This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @WHOI, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUjePDd…

Well that's enough of that. Nothing to be done about it.

The good news is that there is real momentum to change this within the next few years. We're actually seeing 'physical' US companies being built off the back of new technologies & supply chains The bad news is that its going to take a few years x.com/bumbadum14/status/2066…

This remarkable outcome made possible by: 1- Hydraulic fracturing 2- Horizontal drilling 3- Gut instinct and good geology 4- Huge risk tolerance of US shale producers and backers....

So far in 2026: We’ve had TEAM USA win Gold in hockey. We’ve had astronauts circling the moon. We’ve got the World Cup here. We have UFC at the White House. Everyone is getting skinny. We’re curing pancreatic cancer. It’s America’s 250th. AND YOU’RE BLACKPILLING?

Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun. Phase contrast plays an important role in microscopy, but it was thought close to impossible for electron microscopy, where it would require interfering with an electron beam. Holger Mueller and Robert Glaeser proposed exactly this using a standing wave laser. It has taken over 15 years to make this a reality. Biohub partnered with UC Berkeley and Mueller to support this work and to engineer and build the technology. Contrast has been the critical barrier to achieving atomic resolution imaging of the cell. In cryo-electron tomography, a cellular imaging technology that uses electron microscopy, the low contrast makes it impossible to resolve anything but the largest proteins within their cellular context. The laser phase plate removes that barrier. With advances in AI this breakthrough in contrast will start to open up a new frontier in structural biology, that will allow us to see the molecular machines of the cell, and how they assemble into far more complex and dynamic systems, and understand how they work.

My only comment on the Anthropic situation for today is that all the wishcasting on the TL of new, sovereign EU ~mythos level AI just reads like cope from people who Just Realized Where They Are on the AGI race. Sorry, but the time to move on this was years ago

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Why? Elon has made possible: 1. Mass market electric cars that people actually like, and Tesla continues to sell over a million of them a year. 2. Returned the US to space through SpaceX. No more relying on Russia like we were for a while. 3. Fixed the rural internet problem with Starlink. I know people who have fast internet in their rural areas for the first time in their lives thanks to this. A problem the government wanted to waste billions to "solve," instead resolved by a private company. 4. Massive expansion of home solar. 5. Neuralink is doing very cool work and helping disabled people. 6. Bought Twitter, which while far from perfect, is the only big social media platform to not be outright hostile to conservative views, and a big change from its prior bias. And that's not even everything. If Elon were still Democrat-aligned, he'd be a God to them. He's done more for green energy than any other single person, and it's not even close. They hate him because of his politics. They'd rather we didn't have those accomplishments, than a non-Democrat/Progressive like Elon get to take credit for them. I'm glad he's a trillionaire, and wish he could pay less taxes. His money is put to far more productive use than letting our government waste it on nonsense.

We need so many more trillionaires.