Karpathy's napkin math puts 6 billion people outside AI's door and 5,000 inside the lab. I sit in the tier between, and what moved me there was hours of building on my own hardware, not papers.

Segmented nights, Fuller's Dymaxion naps, Stampi's sailors, the Uberman bloggers, and what the science found. Read by someone looking for relief, not a schedule.

The story of the 1931 to 1932 Harlan County coal war that produced Florence Reece's song, and what the song changed in the decades after.

Two ways to fail: the weathervane that turns with every gust, and the bunker that never turns. Five moves from Darwin, Popper, Tetlock, Munger, and Feynman for being a compass instead.

Expert endoscopists' unaided detection rate fell from 28.4 to 22.4 percent after a few months beside an AI. Here is one reading of why, and what it does and does not prove.

A figure invented by a French occultist as a symbol of synthesis, weaponized for satanic panic, then flattened into shorthand for edginess. The actual story is more interesting than any of those uses.