glaciers, chess bots, and new pacts

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

From my own body I made eight daughters to heal eight wounds.

1. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey sign a mutual security pact — without the US
2. 10 months building a chess bot that plays like you, not Stockfish
3. The mountain range where glaciers are growing while the rest of the world melts
4. $340,000 a year to wire empty buildings on a nearly abandoned Alaskan island
5. Gdynia: Poland built a world-class port in 15 years — then lost it to invasion
6. LLM pricing agents can sustain above-market prices — a new antitrust problem