abundance, decay, and deep time
Saturday, August 15, 2026

My son borrowed the chariot once, and it killed him.
- The TEMU-ification of software, books, and music
- 72% of China-educated AI researchers now work in the US
- Did aging evolve as an immune defense against pathogens?
- Chinese poetry as a biodiversity record — the vanishing Yangtze porpoise
- Ancient fungal spores from eBay mummies are infecting buyers
- The Golem problem is older than computers
Bring something to dinner nobody else thought to look for. How it works