Trent Telenko Not having a peer adversary on the horizon for the past quarter century hasn't done wonders for any of the services. I really worry we're going to have a *very* rude awakening if China actually makes the play for Taiwan in 2026 that the military thinks they will.

Russia has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on all states to refrain from placing nuclear weapons in space.

13 states voted for it while China abstained.

News broke in February that the U.S. has intelligence suggesting Russia is working on an EMP nuke for space.

No, TSMC's difficulties in Arizona are not the result of Confucian values or any other kind of unbeatable East Asian cultural advantage.

noahpinion.blog/p/whos-afraid-…

'Directed High-Energy Infrared Laser Beams for Photovoltaic Generation of Electric Power at Remote Locations'
arxiv.org/abs/2405.00034…

Who’s working on this?

Amazon is full of smart people, but I just can’t see how this will ever make sense. aboutamazon.com/news/transport…

I don’t know about other airlines, but @delta always sells a refundable version of any ticket for an extra $100 or so. If this bill passes, they’ll just stop selling the non-refundable “standard” tickets and jack the prices up $100… apnews.com/article/airlin…

Allllllll these years of work and now our wonderful film is set to premiere in June

dcdoxfest.com/films/wild-wil…

Honestly, this outlook baffles me.
WHY?
26 years ago we spent like $700 total and my mother-in-law sewed my wife's wedding dress. Even with inflation the church cultural hall is still free to use and you can make make enough chicken salad to feed an army for a thousand bucks!…

“Imagine UCF researchers living and working on the Moon and companies mining and using lunar resources to launch rockets further into space. That’s what UCF planetary scientist Phil Metzger ’00MS’05PhD predicts in the not-too-distant future.” ucf.edu/news/ucf-plane…

I hate to break it to everyone, but wireless charging is not the future of car charging. It’s all about efficiency. You’ll never be able to move power as efficiently through a few inches of air as you’ll be able to with direct copper-to-copper contact. So what does this mean?

Congress: beat China to the moon

NASA: More funding

Congress: Keep Chandra

NASA: More funding

Congress: Keep Artemis on schedule?

NASA: More funding

Congress: more STEM outreach?

NASA: More Funding

Congress: Here’s a 10% budget cut, thank you and hurry tf up nerds

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This is a point I make over and over and over again.

Dems profess to care for poor / marginalized / minorities / less fortunate (and I believe them, for the record), but their policies are always what Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 calls 'front of the classroom'

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Matt Bateman I don’t invest in EdTech but I’d say about half the pitches for AI education are “so there is this cool Neal Stephenson book”

Our Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is operational, healthy, and has now successfully achieved two-way communications!

Next steps include a one- to two-month commissioning phase, after which the sail can begin to unfurl in space.
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4b5FaY0

It’s amazing that, for forty years, the price of the “right” Mac has been very close to $2500. The specs of a modern Mac blow the early 128k Macs away. There are cheaper and vastly more expensive options. Inflation is a thing. But, every year, the sweet spot is $2500.

A reporter just asked me: what famous experiment is dead wrong?

Of course I had to say the landmark illumination study conducted at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s. Both academics and popular writers commonly summarize the results as showing that every change in light, even…

This is how you do exposition; not a single wasted shot. But the best thing about this movie was the soundtrack. Overall plot is meh, it’s more of a snapshot in time of the boomers hitting middle age.

It feels like a dam is finally breaking with respect to GPS jamming. After years of staying quiet, governments are now willing to say, yes, it's Russia doing it, and yes, it is a significant safety issue for commercial aviation.

There's an impressive list of former Oculus employees who are founders of Series A+ companies:

- Palmer Luckey, Founder of Anduril
- John Carmack, CEO of Keen Technologies
- Nate Mitchell, CEO of Mountaintop
- Matt Hansen, Co-founder of Mountaintop
- Nirav Patel, CEO of…