Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026

As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI. This past month, with the hacking incidents at OpenAI and elsewhere, that has hit the limit, where if you count Lightcone Commons then every single post since the last monthly was primarily about AI in some form. That is not how I want this to work in the long term. We need breaks to experience new things and refresh our thinking, and to not forget about the rest of the world. If things are not fully on fire, I plan on getting back to the roundups on childhood and education, and on fertility, on housing and also on dating. And I want to get back to writing more focused posts on those and other topics. It’s important, and I need to avoid too much audience capture. On to the monthly roundup of all things that don’t go somewhere else. Table of Contents Plagiarize. The Jury Duty Scam. Play The Good Guy. Don’t Dither. UVC Lighting. Goal Factoring For Relaxation Time Is Underrated. Protein Is Mostly A Solved Problem. Twitter Changes Payment Programs. Wikipedia. Minds Mostly Do Things For Reasons. Woke 1 Was Crazy. For Your Entertainment. The Unicontext. Gamers Gonna Game Game Game Game Game. I Was Promised Flying Self-Driving Cars. Sports Go Sports. To Last a Lifetime. Government Working. Jones Act Watch. Variously Effective Altruism. The Lighter Side. Plagiarize Plagiarism is terrible in its own right, as theft, and like cockroaches if you see one instance it almost never stops at on…