👀 JPMorganChase Launches $1.5 Trillion Security and Resiliency Initiative to Boost Critical Industries www.jpmorganchase.com/newsroom/pre...

DOE's new fusion energy roadmap to support commercialization: www.energy.gov/articles/fus... #FusionEnergy

800mm telephoto shot of @sutrotower.bsky.social from ~15km / 9mi away yesterday — randomly got a Canadian Forces Snowbirds jet. They substituted during Fleet Week in San Francisco for the US Navy's Blue Angles, grounded because of the US government shutdown. Heat distortion makes everything blurry.

TIL the MacOS 7.5 control panel said "Daylight Savings Time" instead of the correct but less common "Daylight Saving Time." (Though you don't need to capitalize it.) Via the amazing tour de control panels, with emulation, from the incomparable @aresluna.org: aresluna.org/frame-of-pre... #UI #MacOS

Words whose original, legitimate meaning I have come to appreciate despite their overuse in business jargon: — critical path — integrated — synergy — leverage

Come for the Tesla FSD 14.1 evaluation (the first I've seen for brand-new v14 release), stay for the comments discussion about turn signal protocol & rules in roundabouts. youtu.be/K424Ezrt9NQ

I was chuckling, then the moment with the return key, and I hooted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgdW...

Vacuum vessel: www.youtube.com/shorts/oin8m... #FusionEnergy

Cholla cactus backlit by the New Mexico sunrise this morning.

shutdown, n. shut down, v.

"This is a fundamental technology for mankind to power everything we do." –Bill Gates on @cfs.energy www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmPe... #FusionEnergy

Each of our TF magnets is made of a stack of 16 "pancakes" that house a coil of superconducting tape — a hugely powerful electromagnet when assembled. DOE has validated vetted our TF performance test success, confirming this production magnet works under SPARC conditions. #FusionEnergy #EnergySky

CTVC on Climate Week NYC: "Less 'climate' this week, more of 'Energy AI' week, with adjacencies like security, affordability, resiliency, and efficiency also taking the spotlight... the vibe itself felt resilient." www.ctvc.co/overheard-at... #EnergySky #Climate

You can see the sunspots without using fancy filters if you take a photo of the sun with the right thickness of clouds in the way.

Holy cow, what an iPhone review video! Serious props. (Plus it's useful, not just entertaining.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC7I...

On Monday, we announced a power purchase agreement with Eni, one of the largest energy companies in the world, in a deal worth more than $1 billion. But how can we sign an agreement like that without yet having demonstrated a machine that actually produces fusion energy? 1/2 #FusionEnergy

The peanut gallery takes potshots at Tim Cook for betraying Steve Jobs with middling incrementalism, and maybe there's some truth to that, but Apple's processor execution is remarkable (and powerfully enabling to everything else at Apple). www.cnbc.com/2025/09/21/a... #Apple

Now here's a gutsy headline. www.sciencealert.com/fish-butthol...

The fusion startup has inked a deal with Italian energy company Eni. The move is likely intended to set a price for fusion power.

Here's our second customer in three months for our first fusion power plant's electricity: Eni. It may seem weird to sell power before we've demonstrated all of our fusion tech. But with research, prototypes, simulations, here's why we're confident: blog.cfs.energy/fusion-forwa... #FusionEnergy 🔌💡

A green heron today at Baylands Nature Preserve on the San Francisco Bay. Cool two-tone feet and tan-outlined green glossy feathers on its back. #birds 🐦

Zoning and permitting meetings may seem more mundane than plasma physics or superconducting magnets, but working with local government also is crucial to building a fusion power plant. This approval is a big moment for us and for fusion power.

More autonomous vehicle tourism opportunities coming to the Bay Area. I recommend visitors try out Waymo for the novelty. The ride-share area is easier to navigate than the airport's fraught passenger pickup/dropoff zone. Will SFO update its Uber+Lyft signage? www.sf.gov/news-mayor-l...

"Stochastic parrot," "anthropocene," "singularity" ... somebody's been tuning into the zeitgeist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzb...

Google's promo — buy a $1200 new phone, get this exclusive sticker! (While supplies last.)

Techmeme got Techmemed! Seriously, though, props to @gaberivera.bsky.social for this very useful site.

