We could all use more real talk these days. Thanks Eric Newcomer Newcomer for an honest and interesting conversation. We break down today’s incentives, constraints and second-order effects in tech, AI and hardware. If you’re a systems thinker, I hope you enjoy this one…

When you turn on a light in your house, turbines can feel it! Normally, steam turns a turbine which produces electricity. But the grid can also PUSH BACK on the turbine itself. And this draws MORE power from the turbine, stabilizing the grid. GRID INERTIA THREAD 🧵👇

Waymo seems to consistently be double the price of Lyft and Uber. Why is that?

Announcing "Objective for the We" (#OFTW) v4.0 A free 🍏-security event empowering the next generation: 📍 Berlin 🗓️ July 30–31, 2026 Mahalo to the Hasso Plattner Institute (Hasso-Plattner-Institut) for hosting & making this possible!! ♥️ 🎟️ Invite-only → apply here: objective-see.org/oftw/v4.html

🚨 NASA Admin Jared Isaacman announces plans to build a permanent U.S. base on the Moon 🌕 The plan rolls out in three phases: 1️⃣ Rover and tech deployments 2️⃣ Semi-habitable infrastructure for astronauts 3️⃣ Heavier infrastructure for permanent human presence It will cost

🚨 NASA is launching the first nuclear powered spacecraft to Mars by December 2028 • It will deploy the Skyfall payload of Ingenuity‑class helicopters to continue exploring the surface • Nuclear electric propulsion provides an extraordinary capability for efficient mass

Nuclear electric propulsion 👌

This is the fastest I have ever gone through TSA. What does one do with 3.5 hours at SeaTac?

Properly scaled diagram of the journey of Artemis II. Inertial frame of reference. No, the mission won’t land, but it will be going a tremendous distance from Earth. The green circle is the ISS orbit… Made it for this article: planetocracy.org/p/artemis-ii-i…

#BREAKING 🚨: Fueling has begun for the Artemis II rocket which holds 733,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen

If you are using the earth as a reference frame, the moon is actually doing a close flyby of Artemis II.

Nästan ett dygns resa och en färd över halva jordklotet. Det är inget som hindrar Öis-supportern Kim Ahlberg. När Rödblått kliver ut för allsvensk återkomst är han på plats på Gamla Ullevi. #Öis gp.se/sport/fotboll/…

The Artemis II lunar flyby will be streamed on Netflix, starting 10 hours from now. netflix.com/us/title/82066…

After a journey of more than 690,000 miles, the crew is nearly home. The Artemis II crew will splash down off the coast of San Diego later today and, though it won’t be visible from land, you can still wave in their general direction to welcome them back to Earth! 👋

Listening to suitable music while awaiting the Artemis II astronauts coming home. youtu.be/wO0A0XcWy88?si…

.Ursula von der Leyen "The European #AgeVerification app is technically ready. It respects the highest privacy standards in the world. It's open-source, so anyone can check the code..." I did. It didn't take long to find what looks like a serious #privacy issue. The app goes to great

‼️🇪🇺 The EU's new Age Verification app was hacked with little to no effort. When you set it up, the app asks you to create a PIN. But that PIN isn't actually tied to the identity data it's supposed to protect. An attacker can delete a couple of entries from a file on the phone,