On February 25, 2026 (four days ago), the pioneering gaming platform Play.fun launched on Solana. Built by Justin Waldron, the visionary who co-founded Zynga at 19 after dropping out of the University of Connecticut. He built the company behind FarmVille, Words with Friends, and Zynga Poker, and later co-founded Playco, raising $100M+ led by Sequoia Capital. Play.fun is doing something that immediately clicked with everything I've been building for BizarreBeasts ($BB). The pitch is simple: pu...

We want to walk you through what the latest data actually shows, what symptoms we shouldn’t ignore, and how trends are evolving.

There is a school of thought that elevated rail is bad, or at least suboptimal, for cities. The thinking is that it's a visual blight, it's noisy, it disconnects neighbourhoods, and it can even reduce surrounding real estate values. Having a train passing directly in front of your window is admittedly less ideal than not having a train passing directly in front of your window. But there is no shortage of examples from around the world where elevated rail does far more to benefit a community t...

February ends with some more model releases such as Google's Nano Banana 2 and Bytedance's Seedream 5.0 Lite which btw was used to create the header image for this weeks newsletter. Prompt used to generate the header image is at the end of the newsletter Other notable things releases where Notion Custom Agents, updates to Replit Agent , various additional features to Claude Cowork as well as Wispr Flow's availability on Android along with it offering free, unlimited dictation for ALL users. Z...

This week I am considering the societal transition period we are in, and how we should be adapting education to teach for it.

Introduction: From Theory to Application Expanding upon the principles established by the Philosophy, Rapprochement, and Anachronistic Computational Compartmentalization Ciphers, I now present the Fusion Cipher, a system designed for high-stakes, high-energy computation. The Fusion Cipher is not just an encryption method; it is a cryptographic scaffolding for managing, augmenting, and safeguarding processes of extreme energy concentration and state transition. The core of the Fusion Cipher is...