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Orbit around the Moon seen by the Blue Ghost spacecraft

NYT conservative columnist Bret Stephens hit it right on the head with this.

All the people who spoke passionately about free speech over past five years are as silent as corpses

Crystal clear picture of Mars 140 million miles away. NASA

📢📢New paper: AI as Normal Technology. I’ve worked on this w/ Sayash Kapoor for the last 2 years. The full version will be our next book! Utopian & dystopian AGI visions are quite similar. A far more important axis of disagreement—will AI be superintelligence or normal technology?

Giant Soviet antenna The 64-meter dish of the Kalyazin RT-64 radio telescope in Russia's Tver Oblast was built in the 1980s to communicate with Venus and Mars missions.

New essay by Sayash Kapoor and me clarifying and deconstructing a slippery concept: We argue that AGI is not a milestone. There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts. With the release of OpenAI’s latest model o3, there is renewed debate about whether Artificial

Samen met Hidde Boersma In NRC met een pleidooi voor een nieuw progressief geluid: een overheid met power nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06…

The Netherlands is a leader when it comes to food production due to innovations in agricultural techniques which improve efficiency. Growing a kilogram of tomatoes in the Netherlands requires 9.1 liters of water. The global average is over 210 liters of water per kilogram.

Science museum in Shenzhen, China

Perceptions of democracy in China are *higher* than in the US, the UK, and France. This data is coming from the world's largest democracy perception study, published by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation (a Danish-based non-profit organisation).

I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)

The "Eurostack" is a (long overdue) project to publicly fund a European "stack" of technology that is independent from American Big Tech (as well as other powers' technology that has less hold in Europe, such as Chinese and Russian tech): euro-stack.info 1/

This absolutely stunning chart comparison by the NYT might prove to be the most important geopolitical visualization of the 21st century. The two major superpowers are each cornering a competing energy platform. China bets everything on clean energy, the US on fossil fuels.

It’s a strange new substance: soft wood transformed at the molecular level to be stronger than steel yet one-sixth the weight, writes Christopher @Mims. Its name? Superwood. on.wsj.com/4kFd3U5

Children in China play with their new Unitree robot.

“ Many Americans are demonstrably disgusted, shamed, and angered by their tyrants, but mainstream literary and intellectual institutions seem unable or unwilling to give voice to them. ” Pankaj Mishra in no-taking-prisoners mode harpers.org/archive/2025/0…

As of 2017, roughly 17% of the total land area of the Netherlands is land reclaimed from either sea or lakes. 65% of the country would be under water at high tide, if dikes, dunes and pumps were not used. This is what the country would have looked like from space in 1300 vs

The beauty of the Earth from space