China is carrying out the solar revolution at scale. Here panels float on a reservoir in northwest China. This is just one of many massive solar power plants. The photos look like something out of science fiction:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/07/photos-china-solar-power-energy/683488/

Meanwhile Trump is fighting solar and pushing coal. The Chinese call him 建国同志, "Comrade Jianguo". Literally this means "Comrade Building the Nation". It's a joke about "Make America Great Again". It hints that Trump is actually helping China.

"we can have our cake and eat it; by reducing and externalising cognitive load, and working in small iterations that bring us back to tested, backed-up code many times an hour, we can achieve the focus we need and communicate often enough to stay in sync with the team."

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/micro-iterations-maps-interruptibility/

No, you shouldn't get too excited about the "everybody gets a Stingray detector" news.

For clicks, most articles are burying the lede:

The problem, however, is that no current phones can do this. To unmask fake cell towers, Android phones need to have version 3.0 of Google's IRadio hardware abstraction layer, which has to be supported at the modem level. [Wired]

But you don't have to wait! For US ~$20, you can build your own today. Check out @micahflee's excellent writeup here:

https://micahflee.com/hunting-street-level-cell-phone-surveillance-with-rayhunter/

All you need is three things:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=ORBIC+RC400L

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H5SM9M9

https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter