boars, banners, and billion-dollar drugs

Thursday, August 13, 2026

My name became the county’s name after I died.

1. Taxpayers funded Zolgensma — then Novartis sold it for $2M a dose
2. 245-million-year-old ichthyosaur burst open with 11 babies inside
3. Wild boars are now actively hunting rabbits on Japan’s famous Bunny Island
4. Twitch opts all streamers in to Amazon AI training by default
5. Archive of 22,915 web ad banners from 1999–2001, with banner poetry
6. The Road to Nowhere — a broken New Deal promise buried in the Smokies