Louis Jabbour

Almost 1 year ago, we @TUM_Boring won the Finale of the Not-a-Boring-Competition in Las Vegas held by @boringcompany. We constructed and built a 22-ton Tunnelboringmachine and raised 1 M USD to finance the project. Big thank you to our commercial partners!

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

In case you haven’t worked it out yet… • SpaceX and Blue Origin are the railroads. • The moon is the Louisiana purchase, Mars is the West Coast. • AI is the pioneers, and your kids and grandkids are the settlers. People ask… “But what is the business case for space?” The answer is “America”

Electric vehicles are an extremely powerful tool for reducing oil demand. This is so obvious when you use the same units. There is a ton of chemical energy in the oil we burn to move cars, but you only need a small fraction in electrical energy for EVs to do the same job.

Robotics in Munich is on fire! 🥨 Let's make it simple - Munich is a great place to launch robotics startups. There are couple of great spots for robotics in Europe and here, in the middle of Bavarian land is one of them. Leading universities like Technical University of Munich produce highly skilled robotics and AI engineers, while global companies such as BMW Group and Siemens offer close collaboration opportunities and early customers. There is growing interest in robotics and you can see it by incubating student communities like RoboTUM and many others. The city also provides access to venture capital, accelerators, and government funding focused on deep tech. 💰 🦾 robominds - enable robots to learn complex manipulation and automation tasks from human demonstrations 🦾 Franka Robotics - research-driven robotics company that develops force-sensitive robotic arms 🦾 Agile Robots - builds intelligent robotics solutions by combining advanced AI with force-sensitive robots and systems 🦾 @Robco_Robotics - automation company that builds modular, plug-and-play robot hardware paired with AI-powered, no-code 🦾 @OliveRobotics - developing AI-enabled, ROS-native sensor hardware and embedded software 🦾 Magazino – a Jungheinrich company - robotics company that develops intelligent mobile robots and AI-driven software for warehouse and intralogistics 🦾 @AngsaRobotics - startup that builds autonomous outdoor cleaning robots using AI-powered object detection to autonomously find and remove small trash 🦾 Filics - startup developing autonomous, flat mobile robotsthat drive under and move pallets and other load carriers 🦾 sewts - robotic systems and software to automate the handling of deformable materials like textiles 🦾 @CircusGroupSE - develops autonomous robotic systems and software to fully automate food production and supply in commercial and defense settings 🦾 @IntrinsicAI - builds a platform and developer tools to make industrial robots easier to program, more flexible and widely usable across industries 🦾 @RobotLearningCo - builds low-cost, AI-driven robotic systems and developer kits that let robots learn tasks 🦾 @KewazoRobotics - develops robotic systems that automate material transport on construction sites 🦾 ARX Robotics -  builds modular unmanned ground vehicles and autonomous systems for defense 🦾 @IDEALworksGmbH - develops autonomous mobile robots and fleet orchestration software for industrial logistics 🦾 @global_mechmind - develops 3D vision systems and AI software that give industrial robots perception and intelligence 🦾 @DLR_de - national research center and space agency, conducting advanced R&D across aerospace, energy, and robotics Not to mention that in Munich the biggest robotics companies have their offices: Universal Robots, Exotec and many many more. European robotics scene is 🔥! ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

US AI labs: "China will never catch up!" The US AI lab:

A random YouTube channel just did the back to back calculations on his theory that Starlink v3 is useable/used as global real time space based phased radar array. It’s an extremely daring hypothesis with a very exciting chain of reasoning backing it up. Link in reply.

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SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models. Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

JUST IN - Trump: "MAKE LEBANON GREAT AGAIN!"

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@zeno_fox Love all of it ! Where can I sign up as test user ?

The list of mass layoffs announced in Germany is massive. And each of them is followed by countless jobs eliminated by the suppliers. German industry is simply imploding. - Volkswagen (VW): 35,000–50,000 jobs in Germany (core brand ~35,000; group total up to 50,000 by 2030) - Bosch: 13,000–20,000 jobs (mostly mobility division in Germany) - ZF Friedrichshafen: 7,600–14,000 jobs (electric powertrain/drivetrain division) - Mercedes-Benz: ~40,000 jobs (group-wide cost-saving program, significant in Germany) - Continental: Over 10,000 jobs (group-wide, thousands in Germany) - Porsche: Nearly 6,000 jobs - Audi: 7,500 jobs (mainly admin/development in Germany by 2029) - Thyssenkrupp (Steel): 11,000 jobs (at steel subsidiary) - Deutsche Bahn (incl. DB Cargo): Up to 30,000 positions (group; ~6,000 at DB Cargo) - Ford (German operations): ~4,500 (Saarlouis plant closure) + ~2,900 (other reductions) - Schaeffler: ~2,800–several thousand jobs in Germany/Europe - SAP: ~3,500 jobs in Germany (part of 10,000 global) - MAN: ~2,300 jobs (over the next decade) - Lufthansa: About a fifth of administrative jobs (thousands affected) - Wacker Chemie: Over 1,500 jobs (~9% of workforce, mostly Germany by 2026/2027) - RTL Deutschland: ~600 jobs - Zalando: ~2,700 jobs (logistics/distribution in Germany) - Ergo (insurance): ~1,000 jobs by 2030

