oil, orbit, and open source dissent

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Myrto

I shared a house with Socrates, though historians still argue over it.

  1. Brian Potter on the SPR — and what happens below 300 million barrels
  2. Venetian glass beads in Alaska — before any European reached Alaska
  3. Mysterious giant radio rings in space — still no agreed explanation
  4. AI one-shotted a peer-reviewed graph algorithm paper in two hours
  5. Milton Avery — the colorist Rothko never quite escaped
  6. Why does an e-scooter feel immoral but a car doesn’t?

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