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How do we store renewable energy for tomorrow’s needs? At @UChicagoPME, Prof. Chibueze Amanchukwu’s lab is using AI + chemistry to build better batteries and convert CO₂ into usable fuels. 🔬 Inside the Lab: pme.uchicago.edu/news/amanchu... #EnergyStorage #ClimateTech #BatteryInnovation

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Was really excited to see that C. A. Fillekes did a 5 minute lightning talk at KubeCon EU recently on #KubeVirt & Containerized Data Importer (CDI) on multiple architectures! Singing my song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6G... #multiarch #s390x #IBMZ

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Good evening. Evening sky (just as it came out of the phone camera, unaltered). #sunset

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Excited to share our first major result from our IARPA Entangled Logical Qubits team! arxiv.org/abs/2504.07258 @benbrown.bsky.social @universal-soup.bsky.social @evanhockings.bsky.social @georgianixon.bsky.social

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Milkweed.

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Joyous dog goes for a run in the orchard.

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It took 10,000 hours, 10 years, and 1,000+ research papers to learn these 7 longevity lessons. You get them in 2 minutes: 1. Movement Matters Most ↳ Just a few minutes of daily movement counters sedentary damage ↳ Mix cardio and strength - both impact different longevity pathways 1/6

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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

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emo heron

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One of the coolest features of the Agami Heron is its gorgeous, flowing crest that flutters as it poses and preens. But I've never seen it up close before with the details and textures. #CostaRica #herons #nature #birds

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emo heron

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McKinsey named its AI assistant "Lilli" after their 1st woman professional. Meant to be a tribute, but it reinforces gender stereotypes. One study found that men are more likely to assert dominance over & interrupt AI assistants, which never push back. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

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More store progress.

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A bit like sliding the barn door closed (temporarily) after the horses have all bolted, but ok.

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It’s true! I’ll be doing a live talk with @hcrichardson.bsky.social at 5 pm EST tomorrow. Details to come. I’ll send out more info tomorrow on The Nerd Reich (and here!) Http:// www.thenerdreich.com

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If you're starting a garden for the first time this year you will probably be tempted to plant tomatoes and such. But if I can suggest - plant a lot of herbs! They're super easy, perennial — so they'll keep coming back — and will elevate all of your meals! 🍽️ 🌱

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Here is my review of two new books looking at different but ultimately overlapping aspects of the utopias and dystopias of the libertarian far right. Adam Becker delves into the fantastical techno-utopias of Silicon Valley, while... www.the-tls.co.uk/science-tech...

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In this week's @thetls.bsky.social I review @adambecker.bsky.social's More Everything Forever and Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. It is all fairly hair-raising stuff, but I think it helps us make sense of where we are now. Online soon.

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In 1965, the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose proved that, given two simple assumptions, space-time must end at points called singularities. The paper has been called “the most important paper in general relativity” since Einstein’s. www.quantamagazine.org/singularitie...

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The mashup we've all been waiting for: Jeffrey Epstein Invested With Peter Thiel, and His Estate Is Reaping Millions gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/b...

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Still thinking about the Yarvin New Yorker profile, which is a master class in letting the subject hang himself on his own words. So many techies whine that the media is out to get them, writing “hit pieces” etc and really, they just let them talk.

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Systems Haiku for today.

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AI is being applied to making better chips to perform AI calculations seems to presage the singularity. @gilduran.com @theframelab.bsky.social

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Registrations for Qiskit Global Summer School 2025 opened today and have already exceeded > 50% max capacity.

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Time and memory are limited in computer science. A new breakthrough resets their balance.

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Peonies popped!

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

KCD NYC is Wednesday after next -- see y'all there!

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I keep thinking about how Freud discovered the "death drive" in human psychology late in his career, as fascism spread across Europe. Now a whole new generation gets to rediscover it.

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And a seminal minute from this most important interview:

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Tech billionaires are building a scary new cult religion — and it's coming for us all. Here's my conversation with @xriskology.bsky.social and Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III on "TESCREAL," which seeks to replace the soul with code, heaven with Mars, and Jesus with billionaire saviors youtu.be/S1tcBUS0NYQ

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In this Op-ed for Scientific American, Asmelash Teka Hadgu and I discuss one of the many reasons the idea of replacing US federal workers with so-called generative AI systems should terrify us. 🧵 www.scientificamerican.com/article/repl...

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One of the hardest things to make people realize is what didn't happen. "Implemented policies to date are likely to have reduced global emissions by several billion tons of CO2eq per year...."

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A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

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“Lurking underneath all of the dreams and desires and resentment of the tech billionaires lies a fear of death, the final loss of control.” — @adambecker.bsky.social Read this book, in which a scientist calls bullshit on tech billionaire delusions, lies, and schemes! bookshop.org/p/books/more...

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Had a fun and thoughtful conversation with @think.kera.org about tech billionaires and their delusions about the future. @npr.org is a treasure and I feel incredibly lucky whenever I get to be on air.

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