Waikato Scientific

This is SYP, underground in the Yucatán jungle. It's been sitting there for months — alone, in the dark, in a cave called Grutas Tzabnah— collecting drip water samples from stalactites one by one. No extra field trips. No manual collection. No lost data. The samples it collected ended up contributing to a reconstruction of Classic Maya drought history, published in Science Advances late last year (doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…). We built SYP because field sampling in remote environments is hard, expensive, and logistically brutal. Researchers were losing entire seasons of data because they couldn't get back to site often enough. SYP fixes that. Deploy once, collect up to 58 samples unattended over weeks or months. Gravity-fed, pump, or external trigger. Wi-Fi configuration. 12+ month battery life. We've just launched sypsampler.com — take a look if you work in cave hydrology, palaeoclimatology, groundwater, or anywhere else that's hard to get to. Thanks to Daniel James and David Hodell (University of Cambridge), Ola Kwiecen and Seb Breitenbach (Northumbria University), for the photo and for trusting SYP with their research. #fieldwork #hydrology #palaeoclimate #speleothem #scientificinstruments #hydrology #NewZealand

Because of science: Water doesn’t kill you. Scratches aren’t fatal. Dentists stop pain fast. Food lasts through winter. 200 years ago? None of this was normal. Life expectancy doubled. Not luck. Science works.

@thejefflutz @PoweredByEos @bert_gilfoyle You are turning me into supply chain and compliance nerd. Thanks for the deep analysis as always.

The selection bias toward @PoweredByEos just got stronger and more concrete w/this new IRS guidance in the post below from @bert_gilfoyle . $EOSE Before this notice, utility and grid-scale storage buyers knew the PFE rules were coming but faced ambiguity about how compliance would actually work. That ambiguity arguably let some procurement teams punt on the question and keep evaluating Chinese-supply-chain batteries on price alone. Now there’s a specific, published framework with calculable thresholds, safe harbor mechanics, and documentation requirements. That changes the internal conversation at every utility and IPP evaluating storage procurement. Here’s why this tilts the field toward EOS: For a utility or developer beginning construction on a storage project in 2026 or later, they now need to demonstrate a 55%+ MACR on day one, ramping to 75% by 2030. If you’re buying CATL or BYD cells or even domestically-assembled packs using Chinese cathode, anode, separator, or electrolyte materials - you now have a real compliance burden. You need supplier certifications up the chain, you need to calculate direct costs attributable to PFEs, and you’re carrying the risk that if the IRS’s forthcoming safe harbor tables (due by year-end 2026) are tighter than expected, you could find yourself out of compliance or facing recapture. EOS’s zinc-halide chemistry sidesteps this almost entirely. Zinc and bromine are commodity chemicals with robust non-Chinese supply chains. The battery is assembled domestically. A procurement officer can look at EOS and essentially check the FEOC box with minimal diligence work, versus a lithium-ion alternative that requires a forensic supply chain audit. The practical implications for customer behavior: First, risk-adjusted cost comparisons now favor EOS more than headline $/kWh suggests. A lithium-ion system might look cheaper on sticker price, but if it jeopardizes a 30% ITC worth millions, the effective cost calculus flips dramatically. No CFO wants to explain to the board that they saved 10% on battery costs and lost the entire tax credit. Second, procurement timelines compress. The notice gives interim safe harbor rules that work now, so customers don’t need to wait for the final tables. That removes an excuse to delay and the sooner they begin construction, the lower the MACR threshold they lock in (55% in 2026 vs. 75% in 2030). This should accelerate decision-making, which benefits EOS if they have product available. Third, the 10-year recapture provision under 48E is a sleeper issue. Even after a project is placed in service, if the developer makes certain payments to a PFE that trigger “effective control” findings, the credit can be clawed back. This makes long-term service agreements and parts supply with Chinese-linked entities genuinely risky. EOS’s domestic service and support infrastructure becomes a selling point not just at procurement but for the entire asset life.

I’d barely heard of Bad Bunny until my daughter mentioned his Super Bowl halftime performance. But after watching his documentary — and the backlash around him — I realized he’s doing far more than making hits. He’s forcing America to confront an uncomfortable truth: Puerto Ricans are treated like second‑class citizens in a country that insists they’re fully American.

