abundance, decay, and deep time

Saturday, August 15, 2026

My son borrowed the chariot once, and it killed him.

1. The TEMU-ification of software, books, and music
2. 72% of China-educated AI researchers now work in the US
3. Did aging evolve as an immune defense against pathogens?
4. Chinese poetry as a biodiversity record — the vanishing Yangtze porpoise
5. Ancient fungal spores from eBay mummies are infecting buyers
6. The Golem problem is older than computers