Andrew Song

A $1,000,000 WORLD RECORD SWIM! Kristian Gkolomeev wins the Men’s 50m Freestyle in 20.81s and takes home $1,000,000 bonus + $250,000 first place prize and reclaims his 50M Freestyle world record.

Congratulations to non-enhanced athlete, Hunter Armstrong, on taking 1st in the Men's 50m Backstroke.

Stop a statin and your LDL cholesterol rises 30% in four days. Nobody writes a WSJ feature about it. Stop certain blood pressure medications and your BP can spike within hours. Nobody calls it a design flaw. Levothyroxine, antidepressants, insulin, metformin, antihistamines. Chronic treatments for chronic conditions, and all of them stop working when you stop taking them. None of them generate think-pieces questioning whether patients should have started. The AMA classified obesity as a disease in 2013. Thirteen years later, it’s still the only chronic condition where “you have to take it forever” is framed as an argument against treatment rather than a description of how medicine works.

GLP-1 drugs are the first intervention ever to make a dent in the rising obesity rate. "Do it naturally" just means do it not at all

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Climate activists have spent decades shutting down nuclear, blocking clean energy transmission, and trying to ban research on cooling the planet... but the movement that wins the next century will be led by the people doing the work, not those protesting it. New essay out today👇

Worth noting that the current datacenter backlash is what 40 years of anti-nuclear activism looks like in the present tense. The same movement that killed clean baseload is now mad that compute is straining the grid. Colossal self-own.

Depends. But the bigger question is: why hide it until now? Why not disclose, as early and clearly as possible, what material they intend to put into the atmosphere, at what scale, and under what conditions? What I still don’t understand is their thesis that deployment only happens if a government pays for it. Any government willing to partner on this would have to be desperate enough to attempt reflecting 1–2% of the Sun’s energy back into space, while also being willing to absorb massive domestic and international backlash. That seems politically unrealistic without first earning public trust. You need buy-in from ordinary people before deployment, not just approval from elites or a single government. I don’t think this can succeed as a purely top-down project. And that’s before you even get into the geopolitical issue of where this technology is being developed and who the rest of the world would trust to control it.