links, etc Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip there’s very interesting progress being made here.

notes bookshop link i picked this up at the local author’s event at the fitger’s bookstore last month. it meanders a bit but pulls you through on an interesting collection of incidents and stories. there are some interesting nuggets in here around the media’s handling of wilderness incidents, cautionary notes re: planning and stories of folks who just weren’t wired for society. oh, and wolves. (just kinda)

notes bookshop link because i’m a sucker for pretty much all things KSR. this was a fun read, pulpy in all of its 1990s aspects with an interesting take on the fictional internet and wrist phones. there’s an interesting meta discussion in here about the relationships between scientists/elites, politicians and the masses at large. some of it parallels the tensions and the lack of trust between the technocrats/scientists in our bureaucracy and society at large with a heaping helping of political messiness....

links, etc Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say | TechCrunch more in the vein of i can’t look away from submarine cable shiz.

links, etc U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack - you can cut the irony here with a fork. America is Not Prepared for a Protracted War - War on the Rocks - we’re #1, we’re #1.