soft tissue, retail wars, and old forums

Saturday, July 4, 2026

My mother burned a log and I fell down dead.

1. Soft tissue preserved in a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil
2. Costco as the deliberate anti-Amazon. A genuinely compelling economic argument
3. What did we actually give up when forums died?
4. Shingles vaccine slows dementia progression — not just prevention
5. Dan Luu on AI coding agents doing things that would get a human fired
6. Robin Hanson does a political inventory — surprised to find himself conservative