Ching Yang Tung

Sunset

The internet didn’t die from bots alone. It died because real humans stopped talking in public. Dead Internet Theory is real: most timelines are bot slop, engagement bait & recycled outrage. Fix it the old way: • Use small-group spaces (Discord, forums, group chats) • Reward

Fanny Churberg - "Winter Landscape, Evening Atmosphere" (1880)

people who are good at math look at an equation and immediately see the colors. You & I can't see the colors until we do a lot of extra work. But if you explain it in our language, we can see it, and solve it. It's not that complicated

Frederick Judd Waugh - "The Great Abyss" (1909)

Wild thing about “lost civilizations” in America: We actually had the maps. 1800s surveyors walked Ohio’s valleys and drew out circles, squares, octagons, embankments. Squier & Davis sketched entire complexes that are now parking lots, cornfields, and quarries. By some

Enjoyed this book. A major point the book pushes is that the Hapsburgs have a vastly different interpretation of the enlightenment than what we see west of the Rhine, and it’s an interpretation that’s uniquely theirs: The state as an engineering project under the guidance of

Levin’s latest paper is the most articulate I’ve come across on “disease as a stuck prior”. some comments: the key emphasis in the paper is about the window of plasticity after some “reset” is introduced. the body has excellent coordination and problem solving (‘healing’)

The Big Flattening.

Path in Snow - Eyvind Earle (1916 – 2000)

You made culture algorithmic and then were surprised you got culturally stuck in-distribution?

Early accounts from Papua New Guinea described people eating a wild mushroom and suddenly seeing tiny, lifelike figures moving around them, a rare “lilliputian” hallucination. Decades later, the same reports surfaced in Yunnan and the Philippines. All lead back to one species:

This is a nice gift for a new NASA administrator interested in building support for human missions to Mars. arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/…

I recently spoke with Matt Gjertsen about the evolving space landscape, and the importance of a 'sense of mission' to attract top talent. bettereverydaystudios.com/2025/11/23/nav…

Chinese company at work rebuilding the old Imperial Japanese runway on Woleai, Yap, Federated States of Micronesia - a bit over 600 miles from Guam. Scheduled to be completed by the end of the month.

This is problematic and on a scale more troubling as the secret Chinese security pact with Solomon Islands a few years back…

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

Found the quote that explains why I feel like most political discourse online is an impotent drama club for lost souls:

Ernst Carl Koerner - "Stormy seas off Alexandria" (1923)