2026-08-12

The latest addition is Currency Chaos in Argentina (Summer School), a Planet Money Summer School episode on Argentina’s Monetary Volatility, Capital Controls, and inflation routines. It adds Javier Milei, Sebastian Galiani, Jasmine Garsd, Amanda Aronczyk, Lucas Babic, Saya Date, Juan Pablo Gospino-Gomez, Neo Tango, Monetary Volatility, Capital Controls, Multiple Exchange Rate Regime, Menu Costs, Austerity, and Exchange-Rate Flexibility, while extending Planet Money, NPR, Robert Smith, Erika Beras, Argentina, Currency Risk, Currency Control Trap, Dollarized Stabilization, and Inflation Targeting. Its core synthesis is that unstable money consumes daily life: households hold dollars, visitors time purchases, workers need repeated raises, stores constantly reprice, and policymakers face the hard distinction between useful exchange-rate flexibility and destructive volatility.

The latest addition is Pump and circumstance: is China the new OPEC?, a The Intelligence episode on China’s oil-market response to the Strait of Hormuz shock, Brazil’s racist-speech criminalization, and Beer Lao’s role in Laos / 老挝. It adds Mathieu Favasse, Ana Lankas, Leonardo Lins, Beer Lao, Lao Brewery Company, Carlsberg, Demand-Side Oil Market Power, Hate-Speech Criminalization Tradeoff, and Single-Product National Champion Dependence, while extending The Intelligence, Economist Podcasts, China, OPEC, Strait of Hormuz, Brazil, Laos / 老挝, Oil Producer Supply Coordination, and National Export Branding. Its core synthesis is that market and policy power can come from unexpected places: a large consumer can stabilize oil through demand flexibility, a state can punish racist speech without fixing structural racism, and one beloved national product can be both an export success and a diversification warning.

The latest addition is 用 AI 让我们变笨了吗？｜S10E25, a What’s Next｜科技早知道 episode with 雅贤 on whether AI use weakens memory and learning. It adds Yaxian / 雅贤, Cognitive Offloading / 认知卸载, AI Guided Learning Guardrails / AI引导式学习护栏, and Neuroplasticity / 神经可塑性, while extending AI As Tutor, AI Shortcut Risk, Cognitive Debt / 认知负债, Cognitive Surrender, Desirable Difficulty, Learning How To Learn, Learning Experience Design, Memory Consolidation Windows / 记忆巩固窗口, Sleep As Daily Health Account, AI Brain Fry, AI Use Pacing, MIT, and Wharton School. Its core synthesis is that AI does not simply make people smarter or dumber: it changes which cognitive steps are outsourced, so useful AI learning has to preserve first attempts, retrieval, comparison, explanation, challenge, sleep, and recovery instead of only optimizing answer speed.

The latest addition is TikTok excluded millions from crucial safety guardrails, a Marketplace Tech episode drawing on Olivia Carville’s Bloomberg Businessweek reporting about TikTok withholding a 2021 filter-bubble safety safeguard from about 15 million U.S. users, including Chase Nasca. It adds Olivia Carville, Chase Nasca, Bloomberg Businessweek, Platform Safety A/B Testing, and Internal Safety Research Exposure, while extending TikTok, Filter Bubble / 过滤气泡, Addictive Interaction Design, Section 230, Section 230 Design Workaround, Platform Legal Causation, Social Media Product Liability, and Social Media Causation Science Wars. Its core synthesis is that platform safety is becoming a design-evidence problem: when a company knows a safeguard can interrupt harmful recommendation loops, withholding it from live users can turn experimentation, internal research, and public safety claims into litigation-relevant product architecture.

The latest addition is No.214 寻找同类：小红书、bilibili，以及五花八门的那些社区 | 中国互联网故事 26, a 半拿铁 China-internet-history episode on Xiaohongshu, Bilibili / 哔哩哔哩, and the many smaller communities that shaped mobile Chinese internet life. It adds Bilibili / 哔哩哔哩, AcFun / A站, Niconico, 毛文超 / Mao Wenchao, 曲芳 / Qu Fang, 徐逸 / Xu Yi, 陈睿 / Chen Rui, 李旎 / Li Ni, TapTap, 黄一孟 / Huang Yimeng, Keep / Keep Fitness, 王宁 / Wang Ning, LOFTER, 脉脉 / Maimai, 林凡 / Lin Fan, 即刻 / Jike, 糗事百科 / Qiushi Baike, 皮皮虾 / PipiXia, Chinese Mobile Internet Communities / 中文移动互联网社区, Lifestyle Search Community / 生活方式搜索社区, Bullet Comment Community / 弹幕共同体, Creator Trust Advertising / 创作者信任广告, and Timestamped Comment Community / 时间戳评论共同体, while extending Chinese PC Internet Communities / 中文 PC 互联网社区, Community vs Content Platform / 社区与内容平台区别, Online Community Commercialization Friction / 社区商业化摩擦, Platform Community Governance, User-Powered Content Platform, Product Container, Search-Driven Content Growth, UGC To Professional Creator Pipeline, Chinese Long-Video Platform Economics, Content Ecosystem Governance, Xiaohongshu, ByteDance, Douyin, Neihan Duanzi, 小宇宙, and Kuaishou. Its core synthesis is that mobile communities are neither ordinary feeds nor old forums in app form: they use notes, search, collections, bullet comments, creator rituals, vertical identity, anonymous disclosure, and timestamped comments to help users find similar people while still facing commercialization and governance pressure.