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@iScienceLuvr Slaughterhouse 5 there

This sort of mindset is probably why xAI failed to catch up to other frontier labs. If he wants to make SpaceXAI into a frontier lab, hope he changes his mindset. Though being a cloud provider is probably something they can easily excel in anyway lol (Colossus is impressive!)

@TodayinHistory The US Navy destroyed the Japanese Navy in 10 minutes at Midway just 6 months after Pearl Harbor

What is your favorite historical fact?

@RadioGenoa @AfD The police are bravely watching

Merkel has destroyed Germany. Only @AfD can save Germany.

@geoffreykarren @JavierBlas Caustic Chlorine is a great example. One product can be in tight supply and the other one is basically given away. At times.

@LSUtigerTrack @JavierBlas What’s a comparable situation in petchems?

When commodities are free - American gas edition: Natural gas at the Waha hub (West Texas) has traded at negative prices for >75 consecutive business days. Has any other commodity traded in any significant pricing hub **consistently** at sub-zero levels for such a long period?

The data is even more revealing when you remove suicides. In 2024, America had 15,364 gun homicides. The same year, Europe had around 62,700 deaths from summer heat. America had ~2000. That's a policy choice.

@kharrell91 @BoardGeniuses You’re right. My mistake

@LSUtigerTrack @BoardGeniuses Aggies played for the baseball natty in 2024

The 10 Most Tortured Fanbases in College Football

From the late 1980s til 2000, Marx's Das Kapital averaged about 500 citations per year in scholarly publications. Over the last decade, it has not dipped below 5,000. The explosion of academic Marxism is one of the most significant stories in higher ed in the past 40 years.

America is unironically the greatest civilization to ever exist. On every axis. And it’s worth celebrating with all the zeal and love of this old Coca Cola commercial 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Legendary director John Huston, left, and equally legendary actor Paul Newman, right, on the set of "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean," a 1972 film that is loosely based on the life of , well, y'all know. It's actually a pretty entertaining movie, and certainly worth a watch if you get a chance to see it, despite the fact that it was filmed in .... Arizona. 😀 Any of y'all ever seen it? Thoughts?

@juliette_hiyb @G_S_Bhogal My exercise time, particularly running or swimming or cycling, is when I have this time and it is so useful

Not spending time alone with your thoughts is detrimental to your health. It means you don't ever get a good read on the thought-stream in your mind (your own internal "social media feed"), which means you're being driven by your environment, ricocheting between stimuli and external values like a pinball in a machine.

How Americans aged 25-35 spend their free time, 1920-2026. A shift toward ever more leisure and solitude. The most underrated change is the loss of time spent “doing nothing” (i.e. introspecting). shorturl.at/aIA6y

Just a short digression on why news that AI solved the Erdos math problem implies the ff: 1. The realization that truth is not a construct but obectively exists. Something IS out there. We can get better and better at trying to understand it, but there is something to understand. 2. Various levels of intelligence are aware of that 'out there' to varying degrees. Humanity, as one intelligence on a continuum, will see itself as waking up inside an an "exploration-driven game" where the task is to figure out the purpose of the game. First the AI used a very human method to solve it by noticing that the elementary geometric problem resembled a structure in number theory. That correspondence, made possible by the huge capacity of AI would have gone unremarked perhaps for thousands of years left to humans alone. "Hey this looks like ..." But AI can notice things on a vastly huger scale. This was possible because the world AI explored is the same world that humans explore. Mathematical structures are rooms that really exist in reality. The truth is different from "my truth". The solution space and the path to it existed objectively. It was not a construct. Hence 1. Second the fact AI, whether in the sense of the physical device or as an abstract description of a process we are only now inventing could do something previously impossible demonstrates an n+1. Why should there not be more rungs higher still (n+1) + 1? Hence 2. Intelligence is not a singleton. This opens an exciting vista. Reality is not shapeless, made up of stuff postmodernists invent. It is packed with verifiable surprise from an objective source. It is chock a bloc full of real information, not sound and fury signifying nothing. I think that before too long the secular world will be dragged kicking and screaming into the search for meaning in our exciting world. x.com/SciTechera/sta…

@Jkylebass @J_K_Wood Matthew 18:6

@J_K_Wood Death penalty for both of them. Period. Death is too good for these f:;$@rs .

“I effing killed him” — Gay man charged with murder of baby boy he adopted. The baby’s cause of death was acute upper airways obstruction, as a result of smothering by hand, fabric, or inserted object. The child had suffered 40 injuries including external and internal bruising, and a fractured arm. Detective found videos on Varley’s phone, recorded earlier that day, with the boy lying on the bed with respiratory arrest but the defendant did not seek medical help. Varley is charged with: murder, manslaughter, two counts of assault by penetration, five counts of cruelty to a child, grievous bodily harm, sexual assault of a child, 13 counts of taking indecent photos or videos of a child, one of distributing an indecent photo of a child. A month before the child’s death, Varley told a social worker he wasn’t “bonding” with the child and was having “dark thoughts” about him, including thoughts of drowning or suffocating the baby. He said he would never act on them.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ They let him keep the baby anyway.

@geographer7 @Jkylebass @US_Stormwatch If you can sell the water for a better price to a more valuable use than almonds, it’s very plausible

@Jkylebass @LSUtigerTrack @US_Stormwatch How does exporting overseas not help the state grow?

Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology. That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.

@Jkylebass @US_Stormwatch Like the idea of farmers being able to monetize their water rights in a free market sense

@US_Stormwatch 70% of our almonds are exported to India and the EU. We need to keep the water here for higher and better use.

Say His Name: Amos Ferrier (38) Combat veteran. 15 years of service. He was just kiIIed in MN by Janiya Samiah Frost and Riniyah Brinique Allan. 0 national outrage.

[CHARTBOOK] Strait of Hormuz closure and the oil shock of 2026 - slides for a presentation to the British Institute of Energy Economics: jkempenergy.com/wp-content/upl…

Incredible

@biancoresearch Too many people think that bringing oil and products supply and logistics is like flipping a light switch. Like they say in the military, amateurs discuss strategy while professionals discuss logistics

1/3 Financial Market participants truly believe that any day now, the Strait opens, the oil starts flowing, and this war is over and soon forgotten. Trump gives them what they want to hear, and they buy it every time, like he just did again. x.com/zerohedge/stat…