Kinetic prompt injection. A presentation from the Black Hat USA conference demonstrates how one can jailbreak a robot with voice or visual input. “Prompt injection is usually treated as a text problem contained on a screen: a bad output, leaked […]
What Shenzhen knows. “What Shenzhen knows’ is not written down in a book whose covers can be sliced off and ingested into a model, it’s a few million humidity stories stored in people, and a pace of knowledge-rich adjustment that […]
Oil and gas is mind-bogglingly big. I can’t help but share another interesting post by Casey Handmer about Terraform, his company that makes synthetic natural gas from thin air. “The oil and gas market is big. You just won’t believe […]
Private money builds rockets. “SpaceX founded in 2002: $12B in capital invested VOLUNTARILY to transport humans, satellites and rockets into SPACE.” Darin Feinstein contrasts it with California’s high speed rail as a simple case study in incentives and accountability. ~ […]
China’s planting 100 billion trees and is 66% done. “Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees” to slow the expansion of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts. The plan is to add 34 billion more over the next […]
UFOs are the easy belief. “UFOs haven’t been disproven, whereas the blank slate has been disconfirmed nearly 3,000 times.” Jehan Azad argues that some respectable-sounding views (CICO denial, anti-building housing takes, tabula rasa) contradict entire fields more directly than aliens […]
The world’s most complex objects. “To ship one requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks.” ASML’s EUV lithography machines are basically rolling miracles, and the whole semiconductor industry is bottlenecked on them. ~ learn more
I hired a pro to debunk aliens; it backfired. “When he published, I was shocked by the results. They actually made me slightly more confident in UFOs.” The author hires famed debunker Peter Miller expecting a clean takedown of the […]
Modern files dominate the UFO releases. “modern files (2020s) drive 45% of release” This dashboard tracks unsealed UFO/UAP records and makes the time skew obvious at a glance, with a big chunk of material clustered in the last few years. […]
Spain just became one of Europe’s cheapest power markets. Spain pushed gas out of the price-setting role, and wholesale electricity followed, averaging “€44 per megawatt-hour” in early 2026. ~ learn more