growth, encryption, and fish sauce

Sunday, August 2, 2026

Every spring, villagers drowned a straw figure of me in the river.

1. Is the Industrial Revolution actually a good AI growth precedent? The analogy is weaker than it looks
2. Anthropic’s LLM cracked a post-quantum signature scheme — but not full AES
3. 110 ten-foot vats of fermented fish have terrorized a Canadian town for 20 years
4. KYC biometric databases built to stop fraud are now powering it
5. A pink-striped seaweed spotted in 1984 finally confirmed as new species
6. The man who spent hundreds of thousands buying the world’s location data