In 2007, physicist Freeman Dyson wrote an essay called... “Our Biotech Future” for The New York Review. In it, he wrote: “I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry…becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.” Dyson had recently visited the Philadelphia Flower Show, “the biggest indoor flower show in the world, where flower breeders from all over the world show off the results of their efforts.” And he pondered a future where genetic engineering would enable these breeders to make entirely new types of flowers, unencumbered by the biological limits of evolution. It seems that Dyson’s “biotech future” is now becoming reality. Nick Desnoyer, a postdoctoral fellow in the United Kingdom, has already designed and created more than a dozen bespoke flowers. Desnoyer imagines phenotypes in his head and then uses a combination of breeding, CRISPR, and pathogens to manifest those phenotypes in his flowers. He’s currently working to add new colors to his design palette, including streaks of yellow, amber, purple, and green. All of his flowers are sculpted on nights and weekends, after lab mates have shuffled home for the night. I’m writing an essay about Nick and his process for Asimov Press, called "The Flower Designer." More to share soon! Video below is from Nick's website -->show more

YourRAGE says he wants his chat to CLIP and... SHIP him and Tiarra... so he can show her all of it in the future 🥹❤️‍🩹 Wait a minute... Is he planning to make the cutest romance edit of their entire love story?! 😭💞show more

Happy birthday to the legend that is Pat McAfee... Everything he does is inspirational, including his insane generosity along the way. He doesn’t show everybody all of it. In December, Pat helped Luke and his family go to a Colts game without the risk of getting sick. In January, Nick sent Pat a video recreating one of his OSU calls from a Field Pass. He had just completed his cancer treatment. Pat decided to give him tickets to the national championship. Watching Pat grind his ass off to make the world a better place is the honor of a lifetime. More life, more everything 🤟show more

Realizing people might not have realized that by "flower... game" I mean this end screen is a DIRECT reference to the book of unveiling in Destiny 2, which itself refers to a modified version of John Horton Conway's Game of Life; the book refers to this as The Flower Game, a zero-player game where the only move is the initial set up of the pieces and their behaviors. I think if this Durandal is the one from the end of Marathon Infinity, then perhaps he's found a way to influence the Flower Game, and is using that influence to re-write the universe to create a reality that allows his escape from reality itself.show more

Claude Monet painted the same stretch of cliff more... than ninety times. The place is Étretat, a small fishing village on the coast of Normandy, where the chalk cliffs fall into the sea in great arches and a single spire of rock, the Aiguille, stands alone in the water. Monet had known the place since childhood. He grew up in Normandy, and these cliffs were among the first landscapes he ever saw... He returned to paint them again and again. He worked through the 1880s in front of the same rock formations, and across that time he produced more than ninety canvases of them: the cliffs at dawn, at sunset, under storm, under calm, in winter light and in the gold of a clear evening. In his letters to Alice, the woman he would later marry, he described the agony of it: the weather turning, the tide rising, the sun moving, the colour he had begun to capture vanishing before he could finish. He often worked on several canvases at once, switching between them as the conditions changed, racing each one against the hour. In a letter to his friend Frédéric Bazille he wrote: "It is beautiful here in Etretat. Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all, my head is bursting. I want to fight, scratch it off, start again, because I start to see and understand. It seems to me as if I can see nature and I can catch it all." The cliffs of Étretat had stood for millions of years and would look, to most people, the same on any given day. Monet saw that they were never the same even for two minutes. He stood on that shore and tried to hold, on canvas, something that exists only for an instant and then is gone forever. And that's exactly what those paintings really are: 90 attempts to keep a single, vanishing moment of light from disappearing. As Dylan Thomas once wrote: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -- -- -- If you want a deeper dive into the craft of painting, I recently wrote a piece exploring it in detail. You can read it here: And if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible:show more

Met this guy yesterday night on my charity run.... I give away all my clothes in the beginning of every year. After the donation him and I had a great chat then took his number. He is an entrepreneur, he just got that electric bike for deliveries and opened a new company a month ago to try cultivate his future. What an amazing human being. Sharing this because of the inspiration Ive drawn from this, most importantly this taught me without courage we are nothing, the courage to fight for your space in the world. Happy New Year❤️show more

We are in full bloom🌷 The Catherine Rose has... made her big debut at the RHS chelsea flower show 2025 and my goodness she is a beauty just like her Owner😍 Medwyn Williams, a gentleman who has earned 13 consecutive gold medals at the Chelsea Flower show,wrote in a post: "This is a new rose called Catherine, named after the Princess of Wales with proceeds going towards the hospital where she was treated for cancer. It has lovely scent to it"❤️ It looks beautiful, smells beautiful and is as bright and lovely as Princess Catherine is; A True English Rose🌷 The Sale of these will be a must watch with the net proceeds going to the Royal Marsden Cancer society👌 #PrincessofWales 📹People Magshow more