Imagine writing a weekly chess column for 70 years, uninterrupted. Chess is the same game, but the context is so different now. Computer opponents, playing on the internet and apps, even new geopolitics. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

IPv6 traffic at Google is brushing up against 50%. www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6... #IPv6

This is hard work in locking down a device with continuous real-time attack thwarting, but it pays dividends. (Too bad it doesn't also thwart spam, social engineering, and phone scams.)

I expect this will significantly improve the dynamic range of human expressiveness. Trombone emoji is on the way! blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in...

Second blog post from our CEO detailing the 6 steps to fusion energy: making sure your plasma — the fuel for your fusion machine — is hot enough. A benchmark of 1keV = 10 million degrees C shows you have a serious machine even though that's not high enough to initiate fusion.

If you've been using a 📌 emoji to bookmark posts, @rafael.my and @samuel.bsky.team cooked up a special tool you can use to migrate them to your Saved Posts. Try it here: pin2saved.vercel.app

Impressed with your financial acumen, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social "SMBC invests in fusion energy start-up" asianbankingandfinance.net/retail-banki...

Wild turkeys — giving off very non-avian dinosaur vibes, especially when you see their big scaly feet. But with really neat glossy, iridescent feathers. Coyote Hills Regional Park near Fremont, California. #birds 🐦

You think you have it tough, left-handers? At least you're not a snail. www.nzgeo.com/stories/lets...

I see lots of critics dinging CFS for working on our ARC power plant before we've demonstrated Q>1 with SPARC. It's a fair question to raise. But our sequencing is very deliberate, geared to move as fast as possible to large-scale fusion energy use. Here, our SVP Ally Yost details the approach.

A quartet of peer-reviewed papers from Pacific Fusion including details about its fusion machine roadmap and physics basis: www.pacificfusion.com/updates/vali... #FusionEnergy

Waymo on winter driving in Denver (its robotaxis arrive 2026): "Our next-generation system is informed by years of winter weather experience across Michigan, upstate New York, and the Sierra Nevada and engineered to autonomously sustain operations in harsher climates." waymo.com/blog#short-w...

I look forward to the day when concept cars have tires again. Especially for EVs, which suffer significant efficiency losses with low-profile tires. (Well, every car suffers those losses, but I just care more with EVs because efficiency is such an advantage over gassers.) electrek.co/2025/09/02/h...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has ambitious plans to commercialize fusion energy and power Google, and just raised another $863 million on its way.

Those who follow know I follow #fusion news, and this is medium-level exciting. Commonwealth Fusion is the most conservative approach, simple tokamak, miniaturized with the advent of rare-earth magnets, spun out of MIT. Of all the projects on the table, this one more-likely (unlike Sam Altman's ⌛️)

When you get an educational course offering for artificial intelligence but it uses the @adobe.com Illustrator logo. #AI

OK, all, we raised $863 million. Staggering to me. This'll let us finish SPARC (our first tokamak: demonstrate net fusion energy) and rev up work on ARC (our first fusion power plant: 400MW on the grid in early 2030s). Press release has the investor details (Nvidia, Morgan Stanley, etc.).

We spent a pile of money to rewire our kitchen for an induction cooktop, but the high-wattage usage is typically very short. That's why I like this battery-boosted approach (Copper just got $28M in funding) that can use conventional wiring. From @bengeman.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/08/27/b...

Assorted failed attempts to get Google Gemini to create a particular image. (I ran out of time and gave up.)

Northern New Mexico during a hot spell last week — lots of birds panting: black-chinned hummingbird, Say's phoebe, canyon towhee, piñon jay (the latter pretty scarce these days). Don't remember ever seeing a hummingbird panting. You can see the piñon jay's spiky tongue if you look closely. #birds 🐦

As a CFS insider I will point out not just that the governor of Massachusetts visited us today, but also that there's a photo that shows an awful lot of TF magnet "pancakes" stacked in our magnet factory. Our SPARC fusion machine needs 288 (18 TF magnets x 16 pancakes each.) #FusionEnergy #EnergySky

"The per-prompt energy impact is equivalent to watching TV for less than nine seconds." At long last, some hard data on generative AI power use (and water use & CO2 emissions). Google research paper also says energy use per prompt dropped 33x in last 12 months: cloud.google.com/blog/product... #AI

A desert millipede in New Mexico. I rarely saw these when I was a kid, but now they're common in the White Rock Canyon area of Los Alamos County. Europeans kept this species as petes back in the day. They're harmless to humans (though they'll munch on your fingers) and I find them endearing.