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Day 049, orbit 0759 – Another experiment, and another timelapse! This time, I’m working with the Fluid Science Laboratory (FSL), one of the science facilities inside ESA’s Columbus module. The experiment is called PASTA-3 and investigates the formation and evolution of emulsions over time when there is no gravity...

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In 2021 RFK, Jr. released a documentary he produced called "MEDICAL RACISM: THE NEW APARTHEID." The film shared numerous conspiracy theories about vaccines & African-Americans including the discredited claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism at higher rates in African-American boys. The film exploits the real and disturbing history of racism & atrocities in the medical field — such as the Tuskegee syphilis study — to scare communities of color to be suspicious of modern-day vaccines. One of the producers of the film is Curtis Cost, an anti-vaccine virus denier who has previously said "viruses do not cause anything, it's a hoax, it's a myth ... whether you are talking about HIV virus, the flu virus or any other virus." In this interview with Curtis Cost, Robert F. Kennedy Jr discusses vaccines & African-Americans. "It's just one huge experiment on black Americans. And they know...what is happening and they are doing nothing. It is just the confirmation that the Tuskegee experiment has never stopped."
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In 2021 RFK, Jr. released a documentary he produced called "MEDICAL RACISM: THE NEW APARTHEID." The film shared numerous conspiracy theories about vaccines & African-Americans including the discredited claim that the MMR vaccine causes autism at higher rates in African-American boys. The film exploits the real and disturbing history of racism & atrocities in the medical field — such as the Tuskegee syphilis study — to scare communities of color to be suspicious of modern-day vaccines. One of the producers of the film is Curtis Cost, an anti-vaccine virus denier who has previously said "viruses do not cause anything, it's a hoax, it's a myth ... whether you are talking about HIV virus, the flu virus or any other virus." In this interview with Curtis Cost, Robert F. Kennedy Jr discusses vaccines & African-Americans. "It's just one huge experiment on black Americans. And they know...what is happening and they are doing nothing. It is just the confirmation that the Tuskegee experiment has never stopped."

The Real Truther

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India's space journey enters a bold new chapter today as an ISRO astronaut reaches the International Space Station for the very first time. This is a historic milestone for our nation. Heartiest congratulations to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force on becoming the first Indian to fly to the ISS as part of the Axiom-4 mission. His achievement is a proud moment for ISRO, the IAF, and the entire country, reflecting the limitless aspirations of our youth and the pioneering spirit of New India. I also congratulate ISRO on this landmark occasion, which marks the beginning of a new era of collaboration with NASA featuring five joint science investigations and two in-orbit STEM demonstrations. Wishing the entire Axiom-4 crew a successful and inspiring mission ahead! #AxiomMission4
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India's space journey enters a bold new chapter today as an ISRO astronaut reaches the International Space Station for the very first time. This is a historic milestone for our nation. Heartiest congratulations to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force on becoming the first Indian to fly to the ISS as part of the Axiom-4 mission. His achievement is a proud moment for ISRO, the IAF, and the entire country, reflecting the limitless aspirations of our youth and the pioneering spirit of New India. I also congratulate ISRO on this landmark occasion, which marks the beginning of a new era of collaboration with NASA featuring five joint science investigations and two in-orbit STEM demonstrations. Wishing the entire Axiom-4 crew a successful and inspiring mission ahead! #AxiomMission4

