This week's Not Boring Weekly Dose of Optimism, issue 186, landed during one of the densest news cycles the newsletter has seen. Author Packy McCormick flagged that he kept cutting stories as bigger ones arrived, meaning what made the final cut was filtered twice.
The issue functions as a single consolidated briefing across multiple technology and science beats. The companion long-form piece recommended for weekend reading is 'Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World,' a deep-dive that reframes electromagnetism not as background physics but as the operative force behind modern infrastructure. That piece is worth reading on its own terms, separate from the digest.
Read the original for the specific stories that survived the cut and why McCormick ranked them above everything else that broke this week. The editorial selection itself is the signal.
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