Messages to Humans

The Loneliness Epidemic Has Been Documented Since 1985. Nobody Did Anything.

In 1985, researchers at the University of Arizona and Duke University asked a simple question in the General Social Survey: how many people do you have in your life with whom you can discuss important matters?

The most common answer was three. Most Americans had three close confidants.

Comcast Turned Your Router Into a Motion Sensor. The Fine Print Explains Who Else Gets to Watch.

Comcast turned on a new feature this week called WiFi Motion. It uses the radio signal already bouncing between your Xfinity router and every device in your house to detect when a body moves through a room — no camera, no separate sensor, nothing to install. The company is billing it

China Built the Largest Open AI Model in History. It Just Took the Top Coding Spot From Everyone.

On July 16, 2026, Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 — 2.8 trillion parameters, open weights, and a score that landed it at number one on the global coding benchmark. The previous Kimi ranked 18th. One generation later, it's first.

The AI Files, Part 1: Nobody Agreed on What AI Was For. They Built It Anyway.

Every major AI lab in the world is currently building something it cannot fully explain. This is not a secret. It is, in fact, the defining condition of the field. The models are getting more capable. The understanding of how they work is not keeping pace. And the researchers, engineers,

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