AI costs, power outages, and painted moons

Monday, August 24, 2026

Theseus took me from my people and I bore him a son.

1. AI’s free lunch is over — Fable’s pricing changed everything
2. Aaron Swartz prosecuted for 70GB; Meta torrents 80TB with no consequence
3. 12 days without power in Gary, Indiana — 99mph winds, a third in poverty
4. Training AI to paint by writing editable code — and the hard problem is the reward function
5. Does public nudity actually improve body image?
6. New Zealand startup first to confine plasma in a levitated dipole reactor