German Silbermann

¿Cómo funciona una refinería, como la Olmeca (Dos Bocas)? Entender un poco el proceso de refinamiento del petróleo crudo en sus derivados (incluyendo gasolinas), es esencial para poder racionalizar el impacto del incidente reciente en la planta de coquización. A continuación, un hilo divulgador al respecto: /1

Hola! Este perrito está perdido en Ámsterdam y Michoacán. Me ayudan a difundir porfa? No trae placa @sebuscaCdMx @PrrosPerdidosMX @PerritosCDMX

Que grandiosa forma de ilustrar el fracaso de las "obras emblemáticas" e inservibles del régimen morenista. Material de @expedientes_mx

UN DESASTRE LA ORGANIZACIÓN PREVIO AL MUNDIAL. 1. 3 horas haciendo fila. 2. Las personas lograron entrar al medio tiempo. 3. Pusieron en riesgo a sus policías. Son un ROTUNDO FRACASO. Que el mundo vea lo diminuto que es nuestro gobierno. Ojalá esto mejore previo al mundial. @carlosmorisea

Los moto simios que los fines de semana compiten en la México Cuernavaca, entre semana practican dentro de las ciclovías de la CDMX. ¿Ves porqué debes sancionar y no dejarlos impunes @GN_Carreteras? Y para no variar, un Kevin Brandon con mariconera.

La importancia del objetivo temporal genera un esfuerzo en las fronteras de dichos deadlines, ese esfuerzo se llama voluntad de mejorar

Sin duda es necesario mayor vialidades ciclistas, es un hecho. El problema es la implementación, la implementación de vialidades ciclistas sobre vías de alta velocidad e incluir pasos como el del video son inminentes emergencias

Microdispensing at the picoliter scale is redefining precision in science enabling ultra-accurate droplet placement for biotech, diagnostics and electronics. A raindrop ≈ 50 µL is 50 million× larger than a picoliter.

Increíble que nadie esté indignado de esto, usar la guerra para enriquecerse de forma flagrante

What you're watching isn't a tree, a river from above, or a neural network. It's a simple chemical reaction filmed in macro, where matter self-organizes along the path of least resistance. [📹 thomas_vanz]

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

📽️ There have been many scary, unnerving days in this latest Gulf war. But the past 24 hours was particularly bad. Why? Because both sides are now causing lasting damage to the world economy's life support system. Our latest primer on the econ consequences of this war👇

This is what happens when you hold onto a tree and never let go as it keeps growing. Giuseppe Penone created It Will Continue to Grow Except at That Point by casting his hand around the trunk of a young tree and then leaving it alone. Over time, the tree grew freely in every direction except where the hand once pressed, preserving a single, permanent indentation. Nothing was cut or reshaped by force—the work emerged through time, growth, and restraint. Long after the hand disappeared, its trace remained in the living wood, a quiet record of how even brief human contact can leave a lasting mark on nature.

A one-in-a-million chance—and it happened. A team from the Technical University of Munich spent six years compiling a list of promising gravitational lenses and waiting for a supernova to explode behind one of them. In August 2025, it happened. A superluminous supernova 10 billion light-years away was located precisely behind two foreground galaxies—and its light, bent by gravity, produced five images of the same explosion. Typically, lenses produce two or four—five was a surprise even to the authors. The supernova was named SN Winny. The odds of such a coincidence are less than one in a million. But the value of the discovery is enormous. Light from the supernova travels to us along different paths around the lensing galaxies, and each path has its own length. Because of this, the five copies appear with different time delays. By measuring these delays and knowing the mass distribution in the lensing galaxies, one can directly calculate the Hubble-Lemaître constant, or the rate of expansion of the Universe. How is this better than existing methods? The classic "cosmic distance scale" is a multi-step process, with errors accumulating from step to step. Microwave background radiation measurements are precise, but depend on models of the evolution of the Universe. The lensed supernova method is a single-step process, with completely different sources of error. SN Winny is particularly convenient: it is lensed by just two individual galaxies with a simple mass distribution, rather than a complex cluster. SN Winny is currently being observed by telescopes around the world. The results could bring us closer to resolving the Hubble controversy—the discrepancy between the two main methods for measuring the expansion rate.

Hours of daylight throughout the year.

I spent 100 hours over the past week researching, writing and editing the piece we just put out. It’s a scenario, not a prediction like most of our work. But it was rigorously constructed, dismissing it outright requires the kind of intellectual laziness that tends to get expensive. And we’ve released it for free. Hopefully you enjoy it. citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

Crazy to watch: a laser surfing through plasma creates a wake that traps & slings electrons near light speed. What normally takes km in an accelerator happens in mm! Simulation by Dr. Vishwa Bandhu Pathak using OSIRIS PIC code shows real plasma waves in action.

@PrrosPerdidosMX subiendo por la rampa de San Antonio, avistamos un husky bajando en sentido contrario #husky

This one actually made me pause. Scientists built a robot made of liquid. Not flexible. Liquid. It can split, merge, squeeze through tiny spaces, and then re-form. When it breaks, it heals itself. No motors. No joints. No rigid body. I’ve spent years thinking about AI as the brain of machines. This feels like the first glimpse of something else. A body that does not have a fixed shape. Today it’s millimeter-scale. Tomorrow, it’s medicine moving through the body, or machines exploring places nothing solid can reach. That thought excites me. And honestly, it unsettles me too. So here’s the question. When machines no longer have a stable form, what does “control” even mean? #AI #Robotics #SoftRobotics #Innovation #Technology #FutureOfWork

A Self-Organizing Map Learns The Shape of Data