emissions, cracks, and fragile code

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

My bull-roar cracked the sky over Nippur.

1. Global fossil CO2 emissions fall for the first time — solar did it, Iran helped
2. Meta required 90% AI-generated code — the engineer who resisted got laid off
3. Toyota revives Scion to sell kei trucks in America
4. 745 development economics RCTs: t-statistics cluster just above significance thresholds
5. Anthropic and OpenAI kill the reverse-engineering use case — open-weight models fill the gap
6. George Lucas’s 17-year museum project — R2D2 beside the masters