http://ranprieur.com/#9a417fe513f58988c3b5b1e84cfc57397194a79b 2025-08-04T16:00:08Z Ran Prieur http://ranprieur.com/ ranprieur@gmail.com http://ranprieur.com/#1a0eb14a88806bb77a23ea85e8fc35e97e5588cd 2025-08-04T16:00:08Z August 4. Stray links, starting with something optimistic, a long New Yorker piece about solar energy and how much better it's getting. (mirror)

But you could argue that having more energy is bad for us. This bleak Reddit thread is almost entirely about problems that have been caused by energy-intensive information technology: Older men, what have you noticed about young men that has you concerned?

Another Reddit thread, People who have done sex work, what is something that surprised you? It's mainly about loneliness and emotional needs.

A reader sends this article on the Air India crash, which presents good evidence that it was not pilot sabotage, but a cascading electrical failure, probably caused by Boeing cheaping out.

And finishing with something inspiring, At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. Specifically, she disproved a conjecture that mathematicians felt was "so simply and elegantly stated, and so broad, in the end it had to be true." Yeah, when I see a statement that's simple and elegant and broad, I figure it's not true.

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