This week’s reading, listening and watching (ending March 17 2024)

Thank you for reading Soir Bleu this week! Every Sunday I post brief recommendations or reviews from what I read, listened to or watched that week. If you have any feedback or comments for me, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Reading

• Hypocrisy is everywhere with crypto and the banks (Financial Times): Some FT journalists are beginning to understand Bitcoin. Jemima Kelly is not one of them.
• Harvard tramples the truth (City Journal): former Harvard Professor of Medicine Martin Kulldorff on the West’s disastrous COVID response and how truth can get you fired at Harvard
• Europe? What a country (Financial Times): Janan Ganesh’s somewhat more optimistic view of Europe

Listening

• Conversations with Tyler — Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism: Famous VC and founder of Andreessen Horowitz on the rise of LLMs
• All In Podcast — Tech’s “Vibe Shift: TikTok Ban and Vertical AI start ups

Watching

• Past Lives: Beautiful but slow. Two old friends who meet again for the first time in many years. Great shots of New York City.

SB’s Tune of the Week

• Can’t help myself (Alexandra Savior)

SB’s Most Read Post of the Week

🏆 The Psychological Underpass

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier’s “The bibliophile” (1862)