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It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot. Pluto’s icy Mountains.

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." - Galileo Galilei

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.” — Søren Kierkegaard

After a journey lasting 9 years, 5 months, and 27 days, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby of Pluto, sending back these remarkable images.

Almost everything you think you know about the history of technology and capitalism was warped by communist/luddite propaganda of the era. That's happening this time too.

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

Once again this graph has a hold on me

Illinois has the most state pension debt in America — by a wide margin. How bad is it? IL Pension Debt: $145.49B The bottom 41 states combined: $145.77B IL population: ~12.7M Bottom 41 states: ~180M And Pritzker and his allies in Springfield are considering pension sweeteners that could add $76B+ more in costs for Illinois taxpayers. This is not sustainable. This is a crisis.

Propaganda words work so well

It was always going to be Illinois in the Final Four. 🗣️

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” ― Nikola Tesla

Farthest ever landing. We landed on a moon of Saturn 1.4 billion km away and most people have no idea. This is actual footage from Titan's surface. The Huygens probe dropped through orange haze for 2.5 hours before touching down on an alien world.

This is the best part of a cycle

Raoul Pal: Ethereum is a “very good product” for financial institutions “Ethereum has its Lindy Effects. It clearly works very well for what the financial markets need. They can build Layer 2s, as Coinbase has shown, that can work perfectly for their needs. If they need high security, they can use the Layer 1 chain. They have ZK and all the other stuff that’s being built. Everything is there; they just have too much capacity. But if the finance system comes, they’ll go to [Ethereum] . . . Is Goldman going to build on Solana? Highly unlikely. Is JP Morgan? Highly unlikely. Will they build their own Layer 2s? Highly likely . . . I highly doubt it will be anywhere else just because the nature of risk in the space. And ETH has a yield — it’s a very good product for financial markets.” Raoul believes Ethereum is mostly working through narrative problems that were similar to the problems Bitcoin faced when it was figuring out its store of value narrative. “We went from the left side of the [bell curve], through the mid curve — we did all of the mid-curve stuff about Lightning and payments and everything else — and came out on the other side and said, ‘It’s a store of value.’ The same will happen to ETH . . . They’re already going back to this ‘world computer’ idea. This is the platform for tokenization, and I think it will prevail over time. . . This is a compute platform that operates at global scale and is decentralized. Go use it.” Source: @KevinWSHPod (May 2025)

Everything government touches becomes more expensive and unaffordable.

The uniparty in action

Did you know🚨: A civilization 2,000 light-years away looking at Earth today would see the Roman Empire.

My nephew saw a #Cybercar cruising around Chicago, outside of Trump Tower. 😁

@KobeissiLetter Skate to where the puck is going

BREAKING: Elon Musk announces that Tesla and SpaceX will jointly build an advanced chip manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas. Details include: 1. Musk says the “Terafab” site will include two fabs, one for Tesla’s AI and one for SpaceX’s space-based data centers 2. Musk aims for the plant to produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually, 2x current US capacity 3. Musk says current suppliers can not meet future needs for Tesla and SpaceX The AI Revolution is accelerating.