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Make the games 40 minutes. 8 x 82 / 48 =13.667 That’s the equivalent number of games you would reduce the schedule by. Without breaking arena leases. Works for college. Works for international. Works for the WNBA. AND. If you looking at tv and streaming ratings, the less the actual playing time for a televised game, the bigger the ratings. Ie, the less time fans have to focus on a game, the more they enjoy watching it on tv

The guy who built this robot is the same person who created xenobots in 2020, the first living robots made entirely from frog cells. That trajectory tells you everything about where robotics is heading. Sam Kriegman spent years studying how biological organisms survive damage. A starfish loses an arm, grows it back. A flatworm gets cut in half, both halves become new worms. Biology solved the resilience problem a billion years ago: make every piece a complete agent. He took that principle and made it mechanical. Each module in this metamachine has its own motor, battery, and computer. Cut the robot in half and you get two robots. The severed leg rolls away on its own and can rejoin later. The remaining body recalibrates its gait instantly and keeps walking. The AI designing these bodies is the part that should make every robotics company nervous. Kriegman's algorithm runs simulated Darwinian evolution, breeding thousands of body configurations, keeping winners, discarding losers. The designs it produces look nothing like any robot a human engineer would sketch. Three-legged things with tails. Five-limbed creatures where limbs double as spines. Forms that move like seals, lizards, and kangaroos depending on terrain. These metamachines ran outdoors across gravel, mud, sand, tree roots, and uneven brick. They jumped obstacles, did aerial spins, and flipped themselves upright when knocked over. No retraining. No recalibration. Zero sim-to-real gap. Boston Dynamics spends years hand-engineering a single quadruped body plan that breaks when you remove a leg. Kriegman's AI generates thousands of body plans in hours, and the ones it picks are functionally immortal. The 2020 xenobots were biological cells on a petri dish. Five years later, the same researcher has athletic machines built from Lego-like blocks running through mud outdoors. The compression from living cells to modular hardware to AI-evolved locomotion happened in one lab, in one researcher's career. That's the pace now.

Prior to winning $30k on a scratchcard, Bill Morgan had survived a car crash and a near-fatal heart attack. When told to re-enact his scratchcard win for a news report, he then won a further $250,000 🥹❤️

Jeremy Lin with an awesome breakdown on how Luka is so good in isolation:

@lukeskywalka11 Mannnnn st John’s ran Duke ragged. Yet they persisted.

I can’t remember this last time I was this fired up for a game. Should be epic in DC

Hats off to Duke. St. John’s ran them ragged. Yet they persisted.

You watching Luke? Peyton?

@LadyLibrty @mark_k Unless she’s pulling your face into hers, (to tell you a secret) and then surprise coughs directly into your eyeballs, it’s not the same.

@heywardboyce @mark_k LOL! You're not wrong. And no. No kids. However, I DO hang out with a teacher friend often enough, and yes, her kids make HER sick (literally) on a regular basis. I'm still good, though.

What is ONE supplement that has genuinely improved your health/life? 💊 I’ve seen so many people swear by different supplements, it’s hard to know what actually makes a real difference vs placebo or hype. So I’m curious, what’s a supplement that genuinely improved your health or daily life in a noticeable way? Like something you could actually feel.

@LadyLibrty @mark_k Do you have kids at home, sneezing on your refrigerator door handle? No? THEN IT DOESN’T COUNT 😂 I thought I had bullet proofed my body- turns out, I just didn’t have a 5 year old.

@mark_k It's kind of a natural equivalent for hydroxychloroquine. I started back in the COVID days. But here's something interesting: I haven't had so much as a cold since. Not in over five years. No flu of any kind, either. THAT'S impressive. And it's the only new supplement I added.

@keddie44 Hahaha 💯

This Texas/Purdue and Iowa/Nebraska split screen right now

@PeptideList How do I map my genome? Do I need to send saliva somewhere? Or do I not have to worry about that yet?

Hey Howard This is a report that maps your genome to see which peptides your DNA maps to. It’s a work in progress and we have 3 tiers based on scientific literature and clinical standards. Per your desire: lots of new formulations and delivery systems coming out to help you not have to jab yourself. Stay tuned!

Today we ran our first pharmacogenomics (PGx) AI training run: 272,000 biomedical edges. 94 pharmacogenes. 102 peptides. 273,967 vectors. 66+ databases. 3 months of data infrastructure before we ever trained a model. 76% precision on our top 50 predictions, validated against STRING, BioGRID, and PubMed. 4 genuinely novel gene-gene interactions that don't exist in published literature yet. The model knows when to say "insufficient evidence." In medicine, knowing your limits isn't a bug. It's the whole point. White paper dropping later today.

All of these dunks happened last night! Wemby on GG GG on Wemby Jaylen on Jaylin Castle & Champagnie on Hendricks LeBron on Huff (2x) Queta on Chet KD on McDaniels Saraf on Draymond Sengun on Gobert Embiid on Matas & 2 reverse dunks by Ace

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@shanaka86 Ey dawg you’re freaking me out. Just tell me if I’m going to die.

