2026/01/02/n...
January 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM
🇳🇴🚗The Daily Dose via @electrek.co 🇳🇴🚗
In 2017, Norway set a formal non-binding target to end fossil car sales in the country by 2025.
Last year, 97% of new car sales in Norway were electric.
electrek.co/2026/01/02/n...
In 2017, Norway set a formal non-binding target to end fossil car sales in the country by 2025.
Last year, 97% of new car sales in Norway were electric.
electrek.co/2026/01/02/n...
Reposted by The Progress Network
Lawmakers behind Savanna’s Law say its goal is about prevention, and to give people access to information that was previously unavailable.
January 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Lawmakers behind Savanna’s Law say its goal is about prevention, and to give people access to information that was previously unavailable.
🦷That was fast!
January 8, 2026 at 9:52 PM
🦷That was fast!
"Grappling with the morality of a mission is part of life in uniform," writes TPN member @drtedj.bsky.social.
"Questioning the legality of operations shouldn’t be."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"Questioning the legality of operations shouldn’t be."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This shouldn’t be part of life in military uniform
Venezuela makes me reflect on what I never had to question in the South China Sea.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"Grappling with the morality of a mission is part of life in uniform," writes TPN member @drtedj.bsky.social.
"Questioning the legality of operations shouldn’t be."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"Questioning the legality of operations shouldn’t be."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
January 8, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Reposted by The Progress Network
NEW article by me!
We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before.
We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.
We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before.
We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.
The golden age of vaccine development - Works in Progress Magazine
The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom.
worksinprogress.co
January 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
NEW article by me!
We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before.
We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.
We can now visualize pathogens down to atoms; design vaccines in weeks; manufacture them in microbial factories; engineer them more precise than ever before.
We're living through a golden age of vaccine development, but only if we continue to invest in them.
📉🌏The Daily Dose via @ihmeuw.bsky.social 📉🌏
Since 2010, the rate of kids younger than five years old who die from lower respiratory infections has dropped by 33% globally.
Since 2010, the rate of kids younger than five years old who die from lower respiratory infections has dropped by 33% globally.
January 8, 2026 at 4:33 PM
📉🌏The Daily Dose via @ihmeuw.bsky.social 📉🌏
Since 2010, the rate of kids younger than five years old who die from lower respiratory infections has dropped by 33% globally.
Since 2010, the rate of kids younger than five years old who die from lower respiratory infections has dropped by 33% globally.
It's been 10 years since the Paris Agreement was signed.
Has it changed anything?
Let's talk about it.
Has it changed anything?
Let's talk about it.
January 7, 2026 at 11:04 PM
It's been 10 years since the Paris Agreement was signed.
Has it changed anything?
Let's talk about it.
Has it changed anything?
Let's talk about it.
"For those who look to Iran’s streets as a barometer of imminent change, the lesson is this: protest reveals the regime’s illegitimacy, but only a serious reckoning with its coercive architecture can translate that dissent into meaningful political rupture," writes TPN member Faisal Saeed al Mutar.
Iran’s Protests Confront a State Built to Survive Them
Public outrage has outpaced the regime ideologically, but not institutionally. The Islamic Republic endures because its security architecture is designed to absorb mass dissent without ceding power.
www.themiddleeastuncovered.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
"For those who look to Iran’s streets as a barometer of imminent change, the lesson is this: protest reveals the regime’s illegitimacy, but only a serious reckoning with its coercive architecture can translate that dissent into meaningful political rupture," writes TPN member Faisal Saeed al Mutar.
😮The oldest poisoned arrows have been found in South Africa!
⚱️Up until this discovery, archeologists had traced the use of poison to 35,000 years ago.
🧠The finding reinforces existing evidence that early Homo sapiens had cognitive abilities nearing the sophistication of our own.
⚱️Up until this discovery, archeologists had traced the use of poison to 35,000 years ago.
🧠The finding reinforces existing evidence that early Homo sapiens had cognitive abilities nearing the sophistication of our own.
Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60,000-Year-Old Arrows
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:33 PM
😮The oldest poisoned arrows have been found in South Africa!
⚱️Up until this discovery, archeologists had traced the use of poison to 35,000 years ago.
🧠The finding reinforces existing evidence that early Homo sapiens had cognitive abilities nearing the sophistication of our own.
⚱️Up until this discovery, archeologists had traced the use of poison to 35,000 years ago.
🧠The finding reinforces existing evidence that early Homo sapiens had cognitive abilities nearing the sophistication of our own.
📈💸The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 📈💸
Since 2000, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia have all doubled their GDP per capita.
Since 2000, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia have all doubled their GDP per capita.
January 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
📈💸The Daily Dose via @ourworldindata.org 📈💸
Since 2000, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia have all doubled their GDP per capita.
Since 2000, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia have all doubled their GDP per capita.
Finally, some good news about Huntington's disease!
January 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Finally, some good news about Huntington's disease!
"Thanks to gerrymandering and low-turnout primaries, each of America’s two major parties can control the most powerful nation on Earth with less than one-third of the population calling the party home," writes TPN member @dsallentess.bsky.social.
January 6, 2026 at 5:31 PM
"Thanks to gerrymandering and low-turnout primaries, each of America’s two major parties can control the most powerful nation on Earth with less than one-third of the population calling the party home," writes TPN member @dsallentess.bsky.social.
For the first time in the US, patients can now receive the first-ever GLP-1 pill for weight loss.
The pill's cost will be much lower than an injection.
The FDA has approved the Novo Nordisk pill for use to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as death, heart attack or stroke.
The pill's cost will be much lower than an injection.
The FDA has approved the Novo Nordisk pill for use to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as death, heart attack or stroke.
First GLP-1 pill for obesity from Novo Nordisk launches in the U.S.
The drug's cash prices are among the lowest on the market, ranging from $149 to $299 per month, depending on the dose.
www.cnbc.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
For the first time in the US, patients can now receive the first-ever GLP-1 pill for weight loss.
The pill's cost will be much lower than an injection.
The FDA has approved the Novo Nordisk pill for use to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as death, heart attack or stroke.
The pill's cost will be much lower than an injection.
The FDA has approved the Novo Nordisk pill for use to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events, such as death, heart attack or stroke.
🥰Hopeful news from @unicef.org :
👏Polio outbreaks in Indonesia and Madagascar have been officially declared over.
💉A major breakthrough in HIV prevention is bringing renewed hope to children, young people and families most at risk.
👏Polio outbreaks in Indonesia and Madagascar have been officially declared over.
💉A major breakthrough in HIV prevention is bringing renewed hope to children, young people and families most at risk.
January 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
🥰Hopeful news from @unicef.org :
👏Polio outbreaks in Indonesia and Madagascar have been officially declared over.
💉A major breakthrough in HIV prevention is bringing renewed hope to children, young people and families most at risk.
👏Polio outbreaks in Indonesia and Madagascar have been officially declared over.
💉A major breakthrough in HIV prevention is bringing renewed hope to children, young people and families most at risk.
📊🌎The Daily Dose via @yalee360.bsky.social 🌎 📊
As of 2023, 43 countries have completely decoupled their economic growth from burning fossil fuels.
As of 2023, 43 countries have completely decoupled their economic growth from burning fossil fuels.
January 6, 2026 at 4:09 PM
📊🌎The Daily Dose via @yalee360.bsky.social 🌎 📊
As of 2023, 43 countries have completely decoupled their economic growth from burning fossil fuels.
As of 2023, 43 countries have completely decoupled their economic growth from burning fossil fuels.
How do you convince dads to actually take their paternity leave?
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
How do you convince dads to actually take their paternity leave?