link.dump.10.31.2025
climate change, space, and germ warfare
Three tough truths about climate from Bill Gates is a must-read for everyone. I also highly recommend his book about the same topic. He is the best communicator about climate change that I have found, not shying away from the “tough truths” and being very open about the tradeoffs.
Musk and Trump’s NASA are fighting and it’s like a goddamn Mean Girls script. So much popcorn. Anyways, I hope Musk wins the slap fight I guess if I have to pick sides.
Advice for Principal Engineers. Fantastic capture of advice I’ll refer back to in the future.
To thwart food poisoning, tiny needles could inject bacteria-slaying viruses into your meal. It’s the actual title! How cool! I think this is a really brilliant idea, I hope it works. In the reef tank stuff there’s similar types of solutions. Biological solutions to biological problems. Add this fish to deal with flatworms. Add this crab for a particular algae. Nudibranchs get traded around the hobby because they have specific uses. List, if there are bacteria that fuck us up then why shouldn’t we inject our food with a virus that will fuck up the bacteria?
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock and the company got pissy and lost their court when they tried to go after him court. Just an amazing story about the silliness of being litigious when you lose the social media marketing game. Also that dude’s video is hilarious and pretty damning, but I especially like how he later did the whole thing on camera. Good for a laugh.
A problem with traffic collisions for lunar traffic is a good problem to have. Feels a little scifi to say it but that’s exciting. I think humanity could use a little more overt exploration and I think there are some great opportunities in our solar system once we get off our pale blue dot. And the competition is heating up.
World’s first underwater habitat in decades to unlock secrets of 95% of oceans. Holy shit, someone is going to basically build a real life Subnautica base. I’ve seen these movies, I’ve played these games…this oughta be interesting.
Humans need to maximize their entropy. This isn’t a concept I’d actually heard verbalized before and I’m sort of in love with it. This is something kids do better than us, as the piece says. It’s also something I think I do try to do with cultivating information feeds but I could do more. Entropy leads to growth. Discomfort leads to growth. When you stop growing you start dying. ~ William S. Burroughs.
‘Because it scales’ is the most scary justification out there for progress. I feel this post in my soul about how we can mistake motion and complexity for progress.
The world turns to energy pragmatism. He gets brownie points for immediately referencing the Gates link that came first in this dump. It is wild to see how much the conversation has changed, and gotten more optimistic on climate change over the past decade or so that I’ve really paid attention. The expected global temperatures are going down, we’re innovating everywhere, and things are not nearly as bleak as they used to be…at least not for most folks.
I like to use substacks AI image generator if I don’t have an image in mind. This one is something else. It’s a dump truck on the moon. Or maybe Mars with the two moons? Either way the combustion engine ain’t working. And it’s carrying a planet earth like I asked in the prompt but the planet has map lines. Just amazing.