American manufacturing construction inched up to another record high in March, driven mostly by continued growth in spending on new semiconductor fabricators in the wake of the CHIPS Act

An absolutely damning thread of evidence. China's government is 100% censoring and suppressing Americans' videos on TikTok.

🙌 Wonderful to see CRITICAL MASS among the five finalists for this year's Prometheus Award for Best Novel! Congratulations to my fellow nominees: Devon Eriksen , Karl K. Gallagher , Gordon Hanka, and Howard Andrew Jones.

-> lfs.org/releases/2024P… Prometheus Award

TikTok CEO blatantly lied to Congress under oath on the central question of whether American data was being transferred to China.

An investigation should be immediately opened for perjury charges.

The Senate should do its job and pass the bipartisan House bill with delay.

US chip factory opening ahead of schedule. Seems good.

Augmented reality on construction sites

📹 mindwired ai

I’m deeply saddened to hear of Vernor Vinge’s passing. ‘A Fire Upon the Deep’ and ‘Rainbows End’ are among my favorite books. We have lost one of our great science fiction writers.

Rest in peace, Vernor.

California sunset launch tonight from Vandenberg!!! This could be easily visible, especially if you're east of the launch site - say in LA, Mojave, Bakersfield etc.
spacex.com/launches/missi…

This could be responsible for some of the tech layoffs you're now seeing. The 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act enacted in 2022 penalizes software dev and R&D in the US by requiring amortization of these expenses over 5+ years.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2022/ju…

🧵Read Michele Hansen's excellent thread:

💫 Congratulations to this year's #PrometheusAward nominees for Best Novel! I'm honored to be among them. The full list is now available here: lfs.org/blog/17-varied…

#CriticalMass #Nominee

The US Patent Office says that to obtain a patent a real person -- not an AI -- must have made a “significant contribution” to an invention and that only a human being can be named as an inventor on a patent.
federalregister.gov/documents/2024…

Science girl Family portrait.. ❤️😊

The spaceship 'medical bay' -- long a staple of sci-fi -- came one step closer to reality on Feb 10th as a remotely controlled robot on the ISS simulated surgical cuts in a historic first for space medicine. #spaceMIRA #SurgeryInSpace

space.com/iss-robot-surg…

The 'Western Solar Plan' proposes to lease US public land for solar development. It focuses on areas with few sensitive resources, less conflict with other uses of public lands & close proximity to existing transmission lines.

pv-magazine.com/2024/01/18/us-…

When I'm at Chipotle, l always wait until after the employee puts the first scoop of chicken on my burrito to ask for double chicken, so the size of the first scoop isn't compromised by the knowledge I'm getting a second scoop and now the employee has shown their hand in terms of…

Scientific paper mills (networks for publishing fake academic papers) are proliferating with the advent of LLM AI's -- and the scientific establishment has yet to grapple with it. Here, Sabine Sabine Hossenfelder breaks it down... youtu.be/6wN8B1pruJg?si…

After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data.
Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.

Your order was delivered… to the Moon! 📦

Intuitive Machines' uncrewed lunar lander landed at 6:23pm ET (2323 UTC), bringing NASA science to the Moon's surface. These instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon under #Artemis .

Odysseus, Intuitive Machines’ uncrewed Moon lander, is targeted to touch down at the lunar South Pole at 5:30pm ET (2230 UTC) Feb. 22. Watch live with us as this Moon delivery brings science instruments to study the region. go.nasa.gov/49Dw6bW