Ukrainian Drones Torch Russia's Key Novorossiysk Oil Hub
Today, Ukrainian drone strikes SET FIRE to Russia’s major oil export terminals in Novorossiysk. The port handles over half of Russia’s crude and petroleum product shipments. YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SHORT OIL. https://t.co/XlgmcpVhsH
Defense Decline Drives One‑Quarter of Manufacturing Job Loss
“the 1950s-to-1990s decline in defense production explains roughly one-quarter of the decline in manufacturing employment and nearly one-tenth of the rise of top-ten income share.” https://t.co/UrqjdGuEIk
Exercise‑linked Protein Target Could Rejuvenate Aging Blood‑brain Barrier
Scientists Find a Mechanism for How Exercise Protects the Brain 🗣️Finding drugs to trim proteins like TNAP could be a new way to rejuvenate the blood-brain barrier, even after it’s been degraded by age. “We’re uncovering biology that Alzheimer’s research has largely...
Beware: Outdated Contract Clauses Invite Bullfrog Risks
Is this holdover language from an old contract template or should I be contemplating the risk of bullfrog infiltration in my IT contracts
Trafigura Secures Major London Victory, Pursues Large Damages
Trafigura won a major London court ruling in its fake nickel cargo fraud case and will seek substantial damages. https://www.metalnomist.com/2026/04/trafigura-nickel-fraud-ruling.html
60 Minutes Still Draws 10 Million, Proving Lasting Impact
60 Minutes still reaches as many as 10mil viewers on Sundays. So when you see an incredible and emotional segment like the first one tonight told by Scott Pelley bridging a segment 18yrs ago, it's a good reminder as to...
Nvidia's Nurabot Deploys in Hospitals to Aid Staff
Nvidia’s Nurabot Rolls Into Hospitals to Assist #Healthcare Workers by @CyberRobooo #MedTech #HealthTech #TechForGood #Tech https://t.co/TJc2q039WA
Eliminating 24‑hour Cool‑off Restores Instant User “A‑ha”
I used a 24 hour cool off after someone registers for https://t.co/1n7EleVpMy before they can publish. That completely breaks the "a-ha" moment. That is now removed.
Awe‑inspiring NASA Artemis Coverage Sparks Broad Conversation
I’m still in awe of nasaartemis and it’s a pleasure to be covering it throughout the days. This is just a snippet of the wider conversation on @abcnews_au this morning. #artemis #nasa #space
ThreeJS Becomes Default Game Engine for Agent Coding
The future of game engines is ThreeJS because this is what agent coding defaults to using. Pretty amazing the kinds of things people are building now
California HSR: Tax‑dumping Scheme, Not Real Rail
People are confused about California’s High Speed Rail project. It’s not a rail project. It’s simply a program to shovel tax dollars to politically connected and desirable audiences. 💰Properties being purchased in the right of way? 💰”prevailing wage” laborers (50%-100%...
Relay Wheat Boosts Profit, Cuts Costs, Enhances Soil
Made some infographics tonight to explain our relay wheat system. The main idea is we can grow 70 bushel wheat and 70 bushel soybeans and make about $250 more revenue per acre than pushing wheat yields up over 100 bu/ac and...
Tesla’s Rough Suspension Makes Even Texting Unbearable
I just don’t understand how Tesla drivers tolerate its terrible suspension. Setting aside the whole Musk thing, it would be a dealbreaker for me. I’m trying to type out this post from the back of a Model Y and I...
China Deploys Robots to Revolutionize Elderly Care
China's Robot-Run Elderly Care Centre | AI Caregiving | Tech It Out https://t.co/pK7nFvmJQu via @YouTube #eldercare #healthcare #humanoidtech #humanoid #robot #Robotics #AI #TechRevolution #TechInnovation #ArtificialInteligence #PhysicalAI @AlbertoEMachado @Eli_Krumova @postoff25 @Khulood_Almani @anand_narang @NutritiousMind @baski_LA @TanyaSinha_ @devaang @AlAmadi1 @jeancayeux @enilev @efipm @mvollmer1 @Nicochan33 @RagusoSergio...
