What a year 🚀 SpaceX launched more rockets in 2024 than the entire 30 year history of the Space Shuttle program. (134 Falcon 9 and Heavy launches, shown here + 4 Starship test flights)

The first sunrise of 2025, captured from space... 📸 Astronaut Naoko Yamazaki

1) Stop gain-of-function research on potential pandemic pathogens. 2) Stop expansion of high-level biocontainment laboratory capacity. 3) Reduce high-level biocontainment laboratory capacity to the level in 2001.

The Milky Way in the skies of Western Australia photographed by Trevor Dobson

Milky Way from Italy

Save our Souls (SOS) or Find all the Owls (FAO)? 🧵 Who will kill us first, NEPA/CEQA or the high intensity wildfire? NEPA/CEQA is a huge brake pedal to fuel reduction work, and despite billions in funding, most western forests will see high intensity wildfire before they see

Thanks to so many friends for reaching out about the LA fires. And huge thanks to those doing everything they can to stop them especially those on the front lines who are in harm’s way. Very grateful and hope those who have lost homes can recover quickly.

As a large taxpayer I’m extremely grateful to see a thorough audit of US finances by Department of Government Efficiency. Incredible this hasn’t really happened in a very long time.

This may be the most e/acc speech of all time... unfathomably based 🥹🇺🇸🚀 "The future is not going to be won by hand wringing about AI safety. It will be won by building." - JD Vance

I end up regretting every software update Apple offers.

DOGE website is live! doge.gov Initial site: 1. X feed posts 2. Consolidated government org chart - enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices 3. Summary of the massive regulatory state, including the Unconstitutionality Index (ratio of rules written

America built the greatest train stations ever seen — and then demolished them. Here's what the American railway was like at its peak. And what destroying it says about us… (thread) 🧵

Apple but in an alternative universe. [subject] --sref 470043244 --profile ch85yes --c 8 --q 2 --sw 320 --s 320 --v 6.1

If you look at the disparity between the The All-In Podcast interviews with both Howard Lutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent versus how tariffs are being covered in the mainstream media, the flaws of mainstream media become crystal clear

WAVE: Colossal waves crashing off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal, captured in striking detail by photographer Ben Hartley.

If you want to lose a thousand Super Bowls put Peter Retardo in charge….

Great explanation of the use cases for DCVC #microreactor co Radiant from the U.S. DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy (@energy; Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy)!

Would be cool if you could ask @Grok to help manage your twitter feed to example “give me less politics and more AI and finance related tweets.” Basically asking for subjective changes that it could implement.