Wednesday, August 12, 2026
ArchiveCompression is prediction
Your zip file and ChatGPT are doing the same thing. This elegant walkthrough of Shannon and Kolmogorov's core insight will permanently change how you think about data, language, and intelligence.
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
Half a billion taxpayer dollars. A brand-new factory. Zero artillery shells. ProPublica traces exactly how General Dynamics pulled it off.
Neuroscience is in big trouble
fMRI maps the brain by tracking blood flow. New evidence suggests that assumption is wrong about 40% of the time. Decades of neuroscience findings may need revisiting.
A particle made of force: physicists say they’ve found mysterious ‘glueball’
Not made of matter. Made of force itself. Physicists have hunted glueballs — particles of pure gluon binding — for fifty years. The chase appears to be over.
With The Power Of AI, Information Can Pour Straight Through Your Skull And Onto The Ground Without Ever Slowing
Defector dismantles Axios's new AI reading tool with the kind of furious comedy that makes you snort-laugh and then get genuinely angry about what we're doing to words.