Assorted collage October 2025
I’m going back to an old format I started this sites posts with; a sort of collage of my
The Architects of Metamorphosis: How Imaginal Cells Orchestrate Insect Transformation
The remarkable transformation of a crawling larva into a winged adult is a masterpiece of biological engineering, orchestrated by clusters
Don’t Forget to Breathe
“In the quiet of the shadows…” —— well —— just last night I used an old trick I picked up just about
Great Firewall of China Leak: digest and dumps
There was a really crazy set of events that unfolded over the last few weeks, and two days ago about
Unified OS (UOS)
A public, peer‑reviewable compendium outlining the philosophy, architecture, security model, and 2027 launch plan for a modular, AI‑integrated,
The Future, Downgraded
“The Future, Downgraded”
Jony Ive teaming up with OpenAI is being heralded as a bold leap forward.
But if you
On Being a Malcontent:
(Or, Why Overthinking Is Not a Flaw)
(ai rewrite of a 2012 short piece I wrote in college)
I will
Why the USA Pays to Protect Japan, and they don’t contribute militarily to the USA
In a perplexing display of historical amnesia and economic self-sabotage, President Donald Trump’s recent imposition of 24% tariffs on