Introducing: Soon. A new media company covering the machines, minds, and subcultures of tech's new frontier. Here's a preview of what's to come. Our first documentary, featuring never-before-seen access to @RainmakerCorp's weather modification tech, drops Friday.

@nikoliasgoninus Aptly named, given the context.

In this clip $DUOL CTO Severin Hacker talks about how, contrary to mainstream and incumbent hiring strategies, they are most excited about hiring junior team members who have already embraced an AI native work environment.

@alc2022 This would be funny but for the platform you have built here. "Global warming" is just physics. As is weather and climate. The former is the stochastic product of general circulation, the latter a measure if mean state.

This is the coldest, snowiest winter in Europe I remember in the past 15 years. Not only is global warming a lie, but it also feels like we’re entering a mini ace age of sorts. This summer was also exceptionally cold.

@shiri_shh hi

twitter is cool. but it’s 100x better when your timeline is full with people who code and build things. if you’re into tech, AI, startups, design, web dev, web3, or programming, say hi 👋

@farzyness 100%

America was able to gain its Independence from Great Britain with a ton of help from foreign nations. France. Spain. The Netherlands. And others. It is time for the Iranian people to get the same help from the rest of the world to free themselves from the evil and tyrannical Islamic Regime. The youth of the country deserves it.

@JamesLucasIT Recognised it instantly. Growing up in Birmingham in the 80s was dystopian.

This is architectural terrorism

The names of nearly 11 million Earthlings are riding along with the Perseverance rover as it explores the deserts of Mars. Now, you have a chance to send your name to travel with @NASAArtemis astronauts on their journey to the Moon! go.nasa.gov/artemisnames

It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains.

@Ashton_1nvests Great to find your channel and to see you align with my investing strategy. 👍

I need $SNAP to chill a little longer. I want to load up as much as I can under $10.

@nikoliasgoninus Brain smiles ⏫️

Nietzsche was like an entrepreneur that has an amazing idea or product but was too early. A visionary. I disagree with him about "being," though. My main disagreement is against his claim that "being" is like an unchanging truth. Life denying. Humans are in a constant state of dialectical being and becoming all the time. Knowingly or unknowingly, this is occurring. We are reflecting, trimming our leaves, and "downloading new software to our brains." Systems thinking in the form of an ontology is not life denying. Life denial only occurs when one stops becoming, stops being curious, growing, and downloading new states of being and becoming to their ontology. One's own ontology is always in a state of becoming. Or maybe it is more accurate to say: One's ontology ought to be in a continual state development. It is both the visual representation of multiplicitous states of being and becoming as well as a tether to the ground and one's identity so that one does not float off into space: detached from reality. It is something one can imagine in their mind and see on a screen in some cases. But it is also ever changing: expanding, contracting, and forming new dialectics within it self that reveal additional states of being. Higher consciousness. Higher man.

@nikoliasgoninus Thanks!

Brain smiles. That is awesome. Very elegant. The implications go beyond philosophy and business, though. My quote on the dark ages of human sciences and consciousness is an allusion to one of my upcoming pieces about the 'Human Ontology' where I posit that one can elect to partake in an infinite dialectical process of being and becoming on the plane of their own ontology: A radical manifestation of one’s individual sovereignty that is so energizing it makes me full of life. I’ve included two posts below for you where I briefly discuss this topic. I think you may find it interesting.

This latest piece about $PLTR is supposed to challenge your mind if you make it past the first section. You may ask yourself: “What on earth did I just read? Who is this schizo?”

@nikoliasgoninus It brought brain smiles to think about how the ontology is the basis for the dialectical. This is the fusion of philosophy and business in a very practical way. But very elegant, I have to say.

@WaiScience Very edifying indeed! Exactly the same way I felt when I started making these connections!

@nikoliasgoninus No worries. There's something very satisfying about thinking about the ontology of a business. I've heard the word thrown around a lot, but hadn't made the connection, having not read Hegel and enough German philosophy in general. Like I said, very edifying!

@WaiScience Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback.

why do I let myself worrryyyy

@FarzadMediaINC Crazy thing is when you layer in that the satellites themselves will be the thing that lowers planetary temperatures *solves climate change* and tunes the amount of sunlight reaching earth via global climate models running on the said satellites.

No One Understands What Elon Musk Just Said.