The latest sattelites are made from ... wood

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The placebo effect is real... who knew

archive.is/ztPbh

@terrencetaos post on the death of small organisations

mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1152599...

Reminded me of this post from the economist how with the creation of largery unitary authorities in the UK town councils are making a comeback as people look for more direct agency

archive.is/NhscY

Solarpunk in africa

climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...

East Germany balloon escape - Wikipedia

How to escape East Germany by balloon 🎈 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Ge...

Before moltchurch there was gastown

steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

What percentage of a population needs to turn out on the streets to force - "the man" to listen ?

Turns out - only 3.5%

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

HTTP Cats 💻️ 🐈️

Apple's Record Gross Margins: Navigating Market Challenges Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.

As revenue growth grinds to a halt at Apple - interesting to see a slow switch to margin expansion

asymco.com/2026/02/01/m...

Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys | Wiz Blog Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.

Open claw hacked (wut) already ?

www.wiz.io/blog/exposed...

Your timely reminder to check 3 times before opening up access to your personal data to the latest AI tool

innfactory.ai/en/blog/open...

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

Whatever the truth of what happened.

The outcome (the gutting of the post) is sad - and this post is a paean to the world of high quality old media.

I'm sure new forms of high quality news will emerge

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Fair point

www.jakequist.com/thoughts/ope...

The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation We are excited to introduce the Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model that sets a new bar for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation.

Pretty cool

The waymo world model - lets you simulate "real world situations" for your autonmous vehicle - even elephants

waymo.com/blog/2026/02...

Loved this article on pluribus and economics

archive.is/IGrn7 (the economist)

What do you do in a country where a pastor(s) prophecies a ministers death ?

Why you start requesting sensitives prophecies to be sent to the government for review

www.economist.com/middle-east-...

What's the 4th most densest country on Earth ?
🇧🇮

www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Yay science!

This is kryptonite to the far right

What a time to be alive

Looks like Plato was right

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Wow learned something

Hyper log log

youtu.be/lJYufx0bfpw?...

Much easier to understand the Wikipedia page after watching the video

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLo...

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Who said elliptic curves weren't useful outside cryptography ?

Beautiful stuff !

artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2...

The Cult of Doing Business Erik Baker’s history of the entrepreneurial work ethic explores the unholy union between American psychology and American business.

The Cult of Doing Business | Commonweal Magazine

🔍 Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead) Plus: My interview with Oscar co-founder Mario Schlosser

Have to say this resonated...

halletecco.substack.com/p/why-i-stop...

Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy Organizing and generating variety in politics

”democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.“

I thought this post was incredibly smart.

www.programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos...

you should try @wise to get around this

Apple's latest M3 Ultra chip boasts an impressive 512 MB of unified memory, which is sufficiently large to train LLMs l with 600 billion parameters. This capability matches the requirements for DeepSeek training . This approach contrasts with the strategies employed by NVIDIA . I(buff.ly/YtMj7ZX)

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Some fun from @terrencetao

A couple of posts illustrating that housing policy is the root cause of all economic malaise

worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ho...

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