It’s been an outrageous weekend for Vanderbilt Baseball 2026... commit RJ Cope, a 6-foot-8 first baseman and lefty with top-of-scale raw juice from the left side at the plate. The big man is 10-for-16 with a homer, double, four walks to two Ks and three stolen bases. It’s a no-doubt power over hit profile but he’s done an outstanding job of waiting for his pitch and depositing it in gaps like in the video below when he put a defensive two-strike swing on a ball to cash in runs for his team in a critical spot. All of this and Cope is still new to hitting. His potential is off the charts with the bat.show more

🎬✨ New video from the filming set of #Delikanlı... The excitement from fans keeps growing, and visits around the set are becoming more frequent. In the video, we can see the team filming a scene that looks like an inauguration or special event, with several extras taking part in the moment. We truly appreciate those who share these glimpses from the set with us. 🤍 Our boy is giving all his talent and dedication so we can soon enjoy his new project — and we are more than ready to support him every step of the way. ✨ #MertRamazanDemirshow more

If you are going to see Noah Kahan in... Fenway this week you are in for one. An artist in his prime immersed in his most emo locale of New England (Kahan is from Vermont). It is, undoubtedly, the best place to see him. His songwriting, voice, energy, showmanship, will never be better than it is now. He played 13 songs from his new album and the crowd knew all the words. When many artists play new songs at concerts people go to the bathroom. Kahan fans are TRUE fans. His dark, expressive features and easy charm fills Fenway--and he has a great rapport with his excellent band. "Paul Revere", "Orange Juice", ect. He played 26 songs in the rain and they all went over the monster (Except "Downfall"--one of my favs on new album. Needs to be more intimate, IMO) There were brief chit chats, great pacing, NO POLITICS, and fireworks at the end. A celebration of his sincere gratitude with a New England video travel log behind him. The video screens and backdrops were artfully and tastefully done. Smart, fun, energetic, production. This young generation of New Englanders has their James Taylor. (I would have loved to hear a JT cover last night.) A voice for a generation that will have staying power. Bravo, Noah Kahanshow more

What is most lacking in the modern world? Dreams... of a great captivating future for humanity, dreams of it becoming a humane cosmic civilization where enjoyment of life combines with the cognition of reality and the spread of life throughout the universe. : The author identifies the greatest lack in the modern world as the absence of grand, captivating dreams for humanity’s future. We no longer widely imagine ourselves becoming a humane cosmic civilization, one where deep enjoyment of life merges with relentless pursuit of knowledge and the deliberate spread of life across the Universe. This vision once inspired generations: a species that turns outward not to conquer but to nurture, carrying consciousness, beauty, and care into the void. Today, that horizon has dimmed. Short-term concerns, cynicism, and fragmentation have crowded out the long, bold gaze. Without such dreams, progress loses direction. Innovation serves immediate needs rather than transcendent ones. Humanity risks shrinking to the scale of its anxieties instead of expanding to the scale of its possibilities. The lack is not of resources or intelligence, but of collective imagination bold enough to make the distant future feel urgent and alive. Reviving these dreams would rekindle purpose. It would align daily effort with cosmic ambition. It would remind us that we are not merely survivors on a small planet, but potential bearers of life and meaning to the stars. The modern world is rich in tools, poor in vision. The cure is to dream larger again.show more

Welcome to your new home, Seize the Grey! 🌟... Our Preakness Champion was welcomed to his new home and second career Gainesway where he will be a stallion in 2025! We couldn't be more proud of our Arrogate colt and all he has accomplished: 🏇 $2,425,938 in career earnings 🏇 5 wins 🏇 3 graded stakes, including the 2024 Preakness Stakes Thank you to all of his owners for their support, the entire team at the D. Wayne Lukas barn, and his jockey Jaime A. Torres. We'll miss seeing our boy in the starting gate but are so excited to see his foals hit the ground in a few years. On to the next chapter!show more

World Models are the path for some AI Models... in the future. But how can we efficiently train these models to not only see the world the way humans do but to see the world in a new and unique way. By visualizing, what is normally sequenced audio patterns, we can derive much more insights. Here we see Paganini in a visual form that can than be described and transcribed into a World Model. We can observe connections in a manner that may not have been clear prior to the digitalization of music and sound in this way. The company with the most valuable potential in building a World Model is Tesla. Not that this type of visualization is being used, but that the mechanisms are in place, and the technology is in place for the company to thrive in this new form of AI.show more

