Monday, July 13, 2026
ArchiveA Robot Army Remakes Ground Warfare in Ukraine
Unmanned ground vehicles now haul ammunition and pull out the wounded along Ukraine's front line. The grim arithmetic: a machine you lose is not a soldier you bury.
Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
When federal climate datasets started going dark, former NOAA staff began mirroring them by hand. This is what preservation looks like when it's done by the people who used to be inside.
Anthropic runs like Wile E. Coyote into the brick wall of consciousness research
Hoel's charge: the AI labs have started making claims about machine minds without engaging the field that spent decades studying the question. The cartoon image does a lot of work.
Unmothered
Robson's mother stopped speaking to him, and he noticed his childhood memories going with her. An essay on how much of your own past is stored inside somebody else.
From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary)
It began with a nylon stocking full of sawdust that sprouted grass for hair, and nobody involved expected it to last a season. Two decades on, the same company owns a cartoon empire.