1. The bottleneck might be the air in the room (blog.mikebowler.ca)

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

6. Maybe you should learn something (www.marginalia.nu)

You can learn new things. Pixel art, touch typing, 3d modelling, music, calligraphy, wood working, knitting, a language. Whatever is practical and calls to you, you can learn.
In the long term, learning new things is fun and makes life richer in ways you can’t even imagine, and it’s a time investment that will pay dividends for life as these skills never really go away. There are even social aspects, as you’ll quite literally become a more interesting person to talk to.

17. Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe (www.quantamagazine.org)

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true.

19. No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth (www.eso.org)

A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have β€œdevastating consequences for astronomy.” According to the study, no more than 100 000 faint satellites, below naked eye visibility, should orbit Earth, to safeguard our ability to observe the night sky with modern telescopes. The study is the first to compute the extent to which large and bright satellite constellations β€” which have also raised concerns about their impacts on health and the environment β€” would affect astronomical observations by making the night sky brighter.

26. Synthesis is harder than analysis (surfingcomplexity.blog)

Over the years, mathematicians, logicians and computer scientists have developed various calculi. If you have a background in computer science, you’ve likely heard of the lambda calculus, a m…

27. Fable created novel 4D splat format (adamraudonis.github.io)

A streamable 4D gaussian splat format with tunable error bounds. 16–58Γ— smaller than raw; streams and seeks over plain HTTP Range requests.

30. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

After a long day of exhausting conversations about Hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, random jackasses trying to play gotcha with endpoint attacks against end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, and me…

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