Month: August 2026

Chill Links

Arquebus.

Anthropic’s new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world.

Baby boomers are collecting 265% of what they paid into Social Security—and millennials are paying the price.

The renter generation: Young Americans, shut out of homeownership, brace to rent forever.

How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations. Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.

Quarterly Update on the Ugly Fiscal Condition of the US in Q2 2026.

Russia ‘losing 6,000 more troops in Ukraine each month than it can recruit’.

‘Right To Repair’ State Laws Continue To Surge, But Enforcement Remains Nonexistent.

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August.

How the War in Iran Is Redrawing the Global Energy Map.

Panama Canal Congestion Drives Gas Tankers to Unusual Routes.

The Real Artificial Intelligence Boom Hasn't Yet Begun. Correct.

Gitting

Chill Annoying

Using terrible Git this morning out of bitter necessity.

It’s too bad we got cursed with such horrid design messes such as Git, Kubernetes, Systemd, and the like when we could’ve had better. And in many cases, already did. My industry really fails at learning anything from the past and designing anything broadly useful.

I hate Git so much. Such worthless and difficult-to-grasp conventions and practices.

Nothing Good

Chill Evil

Why exactly did anyone think inviting in millions of feral third world rapists was going to go well?

I mean, some people wanted that maliciously to destroy Western Civilization. But many sincerely believed having loads of the kind of people who enjoy gang rape as a hobby would result in something good. And that is utterly mystifying.

Chill Links

Actinide becomes first startup to ever enrich uranium, producing HALEU.

11,000-Year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey.

EU’s war on waste is smashing the art of the beautiful booze bottle, glassmakers warn.

Greece’s Mitsotakis: EU needs new tools to fight back against weaponized migration. Or old tools. Big-ass rifles and missiles work fine.

The Russia-Ukraine Air War Has Entered a New, Deadlier Phase.

The perverse achievement of much of DEI is that it begins by declaring the initial signals unreliable and ends by making every subsequent signal unreliable too.

The ‘Stability-Instability Paradox’ Comes for Markets.

Goldman Sachs: AI Is Cutting 16,000 U.S. Jobs Per Month.

Saving Academics from Themselves.

Falling Fertility: the Changing Value of Freedom, Fulfillment, and Family.

Chill Links

Iran faces strait of Hormuz paradox as strategic value of chokehold erodes.

The Strange New Rules of Restaurant Names.

Is Europe Ready for a New Era of Russian Dirty Tricks?

My AI friends want to create the tools that give us infinite abundance and whatnot, but I want actual concrete cultural plans.

New Mexico’s clean energy success story.

Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows core prices rose 3.3% annually in July.

Especially in the US and UK, we are heading down a dark path of negative compromises and the ‘coalition of no’.

Why does all of this matter? Beauty matters intrinsically, because we value it and live among it, and because lives immersed in more beauty are better, more enjoyable and fuller lives.

Why some lava-covered exoplanets retain atmospheres for billions of years.

This Is The New Blackbeard ‘Cheap’ Hypersonic Weapon.

It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. No, Really.

Live From Last Summer!

How Trump Is Destroying Detroit.

We haunt.

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”.

Fact Set

Chill Annoying, Evil

I know I’ve written about it before, but it was quite the achievement that the Fat Acceptance nutty buddies managed to convince a substantial percentage of the population that what they defined as “impossible” bodies were some fantastically unachievable, dangerous goal, though those were the same bodies that 90% of women had just a generation or two prior.

In fact, those “impossible” bodies are just the default factory settings.

London Done

Chill Evil

Yan Q. (@armsq17) / X

London is a noticeably worse and more dangerous place now than it was during the late 1980s/early 1990s, mostly due to unrestrained third world immigration.

All of the great cities of Europe will fall to feral third world rapists soon; Munich too is already lost. As I’ve mentioned before, a friend of mine had to leave her much-beloved home there after being harassed by evil migrants for years and then witnessing a migrant gang rape of a German woman outside her flat. She knew it was just a matter of time until she became that woman.

There’s probably 3-7 years left to see these places before they fall to the hordes and are lost.

Chill Links

Why Are Some Octopuses So Smart? The Answer Might Lie in a Never-Before-Seen Mutation That Helps Them Accurately Build Proteins.

World’s oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows.

The hidden crisis of overqualified Americans who can’t get jobs.

US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say.

Tiny Air-To-Air Missile In Development For Stealthy U.S. Navy Combat Aircraft.

Misogynistic views are biggest red flag for violent extremism, report finds.

Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here’s why.

With a Heart for Any Fate: Early Notes from the Oregon Trail.

The kill switch for harmful genes.

Artists Want to Prove Their Work Was Stolen by AI. A New Study Says That’s Impossible. “Stolen.” Fucking clownish.

US Army attack helicopters crashing at historically high rate amid mechanical issues.

So much makes sense in light of the Tocqueville Effect. As problems get smaller, the attention given to them must grow.

Brougham

Chill Cool

Very cool! But deleting the emissions stuff wouldn’t get you much. The problems are more related to the low compression ratio, very conservative cam and restrictive exhaust. Fixing those is where the real gains would come from with a car like that. Could get it from the anemic 190HP of its era (assuming it’s not the new-for-1975 Bendix EFI version that gave you 215HP) to maybe 250HP or so without risking anything. But it’s gonna reduce that glorious 11mpg you’d get even more, to probably around 9mpg or so.

I’d never want to own it, but I love that 5,300 pound absurd car.