trust, trees, and transit

Thursday, June 18, 2026

I wove by day and unraveled it all by night.

1. Only 16% of Americans think AI helps society — Pew
2. The Major Oak — 1,200 years old, now dead
3. Madrid tripled its metro in 12 years — how?
4. Why landlords prefer empty storefronts to lower rents
5. America’s science-politics compact is broken. Worth reading in full
6. Local Qwen vs. Claude Opus — a founder’s honest receipts