I remember hearing this for the 1st time & it blew my mind. Alien & yet mine. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...

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Yep. If the federal budget is 1 mile (~2300 steps say), NASA is 9 steps (Military is ~350).

Very good!

Pithy. Accurate!

Yep. We're poor at judging collective reality & always have been!

It's real Nero level stuff! Historians will love this era (Future historians; present historians are suffering with the rest of us...!)

Brilliant!

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

Important point here. He knew his life would end if he attempted to hang on. Govts should be wary of their people.

Yep, they Vanced Orban!

Excellent piece! "The problem isn't that we'll decide to stop thinking. The problem is that we'll barely notice when we do." Failure is key to building intuition in science. Early AI use can circumvent this step & is dangerous for early scientists. Caveat coder!

Yep. Price of Oil should make this the *last* oil crisis. Solar/wind + batteries is cheaper & more reliable; locally controllable. End Oil.

B/c AI CEOs repeatedly say they'll take our jobs & have a small probability of ending us: www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-te...

Very good!

No. www.quantamagazine.org/are-strings-...

Indeed. Where the GOP goes after this personality cult will shape our futures.

Wow, this is insane. From the I want to say helicopter? to the meteor to the wizard in the sky. It's not AI Slop, it's AI Slurm!

If the US were like Ireland, Dolly would be President!

Yep!

Yep. Life under historical Kings/Emperors (or Dictators anytime) was like this. Random Insanities b/c 1 unchecked man. Lessons from History for Slow Learners: Part CCL iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Bumps the size of ~Queens,NY on the surface of the Moon. About 25,000 Queens,NY to get to Earth!

When this light was emitted, Martin Luther was calling Copernicans fools for thinking the Earth was not at the center of the Universe.

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If private companies had invented nukes back in the 1930s what would have happened? Rule 0: Govt maintains monopoly on things that can alter balance of power. Nationalization is around the corner.

Bingo!

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Oh.

Amazing view! Artemis heading out over Atlantic and accelerating hard. After a minute or so, it's traveled the equivalent of ~length of Florida.

This is the future.

One of the most interesting questions is; among rocky worlds what is the ratio of worlds that are living vs dead? 1:10^x where x is <=12 (assuming a trillion rocky worlds in our Galaxy & at least 1 living). Probably x>2-3 from early surveys, but is x=4 or 11,12? V. different far futures for us!

See y'all there!

Exactly the problem for human understanding! Science is fundamentally a reproducible, testable human activity. Is there a path from here to there, or was it hallucinated. How would we know?

The dinosaurs were still alive when this star went boom 70million years ago! The flash is brighter than the Sun by an amount equivalent to comparing looking at the Sun from the Oort cloud (1000AU) versus standing on the surface of the Sun!

I'm not saying this is *the* explanation, but it is *an* explanation: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-h...

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Brilliant!

The happiness of this blind little dog when she was adopted is indescribable . 😍

Sensible move by Greystones! It's the future--like restricting cigarettes for minors & then more folks: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/r...

Worth reading. Thought provoking. Good guide to how coding is changing as we speak (good & bad). Will be interesting to re-visit in 1,2,5yrs. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/m...

Accurate.

Enshittification FTW!

Gorgeous! The artistic talent in metal-working back 3000y.ago!

I have a meta joke. Mark Zuckerberg.

I. MEAN. IT. I mean Jesus!

STOP. BEING. SO. BANG. ON. THE. MONEY!

Sometimes the wrong apes are on the wrong side of the glass!

It's not hard. Be honest & direct & try to make people's lives better!

Epic!

Something that our education system has *never* included is our collective tendency to forget internalized hard-won info (like Nazis bad; vaccines good). Would be interested in seeing ideas to fix this. We change thinking only through repeated deep confrontation of mind models with reality.