sand, satellites, and surveillance

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Generals poured wine for me before marching out.

1. Fingernail-sized crustaceans move 110 lbs of beach sand per meter per day
2. First fully deuterated methanol detected in space — at abundances models can’t explain
3. Psiphon — which fights censorship for dissidents — may leave Canada over Canada’s own censorship bill
4. Sanders, AOC, and Merkley introduce Ban Flock Act to block federal license plate surveillance
5. Alan Turing’s unpublished racy short story rewrites the ‘isolated mathematician’ myth
6. California closes the Montana LLC license plate tax dodge