When mechanochromic photonic crystals are stretched or compressed, their nanoscale structure deforms, changing the spacing between layers, shifting the reflected wavelength This causes a visible color change, useful for visual strain sensing in wearables

The future is stranger than anyone predicted. And it's also better. White pilled.

2026 so far

Grok 4.20 just dominated Alpha Arena Season 1.5 in live stock trading The mystery model, revealed as Grok 4.20, took the top spots on the leaderboard, with 4 Grok variants ranking in the top 6 It outperformed every major model on the board, being the only one to gain profits

R.I.P. basic prompting. MIT just dropped a technique that makes ChatGPT reason like a team of experts instead of one overconfident intern. It’s called “Recursive Meta-Cognition” and it outperforms standard prompts by 110%. Here’s the prompt (and why this changes everything) 👇

The culture document written by benahorowitz.eth that every a16z new hire signs:

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The most accurate description of what is about to happen in business, finance, tech, and the US economy comes from Elon Musk. He calls it a “supersonic tsunami.” Artificial intelligence and robotics is going to seep into every corner of human life and squeeze out most of the

Nobel laureate Bob Laughlin explains how vital, life-changing technical knowledge is intentionally sequestered and over-complicated because it’s valuable. Peter Thiel accepts this premise and so do I.

“You escape competition through authenticity.” — Naval Ravikant

Alice In Chains - Down in a Hole (MTV Unplugged) #90s #grunge

In Kamchatka, Russia, it snowed so much that dudes are jumping out of buildings without injuring themselves.

We’ve released a detailed paper on how tokenization can unlock wealth creation for billions of people Read it here: coinbase.com/blog/bridging-…

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Christopher Nolan explaining TENET

The godfather of valuation dropped a 30-minute investing masterclass

paper arxiv.org/abs/2601.10825

Cover evolution for Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One. “The cover of the book honors the idea of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of basically repairing broken pottery with a kind of a gold glue. And so it not only fixes it, but it makes it more beautiful. And you honor the mistake

TLDR listen to the voices in your head

“Wasting your time doubting whether you’re going to be successful is pointless.” — Kobe Bryant