This is a news roundup edition of Not Boring's Weekly Dose of Optimism, issue 186. The week's story volume was high enough that the author, Packy McCormick, swapped items in and out as new developments broke. No single thesis. Multiple fronts moving simultaneously.
The format is a curated digest: fast reads on the week's most significant technology and progress stories, compressed into one sitting. The value is not any individual story but the editorial selection. McCormick covers enough ground that the issue functions as a triage layer for readers who cannot track every beat.
The companion long-read flagged this week is 'Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World,' a full-length Not Boring piece. If the weekly digest is the map, that essay is the terrain. Read both.
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