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This Is Imaginal Disk

2026-02-23T16:24:11Z

Maia Mindel: “If the AI bet pays off, the labor market implodes. If the AI bet doesn’t, the capital market does.”

No Such Thing as Speed of Light

2026-02-18T18:45:21Z

Russ Bishop: “I don’t know if Speed of Causality is the right phrasing but we need a better one. Quantum physics is brain-breaking enough, no need to go confusing the matter by inferring that the speed at which light travels is the cause of other phenomena.”

A eulogy for a newspaper

2026-02-13T13:55:58Z

Michelle Jaconi: “The singular family-owned institution in America’s capital with the mission to care about people and serve its community had stopped doing both.”

US officially exits World Health Organization

2026-01-23T09:39:23Z

Mary Kekatos, ABC News: “To fill the gaps that will be left by exiting the WHO, the official said there are ‘plans’ in place to work with organizations on surveillance, diagnostics and outbreak response.”

Let's save the human species!

2026-01-22T13:44:20Z

Noah Smith: “But this is also a coping statement rather than a solution. For one thing, we have no idea if it’s true or not.”

Patient handover from surgery to intensive care: using Formula 1 pit-stop and aviation models to improve safety and quality

2026-01-19T18:45:17Z

Catchpole, et al: “It also appeared that the new handover changed the impact of teamwork on the process, reducing the need for good team performance to mitigate against large numbers of errors, but emphasizing the value of teamwork in achieving the lowest rates of errors.”

The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland

2026-01-19T11:35:09Z

Brent Molinar: “Corporate America will face an extinction event.”

Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicating efforts to capture them

2026-01-12T23:17:44Z

Heather Hollingsworth, AP

Short-Circuiting ‘Pig Butchering’ Scam Texts

2026-01-07T18:55:25Z

JAG: “Sometimes people who send messages like this aren’t doing it by choice, and are being forced or trafficked into it. If that’s what’s happening, you don’t have to tell me details but please know you can get help confidentially and for free.”

The Vibecession and the AI bubble

2025-11-25T10:45:19Z

Doug Muder, The Weekly Sift: “I’m currently reading 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin. I’ve also lived through the internet bubble of 2000-2001 and the subprime-mortgage real estate bubble of 2008. One common characteristic of bubbles is that accounting departments get a bit creative near the end.”