AI

Matters Of Scale:

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• “Utah company says it has grown human sperm in a lab and used it to make embryos: Paterna Biosciences’s technique, which uses testicular tissue, will require years more research and regulation”

Statistics/Meta-Science

Politics/Religion

• “The Inside Story Of Leverage Research 1.0: Between 2011^–₈2019, Leverage Research explored the deep psychology of Effective Altruism and Silicon Valley, then suddenly dissolved among rumors of ‘demons’. What happened?”, Lydia Laurenson 2026-07-01; “Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse: How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women”

Psychology/Biology

• “The Winning Essays for the Big Questions About AI”, Dwarkesh Patel

Technology

• “We, the Navigators at 50” (the life of anthropologist/sailor David Lewis)

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction

• “1Picture1000Words” (new creative writing contest: $1,000 for best 1,000 words about 1 random photograph. Deadline: 2026-08-31. Sequel to “Dear Aliens”.)

Misc

• Avenue QAnon (lyrics), The Indelicates, 2024-10-24:

  • “Cold War Bop”

  • “We Are The Carbon They Want To Reduce”

  • “Chemtrails”

  • “Live. Laugh. Love.”