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The fastest energy transition in human history is happening right now In 2015, solar generated 256 TWh globally Today it’s over 2,700 TWh. Solar met 83% of all new electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025 alone Renewables just overtook coal as the world’s #1

The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and

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This is the way

Bully One of my favorite memes.

You can Grok Imagine anything

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Nate Silver Links are not deboosted. We fixed that issue last year.

US population grew 6% in the last decade. Federal spending grew 40%, inflation adjusted. Not as bad as California, but you have to ask - where did all the money go?

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Grok is the most truthful AI. It’s unbiased and not woke. It’s the only one I use.

Grok Imagine makes every second of the generated video look so real

Enough is enough

Incentives drive outcomes

Congratulations to Diggeridoos at VT from Virginia Tech for winning the 2026 Not-a-Boring-Competition! They mined 129” in a Texas downpour. Additional congrats to Talpa Tunneling UPV (Innovation Award) and to The Boring Illini (Rookie of the Year). Registration opens soon for NABC 2027!

George Blankenship got so emotional sharing the story of early Tesla The Model S was the first car from Tesla that was really meant for people to drive like a regular car It was their do-or-die moment. The production line pushed the company into one of the most terrifying

Elon Musk perfectly explains why fully reusable orbital rockets are insanely hard to build Our Earth has quite strong gravity and thick atmosphere. With known physics, building a fully reusable orbital rocket is only barely possible "If this was a video game, the setting is

Il y a un truc qui me travaille depuis un moment. La conversation entre Elon Musk et Larry Page qui est littéralement la genèse d'OpenAI. Le contexte : Elon et Larry Page étaient amis. Lors d'un dîner, Elon exprime son inquiétude sur la sécurité de l'IA pour l'humanité. Larry