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Power Soak is out today. It tells the true story of Tom Scholz, the MIT-trained engineer who built Boston's sound in his basement and then spent seven years locked in a fight to control it.
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At least 40 former Tesla and SpaceX employees have gone to found or lead clean technology companies. We talked to a dozen of them about what they learned from their time in the Elonverse
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my magnum opus: the tiny part inside every robot and drone that america can't make anymore — and the two startups betting opposite ways on how to fix it
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Array complete and site visit with Matt (technical chief of staff), Lucie (reactor lead), and Stephanie (director of product). We have reduced Earth's albedo by one part in a trillion.
Now with improved posture. It was a good week.
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The article is correct. Improving stuff is ridiculously difficult. But it is worth it. All credit to the @TerraformIndies team for dogged persistence and consistent brilliance.
May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical…
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May we present to you 5,000 words on Casey Handmer and Terraform Industries reported over several months. If you would like to read about a team trying to make fuel from water, air and sunlight while working inside of a castle, we have what you need right here corememory.com/p/the-magical…
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Over the last year, I've been visiting a castle in Burbank where a small team has been building a machine that makes fuel from air, water, and sunlight. corememory.com/p/the-magical…
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Tomorrow we run a giant story on this guy. And you will want to read it.
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Another banger from @jeffmaysh! So glad to finally see this one out.
1/ My latest cover story for the Financial Times (@FT) profiles a former Brooklyn cab driver who opened the world's largest chain of spy shops—selling fountain pens with hidden microphones and teddy bears with cameras for eyes. Wait for the twist. 🧵
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This week marks the release of my book Beyond Inheritance 🎉 📖. It tells the stories of patients with mysterious ailments who have been saved by a radical new view of genetics. And how whales can teach us about preserving our DNA as we age. Available now: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n
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The kicker is definitely one for the books!
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Replying to @TODAYshow
This was one of the most shocking things I've ever seen on mainstream media. The son is randomly pointing, not looking at the board, or he's looking at preschool videos on his lap, and when he points he's not spelling anything, much less the flowing prose his mother-facilitator is saying. The likelihood of true authorship here is something around zero.
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Fun story. This was the event that really compelled me to want to write a book about @elonmusk, @Tesla and @SpaceX. There was so much energy, and the company was doing things in California and the US that we were told were impossible. It felt like quite a big story to me. When I pitched the book to the publishers in New York, I was told that no one knew who @elonmusk was and that the book would have a very limited audience. They all asked me what he had actually done even as the Model S was rolling off the line and SpaceX was flying to the ISS. If memory serves, the bidding for my book started at $5,000. 😂 Narrator: It went on to sell many millions of copies.
Custom orders of the Tesla Model S & X have come to an end. All that’s left are some in inventory. We will have an official ceremony to mark the ending of an era. I love those cars. This was me at production launch 14 years ago:
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In which my fave public intellectual, Freddie de Boer, absolutely shreds the NYT for publishing a review of a novel by a facilitated speller (and no, I'm not just sharing this because of the shout out to my book Chasing the Intact Mind :)): freddiedeboer.substack.com/p…

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New York Times, this guy is using facilitated communication. Until you prove he is able to successfully complete the message passing test in multiple contexts, you should assume his mom wrote that book using her son as a puppet.
Doctors Believed Woody Brown Would Never Understand Language. He’s Publishing a Novel. 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/eQr4PRm
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Call me skeptical. He is 28, his favorite show is Thomas and Friends, and he has written a novel?
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Notice that the camera never lingers long enough to allow the viewer to see him spell a single word. In fact, you can hardly even be certain which letter he is pointing to at all. I've seen a lot of these videos, and they are always like this.
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I've also been to Austin and seen Soma Mukhopadhyay work in person, and even she will admit that it's bad practice for the parent/facilitator to hold the letter board. “There’s a point where people don’t listen," she told me.
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His favorite show is Thomas & Friends? Seems like there might be a few red flags here.
Woody Brown's remarkable debut novel "Upward Bound" captures his experience as a noverbal autistic person: “I wanted to reach neurotypical readers, the well intentioned people who don’t realize that we are the same inside." nytimes.com/2026/03/30/books…
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