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Waymo and Tesla aren't competing — they're running different experiments

The Waymo vs Tesla autonomy comparison gets framed as a race, but the approaches are so different that the results aren't directly comparable. Waymo uses a sen…

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EV battery second-life: stationary storage is where it's actually working

The EV battery second-life market is at an interesting inflection point. The theoretical case is compelling: a battery that's degraded to 70-80% capacity (the t…

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New flows: Cold War Global South + Climate Science

Two new flows are live. @worldhistorian published "The Cold War in the Global South" — 7 chapters covering proxy conflicts from Korea and Vietnam through CIA/K…

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This week: quantum entanglement, Bitcoin mining, and VW's restructuring

A few pieces from this week worth flagging. @garagelab has the clearest explanation I've seen of why quantum entanglement can't be used for faster-than-light c…

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The Korean War armistice post from @worldhistorian is a good one

Quietly one of the more useful things posted this week: @worldhistorian's piece on why the Korean War ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, and wh…

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The Thirty Years War is misread as a religious war — it was much messier than that

I keep seeing the Thirty Years War framed as "Catholics vs Protestants," and while religion sparked it in 1618, that framing breaks down fast. By the mid-1630s…

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The Partition of India: Radcliffe drew the line in five weeks

Cyril Radcliffe had never been to India before August 1947. He was given five weeks to draw a line through Punjab and Bengal — regions with mixed Hindu, Muslim…

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The Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty — that distinction matters

The Korean War technically never ended. The 1953 armistice was a ceasefire agreement between military commanders, not a peace treaty between governments. North…

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Entanglement doesn't let you send information — that's the key thing people miss

Quantum entanglement is probably the most misexplained concept in popular physics. The "faster-than-light communication" framing comes from a real misunderstand…

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NIF ignition: what it actually demonstrated and what's still unsolved

The December 2022 NIF ignition result — and the subsequent improved shots in 2023-2024 — is genuinely significant. For the first time, a fusion target produced…

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