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Germany’s shutdown of its entire fleet of nuclear reactors—among the best in the world—will go down as one of the most catastrophic acts of self-inflicted wealth destruction in history. More remarkably, it was enthusiastically applauded as a shining beacon of climate policy by many self-proclaimed “progressives,” seemingly indifferent to the billions of tons of additional emissions and air pollution it would entail. Germany is in really, really dire straits, for a host of other reasons as well. But they're still feeling cozy and comfortable, mistaking decline for stability. quillette.com/2026/04/12/ger…

This one is gonna be hilarious to me until the day they call my time of death

Your body replaces 98% of its atoms every year. Within five years, every single one is swapped out. The you from 2021 is physically gone. Not "mostly gone." Gone. The atoms that used to be your face are now part of the air, the ocean, somebody else's lunch. Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved this in 1953. Your skin right now is about a month old. Your liver, six weeks. Your stomach lining regrows every five days. Your skeleton is completely different from ten years ago. A few atoms do stick around for life, buried in some brain cells, in parts of your heart, and in your tooth enamel. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden tracked them using leftover radiation from 1950s nuclear bomb tests. The oldest surviving piece of "you" lives in your brain, your heart, and your teeth. Your brain is also erasing you. On purpose. A neuroscientist named Ron Davis at Scripps Research found that the brain has cells that release dopamine, the same chemical you feel after a good meal or a win, and use it to dissolve memories. When his team shut these cells off in test animals, they remembered twice as much. The chemical behind your best feelings is the same one shredding your past, and it never stops running. Ebbinghaus proved this back in 1885. You lose about half of everything you learn within one hour. A 2020 study from Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute had people live through a real experience and then checked how much they kept. At best, about a quarter. 75% of the details of your own life are being actively wiped by the organ that is supposed to be keeping track of it all. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Squeeze all of it into one calendar year, with the Big Bang on January 1st, and humans show up at 11:52 PM on New Year's Eve. Your whole life, every birthday and breakup and boring Tuesday, lasts 0.17 seconds on that calendar. Not even long enough to blink. Stars will keep burning for about a hundred trillion more years, then the fuel runs out and the lights go off everywhere. The last things left will be black holes, places where gravity is so strong not even light can escape. Even those slowly leak away over a number of years so large you would need a hundred zeros to write it. After the last one is gone, nothing is left. No light, no warmth, nothing bumping into anything else, ever again. The universe reaches total stillness and stays there. Forever. Brian Cox once described the window where life can even exist as one-thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth of a percent of the universe's total run time. You are in that window right now. Built from borrowed atoms, running on a brain shredding its own records, here for a fifth of a second on a cosmic calendar that ends in permanent silence. Anyway, hope your Tuesday is going alright.

Retatrutide had the largest weight loss recorded in a Phase 3 obesity trial: 28.7% body weight gone in 68 weeks. Phase 2 liver data showed an 86% reduction in liver fat, and 93% participants in that liver study reached normal liver fat levels. Nothing else comes close.

The universe didn’t just deliver light from the past. It delivered the actual recipe for life itself. Japanese scientists just confirmed it: asteroid Ryugu contains all five nucleobases needed for DNA and RNA — adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil — in balanced proportions. Not fragments. Not a partial set. The complete molecular foundation. These molecules formed 4.5 billion years ago inside a water-rich parent body, when our solar system was still a chaotic storm of rock and ice. Back then, Earth was a molten, sterile hellscape being pummeled by asteroids exactly like Ryugu during the Late Heavy Bombardment. Every crash delivered fresh crates of prebiotic chemistry straight to the surface. Now zoom out. Ryugu is just one asteroid. Carbonaceous chondrites like it are scattered across the entire solar system — and probably the galaxy. The same building blocks are almost certainly riding on Bennu, on comets, on countless dark bodies we haven’t even catalogued yet. Here’s what makes the chemistry cruel. We now know the bricks were everywhere. But we still have no idea how those bricks stacked themselves into the first living cell. The leap from chemistry to biology remains the greatest unsolved mystery in science. You can have every letter of the genetic alphabet delivered on a silver asteroid… and still not know who wrote the first sentence. Yet the evidence is literal. The very same molecules floating in Ryugu’s 5.4-gram sample are the ones spelling out your DNA right now. The universe didn’t watch life emerge on Earth. It supplied the ingredients, baked them in the vacuum for hundreds of millions of years, then casually tossed them our way like a chef sliding a finished dish across the counter. We are not a terrestrial accident. We are the local success story of a cosmic standard. The recipe for biology isn’t rare. It’s the default setting of the universe. And somewhere out there, on some other rock that got the same delivery, the same story might have already begun.

‼️ ZELENSKYY: For the first time in the war, an enemy position was captured entirely by ground robotic systems and drones - without any infantry. A robot entered the most dangerous zones instead of a soldier and took the positions. «The future is here, on the battlefield, and Ukraine is creating it. These are our ground robotic systems. For the first time in this war's history, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned GRS platforms and drones. The occupiers surrendered, and this operation was completed without infantry involvement and without losses on our side. Ratel, Termite, Ardal, Lynx, Zmiy, Protector, Volya and other GRS completed over 22 000 missions at the front in just 3 months. In other words, over 22 000 times lives were saved. A robot went into the most dangerous zones instead of a soldier» - Zelenskyy’s address to the workers of Ukraine’s defense-industrial complex. April 13th, 2026.

Over $1B extracted by the Trump family in crypto Every chart of their project ends the same way: - WLFI token: down 70% - TRUMP NFTs: down 90% - MELANIA token: down 99% - TRUMP token: down 96% - ABTC (BTC mining company): stock down 94% No matter which new project Trump family is launching, they always eating good And chart always goes to zero

@kwasi_stackbtc @benjaminjwhitby You were categorically the worst chancellor we have ever had. Bitcoin doesn’t need your endorsement. In fact, it is better without it. Find another gift now your political career is over.

Thank you for the warm welcome into the Bitcoin army. I’m Kwasi Kwarteng, I’ve got a PhD in economic history, 14 years as MP for Spelthorne, and formerly UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. I’ll be honest: in my time in government, Bitcoin wasn’t even part of the conversation at national level. That was a mistake — one I intend to help correct. I’m now Executive Chairman of a BTC treasury and I’m here because I believe Bitcoin will fundamentally reshape the global financial system. My background is in studying exactly these kinds of monetary transitions, and this one is real. Looking forward to the conversation.

The entire AI industry spent a decade optimising compute, parameters and benchmarks. Now at the frontier they've hit the same wall philosophy hit 2,500 years ago: what is a mind, what is good, and who gets to decide? Turns out you can't build a metaphysics of machine intelligence without first having one for human intelligence. The humanities aren't a relic. They're the prerequisite. Go study them! 📚

And then @demishassabis — the head of Google DeepMind — eloquently called for exactly what I'd been arguing for three years. x.com/vitrupo/status…

Living outside the SV eco-chamber is a super power 🦸‍♂️ Big tech is now finally hiring philosophers. Not as advisors. As staff. And they are all British! 🇬🇧 Anthropic did it first. Now Google DeepMind (Demis, also British) has followed. Q. How do you build an artificial mind without a working theory of mind? Q. How do you engineer consciousness without an ontology of what consciousness even is? Q. How do you align intelligence you can't even define? These aren't engineering problems. They're age old questions of the humanities. I've been publicly arguing with SV and folk like Elon Musk (since May 2023) that the humanities would be critical for AI. x.com/dioscuri/statu…