SpaceX IPO, Blue Origin rocket go boom, can American manufacturing be saved, is 60 Minutes worth saving and other fascinating things on this week's Core Memory pod. Timestamps 00:00:00 – Intro 00:02:05 – The American Actuator Crisis 00:06:51 – WestMag vs. Atlas Motion Systems 00:14:21 – Uncle Sam Pays Attention 00:16:47 – Chinese Robot Ban 00:21:16 – A Robot in Every Home 00:24:29 – Are You AGI-pilled Yet? 00:27:23 – Shoutout to Micayla Sortland 00:31:01 – Blue Origin’s Explosive Launch 00:42:52 – Low Earth Orbit Drugs 00:49:42 – The Two-Trillion-Dollar Elon Bet 00:57:07 – Founders Fund’s Viral “Mafia” Game Night 01:01:23 – Ashlee Braves His Notifications 01:06:12 – Legacy Media vs. The World

Everyone crapping on the VCs, but we slept through all our meetings, and they still sent us home with a cocaine and pre-release peptide goodie bag every time

my latest on the old yeller approach to american humanoid manufacturing dominance corememory.com/p/congress-ch…

congress is taking china-made robot dogs out to pasture with the GUARD act, a bipartisan bill that would effectively ban Unitree from the U.S

New episode! On Moment Motor! They take old classic cars and make them electric and do it better than anyone else. corememory.com/p/the-man-who…

Go on. Look at these mice!!!! They're old and hungover but cruising around like it ain't no thang. NewLimit appears to have a therapy that reverses short and longterm damage from booze. Just remarkable results, heading to human trials next year. We get into it all on the latest Core Memory podcast with Jacob Kimmel, the co-founder and president of NewLimit.

Your robotic coworkers and house helpers will almost certainly be made in China unless the US figures out how to build cheap actuators. Here's our big and wonderful story on the massive industrial issue people have been ignoring. corememory.com/p/westmag-atl…

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

.@kyliebytes will be dropping what's probably the most important hardware story scoopsonscoops of the year on the site at 7am PT tomorrow. some people will say it's the most important hardware story of the century. at least that's what kylie and i told each other

It's now possible to get a robotic limb with a 15-minute surgery, and the things these robotic limbs can do are flat out incredible. youtube.com/watch?v=xA-9dOpk…

It's absurd that the Stanford president could never summon the courage to do a single interview with a student reporter for the school's own paper. Instead, he just sent a team of lawyers to go after the student youtube.com/watch?v=DiNT6zcg…

RT @ashleevance: As a freshman, Theo Baker's reporting for the Stanford paper took down the school's president. Now, as a senior, he's writ…

Got to control a drone with my motor neurons and pound scotch. What else does a boy want?

Mommy, does your company do this?

Good lord did we ever enjoy this conversation. We met with Theo Baker, who took down Stanford's president as a freshman reporter for the school paper and who has now written a book that is an exploration of Stanford's wayward culture. youtube.com/watch?v=DiNT6zcg…

The crossover episode you didn't know you needed but are going to get

The French executed on their nuclear energy plan so methodically and simply. This - from our Core Memory podcast with the brilliant James Krellenstein in which we get into the past and future of nuclear in the US, France and China. Krellenstein delivers an absolute nuclear master class

You must understand. This hat is fing sick. corememorymedia.com/