AI

Matters Of Scale:

• Mythos: “LLM-driven security reports disrupt coordinated disclosure”; “Behind the Scenes: Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview” (more security bugs in April 2026 than in past 15 months combined)

• “Crashing Waves versus Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks”, Mertens et al 2026

• “How Go Players Disempower Themselves to AI” (case study of cognitive deskilling and the ‘illusion of depth’ in learning)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It”, Michael Abramov; “Are Prediction Markets Good for Anything? We all know they’re casinos. It’s time to look at the data behind the froth”, Dan Schwarz

Politics/Religion

• “Notes on a non-profit [SPLC] indicted for bank fraud”, patio11

• “California has some of the last nudists left. I went to see why they’re still there.”

• “The Unexpected Pleasures of a Dirty Soda: Fountain drinks spiked with syrups, creamers, and fruit purees became a sensation among Mormon mothers in Utah. Now they’re finding fans across America”; “Crumbl, The Cookie That Broke the Internet: A pair of enterprising Mormon entrepreneurs used TikTok to cook up a $2 billion-dollar baked goods empire. Then things got personal” (Mormon addictions are interesting, but my only hot take on Mormonism is that banning “hot drinks” was probably a mercantilist protectionist policy put in place as part of nation-state building autarchy/foreign-exchange-conservation, intended to ban expensive imports of cocoa/coffee/tea—a policy which has many historical precedents in other colonies/new nations (including the USA in multiple eras). As such, the proper originalist interpretation has nothing to do with caffeine nor coffee/tea per se, and Mormons in the continental USA should be banned from not just coffee or tea, but also hot chocolate (~0 indigenous production of cocoa), imported herbal teas (which is most of them), and most ‘dirty soda’ with exotic ingredients; but they should probably be permitted yaupon tea (caffeinated, but indigenous to the USA), and regular soda (so long as it is bottled in the USA with non-imported sugar, and is not forbidden Mexican imports).)

• Dune as critique of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation

Psychology/Biology

• “Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos”, Pashchevskaya 2025 (how female bonobos gang up to murder a male)

• “I Couldn’t Escape Poison Oak. So I Started Eating It. The search for immunity from poison oak and ivy takes one reporter to unlikely places. Leaves of three, let them be…lunch?” (“I tell the tale that I heard told / Mithridates, he died old.” Immunology is difficult. I looked at some of the mentioned literature and it seems like it sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. But it seems pretty clear that it does sometimes work, so the question is just what individual differences or methodological differences influence success? I’d guess probably dose schedule is key and inconsistent dosing might sabotage efforts—at least one of the critical papers is like, “we gave them a high dose and it didn’t work!”, which doesn’t make sense if you’re trying to do gradual prophylactic Mithridatism.)

• “The Science of Blunders: Confessions of a Textual Critic”, Willis 1991

Technology

• “How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow”

• “Donlyn Lyndon, Last Surviving Creator of the Sea Ranch, Dies at 90”

• “ISSpresso Development and Operations”, Di Tana & Hall 2015

Economics

Philosophy

• “What Makes Art Great? Some notes toward an answer”, Nabeel S. Qureshi 2026

• “Grooks by Piet Hein”

Fiction

• “Pied Beauty”, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877_149ya)

• “Obituary: Daniel Calhoun, murine music author, dies at 132; Man, mouse, musician”, ctrlcreep 2024

• “The Life and Grind of the Buddha How One Prince 10×’d His Pipeline and Disrupted the Entire Suffering Vertical”