tokens, temples, and left hands

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Vištaspa

Zarathustra spent years at my court before I finally listened to him.

  1. Maya wall formula rivals ancient masters — and names the astronomer who wrote it
  2. Data centres accidentally made batteries cheaper than gas peakers
  3. Benedict Evans: every dynamic points to AI models becoming low-margin commodity infrastructure
  4. Agnes Callard’s “uni-context” — one word to explain why everything feels the same
  5. Coders and bikers are reviving Sanskrit — 2 million hits for a AI chanting tool
  6. Genetics explains only 25% of left-handedness — what causes the rest?

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