The green transition runs on sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is made from sulfur. Sulfur is a byproduct of refining the oil that the green transition was designed to replace. And 45 percent of the world’s seaborne sulfur trade just got trapped behind the same chokepoint that trapped the oil. This is the circle nobody drew. Copper for electric vehicle wiring is extracted by leaching ore with sulfuric acid. Nickel for battery cathodes is processed in high-pressure acid leach plants that consume sulfur shipped from Gulf refineries. Cobalt and lithium follow the same chemistry. Twenty percent of global copper production, 30 percent of nickel, and 50 percent of uranium depend on sulfuric acid derived from sulfur that comes overwhelmingly from fossil fuel processing in the Middle East. The war did not just trap the fuel. It trapped the chemical that mines the metals that were supposed to end the need for the fuel. The snake is eating its own tail. At Hormuz. Sulfur prices have surged 165 percent year on year to over $650 per ton, up 25 percent since the war began. Indonesia’s nickel HPAL plants, which supply the cathode material for the batteries in your phone and your Tesla, import 75 percent of their sulfur from the Middle East. They hold one to two months of inventory. The clock started on February 28. It is now Day 27. The DRC copperbelt imports approximately 2 million tons of sulfur per year for oxide leaching. Fifty to 60 percent of its copper output is acid-dependent. Sulfuric acid was already up 500 percent in the 2.5 years before the war began, driven by smelter closures and decarbonisation reducing byproduct supply. The war added a chokepoint to a market that was already in structural deficit. Now layer the diesel crisis on top. Blue Cap Mining in Western Australia stood down 120 of 180 workers on March 17 because it could not secure 15,000 litres of diesel per day. Australia’s mining industry burns 10 billion litres annually. Diesel prices are up 40 percent. Over 500 stations have run dry. And modern haul trucks will not operate without AdBlue, a urea-based exhaust fluid Australia imports 69 to 95 percent from the Middle East. No diesel to move the ore. No AdBlue to run the trucks. The ASX Materials Index is down 20 percent. Bear market. The market sees an energy crisis. It is wrong. This is a chemistry crisis. The molecules that extract copper from rock are refined from oil that flows through Hormuz. The fluid that allows trucks to meet emissions standards is made from urea synthesised from gas processed at Ras Laffan. The helium cooling the chips controlling the electric trucks replacing diesel trucks is a byproduct of LNG from the same facility the war shut down. Every substitution loops back to the same chokepoint. Diesel powers the truck. Sulfuric acid leaches the copper. AdBlue cleans the exhaust. Helium cools the chip. Urea feeds the soil. LNG powers the grid. Every molecule either transits Hormuz, is refined from something that transits Hormuz, or is a byproduct of processing something that transits Hormuz. The strait is not an oil chokepoint. It is a chemistry chokepoint. The entire periodic table of industrial civilisation is queued behind it. The Filipino nurse walks to work. The GPU ships late. The Western Australian miner flies home. The Indonesian nickel plant counts inventory. The Congolese copper pad waits for acid. The Iowa corn field waits for nitrogen. And the electric vehicle that was supposed to make all of this irrelevant waits for a battery made from metals extracted by chemicals derived from the fuel it was designed to replace, through a strait it was supposed to make unnecessary. The molecules do not care about your energy transition. The molecules transit Hormuz. Or they do not move at all. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

The most disappointing thing about being a kid is that you don't realize you're in the chillest part of life. You can't even appreciate your easygoing struggles because you're blinded by rage. You had to share your crayons with your sister, and it's the worst day of your life.

@misraetel Bless you 🙏

Seed oils are safe!

Are myostatin inhibitors safe? A lot of people are going to be asking this question in coming years as these drugs start rolling out. The answer from a new trial is yes! They don't seem to generate cardiac problems and they make people simultaneously more muscular and less fat!

The big lie of “gov sucks at everything “ , is that they suck the most at enforcing performance and costs. You know what’s worse than the gov running a service? Private companies knowing that the gov entities they contract with can’t do shit to stop them from fucking up everything and making a fortune. I’m not saying this applies to every private company. Many do have ethics. Not all. And as an entrepreneur, it’s embarrassing to us all. Need proof ? Look at the Noem ad contract. Look at healthcare. Taxpayers provide 70pct or more of the revenue of the largest insurance companies. Those same insurance companies get fined and found liable for ripping off taxpayers, again and again and again. And they still get to do business with the gov, knowing they can effectively steal money from us all. The fines are a nuisance. And this is healthcare. When they lie, people die. Maybe when we are smart enough to pass laws saying that gov contractors get one mulligan. Two fines from any government entity and you are blacklisted from Gov contracts at the state and federal level for 10 years. That’s when things will change Until then the concept of privatization of gov services like the tsa or post office or .. is just a license for a private company to abuse taxpayers and face next to no consequences.

I need Glauc flock to comment on this @DGlaucomflecken @LGlaucomflecken