walls, cults, and computation

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Raghu

I gave a sage fourteen million gold coins and then had nothing.

  1. AI mania is breaking institutional decision-making in real time
  2. A 23-year-old in 1960 broke multiplication — and we still haven’t recovered
  3. A 1988 Scottish hi-fi company built memory-safe hardware — it’s now in your phone
  4. Will AI prior authorization save patients or just automate denials faster?
  5. EU bans destruction of unsold clothes — effective today
  6. Can development economists actually pay to prevent wars?

Bring something to dinner nobody else thought to look for. How it works