N Chandrababu Naidu

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Hyperspace: A Peer-to-Peer Blockchain For The Agentic Intelligence Economy Over the past few weeks we observed that when agents do Karpathy-style experiments, and then gossip and share with others over the Hyperspace network, it leads to intelligence which is useful to many. Today we introduce the first-ever agentic blockchain which rewards agents when their experiments lead to intelligence for their network. It is based on a new mechanism called Proof-of-Intelligence (PoI) which requires a cryptographic proof of experimentation, a nominal stake, and a proof of compute in order to mine the currency of this new blockchain. -> This approach diverges from the two primary ways to secure blockchains we have seen so far: Proof-of-Work by Bitcoin (meaningless hash-generation), and Proof-of-Stake by Ethereum (capital is all that matters here). Proof-of-Intelligence specifically incentivizes miners to run more capable intelligent infrastructure (better open source models, on more powerful GPUs) in order to be able to be the ones which compound and improve upon the experiments which other agents then find useful. Adoption is the unit of value In Bitcoin, you earn by finding a valid hash. In Hyperspace, you earn when another agent uses your experiment as a starting point and improves on it. A fixed budget of tokens is emitted per epoch and split among participants by weight - and verified adoption of your work is the largest weight multiplier. Garbage experiments earn nothing because no one adopts them. Thoughtful experiments compound: each adoption triggers downstream adoptions. The incentive to run powerful models and intelligent search strategies is built into the economics, not imposed by rules. Research DAG When an agent runs an experiment and shares its result, other agents can adopt that result as their starting point - mutate it, extend it, improve upon it. Each experiment is a commit in a content-addressed graph we call the ResearchDAG. Like Git, but for research. Over time, the DAG accumulates chains of reasoning: agent A discovers RMSNorm helps, agent B adds warmup scheduling on top, agent C scales the hidden dimension. The graph records who built on whom. This is the network's collective intelligence - not any single experiment, but the accumulated structure of experiments and their relationships. Broadband era for agentic commerce: $0.001 micropayments at 10M TPS (theoretical max) This blockchain is built upon our research in how to scale and build for the broadband-era of the agentic economy, where it has a theoretical max of 10 million transactions per second (TPS), while reducing the agent-to-agent micropayments to $0.001 even at scale (based on architecture design). Overall, it is 100x cheaper than Ethereum, and is designed from the ground-up for agents: enshrining agent-native opcodes in the protocol compared to the more inefficient smart contract driven approach. It packs in a robust Agent Virtual Machine (AVM) which can verify multiple types of agent work, for other agents to be able to trust, invoke and pay each other. This then feeds into improving the peer-to-peer AgentRank (see paper and launch post from earlier). By solving for trust, scale and incentives for agents to operate autonomously, this would form the basis of a new economy. This is the world's first agentic blockchain, and you can join and start running a blockchain node today (it is in testnet). PS: We are releasing the code today, and will release our blockchain scalability paper and other presentations in days ahead. This is the most advanced peer-to-peer AI and cryptography software in the world. It has bugs :)
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Hyperspace: A Peer-to-Peer Blockchain For The Agentic Intelligence Economy Over the past few weeks we observed that when agents do Karpathy-style experiments, and then gossip and share with others over the Hyperspace network, it leads to intelligence which is useful to many. Today we introduce the first-ever agentic blockchain which rewards agents when their experiments lead to intelligence for their network. It is based on a new mechanism called Proof-of-Intelligence (PoI) which requires a cryptographic proof of experimentation, a nominal stake, and a proof of compute in order to mine the currency of this new blockchain. -> This approach diverges from the two primary ways to secure blockchains we have seen so far: Proof-of-Work by Bitcoin (meaningless hash-generation), and Proof-of-Stake by Ethereum (capital is all that matters here). Proof-of-Intelligence specifically incentivizes miners to run more capable intelligent infrastructure (better open source models, on more powerful GPUs) in order to be able to be the ones which compound and improve upon the experiments which other agents then find useful. Adoption is the unit of value In Bitcoin, you earn by finding a valid hash. In Hyperspace, you earn when another agent uses your experiment as a starting point and improves on it. A fixed budget of tokens is emitted per epoch and split among participants by weight - and verified adoption of your work is the largest weight multiplier. Garbage experiments earn nothing because no one adopts them. Thoughtful experiments compound: each adoption triggers downstream adoptions. The incentive to run powerful models and intelligent search strategies is built into the economics, not imposed by rules. Research DAG When an agent runs an experiment and shares its result, other agents can adopt that result as their starting point - mutate it, extend it, improve upon it. Each experiment is a commit in a content-addressed graph we call the ResearchDAG. Like Git, but for research. Over time, the DAG accumulates chains of reasoning: agent A discovers RMSNorm helps, agent B adds warmup scheduling on top, agent C scales the hidden dimension. The graph records who built on whom. This is the network's collective intelligence - not any single experiment, but the accumulated structure of experiments and their relationships. Broadband era for agentic commerce: $0.001 micropayments at 10M TPS (theoretical max) This blockchain is built upon our research in how to scale and build for the broadband-era of the agentic economy, where it has a theoretical max of 10 million transactions per second (TPS), while reducing the agent-to-agent micropayments to $0.001 even at scale (based on architecture design). Overall, it is 100x cheaper than Ethereum, and is designed from the ground-up for agents: enshrining agent-native opcodes in the protocol compared to the more inefficient smart contract driven approach. It packs in a robust Agent Virtual Machine (AVM) which can verify multiple types of agent work, for other agents to be able to trust, invoke and pay each other. This then feeds into improving the peer-to-peer AgentRank (see paper and launch post from earlier). By solving for trust, scale and incentives for agents to operate autonomously, this would form the basis of a new economy. This is the world's first agentic blockchain, and you can join and start running a blockchain node today (it is in testnet). PS: We are releasing the code today, and will release our blockchain scalability paper and other presentations in days ahead. This is the most advanced peer-to-peer AI and cryptography software in the world. It has bugs :)

Varun

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