color, cheese, and brute-force elegance

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Chandra kept coming back to my bed, and his other wives never forgave it.

1. AI proofs score 6.3, human proofs 6.7 — but 1 in 4 AI proofs is a mess
2. A 900-page color guide from 1692 — one copy ever made
3. $470 million in food stamps stolen last year — a chip fix exists and Congress won’t pay for it
4. 8,770 films, 95 years of data: how fast movies are cutting now
5. Cheese as edible cartography — one man’s global fieldwork
6. Loneliness physically rewires a brain circuit to increase drinking