Energy abundance is the root of the policy tree, the big unlocker. With energy abundance, you have factories, jobs, national security, energy security, food security, water security (desalination), GDP and so much more. With energy scarcity, you have foreign wars over scarce resources, famine, poverty, all the ghost factories never built and the ghost jobs never generated.

What is the Hemi Virtual Machine (hVM)? 🤔 Think of it as an EVM with Bitcoin superpowers. Instead of treating Bitcoin as an external asset, hVM gives smart contracts direct awareness of Bitcoin through native precompiles and an embedded Bitcoin node. That means developers can build applications that interact with Bitcoin data in a deterministic and trust-minimized way without relying on centralized oracles or ad hoc integrations. In simple terms: ⚡ EVM compatibility 🟠 Native Bitcoin awareness 🔗 Synchronized Bitcoin state across the network 🛠️ More powerful apps built around Bitcoin The future isn't choosing between Ethereum and Bitcoin. It's combining the strengths of both and that's exactly what Hemi's hVM is designed to do.

A “ban” on under-16s using social media means (in practical terms) that all other social media users will now have to 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦 that they are 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 16. As other forms of censorship have been throughout history, in other words, it’s really a registration system.

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms” Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media: “Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones schneier.com/blog/archives/2…

Imagine if when Google search had started, if it gave refusals for searches on academic biology. What if Wikipedia refused to host articles on cryptography? What if ISPs refused to route you to forums and educational platforms for cybersecurity? The fact that LLMs gatekeep knowledge is unprecedented in the history of technology, and there's no good justification for it. We've known for a long time that a society is healthiest when information - especially security related information - is freely available. If good guys can't use the best tools available to make their software secure... then their software simply won't be secure. That's not 'preventing bad guys from finding exploits' - that's simply refusing to let society be safe! And the same thing goes for other types of knowledge. Any time in history that special knowledge has been captured and controlled by the elites, that knowledge asymmetry is abused. We shouldn't tolerate a "permanent underclass". Everyone should have access to the world's greatest repository of knowledge.

Google quietly open-sourced a time-series AI that predicts anything. Sales trends. Market prices. User traffic. Energy demand. Crypto volatility. It's called TimesFM. Pre-trained on 100B real-world data points. Zero-shot forecasting with no fine-tuning.

Pessimists sound smart.  Optimists build the world.

Insure Honda headunits attack ("evil valet" attack): juniperspring.org/posts/hond…

ReactOS, aka open source Windows, still alive and kicking and making milestones: phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Ru…

EVERYTHING IS BOM

FREE TO READ: The top-10 reasons why oil prices are below $100 a barrel. 1) China, China and China 2) Demand destruction 3) Lots of oil bypassing/leaving the Strait of Hormuz 4) The original oversupply 5) Huge SPR release / commercial stocks draw 6) Refinery flexibility 7) Trump's jawboning 8) Options market development 9) The fog of war is thinner 10) Soaring Americas oil output bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

In a way, I'm glad a lot of people will be outraged at the USGov restricting access to their AI models They've been doing it to crypto apps for 15 years now Nothing new for most of us, sadly...

With AI agents, Bitcoin dreams from 2013 are finally coming to life in 2026: garzikrants.blogspot.com/201…

here is a link to the final SpaceX roadshow deck. what a fun read. s21.q4cdn.com/184289198/file…

Today feels like a good day to reshare this clip of Ariane Aerospace’s CEO calling SpaceX’s reusability plans “a dream”

NEW PREPRINT: Scientists may have found direct evidence that aging is driven by the loss of cellular information, not just the accumulation of damage For decades we've focused on what aging cells accumulate. This paper focuses on what they lose: Information. Using a new technology called SeqTag, researchers measured gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and histone modifications in the same aging cells. What they found was striking: the regulatory systems that tell cells who they are become increasingly out of sync with age. The authors call this "molecular asynchrony." As cells age, chromatin structure, histone marks, and gene expression begin drifting apart. Regulatory entropy rises. Repressive chromatin erodes. Cells become less certain of their identity and more likely to drift toward alternative fates. This is what the Information Theory of Aging (ITOA) states: that aging occurs when cells lose epigenetic information, the instructions that tell the genome how to maintain youthful function. DNA may remain largely unchanged, but the system that reads it gradually loses fidelity. What's remarkable is that this paper doesn't just describe this phenomenon. It quantifies it. The authors measure increasing regulatory entropy, loss of H3K27me3-mediated repression, erosion of heterochromatin, weakening lineage fidelity, and increased cell-fate drift during aging. In progenitor cells, the barriers that normally preserve cellular identity become progressively weaker with age. Mechanistically, the study argues that aging is associated with increasing molecular asynchrony between chromatin accessibility, H3K27ac/H3K27me3 remodeling, and transcriptional state. This decoupling is accompanied by increased regulatory entropy, loss of repressive chromatin architecture, and weakening of lineage constraints. Genes affected are those involved in chromatin organization, DNA damage, and Wnt signaling, consistent with ITOA. Importantly, the authors provide quantitative evidence that age-related heterochromatin erosion lowers the energetic barriers that maintain cell identity, offering a potential mechanistic link between epigenetic information loss, cell-fate drift, and late-life disease susceptibility 👏

Goal of the Jones Act: national security resilience, economic self-sufficiency, maritime labor force. Reality of the Jones Act: Tiny non-defense shipbuilding industry and labor force that is irrelevant to wartime logistics. Higher prices on intermediate and consumer goods.

Flagging this because I don’t think it got enough attention in policy circles: YC is saying EVERY one of their startups will use crypto, soon. Folks need to excise thoughts that this issue doesn’t matter from their minds.

My own, frequent quote over the past two decades: Turning science fiction into science fact. (Not referring specifically to SpaceX or Elon, but building and advancement, more broadly)