The Issa thread PART 1: The Ronaldinho Scam Let's... first take a look at Parsa Abbasie’s Career Timeline Beginning as “sphex” he would scam people for Fortnite gift cards on streams. This is where he found his love of ripping people off and later used this name to transition to grifting SMMA and dropshipping courses. He made a big step up in his career after this, finding a way to get hired by Andrew Tate / Andrew Tate. This was huge for him and is what his entire brand was built on prior to crypto. He used to grift on money twitter as a sales and marketing aficionado before he made the shift into crypto scamming. The hook he had was that he was claimed to be Tate’s “top sales guy” when in reality he was probably just Tate’s bottom. He began working for Tate at a time when a majority of Andrew’s income was from trafficking Eastern European women under the age of 18 and forcing them to do sex acts on webcams. So we can see he had a very strong moral base to work off of. When he could no longer make monopoly money off his fake job he used the “G” boyfriend connections he made through his time with Tate to begin his crypto career. Let's take a look at the Pencil Neck Cabal (all pics will be in thread): Sam Patel - Seen pictured alone on a boat with him in the video below (sus) and one of his day ones and closest partner in crime Harry.XBT - You can watch 2 of his cringe tiktoks below, one of which alludes to a $240M crypto as you can see the crew renting cars and flexing their money acquired through stolen funds as well Louie H - He is the blonde guy you can see in the videos above and also goes by Hermes. Seems to have enemies based off the tweet below. Attaching his instagram as well as a pic of his LinkedIn below Jayden Mellor - Big piece of the puzzle. Another day 1 and his father Will Mellor would NOT want the world to know his son has affiliations with Issa. Will is a big deal in the UK, he’s a popular actor from line of duty, works in media, etc. More on Will Mellor - Issa and his goon squad’s scams go all the way back to 2023 when his speciality was HARD RUGGING presales. They would sign up KOLs with large amounts of supply and HARD rug them instantly, ask cheatcoiner.eth about it as he had fell victim before. There were too many of these instances to count, but they all shrinks into comparison to their greatest masterpiece: The Ronaldinho launch on BNB. Depicted below you can see the sussy squad driving around with Ronaldinho and taking pics with him as if he’s some circus animal. They got their practice rounds in prior then executed a swift and VIOLENT rug with Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho post launching the coin: The coin peaked at $400m FDV and is now sitting at near zero. Let that sink in. If you visit Issa's (now privated) twitter, you will see him gloating about his experience in the markets and dropping platitudes nobody asked for. He acts as if he's a market wizard when the reality of the matter is that he's a thief. And now he spends his days at Jumeriah Beach Residence (JBR) in Dubai whilst racing around rented cars and flexing rented watches off the money he stole from YOU.show more

Fellow Africans, In a world filled with countless leaders,... only a rare few rise to embody the very soul of their people. Even fewer transcend borders to become symbols of hope, resilience, and inspiration for an entire continent. His Excellency, the Right Honourable The Raila Odinga Amolo Foundation is one such figure. A man whose journey mirrors the struggles and triumphs of Africa itself. Today, I present him for your most serious consideration as the next Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), a role for which he is uniquely and undeniably qualified. I am Kasmuel McOure, a young revolutionary who has stood at the forefront of Kenya’s struggle against oppression, corruption, and the erosion of good governance. I belong to a generation profoundly inspired by Raila Odinga’s unwavering fight for justice. His legacy is a powerful testament to resilience, vision, and the relentless pursuit of democratic values. Raila Odinga’s name is inseparable from the story of Kenya’s democratic evolution. He was instrumental in dismantling a 24-year dictatorship under Daniel arap Moi, championing the transition to a multiparty democracy, and crafting a constitution that secured the rule of law for generations to come. His leadership, forged in personal sacrifice, redefined the course of our nation. Even at great personal and political cost, Raila Odinga stood firm. When chaos threatened to tear our nation apart, he chose dialogue over destruction, constitutionalism over ambition; an extraordinary act of statesmanship in an age that too often celebrates self-interest. But Raila Odinga’s influence reaches far beyond Kenya. He is a Pan-African visionary, an Afro-Optimist who deeply understands the intricate fabric of Africa’s struggles and possibilities. He is a beacon of hope who has dared to challenge injustice and lead with unwavering integrity, even in the face of overwhelming odds. He envisions a continent where trade routes are open, civil unrest is quelled, and Africa reclaims her sovereignty from the chains of foreign exploitation. This vision is not a mere ideal; it is a lifelong commitment, one that has been consistently reflected in his actions and principles. A vision that resonates from the savannahs of the Mara to the shores of Cape Town, from the markets of Lagos to the streets of Addis Ababa. Kenya, with its vibrant online sphere and culture of debate, owes much of its freedoms to Raila’s sacrifices. He fought tirelessly to enshrine the right to free expression and political participation in our constitution. Though he remains a figure both praised and criticized, this duality speaks to his humanity—imperfect, yet unwavering in his pursuit of progress. I speak from personal experience, having been both an ally and a critic. Yet in every instance, I have found in him a leader who listens, mentors, and empowers. In a time when the world yearns for leaders of integrity, vision, and courage, Raila Odinga stands as an enduring beacon. He is a man whose vision for Africa is not confined to today or tomorrow, but for generations to come. A visionary leader who, against all odds, has always prioritized the people over power; an attribute Africa desperately needs at this pivotal moment. Africa needs a leader who embodies wisdom, courage, and an unwavering belief in our collective destiny. A son of the soil, forged in the fires of struggle, and ready to lead us toward a brighter, united future. Africa, I present to you your son, by way of Kenya, His Excellency, the Right Honourable Raila Amolo Odinga.show more

The animated scene of the new background + logo... is so lovely. They didn't have to make it but they did and I think that reflects the level of extra care that is going into the game now. For the first time in a long time, the future of the game is bright.show more