States Dominate TRO Battles, Winning 14 to 2
States v. PMs Scorecard: (On contested motions for a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction by either side) States have won 14 PMs have won 2
Oil Crisis Sparked WA Rail Revival; Net‑Zero Could Repeat
WA fuel prices: the last big oil crisis in 1979 led to a new rail rebirth in WA What will this one bring? Net zero is not just about climate change It's also about security into our future ending reliance on any...
SpaceX Leverages Launch Margin, Not Platform Model
This is just weird, since SpaceX's key advantage is that *it alone* gets to exploit the gap between launch price and launch cost to build its own systems (satellites, ODCs, perhaps even a moon colony). That's not a "platform business"
Ye's $33M LA Shows Boost by Spotify, Live Nation
Ye sold $33M worth of tickets across two nights in LA, including one of the highest-grossing nights in music history. Perhaps more significant: Spotify playlisted a song from his new album and Live Nation is partners with the promoter for his...
Solar Becomes Cheapest Capital-Intensive Energy Option
Solar is now the less capital-intensive option. More charts and graphs featured on today's Chartbook Top Links in the comment below https://t.co/Duvpz2wy16
Azur Space Boosts Solar Capacity 25% Amid AI‑Driven Satellite Surge
Azur Space plans a 25pc solar cell capacity increase in 2026 as satellite demand rises with AI growth. https://www.metalnomist.com/2026/04/azur-space-solar-cell-expansion-signals.html
Market Ignores Hormuz Shutdown; Datacenter Attacks Could Trigger Crash
Literally no one in the mkt seems to care that Hormuz has been shut for a month, but if they start hitting datacenters, we may finally crash…🤣
Saudi-Backed Funding Boosts Paramount's Warner Bid
Gulf sovereign capital speeds media consolidation. ~$24bn Saudi-led backing lowers financing risk for Paramount’s $81bn Warner bid. Risks: regs, execution, leverage. Trade: buy Paramount. 🔍 — Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
SF's NIMBYism Fuels Housing Crisis, Stifles Startups
at what point does SF's NIMBYism make it a hostile and too expensive place for new startups? Certainly makes it hard for the unfunded eventually the California undersupply of housing becomes the primary obstacle to tech and innovation (and thus the...
Twitter, Not Social Media, Is the Real Audience Killer
Nate Silver pens an essay about how social media is dead as a way to build an audience because Twitter is now a right wing cesspool where Catturd gets more engagement than the New York Times. Weird that it never occurs...
Helium-Atom Lithography Aims Beyond ASML’s EUV Limits
The ASML book author saw the next generation – Lace Lithography, using helium atoms shooting through a holographic mask to scale beyond what’s possible with light, where the wavelength is larger than atomic scale. “ASML is the only company capable of...
Early Signs Suggest Iraq Flow Could Become Significant
There’s something to this Iraq stuff, even if it’s still too early to say how consequential this flow will grow to be https://t.co/S1itXIUl4L
Temperature Stress Accelerates Perovskite Solar Cell Aging
How perovskite solar cells age under temperature stress #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/MyYMTXAJ26
War May End, but Oil Supply Disruptions Linger
According to Jeff Currie, distinguished economist and commodity market guru, even if the US-ISRAELI war on Iran ends soon, the damage to supply chains has been done. Oil flows will be disrupted for months or years. https://t.co/SxmxwhkvAY
Double‑digit Prompt Spreads Demand Explicit Delivery Month Quotes
When you need to explicitly include delivery months in all crude futures price quotes because we have double digit prompt timespreads https://t.co/cvrXe7FuP3
Every Story Needs a Long‑term Trend Graph
News outlets should publish long term graphs as a matter of course. Every crime story should come with a 60 year graph showing per capita trends in that crime. Every micro story on any topic should have a graph on...
Wheat Doubles as Living Cover, Boosting Soybean Yields
Relay wheat growing to 12” tall and closing the 15” twin rows. Looking like planting will be possible later this week. Wheat will act as living pattern tile and weed control for soybeans…. Naturally maturing w/o herbicides unlike traditional cover crops providing...
Research Finds Twitter's Rightward Bias Has Limited Societal Impact
Question: There's clear evidence that twitter tilts right. Is there evidence showing how it does or doesn't affect broader political views and outcomes in the US? Does this rightward slant matter, beyond the experience on this site?
