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John Ellis
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Editor, podcaster, dog(s)-owner.
Patents. Private credit. Polio. 13 billion light years from Earth. The Last Refuge., by @EllisItems substack.news-items.com/p/the-last-r...
The Last Refuge.
The last penny.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Breaking our brains as we sleep through the night. The finite international zero-day marketplace, o3, the OpenAi browser, scraping, measles, Harvard, and...betting on catastrophes. A full plate. substack.news-items.com/p/breaking-o...
Breaking Our Brains.
How to prove lies.
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July 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Lightbulb Moments.
Tiny nose robots.
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June 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The building blocks of life. Genetic expression. Smaller fish. A cascading insurance crisis. All that and more in today's edition.. substack.news-items.com/p/building-b...
Building Blocks.
Smaller fish.
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June 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Think Together. Peace! Populism! Putin and The Edge gets an Irish passport. substack.news-items.com/p/think-toge...
Think Together.
The legacy survey of space and time.
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June 24, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Gillian Tett, Bombs away, No water for Pakistan. Will the socialist win the New York Democratic Mayoral primary? Weekend Edition. substack.news-items.com/p/weekend-ed...
Weekend Edition.
An unparalleled map of the night sky.
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June 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The secret dossier. Point of No Return. substack.news-items.com/p/point-of-n...
Point of No Return.
Inside the spy dossier that led Israel to war.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Events in the Saddle. Riding mankind. A lot going onn in today's News Items. substack.news-items.com/p/events-in-...
Events in the Saddle.
Zombie cells.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Missing Matter. And lots more, in today's News Items. substack.news-items.com/p/missing-ma...
Missing Matter.
Trump Mobile.
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June 17, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Jerry Seib on One Big Beautiful Bill. Clear-headed, clearly written and well-sourced as always. open.substack.com/pub/politica...
One Big Beautiful Bill
Squaring the circle.
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June 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Quantum Starling., We have a bitcoin strategic reserve and no rare earths strategic reserve? Huh? substack.news-items.com/p/quantum-st...
Quantum Starling.
Is News Items getting dumber?
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June 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Pegged to the Dollar.
Fierce lethargy.
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June 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Embryo Editing, nukes, vibe hacking, Qaeda on the march....all that and more in today's News Items... substack.news-items.com/p/embryo-edi...
Embryo Editing.
Unnatural selection.
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June 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Strokes, HIV/RNA, Bots, Hassibis, Lasers. All that and more in today's edition of News Items. substack.news-items.com/p/facts-and-...
Facts and Consequences.
Think Ahead.
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June 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Everything App. And lots more in today's News Items. substack.news-items.com/p/the-everyt...
The Everything App.
A result never before seen.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
1 million casualties, cutthroat car wars, the end of ad agencies and much munch more. All in today's News Items. Headlined: Chandelier Neurons. substack.news-items.com/p/chandelier...
Chandelier Nuerons.
Cutthroat price wars.
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June 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
$600 Drones, Polish election results, Nvidia, Waymo and more! substack.news-items.com/p/600-drones...
$600 Drones.
Destroyed $7 billion worth of Russian aircraft.
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June 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Norwegians driving EVs. Oil and Water. Kash Patel 's museum of the 'deep state'. That and more in the Weekend Edition of News Items. substack.news-items.com/p/weekend-ed...
Weekend Edition.
Oil and water. Norwegians driving Teslas.
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June 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Fake My Run. The Doudna Machine. Section 899, Poland, Hummingbirds. All that and more in today's edition of News Items. by @EllisItems substack.news-items.com/p/fake-my-ru...
Fake My Run.
A milestone in lazy technology innovation.
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May 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Ukraine, Poland, Mexico unraveling, AI leaders talking, Andreessen Horowitz on GEO and yours truly on the geo- politics of AI. Unremitting Complexity. substack.news-items.com/p/unremittin...
Unremitting Complexity.
Colorful Chicks.
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May 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Bride of China’s Frankenstein. Need I say more? substack.news-items.com/p/bride-of-c...
Bride of China’s Frankenstein.
Nobody was in the driver’s seat.
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May 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Iranian Truckers. A tidal wave of debt. Wall Street transformed. Tghey're called CFOs! substack.news-items.com/p/iranian-tr...
Iranian Truckers.
A “tidal wave” of debt.
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May 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Lizzie Lee, Wolfgang Munchau, George Will, Elon Musk and Abraham Lincoln. All in today's Weekend Edition: The Intelligence Explosion. substack.news-items.com/p/the-intell...
The Intelligence Explosion.
Memorial Day Weekend Edition.
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May 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Not heard of direct lithium extraction? It's to lithium what fracking was/is to oil and gas. That and a number of other striking stories are in today's News Items. Enduring Consensus., by @EllisItems substack.news-items.com/p/enduring-c...
Enduring Consensus.
Extreme fiscal undiscipline.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM