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One of my relatives knows an American guy who was in Wuhan at an international exhibition during June 2019. While in Wuhan, the guy became very sick, returned to the USA via jet shortly thereafter (still sick) and was seen by a doctor... JUNE 2019 🧐
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🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST SHOWED THAT LIGHT CAN TWIST MATTER USING ITS MAGNETIC FIELD. For a long time, physicists assumed the magnetic component of light was far too weak to have any meaningful effect on matter compared to its electric field. New experiments are challenging that view. Researchers have demonstrated that intense, properly structured light can induce magnetization and even mechanical twisting in materials through its magnetic field alone. This is an extension of the inverse Faraday effect, but observed with greater strength and control than many expected. Why this matters: • It opens new ways to control magnetism and material properties using only light • Could lead to faster, more energy-efficient magnetic memory and spintronic devices • Offers a new tool for manipulating matter at the nanoscale without physical contact • Bridges optics and magnetism in ways that were previously difficult to achieve The deeper implication: Light is not just an information carrier under the right conditions, its magnetic field can directly reshape the magnetic and mechanical state of matter. This blurs the line between electromagnetic waves and material control. If these effects can be scaled and made practical, we may eventually use light itself as a precise tool to write magnetic information or mechanically actuate tiny structures, rather than relying solely on electric currents or physical forces. We’re discovering that light still has hidden capabilities we haven’t fully exploited. How do you think being able to control matter with light’s magnetic field could change technology in the next decade? Follow for more frontier optics, quantum materials, and light-matter physics.
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Focus on what you can control. Build something. Anything. A product. Yourself. A family. Your community. A team. Relationships. Or help someone else build theirs. Don’t complain. Don’t play the victim. Ever. What are you building? #PlayNiceButWin
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Susan and I are proud to commit $6.25 billion to give 25 million American children a real head start. 🇺🇸 $250 into their @InvestAmerica24 @TrumpAccounts compounding in the stock market, owned by them. 📈 From my dorm-room start with $1,000 to building opportunity for the next generation. 🚀 Every child deserves skin in the game. 👶 See if your child qualifies: investamerica.org/dell/
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UPDATE: Protect John Alle at all costs. Patriot.
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Rainbow eucalyptus sheds its bark in strips at different times. New bark looks green because chlorophyll shows, As the bark ages, tannins build up, shifting the colour through blues, purples, oranges, and reds creating the rainbow effect. 📹 Tesoro Grand Villa
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Fable 5 was banned by the US government yesterday. It's time to build your own Personal AI Computer and run local models. So no one can ever cut you off. Here's how ↓
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AMD CEO LISA SU HELD A MINI PC ON STAGE THAT RUNS A 235B MODEL AND REPLACES YOUR $440/MONTH AI STACK amd's ryzen ai max 395 is the first x86 chip that runs a 200 billion parameter model on one piece of silicon. cpu and gpu share 128gb of unified memory, no separate graphics card needed the gmktec evo-x2 runs qwen3 235b fully, deepseek v3 comfortably and llama 3.3 70b with headroom. on linux you get 110gb of usable vram out of 128gb amd claimed the chip beat an nvidia rtx 5080 by more than 3x on deepseek r1 inference. a lunchbox sized pc outrunning a $1,000 discrete gpu on a real ai workload a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and the box pays itself off in 9 to 10 months install ollama, pull the model, point claude code at localhost. same interface, nothing leaves the machine, nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below
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🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST REPLACED EXPENSIVE PLATINUM CATALYSTS IN ZINC-AIR BATTERIES WITH CHEAP IRON AND IT WORKS BETTER. Zinc-air batteries are one of the most promising low-cost, high-energy-density alternatives to lithium-ion, but they’ve been held back by a slow and inefficient oxygen reduction reaction that usually requires precious metal catalysts. Researchers at Tohoku University engineered a simple iron oxide/samarium oxide interface that dramatically speeds up this reaction. The heterointerface changes how electrons behave at the surface, weakens excessive bonding with reaction intermediates, and delivers faster kinetics plus excellent durability all without any noble metals. The new catalyst performed strongly in both liquid and flexible solid-state zinc-air batteries, successfully powering LEDs and even charging a smartphone. Why this matters: • Zinc-air batteries use oxygen from the air, abundant zinc, and are much cheaper and safer than lithium-ion • Removing the need for platinum or other precious metals makes them far more scalable and affordable • The iron-based interface approach is simple, stable in alkaline conditions, and improves both performance and longevity • It was demonstrated in practical devices, not just lab tests The deeper implication: We’re getting closer to energy storage that doesn’t rely on scarce, expensive materials. Zinc-air technology has long been held back by catalyst limitations, but this work shows that clever interface engineering with cheap, abundant elements can unlock the performance needed for real-world applications from portable electronics to large-scale grid storage. It’s another step toward clean energy systems that are not only sustainable in operation, but also in the materials they use. The future of batteries may not depend on mining more rare metals… but on smarter chemistry with what we already have in abundance. How close do you think we are to zinc-air batteries becoming a mainstream alternative to lithium-ion? Follow for more frontier battery materials and clean energy storage research.
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good idea saving one life is a life worth living
【発明】空飛ぶ浮き輪が誕生した。溺れた人をGPSで追跡し時速50kmで水面すれすれを飛んで駆けつけ手の届く位置に着水する。救助隊が到着するまでの数分間を命綱に変える装置として水難救助の現場で実用化が始まっている。
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but Bezos' Prometheus is solving the engineering ai issue
claude fable 5 has solved CAD I asked it to make a model of a V8 engine It came back to me with a fully working model in under 10 minutes
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After the Knicks win there's going to be a lot of sloppy sex and a lot of kids born in nine months.
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Colonialism is bad, right? Wrong. The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule. India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours. India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out. Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests. The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894. Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone. Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed. Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it. Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains. Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of. If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.
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🚨 BREAKING: WIDESPREAD CHAOS REPORTED IN IRAN 🇮🇷 Several major airports across Iran have reportedly been forced into sudden shutdown following a series of unexplained explosions and thick black smoke rising into the sky. Witnesses describe powerful blasts shaking the ground and lighting up the night, sending waves of panic through nearby areas. Tehran is said to be on edge as uncertainty spreads rapidly. The situation remains unclear, but tensions are escalating fast. The world is closely monitoring developments that could mark a major turning point.
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🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DOSED THE FIRST PATIENT IN A TRIAL TO REVERSE CELLULAR AGING IN THE HUMAN EYE. Life Biosciences has begun an FDA-approved clinical trial using cellular reprogramming to regenerate aging neurons in the optic nerve of glaucoma patients. Instead of just slowing vision loss, the goal is to actually reverse aspects of cellular aging in the eye essentially trying to make old nerve cells young again. Why this matters: • Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide, caused by damage to the optic nerve • Current treatments can only slow progression they cannot regenerate lost vision • This approach uses partial cellular reprogramming (a controlled form of turning back the biological clock) • If successful, it could open the door to treating many other age-related neurodegenerative diseases The deeper implication is enormous: We may be entering an era where aging itself becomes treatable not just its symptoms. If we can safely reprogram cells in the eye, the same technology could eventually be applied to the brain, spine, and other organs. The first patient has now been dosed. This is no longer just theory. What do you think are we ready to start treating aging as a medical condition? Follow for more frontier science and longevity breakthroughs.
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