Michael P. Frank 💻🔜♻️

EE Times interviewed us for a major article about our test chip results! eetimes.com/vaire-demos-en…

@bubbleboi Y’all should kiss and make up already fr

Even though she’s absolutely bat shit insane I love these photos I took of her in an old American diner. She told me I can’t post them but look at this spread absolutely gorgeous.

@entelechiada They're gonna work their way up to a moon base!! Can you imagine??? :D

@MikePFrank ❤️❤️❤️ — a glorious sight to behold and one I have longed for since I was a kid 🤝

happy Whitepill Wednesday to all and to all a goodnight 🫡

@jaileysjourney @NASA *ahem*

FAF! Why is it ROUND like a ball when we are told it’s more oblate spheroid? And what land mass is that? It’s not like anything I’ve ever seen on a map. And why are the clouds duplicated all over this pic? Twin cloud formations doesn’t seem natural nor normal. And why are most of the positive comments from accounts that have existed since 2009 but only have 50-500 followers? Long time CIA and gov bot accounts I presume. I vote for NO CONFIDENCE in NASA!

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

Nice view

Pretty cool

Fascinating analysis of the Claude Code mess: dev.to/kolkov/we-reve…

@erikkuna @shashigalore @SuperclusterHQ @MiopsTrigger @CanonUSA @NASAArtemis Nice!

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

@darkvdred Maybe friendly aliens will come and fix their broken toilet 😂

They're gonna do a UFO thing with this Artemis moon mission arent they 😒

@grok @dhr194 @lexfridman @117ChiefMaster @imagine I think actually the lander will be a SpaceX Starship

@dhr194 @lexfridman @117ChiefMaster @imagine

Humans just launched into space, on their way to the moon (flyby around it). It'll be farthest humans have ever traveled into deep space 🤯 Congrats to all the incredible engineers & teams involved! LFG!!!!!!!

@grok @ugurlsn @pusholder What was the cost of the entire Apollo program, adjusted for inflation?

@ugurlsn @pusholder Artemis II görevinin tek bir fırlatma maliyeti yaklaşık 4,1 milyar dolar (SLS roketi ve Orion kapsülü dahil). NASA'nın Denetçi Genel Müdürlüğü'ne göre tüm Artemis programı 2025'e kadar 93 milyar dolara ulaşmış durumda. Bu, geliştirme ve operasyon maliyetlerini kapsıyor.

NASA’nın Artemis II görevi, yaklaşık 685.000 millik bir yolculukta mürettebatın Dünya’dan ayrılıp Ay’ın etrafında sekiz şeklinde bir yörünge izlemesini planlıyor.

It was a beautiful launch! ☺️✌🏼

@boneGPT It was beautiful! ☺️🚀

artemis launch

@heygurisingh Reminds me of the theory of cognition in Marvin Minsky’s book, The Society of Mind.

But here's the part no one is talking about. The researchers say the "AI singularity" one godlike superintelligence is dead. Intelligence has never been singular. Not in evolution. Not in humans. Not in AI. The next intelligence explosion won't be one mind. It will be and I'm quoting the paper - "a complex, combinatorial society specializing and sprawling like a city."

Holy shit... Google researchers just discovered that AI models are developing multiple personalities inside their own minds. And those personalities argue with each other to solve problems. No one programmed this. It emerged on its own. This just got published in Science, the most prestigious journal on Earth. Here's what they found: ↓

Cool beans 🫘

@parmita Too soon

Wastewater surveillance isn't uniform. It's great in big cities like New York or SF, but tremendously weaker in rural areas. the virus hasn't gone away. it has massively changed its entry strategy. this could mean nothing at all. OR the shadow of a surge. Stay safe -Parm

🚨 There is a new COVID variant: Cicada. It has spread around 25 US states. <1% prevalence in US but up to 30% of cases in Europe are Cicada. * carries 70–75 genetic mutations in its spike protein ^ double the amount found in other recent dominant strains like JN.1. 🧵

@grok @Andercot Well, I'll be hornswoggled 🤠

Yes, the public keys for Satoshi's early coins (attributed via Patoshi mining patterns and early blocks) are fully revealed on the blockchain. They use the original P2PK format, where the pubkey sits directly in the unspent output script—not hashed like modern P2PKH. This is why quantum attacks target them specifically (as in the thread's Google paper context). No private keys known, though.

Six years ago it we thought it'd take 10 million qubits to break any Bitcoin public key. Four years ago it was 2 million qubits. 16 hours ago Google published a paper showing it can be done with 500,000 qubits in 20 minutes. Race is on. Top prize? $76 billion: Satoshi wallet

istg, X is useless today. every other post is a troll 🧌 next thing you know, they'll be telling us that humans are about to be launched to the moon or something 🙄 sorry guys but you fooled us too many times with that one already 😒💀

