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A key capability to re-industrialize.
On August 5, a privately funded nuclear reactor switched on for the first time on a ranch outside Lockhart, Texas.
It went from bare ground to a working reactor in about 11 months.
It's a small test reactor for medical isotopes, the radioactive materials hospitals use to find and treat cancer.
Reactors make them by firing neutrons at target materials.
America has imported the most widely used one for decades, and this reactor is proving the process for bigger plants here.
Of the reactors in a new Department of Energy program that lets building run alongside the safety review, it's the first on private land.
The ranch is Proto-Town a hardware campus:
Companies building machines get workshops, open land to test on and somewhere to live, all on one site.
About a dozen are there now, working on driverless bulldozers, heavy-lift drones and robot-built homes.
Two Duke friends, @joshuafarahzad and @MerleNye, started it in 2024 while sleeping in a school bus on the site.
In 2025 Caldwell County exempted the ranch from any future county building rules.
The reactor still needed federal safety approval, and got it from the Department of Energy.
In 2022, this same land was the proposed site for Micron's $100 billion chip plant. Micron chose New York.
Four years later, there's a working nuclear reactor on it.
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These whiners bore me, but need to be dealt with:
- paystubs are the receipts for participation
- the law dictates the entitlement
- it keeps going because see above
- Boomers have never in history been the majority of eligible voters, so, no, no more power than anyone else
No amount of "pay stubs" entitles you to infinite Medicare and Social Security benefits. Seniors are getting back from Medicare and Social Security far more than they paid in. There is no reason to keep this going, other than that they have more power than we do.
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Greatest time to be alive.
SpaceX boss Elon Musk said Monday that he’ll give every child in the U.S. one of his shares in the company next year.
Musk currently owns about 4.8 billion SpaceX shares, according to an August SEC filing. That figure rises to 6.4 billion when taking into account unvested awards and stock options, representing a 48.4% beneficial stake in the company.
Read more: cnb.cx/4eezRte
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Paul Boris retweeted
Joining the Administration hurt my relationships with many friends and family members. I do not regret a single moment of my service, nor should anyone who sacrifices their opportunities to benefit our fellow Americans.
When our best and brightest serve the country, we all benefit. Efforts to “deter” patriots from joining the administration reflects a deep, cynical calculus that I find wholly alien. Hoping American policymakers fail in order to create electoral advantages disadvantages our entire republic. Disagreements over policy should not mutate into neighbors hating neighbors.
I am not afraid of Slotkin. I am not even angry. I pity her. I live my life in service of greater purposes than partisan politics. Millions of Americans feel the same way. Our generation will rebuild America, and, in the process, we will drag these mutants with us into the Pax Americana.
Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking this is Trump-specific. People like Slotkin have been using every tool at their disposal to intimidate those who don’t agree with their policies when those policies can’t win on the merits for years.
Saying this @UChicago, the home of unabashed freedom of inquiry and expression in higher education, is particularly tone deaf. Did anyone at UChicago or @UChiPolitics press her on this or push back at all in the room? If not, equally embarrassing day for our institutional values.
UChicago should have students and alumni serving in EVERY administration. America needs you.
@ThinkerChicago keep up the good work.
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Paul Boris retweeted
Capitalists get rich making things abundant. Politicians get rich making things scarce.
"Capitalism is the force that drove down the price of almost everything it touched. The state is the force that blew up the price of almost everything it captured. And young people blame the first for the crimes of the second."
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This is the real antidote to "boomers suck cuz they're all rich". Get at it @zanehengsperger!
I remember driving to the foundry at midnight with my then pregnant wife to troubleshoot the spectrometer (I did magically fix it) that was needed to keep pouring - we hit a deer, damaged the car, etc (she refused to sit home alone).
I remember many 5am starts - the shop was an hour away 3:30am wake up - while working a second late night gig to support a stay at home spouse.
I remember getting terminated by that owner (best lesson of my life) after I built the OS that ran the plant and he decided that enriching his family was prioritized over enriching mine (as it should be).
Life is a bit easier now because of all that, and an exceptional wife/mentor/advisor.
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Paul Boris retweeted
Palmer Luckey says companies are exaggerating the cost of American manufacturing to justify staying in China: “They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳
“I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who pretend that manufacturing in the U.S. is this impossible, order-of-magnitude problem. A lot of it is very self-serving.
They want to justify why they’re in China. They want to justify why it’s OK for them to stay in China. They know that when sanctions hit as a result of a potential Taiwan conflict, they want to say, ‘Nobody could’ve predicted this, and I had no choice anyway.’
They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.
If Chinese subsidized steel is a third of the price of American unsubsidized steel, a tariff isn’t going to work. But if the price difference really is 30%, then a tariff could bring the American steel industry back.
It’s critically important to get this question right, and there aren’t enough people talking about it.”
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ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
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How fun is this.
On va arrêter les conneries 5 minutes si vous voulez bien.
N'importe quel esprit scientifique qui a étudié un minimum l'ingénierie et les sciences physiques doit se poser au moins quelques questions.
Le truc de musk, qui pèse en principe entre 1500 et 2000Kg une fois arrivé à l'horizontale en haut de la rampe, dépasse par l'avant sur au moins 1m30 à 1m60 sans rien "dessous" (dessus en réalité) permettant la moindre aspiration par succion qui pourrait hypothétiquement maintenir l'engin absolument rectiligne contre une surface qui ici n'existe pas, n'importe quel truc pesant 1500 à 2000Kg devrait immédiatement basculer par l'avant et tomber, suivant les lois de la gravitation universelle.
Community note
Le système de succion multi-mode par ventilateurs sous la Roadster génère jusqu'à 2G de force d'appui (plus de 4700 kg lors de la démo), maintenant la voiture collée à la rampe inversée par différence de pression atmosphérique sans basculement.
notateslaapp.com/news/4837/tesl…
caranddriver.com/news/a74165059…
tesla.com/roadster
driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-roa
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Nearly everything that is important is more affordable today than 40 years ago.
What a time to be alive.
In July we open-sourced a dynamic graph of everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts, 3,221 dependencies.
Now we’re turning every concept into interactive experiments kids can play and learn from.
First one, age 7: heat and water.
Everything that used to be a boring textbook can now be an engaging experience, potentially tailored to every child.
Kids education just got a massive upgrade.
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"A flying car is what men do when they are free. A wealth tax is what politicians do to the men who built it. One of them needs the other to survive, and it isn't Musk."
A car flew last night. An actual car, flipping in midair on cold gas thrusters and landing on its wheels. Elon Musk's companies built a sports car that does what science fiction promised for a century. The same man lands rockets on barges and builds the machines that carry our astronauts. That is what one free mind, and the thousands of minds he employs, can produce.
Bernie Sanders says billionaires should not exist. He looks at the man who makes cars fly and concludes the problem to solve is that such men keep too much of what they create. He has spent five decades in government producing nothing, yet he claims the moral authority to dispose of the men who produce everything. A man who seeks unearned control over the lives and property of others is corrupt in the fullest meaning of the word, and that corruption runs deeper than any bribe.
A flying car is what men do when they are free. A wealth tax is what politicians do to the men who built it. One of them needs the other to survive, and it isn't Musk.
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Greatest time in the history of mankind to be alive. And to be an American. And to be in manufacturing.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching on a secretive mission for the U.S. military gets a musical send-off from Vandenberg Space Force Base with the five o'clock bugle call 'Retreat' followed by the National Anthem.
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