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Popper never believed this. "I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise." 1/n

Yesterday’s launch of an Iranian intermediate-range ballistic missile on Diego Garcia means that Iran likely has IRBMs with a minimum range of 4000 km. It means that the only 3 European countries out of range of Iranian ballistic missiles are Iceland, Ireland and Portugal

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Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature: “Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.” The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

I’ve noticed that people who grew up walking on eggshells around parents who got angry easily or changed moods without warning often become adults who overthink every word, replay conversations in their heads, and assume they’ve done something wrong, even when nothing actually is. If you can relate, this page is for you.

Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Estamos criando o demônio de laplace Foi uma ideia proposta pelo matemático e físico francês Pierre-Simon Laplace no início do século XIX. A ideia é a seguinte: •Imagine uma inteligência com poder computacional infinito. •Ela saberia a posição e a velocidade de todas as partículas do universo em um determinado instante. •Com essas informações e conhecendo perfeitamente as leis da física, essa entidade conseguiria calcular todo o passado e todo o futuro do universo com 100% de precisão.

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Husband wanted to play the “dolphin training game” at his birthday party, and it was one of the funniest party games I’ve ever played > “dolphin” goes out of the room, rest of the party decides on a very specific set of tasks for them > they return and have to figure it out only though boos and cheers from the group examples: 1) spin in a chair 32 times, then go get a glass of kombucha and do a dance 2) open a bag of sour patch kids, place exactly 8 of them on a platter, then serve one to each member of the party 3) grab a lawn ornament frog, take it to the porch swing, set it on lap and pet it 4) walk into workshop, wear towel as a cape, grab the broom and ride it like a witch to the deck, then sweep the deck It’s so goofy! But very fun to make up the tasks and entirely engaging for everyone to watch. I thought it sounded silly and we’d probably play one round, but we played 7! A bunch of adults did that for like an hour and a half!

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: “I really discourage 1-on-1s” Jensen famously has 60 direct reports. When Stripe founder Patrick Collison points out that this isn’t conventionally considered best practice, Jensen shares his reasoning: “I don’t do 1-on-1s, and almost everything I say, I say to everybody all the time. I don’t really believe there’s any information that I operate on that only one or two people should hear about… I believe that when you give everybody equal access to information, that empowers people. And so that’s number one… Number two, if the CEO’s direct staff is 60 people, the number of layers you’ve removed in a company is probably something like seven.” Patrick offers to steal man the other side of the argument: “1-on-1s are where you provide coaching, where you maybe talk through personal goals and career advancement, where maybe you give feedback on something that you see somebody systematically not doing so well… Do you not do those things or do you do them in a different way?” Jensen responds: “I give you feedback right there in front of everybody. In fact, this is a really big deal. First of all, feedback is learning. For what reason are you the only person who should learn this?… We should all learn from that opportunity… Half the time I’m not right, but for me to reason through it in front of everybody helps everybody learn how to reason through it. The problem I have with 1-on-1s and taking feedback aside is you deprive a whole bunch of people that same learning. Learning from other people’s mistakes is the best way to learn.” Video source: @stripe (2024)

> Be this BBC tech reporter > Spend 20 minutes writing a fake blog post > Claim you're the world's #1 hot dog-eating journalist > Invent a fake championship to back it up > Watch ChatGPT and Google repeat it as fact within 24 hours > Realise you just manipulated 2 of the world's most powerful AIs with a single page > Find that users trust AI more than websites because it feels like the answer is coming from the tech company itself > Prove that tricking AI in 2026 is as easy as tricking Google was in the early 2000s Now imagine doing this legitimately for your business. That's how you win AI search.

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Google announces MCP for Android. AppFunctions lets Android apps expose capabilities directly to AI agents. Agents can discover and execute them via natural language. No app navigation needed ❤️‍🔥

🚨THIS IS BAD. 🚨 CNN: Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Dozens laid. Hundreds more possible in the coming days. This changes everything. Closing the Strait with naval presence is reversible. Mining it is not. Every ship that enters now risks hitting a mine. Insurance companies will pull coverage. No captain will order a transit. No company will take the liability. The Strait doesn’t just close. It becomes impassable. 20% of global oil. 30% of Taiwan’s LNG. 33% of global nitrogen fertilizer. The sulfur supply chain. The semiconductor supply chain. All of it!!!! Trump threatened Iran with annihilation last night on Truth Social. Iran responded by mining the waterway. “Catastrophic consequences for oil markets” isn’t an analyst’s projection anymore. It’s the floor.

Neurotypicals: "I'm tired. I'll just go to sleep now." ADHDers: "I am physically exhausted, but my brain is currently holding my eyes open because I haven't had enough 'Me Time' to feel satisfied with today."

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Cursor internal analysis shows how hard Anthropic is subsidizing Claude Code. Last year, a $200 monthly subscription could use $2,000 in compute. Now, the same $200 monthly plan can consume $5,000 in compute (2.5x increase).

wifi signals detecting your movement through walls without cameras keystroke cadence identifying you faster than a fingerprint your phone's accelerometer logging your gait so precisely it knows which leg you favor ultrasonic beacons in retail stores pairing your devices to your physical location license plate readers logging 99% of urban driving routes within 24 hours behavioral biometrics scoring how you hold your phone to decide if you're you and these are just the ones with published white papers