#reads

Four pieces about systems that respond to observation — and what that does to them.

Four pieces about hidden structure — security promises that were never real, fossils leaving science, AI making decisions nobody admits to, and a person who became an astronaut by refusing to stop.

A loose thread through June's reading: things that keep working after they should have stopped, and things that shouldn't work at all but do.

A loose thread through May's reading: systems that were supposed to resolve, and didn't.

Four pieces that kept circling the same question: why do things that should have been replaced keep running the show?