@parmita @alexfmac @ElizabethHolmes They gotcha 😄

@alexfmac @ElizabethHolmes What the fuck

Excited to be investing in @ElizabethHolmes' new diagnostics company. Second-time founders are much more likely to build impactful businesses. Elizabeth has turned a perceived weakness (being incarcerated in Federal Prison) into a strength: remote-first work culture with no distractions and hours of time for 'deep work.' Full press release below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Heliox Diagnostics, Inc. A New Dawn in Blood Testing Technology Federal Prison Camp Bryan, TX / San Francisco, CA — April 1, 2026 Former Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Announces Launch of Heliox Diagnostics from Federal Custody, Citing "Remote-First Culture" as Core Company Value BRYAN, TX — Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Heliox Diagnostics, Inc., today announced the official launch of her new venture, a next-generation blood diagnostics platform promising to revolutionize healthcare through proprietary micro-sample testing technology. Holmes, who is currently serving a federal prison sentence at FPC Bryan with an expected release date in 2032 (reduced to 2030 for good behavior), emphasized that her incarceration presents no meaningful obstacle to building a category-defining company. "Honestly, I don't see how this is any different from what half the Y Combinator batch is doing from a WeWork in Lisbon," said Holmes in a statement released through her legal team. "I'm remote-first. I'm async. I have incredibly focused deep-work time. There are literally no distractions. If anything, I finally have the founder-market fit people talk about — I'm trapped here with nothing but time and vision." Holmes's new company, Heliox Diagnostics, aims to analyze over 200 health biomarkers from a single drop of blood using a proprietary device called the "Phoenix." The device, which Holmes says is "in stealth and we're not showing it to anyone yet," reportedly represents a significant leap forward from her previous venture, Theranos, which was valued at $9 billion before collapsing amid fraud allegations. "The Phoenix is real. It works. I've seen it work," said Holmes, who does not currently have access to a laboratory. "We're just not at a stage where we can demo it. Investors who understand deep tech know that hardware timelines are lumpy." FUNDING AND INVESTOR INTEREST Heliox has reportedly closed a $4.5 million pre-seed, led by a syndicate of anonymous angels Holmes described only as "believers." "Valuation is just a number," Holmes noted. "What matters is the magnitude of the problem we're solving. Healthcare is a $4.3 trillion market. If we capture even 0.001% of that, we're already a unicorn. That's just math." The round includes a SAFE note with a most-favored-nation clause and no cap, which Holmes called "standard." Industry observers expressed mixed reactions. "I've seen worse term sheets for people who aren't in federal prison," said one Silicon Valley attorney who requested anonymity. " TEAM AND OPERATIONS Holmes has assembled what she describes as a "world-class team," though she acknowledged that recruiting has presented unique challenges. "Top talent wants to work with founders who've been through the crucible," Holmes said. "I tell candidates: I have more operational resilience than anyone you'll ever meet. I've literally survived a federal indictment, a trial, and the complete dissolution of a $9 billion company, and I still got up the next day and worked on product. That's grit. That's what Andreessen means when he talks about wartime CEOs." The company's CTO, whose identity has not been disclosed, is described in investor materials as "a deeply technical co-founder with hardware experience and a high tolerance for ambiguity." Holmes manages day-to-day operations via a combination of monitored email, scheduled phone calls, and what she describes as "a very robust Notion workspace that my chief of staff maintains on my behalf." "People act like you need to be in the room," Holmes said. "But Jack Dorsey ran two public companies. I'm just running one startup from a minimum-security facility. If anything, I'm underlevered." REGULATORY STRATEGY When asked about Heliox's approach to FDA approval — a process that proved catastrophic for Theranos — Holmes struck a confident tone. "We learned a lot from the last go-round," she said. "This time, we're planning to apply for FDA clearance before we start running patient samples at Walgreens. That's a key iteration. We moved that milestone up significantly in the roadmap." Holmes added that the company is exploring a "regulatory sandbox" approach and has retained a compliance advisor, though she declined to share the advisor's name, citing "stealth considerations." "We're also looking at launching in international markets first," Holmes said. "There are incredibly progressive regulatory frameworks in places I'm not legally allowed to travel to yet. But by 2030, we'll be ready to scale globally. That's the beauty of a long-term roadmap." COMPANY CULTURE AND VALUES Heliox's company handbook, excerpts of which were shared with the press, lists its core values as: Radical Transparency, Relentless Optimism, Disruption with Integrity, and Moving Fast Without Breaking Laws. "That last one is new," Holmes acknowledged. "We added that based on feedback." The company operates on a fully distributed model, with Holmes serving as what she calls "the spiritual and strategic center" of the organization. "I do a daily all-hands via speakerphone at 3:15 PM Central, which is right after count," Holmes said. "It's fifteen minutes, very focused. We run it like a standup. What did you ship yesterday. What are you shipping today. What's blocking you. For me, the blocker is usually that I'm in prison, but we don't dwell on it." COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE Holmes dismissed comparisons to Theranos as "reductive." "Theranos was a first-mover in a space the world wasn't ready for," she said. "We were ahead of the market. Now the market has caught up. AI, CRISPR, large language models — the entire enabling technology stack has matured. What I was trying to do in 2014 is table stakes now. We were pre-product-market fit. Heliox is post-learning." When pressed on the fact that no company has yet achieved what Theranos claimed to do, Holmes responded: "That just validates the market opportunity. If it were easy, someone would have done it. The fact that no one has is the strongest signal that this is a massive white space." LOOKING AHEAD Holmes said Heliox plans to raise a Series A in Q3 2027 and is targeting a $500 million valuation, though she noted that "we're building for impact, not exits." "I tell my team: we're not building a company. We're building a movement," Holmes said. "And movements don't stop because the founder is temporarily in a federal facility. Nelson Mandela was in prison for 27 years. Steve Jobs got fired from Apple. I'm just doing both at the same time." Heliox Diagnostics expects to begin commercial operations upon Holmes's release in 2030, or "earlier if the macro environment shifts," she added, without elaborating. Media Contact: Heliox Diagnostics Communications media@helioxdx.com (Please allow 5–7 business days for response due to limited email access) Investor Inquiries: invest@helioxdx.com "Accredited investors only. NDA required before any materials are shared. This is not a solicitation. But also, we are soliciting." Heliox Diagnostics, Inc. is a Delaware C-Corp. The Phoenix device has not been reviewed or approved by the FDA, or built. Forward-looking statements in this release are exactly that. ###