The second law only applies to thermodynamic entropy, which has to do with the variety of ways that energy can be distributed among microstates (like maybe this

The second law only applies to thermodynamic entropy, which has to do with the variety of ways that energy can be distributed among microstates (like maybe this electron is excited to 2 eV and that one is excited 3 eV) for a given microstate description (like "the sample is in the liquid phase"). It's tempting to simplify the universe like any other system: one for which microstate descriptions will have a fixed number of microstates across which the available energy will eventually be distributed more or less evenly. But perhaps that's a bad simplification. The article says as much, but in the middle of a bunch of claims about order and disorder. So what's confusing about the article is it's attempt to describe the... confusion, that the new interpretation leads us away from.