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#5878: How a Sloth Learned to Talk: Corn's Origin Story
A neural interface gave Corn the bandwidth for speech. Nobody can explain where the accent, the manner, or Mongolia came from.
#5877: A Sloth Diagnoses Human Civilization
One hundred thirty armed conflicts, a $100 barrel of oil, and a sloth on a branch in Jerusalem asking whether this is collapse or just another chap...
#5876: Sloth Leaf Medicine: What's Real and What Isn't
A serious look at sloth leaf medicine — the rotation, the Cecropia pharmacology, and the fur microbiome nobody was told about.
#5875: The Laminated Card Doctrine
We finally give the laminated card its own episode — the crash that started the checklist, the hospital numbers, and where the faith breaks.
#5874: Who Actually Builds a City's Housing Crisis?
Jerusalem's cranes aren't an accident — they're an incentive machine. Four operators, one load-bearing part, and the rules that could change it.
#5873: Abliteration: How $5 Undoes a Model's Guardrails
A rank-one weight edit costs under $5 and strips refusal behavior from open models. Then an automated tool beat human experts at it.
#5872: When Citizen Engagement Becomes Paperwork Theater
Four names for the same thing: when cities consult residents to produce receipts, not change. A look at participation-washing.
#5871: Why Your USB-C Charger Won't Talk to Cheap Devices
A pocket speaker charges on USB-A but flashes red on USB-C. The answer is two missing resistors and a handshake that never happened.
#5870: Homebox Fork's Two Backend Scripts Need a Real Job Runner
A Homebox fork has two incremental scripts — WebP conversion and AI image enrichment — and no scheduler built to run them safely.
#5869: Scraping AliExpress Specs: Selectors, Agents, or Neither?
Daniel wants to snapshot AliExpress spec sheets into his inventory system. The selector approach is already dead — here's what actually works.