Mind the Post

There’s a strict limit to how much pure Rationality a human mind can stomach—process, contain—before things get weird.

Why does humanity not apply to governance the same method that has transformed science and technological innovation?

A visual portrait of summer 2026 from a Northern Hemisphere POV: wildfires, drought, migration, war, volcanic eruptions and a total solar eclipse — six images capturing the hot, turbulent reality of our time.

A new position paper examines a fundamental limitation of large language models: their difficulty with abductive reasoning, a capacity central to genuine scientific invention.

Data centres have quietly become the physical chokepoint of the AI era — where energy consumption, local opposition, orbital ambitions and great-power competition all converge.

America has been fascinated with science for its entire history, and has led scientific and technological development for the past 250 years.

Mind the Post reaches post 850.

SpaceX has raised $75 billion in a record-breaking IPO, making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire in history.

Three years ago, we were analyzing the sheer audacity of Pedro Sánchez’s risky gamble to retain power.

Despite what seems conceptual homogenization, raters perceived post-ChatGPT essays as more creative.