transformers, Gandalfs, and second-hand everything
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Yama and I came from the same womb, different destinations.
- Using the entire rail network as a flatbed scanner
- One P&G employee with AI equals two humans — randomized trial of 791 workers
- Solid-state transformers demonstrated in the real grid — half the power loss of conventional
- Gandalfs protest Thiel’s Buenos Aires home — singing football chants about palantirs
- Is new phone culture finally dead?
- 90 years of coin-op binoculars at American overlooks — Tower Optical finally sells some
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