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

Smoke from the #PalisadesFire nearly blocks out the sunset in LA. Looks like the blaze is headed inland towards Brentwood. Just insane images.

Re. Meta and Mark Zuckerberg's announcement on replacing fact-checkers with community notes. First, I love the concept of community notes and recognize that fact-checkers can have political bias (I've written about this myself)...however...the work of fact-checkers should not be

Just in the nic of time!

#PalisadesFire coming over the hill into encino / tarzana

Announcing our first Edge Expedition: Edge City South Africa, April 3–12, 2025 🇿🇦 Join us for a 10-day exploration of South Africa's tech and culture scene. We’re inviting 50 frontier founders, builders, and researchers for this one-of-a-kind trip. Learn more 👇🧵

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Bill Burr Destroying Elon Musk

We are launching the SHIFT Grants Program to fund d/acc projects. With anchor funding from Vitalik Buterin (vitalik.eth), Trent McConaghy (Trent McConaghy), ASI Alliance (Artificial Superintelligence Alliance) / Ocean Protocol Foundation (Ocean Protocol) & Yoni Ben-Shimon How you can get involved👇🌱

1/ The past several days have been an interesting time to visit China for meetings with government officials, scholars, business leaders, etc. A few brief reflections: counterparts have emphasized China’s leaders will not countenance being seen as passive in response to US (🧵).

Americans, you've been de-industrialized for too long. You lack good engineers & workers. You lack new infrastructure. You lack advanced manufacturing lines. You lack industrial robots. You lack complete supply chains. Manufacturing can't return to the US.

Fantastic.

This is hilarious, whoever made this. 🤣 #BlackMonday #stockmarketcrash

A lot of you guys have never decisively won a 3 day trade war and it really shows

If I understand correctly, everyone is trying to unstake their USD and so the yield is going up because there are fewer validators on the network or it could be the exact opposite of this, it’s very hard to understand real money when all you know is fake Internet money

Less than 24 hours ago, Google dropped Veo 3, blurring the line between reality and AI. Its video and audio quality is so lifelike, it’s unsettling. Here are 20 insane examples & a full guide on how to use it: 1) A standup comedian telling a joke:

1. I'm going to thread out the very odd sequence of events that led Fox News anchor John Robert, theoretically a "straight news" guy, to pretend the early hours of June 7 actually happened a day ago in order to avoid pointing out that Donald Trump was wrong about something.

I told you we’d be back

A major explosion occurred at Elon Musk’s Starbase in South Texas tonight, June 18th. During a static fire test of the Starship system at SpaceX’s Massey’s test site, the vehicle designated Ship 36 suffered a catastrophic failure. At approximately 11:01:52 CT. The structure