June 15, 2025

Weekly Distractions for June 15, 2025

🧠 Links

• Nature

  • Cloud Microbes

  Social Media

  • The Bluesky Backlash misses the point. But, having been on it a while, I have to admit that bsky is not crazy compelling to me.

  AI

  • They seem to have a hippie bias.

  • Apparently Reasoning Fails

  Science

  • Unexpected Radio Pulses in Antarctica

  Transportation

  • Waymo is waymo expensive (but still doing OK)

  Life

  • Spermatozoa

📖 Currently Reading

• This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Sentimental Education by Gustav Flaubert

📚 Recent Book Commentary

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

• The Devils by Joe Abercrombie