viruses, ambition, and 120,000 drawings

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Nine levels stood between every soul and its end.

1. A retrovirus silenced brain-development genes in chimps — but missed humans entirely
2. 200,000 creative jobs gone in four years — is AI the culprit?
3. 1,000 artists, 120,000 hand-drawn pages, all three hours of Fellowship of the Ring
4. A Postgres rewrite in Rust that’s finding real bugs in Postgres itself
5. Peer-reviewed paper on shadow libraries cites sources that don’t exist
6. Nikon microscopy contest winner disqualified — scientists spotted structures appearing from nowhere