If Lina Khan gets her way of attacking large tech companies, the US too can have an R&D economy on par with Spain, New Zealand, and Norway.

This looks good! There aren’t enough “day one” apocalypse movies. They always skip over how the apocalypse happened.

This was a fun conversation with James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️. Recommended!

🤖 How should we regulate AI without strangling it?

A long-read conversation with technology policy analyst Dean Ball Dean Woodley Ball
fasterplease.substack.com/p/how-should-w…

Read: From Third World To First...

to see humans on earth can achieve

I clearly address this issue and make that distinction in my 2023 book THE CONSERVATIVE FUTURIST

This is an extremely optimistic timeline.

Singapore 🇸🇬
- At around $88,000, its GDP per person has doubled in real terms over the past 20 years.
- At the moment of its independence in 1965, the country was poorer on the same basis than South Africa or Jordan
- Median full-time wages are now higher than those in Britain,…

'A new robot hand provides extremely fast and flexible finger movements, while also being tough enough to survive intense damage. That durability helps the hand, which is already being used in Google DeepMind’s robotics experiments' New Scientist

'A spokesperson will no doubt say the iPad is a friend to creatives, lowering the barrier to recording music or producing art. ... [But] if Apple wants to sell to creatives, it needs to show it understands them. As a metaphor, the crushing machine is a publicity disaster.'

'NASA is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could drop off humans on Mars in a relatively speedy two months’ time rather than the current nine month journey required to reach the Red Planet.' Gizmodo

'...writing themselves into a corner for 'Best of Both Worlds' changed Trek forever: 'All of us were quite thrilled they had the balls to leave Picard on the Borg cube.''

I remember watching it for the first time. It was shocking and amazing. Still is. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Management, a business association, says that the job market has shaken off the “unsustainable craziness” of recent years, but is expected to remain tight. The Economist

'A practical superconductor would transform the efficiency of electronics. After decades of hunting, several key breakthroughs are inching us very close to this coveted prize.' New Scientist

The Wall Street blast. The old Morgan bank bldg at Wall and Broad still has nicks on its N wall.

Several research teams are currently testing gene therapies to treat congenital deafness.

In Regeneron's trial, two congenitally deaf children became able to hear for the first time.
statnews.com/2024/05/08/gen…

I'm happy there are more Americans.

New American Enterprise Institute case study on how zoning policies are affecting the housing supply.
In 2010, Denver’s zoning reform unleashed a building boom, particularly in multifamily and townhomes. Notice how Denver permits leapfrogged the nation and the rest of the state.

Announcing AlphaFold 3: our state-of-the-art AI model for predicting the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules. 🧬

Here’s how we built it with Isomorphic Labs and what it means for biology. 🧵 dpmd.ai/3URDiNo