qubits, knobs, and undersea cables

Thursday, September 3, 2026

I pour water over the roots of the world tree daily.

1. IBM’s 70-qubit computer crosses the classically intractable threshold
2. China has seven ongoing trials of brain-controlling chemogenetics in humans
3. The internet buried two meters under an unremarkable beach
4. Bryan Caplan: median American net worth crosses six figures in the mid-30s
5. Half a millimeter nearly brought down 469 people on a Qantas A380
6. “I don’t have a smartphone” as a social self-defense strategy