Bird-Inspired Control Stabilizes X‑Fly Ornithopter
X-Fly: The Ornithopter That Tames Wing-Flap Chaos with Bird-Inspired Control via @IlirAliu_ #EmergingTech #Technology #Innovation #Tech https://t.co/4CaWCAjKRC
Artemis Escapes Moon Thanks to Sufficient Escape Velocity
Good question in the press conf: once it's in the grip of lunar gravity how come Artemis gets out again later? Because it has escape velocity relative to the Moon. The Moon is dominating its motion, but it's going...
IRGC Warns Strait of Hormuz's New Reality for US, Israel
IRGC. Strait of Hormuz. Previous state. What will it be for all except the US and Israel? And the supply of supply chains?
False Article Removed; Unnamed Sources Demand Fact‑checking
RfI have now removed the (false) article. I wish they had done basic fact-checking prior to publishing something based on "two Lybian sources" that they called "an investigation". Nothing based on unnamed sources should ever be called "an investigation". https://t.co/hsfjqJbtKp
OpenAI’s $200B Losses Need Amazon‑style Discipline
I have been thinking about the news that Sam Altman wants to take OpenAI public by the end of 2026, while the company is still projected to lose more than $200 billion before it turns a profit. A lot of people...
Explosives Discovered Near Balkan Stream Pipeline, Ukraine Suspected
Serbian police found explosives near the Balkan Stream gas pipeline. It supplies Serbia and Hungary with gas from Russia. PRIME SUSPECT = UKRAINE. Stay tuned. https://t.co/AHjq0mZhzB
Pending Sales Hit Multi-Year Highs, Growth Slows
Purchase apps, weekly pending, and total pending sales are still at multi-year highs, but growth has slowed over the last 2 weeks. The 6 weeks of positive YoY data on the weekly pendings were snapped last week, even though we...
Community‑Funded AI Substacks Demand Real Writing
This is how I feel about AI Substacks. Life if you want to be community funded you do actually have to WRITE.
New FPV Sim Adds Kill Count,
🌅 Was mostly out enjoying the sunset today with gf and @rameerez @marc et al But I did add kill count, soldiers firing back at your drone and improved heat vision (can now see through walls) to find people in my...
Can You Sue AI Over Tax Mistakes and Data Use?
has anyone ever figured out if you can sue AI companies for messing up your taxes? and what are they doing with that data—it's pretty much the best personal financial data set one could have
Don’t Skip Research: Live Shopping Demands Deep Dive
Please don’t get to slide 4 because if you do .. you might have to put in a lot of work to research what’s going on with live shopping 🛒 📱 .. what’s going on on TikTok and whatnot and...
Satellite Lifetime Drops Sharply With Altitude, Study Shows
Today's calculation: how long does a satellite in a circular orbit stay up when it stops all reboost burns? Depends on a lot of things, especially solar activity, but let's average over all of that and do a Kaplan-Meier analysis...
SIRT1 Activation Shows Promise for Age‑related Brain Disorders
SIRT1 Activators as Geroprotective Agents in Brain Aging: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential "...SIRT1 could be a promising pharmacological target for age-associated brain disorders, warranting more robust translational studies to validate these findings in humans..." https://t.co/hGVxZ4RErM
Last Row: Family’s Secret Economy Perk
This is for all the haters who say I never fly economy. Reality check: the last row is where it’s at (when flying with the family)!
Existing Home Sales at 1.29M, Well Below Normal
We will get this updated this week with the new existing home sales report. ...
Unexplained Infertility Often Means Under‑investigated; Get Expanded Testing
Unexplained infertility means the standard tests came back normal. It does not mean nothing is wrong. It means the tests they ran did not find anything. Most standard fertility workups check AMH, FSH, an ultrasound, and maybe TSH. They do not...
2026 Q1 Box Office Beats 2023, Best Post‑COVID Start
🧵Hey Hollywood: I’m not trying to harsh your doom and gloom – I, too, enjoy feeling sorry for myself — but I do want to point out that all may not be lost. * Q1 box office 2026 has surpassed 2023 to...
U.S. Depletes JASSM-ER Stockpile in Iran Conflict
US reportedly committing nearly its entire JASSM-ER inventory to the Iran war. Per @Bloomberg: ~2,300 pre-war stockpile, 1,000+ already fired, & after repositioning remaining missiles to CENTCOM/UK bases, only ~425 left for rest of the world 👇 https://t.co/qqkf8ERauf