It's only been 1 day of CES 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible. The 10 most impressive reveals of CES 2025 so far: 1. A 360° AI-powered body scanning health mirror that can scan your heart, weight, and metabolic health

calling tech ceos “oligarchs” is lazy and reductive. oligarchs historically thrived on cronyism & the privatization of state assets, not merit or innovation. tech founders, whatever you think of them, generally built systems that transformed economies & lifestyles. media likes

space exploration, intelligence, life extension -- I no longer wish I lived in a different era, this is the best era thus far

Fusion energy is a must. We have to have the power to support this, no question. Also, quantum computing. I literally don’t see how it’ll be possible without those two things, and I think you’ll see a lot more money diverting to those fields of research.

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Big news out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): researchers have successfully transmitted an entangled quantum signal over a commercial fiber-optic network without any downtime. It's a mouthful, but here's why it's a big deal. ORNL partnered with EPB and the University of

Thing that becomes painfully obvious when you see your childhood friends in your mid-30s: the difference between living a life where improve stuff 5 percent a year vs a life where you are 1 percent worse at the end of each year really really compounds.

What if extra/ultra-terrestrials really are just spirits but they built and then sent the Grays because that’s what we look like to them and they want to blend in?

This line of rhetoric is going to backfire because based on my memory of Occupy Wallstreet, tearing it all down and dismantling bureaucracy is also a goal of the left. Nobody wants the Vogons.

What we're seeing imo is a return to imperialism and away from globalism. While it seems like we're headed toward multi-polar world powers, it also seems to be the end of globalism. Could this be the result of decades long conspiracy theories about a "one world govt" that is now

Ambitious people often get caught up chasing those who already have what they want, but the irony is that the outlier’s path is only a path for one. Every outlier has to carve their own.

What’s the best book on leading teams you’ve read? Bonus points if it includes tips on how to not care if people like you.

Understated excellent advice. Life changing. Learned this three years ago and mental health drastically improved.

Reindustrializing America is happening now! Here we’re introducing high school students to the world of casting. Our goal here is to provide hands on experiences to get kids excited about careers in manufacturing. Sound on: you can hear him say “I might have a knack for this”

As someone in PR, I am flabbergasted that this kind of inauthentic scripted moment got approved. These people all have their own PR/marketing/social folks. Unless they're all chipping in for the same one, which, no. Their "people" would have had to have approved this. Was it a

They’re acting like the questions are weird and dumb when they’re the ones that handed out binders to right wing celebs and made a huge deal out of promising to release the files. As if they weren’t the ones that stirred the pot even more and pandered to the conspiracy theorists.

So many people, diametrically opposed to everything devout Catholics like Tolkien stood for, nonetheless proclaim that modern defense tech chuds are illiterates who don't understand his works. "Almost the central theme of the book is the contrast between the Hobbits (or "the

Wow. The community note here says it all. We are being destroyed from within by sound bites.

It's not bad. We need better world models and we all grow. You do not want to know how long it took me to get over my Teddy Ruxpin breaking.

I didn’t understand the importance of cogsec until this weekend. My family and I keep to ourselves, staying busy with work, school and home life. Mobs aren’t new, but it’s bizarre to see. And especially weird when the fear is from an algorithm. I didn’t realize how much people