Digest — 2026-02-02:

Victims and villains

The car that came back from the sea

A rant against the smooth life (~kinda)

I feel about generative AI the same way I feel about Harry Potter

Never not changing

Notes On Epstein's Emails

JWST shakes up the hunt for earliest galaxy cluster

Is there a Planet B? An astrophysicist answers.

What nihilism acknowledges that other philosophies don’t

Move fast and mend things

AIs are chatting among themselves, and things are getting strange

Programming rites of passage

The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife

Thich Nhat Hanh on True Love and the Five Rivers of Self-Knowledge

When Your Parents Are Dying: Some of the Simplest, Most Difficult and Redemptive Life-Advice You’ll Ever Receive

Rilke on the Relationship Between Solitude, Love, Sex, and Creativity

Blue Is the Color of Desire: The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird