elephants, explosions, and entropy

Saturday, November 14, 2026

I started a war over a bull I did not yet own.

1. Dwarkesh Patel: superintelligence by 2030, possibly next year
2. Elephant social networks are approaching a tipping point
3. Feynman’s 40-year-old lunch algorithm, finally decoded
4. The 32-year mystery sample in Craig Mack’s “Flava In Ya Ear”
5. Building an offline music player when your government shuts off the internet
6. Sodium-ion batteries hit 175 Wh/kg — utility scale becomes viable