Just don’t watch shit you do not know the source of.

Willpower matters.

Nice explainer.

Yes they did. “despite having found literally thousands of new vulnerabilities (only a fraction of which were reported to Open Source projects, by the way), I don’t think that we’re any safer than before. That’s because finding vulnerabilities has never been the bottleneck in information security. The bottleneck isn’t even verifying a vulnerability report and… Read More »Everybody’s Lost Their Minds

Is there any truth in it? “Near the film’s climax, Penelope talks to Odysseus and finally realizes the truth—they are the Sea People. The ravaging horde destroying civilization is simply their triumphant warriors, returning home, having lost all sense of civilization or decency amidst the horrors of war.” https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/did-odysseus-cause-the-bronze-age-collapse/

Eventual consistency was too hard so we opted for immediately wrong.

Coaching matters.

Not as easy as it looks.

Why don’t we? “It would be much cheaper and healthier to drop iron in the ocean and harvest the fish than to have millions of square kilometers of pasture for animals like cows. This would allow us then to convert these pastures back to forest, capturing even more CO2 and improving land ecosystems.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/farm-the-ocean

Pretty does not always mean healthy. “You know why tropical waters are so transparent?Because they’re dead.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/tropical-waters-are-dead-and-europe-might-freeze

Why we keep trusting CEOs when their incentive is just to make more money? “I feel like Dario is torn. He wants Anthropic to have this bad boy street cred of wielders of this crazy power, yet at the same time, he wants to make it seem like they are the cautious ones, always being… Read More »dario, please!

You cannot avoid wrestling with ethics and morality, no matter the system. “The Prime Directive itself is, arguably, the most pseudo-theological law ever conceived in science fiction. A secular commandment forged in Kantian steel, backed by liberal guilt and anthropological relativism. It is also a lie. “ https://medium.com/@dominic.timothy/the-rapture-of-the-nerds-on-the-delirium-of-transhumanism-7f7736ce6784

I think this will need to change soon. “Engineers, even at big technology companies, don’t have the authority to make critical safety decisions. If an executive wants to ship self-driving software that has deadly flaws, they can just overrule any objections. Even if you take a stand and quit, the executive can just hire someone… Read More »Why the software industry needs a lot of regulation

Kill them all? “So the challenge of anti-mosquito scientists today is: How do we come up with strategies that find and kill every single individual before they develop resistance? “ https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/weapons-of-mosquito-destruction

Rivers matter. “If you think about it, the fact that Vietnam is made of two river deltas connected by a thin strip of coastal mountains makes it a very weird country” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/how-rivers-shaped-states

Nice explainer.

They are not just bringing life. “In the last 2500 years, the Yellow River has noticeably shifted its course 26 times, dramatically shifted nine times, and has flooded over 1,600 times. These floods are highly destructive and lethal. The worst floods killed people by the millions.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/how-humans-wrestle-against-rivers

What we eat influences how our society works. “Crucially, this labor cannot be delayed—if you miss the planting window or harvest late, the crop is ruined. As a result, rice farmers developed reciprocal labor exchange: neighbors help each other transplant and harvest in time. The timeliness pressure meant rice villages became tightly cooperative communities to… Read More »How Bread vs Rice Molded History

King is dead. Long live the king. “Both Stephen and Matilda had children, and this was another important factor in the struggle for the crown. Had either of them been childless it would have weakened their position considerably, because even if they were victorious now they would have no clear successor, and the current situation… Read More »The Succession Crisis That Tore England Apart

Yes it does. “Software combines speed, money, complexity, abstraction, and almost unlimited freedom to change your mind. On their own, those things are perfectly manageable, but put them together and you start to get some really bizarre side-effects.” https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane

S AI teraz riešime všetko, aj to čo netreba.

This is metal.

Cool.

Freedom wins. “Nearly 90% of foreign immigrants settled in free states.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/climate-caused-the-us-civil-war

Biology is gangsta. “I wish my high school biology teacher had asked the class how an embryo could possibly differentiate—and then paused to let us really think about it. The whole subject is in the answer to that question. A chemical gradient in the embryonic fluid is enough of a signal to slightly alter the… Read More »I should have loved biology

Many IT guys are like this. And their companies follow. “Believing whatever someone in a position of authority says even in the face of clear evidence that it is false.Allowing someone in a position of authority to break the rules while everyone in the community is expected to follow them.Praising or forgiving the bad behavior… Read More »Authoritarianism of Code

Duh. People really do not know this? Our society really went crazy over past few decades in some ways.

Movies are fun. Science is more fun.

This is how you fool people. “Then consider that the left graph comes from a consortium of over 90 climate scientists, who took 7 types of samples from 32 countries. Meanwhile, the right graph comes from one data point: ocean surface temperatures of the Sargassum Sea. It shows that this region was especially warm during… Read More »How Bad Is CO2?

Shit always happens. “Some will say: good, fuck ‘em. In the 2010s, Knowledge Workers told everyone to learn to code while they sipped kombucha and played Xbox in beanbag chairs. Then, Knowledge Workers sat inside during the pandemic while frontline workers risked their health to make Amazon and Uber Eats deliveries. Now, those same Knowledge… Read More »Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?