Friday Links: the experts take on the war in Ukraine, explosive growth via AI, movie mayhem in July and US farmland looks strong

Programming note: I am away on holiday this week (thus today’s shorter weekend reading) as well as next week, so no further letters until normal service is resumed on Monday July 10th

Notes: Summer Movie Mayhem beckons

Hollywood is worried about what’s called a Blockbuster Pileup: will ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Barbie,’ ‘Indiana Jones 5’ and ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ all survive being released in the same month? According to Variety: “The hope is that all of these films will find their audiences. However, Paul Dergarabedian, a senior analyst at C…