@ze_rusty @Chuck_Petras You notice the EMF when you wear AirPods. Mine start screeching when I power up my induction stove

The Electricity bill is the cheap part. A Swiss research group tested 13 professional induction cooktops & found that most EXCEEDED even the already-high 1998 ICNIRP maximum exposure limits when a person stood close to the stove. For the worst-case compliant device: current density in tissue exceeded ICNIRP limits by up to 24 dB.. A FACTOR OF 16. The brain tissue of young children: overexposed by a factor of 2 The CNS of a fetus: can exceed general public limits entirely if the mother cooks at normal working distance. And this happened on devices that had PASSED the official safety test. Why? Because the IEC 62233 compliance standard, the test that certifies your stove as "SAFE", measures the AC magnetic field at 300mm (1 foot) from the cabinet edge. You don't cook from 1 foot away. Your abdomen is at 0mm. Your hands are at 50mm. Your child's head is at cooktop height. At 300mm: COMPLIANT At 0mm: 16x OVER THE LIMIT The test is designed to PASS not to protect. And that's before you consider that the ICNIRP limits themselves are already deeply inadequate. ICNIRP limits are set to prevent ACUTE effects.. enough induced current to directly stimulate a nerve. They don't account for chronic, non-thermal biological effects. Reba Goodman & Martin Blank showed magnetic field biological effects occur at 14 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE below the thermal threshold ICNIRP uses as its baseline. The WHO IARC classified ELF AC magnetic fields.. the exact type induction stoves emit at 20 kHz, as a Group 2B possible carcinogen in 2002. ICNIRP's response in 2010 was to RELAX the reference levels. So when the study says your stove exceeds limits by a factor of 16.. That's 16x over a number that's already orders of magnitude too permissive for chronic daily exposure. You're not cooking on a stove. You're standing in front of an industrial ELF AC magnetic field generator. EVERY SINGLE DAY. But sure. The electricity bill is the part to worry about.

@pmarca joined @HeadlineVC

My politics is whatever leads to this.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

We live on a planet with 1.3 billion habitable years left. We've had rockets for 69 of those years. In that time, the cost of reaching orbit dropped from $54,500 per kilogram to $2,720, and SpaceX is targeting under $100 with Starship. If they hit that number, getting to space becomes 545 times cheaper in a single lifetime. 329 orbital launches happened in 2025. Almost one a day. The space economy crossed $626 billion last year and should hit a trillion by 2034. SpaceX just filed for an IPO targeting a $2 trillion valuation, worth more than every airline on Earth combined. Starship, their fully reusable rocket (both stages fly back and land), can lift 150 tons to orbit. The entire International Space Station weighs 420 tons. Three flights could put the whole thing up there. The engineering side of this is solved. What remains is a survival problem. Researchers published a paper in Scientific Reports calculating the natural extinction rate for humans, how often we'd get wiped out by asteroid strikes, supervolcanoes, the stuff we can't control. Less than a 1-in-14,000 chance in any given year. At that rate, we'd survive millions of years, more than enough to spread across the solar system. Toby Ord, a philosopher at Oxford who spent a decade studying how civilizations end, puts the odds of a civilization-ending catastrophe before 2100 at 1-in-6. The threats aren't from space. Nuclear war. Viruses engineered in labs that could spread before anyone understands what hit them. AI systems are smart enough to act on goals we never gave them. All things we built ourselves. A 2017 NASA paper made this case: we have a roughly 50-year window to lock in spacefaring infrastructure before resources run thin and energy costs make a restart nearly impossible. We're 9 years into that window. Given enough time, the math takes this to 100%. The only question that matters is whether we make it through the next few decades without blowing our shot.

صدر عن مكتب الإعلام في رئاسة الجمهورية البيان الاتي: بناء على المبادرة التي اطلقها رئيس الجمهورية العماد جوزاف عون والتي ترتكز على العمل الدبلوماسي من خلال الإعلان عن وقف لإطلاق النار والذهاب إلى التفاوض المباشر مع إسرائيل ، وبعد الاتصالات الدولية والعربية التي اجراها الرئيس عون مؤخراً في ضوء تصاعد الاعتداءات الاسرائيلية على لبنان ، قررت الإدارة الاميركية تكليف وزارة الخارجية الاميركية القيام بدور الوسيط بين لبنان واسرائيل . وتنفيذا لذلك ، وبناء على توجيهات الرئيس عون للسفيرة اللبنانية في واشنطن ، تم إتصال هاتفي عند التاسعة مساء بتوقيت بيروت ، هو الأول بين لبنان ممثلا بسفيرته في واشنطن ندى حمادة معوض وإسرائيل ممثلة بسفيرها في واشنطن يحئيل ليتر ، وبمشاركة سفير الولايات المتحدة الاميركية في بيروت ميشال عيسى الموجود في واشنطن . وتم خلال الاتصال التوافق على عقد اول اجتماع يوم الثلاثاء المقبل في مقر الخارجية الاميركية للبحث في الإعلان عن وقف لإطلاق النار وموعد بدء التفاوض بين لبنان واسرائيل برعاية أميركية .