@EricLDaugh "BOTTOM OF THE BARREL candidates." ???
Boy, that's rich, Eric — all things considered. One side pushes them out, the other... Well, you know.
What a mess.
The guy who created Fortnite (Tim Sweeney) has been quietly buying up U.S. forests to save them from developers.
He has spent over $200M to buy 50,000+ acres of wilderness in North Carolina, using permanent legal protections to block any future logging or building.
The strangest part of the AI art debate
is the need to diminish
someone else's experience.
I don't go around telling people
what is or isn't art.
If something moved someone,
why are you so desperate
to take that away from them?
In 1982, Robin Williams did a routine as the American Flag for the Norman Lear produced tv special "I Love Liberty" created to bridge political divides - and it's one of the greatest pieces you'll see 🇺🇸
I agree that this is an important interview of @PalantirTech's CEO.
Matches what I've heard from enterprise leaders.
Love what he is saying about AI, we don't need to overhype AI. It's hugely important without any hype, the most important set of new technologies of my life. By far. AI will affect every human on earth, in both positive and negative ways, and we no longer need to hype up that importance.
He lays out the pressure that both military and enterprise is under and lays out the competition from China too.
For me, this stuff is way over my pay grade, but why I track what's happening at the big dog feeding trough affects everyone down stream.
Tomorrow I am headed to #acl2026. This is where AI engineers, researchers, developers are meeting to talk about arcane computer science work being done to make large language models better.
It'll be interesting to see how those working deep in the bowels of all the companies Karp mentioned here, or at academic labs, are building around all these pressures up above. All the sessions are way deeper on technology than I typically go, so will be interesting to see what I learn over the next week and how I can translate it into something that's sharable here on X.
Either way, Karp sure has a quick tongue which is refreshing to hear on CNBC.
Definitely a must watch for anyone in AI.
In one region of Indonesia, malaria rates dropped from 16.5% to nearly zero. The fix wasn't pharmaceutical. It was fish.
Farmers there raise fish directly in flooded rice paddies, a practice roughly 2,000 years old. The fish eat mosquito larvae before they mature, which is what crashed the malaria rate. They also eat insect pests and weeds in the rice itself, and their waste fertilizes the crop as they swim through it. The rice gives them shade and cover in return. One field, two harvests, and a public health outcome nobody was trying for.
The numbers hold up under modern scrutiny. Studies have found rice-fish systems use 68 percent less pesticide and 24 percent less fertilizer than conventional rice farming, with equal or higher rice yields. Same land, fewer chemical inputs, plus a second source of protein and income from fish that were already doing the pest control.
The Green Revolution pushed rice farming toward chemical monoculture, and practices like this nearly disappeared in the process. It's coming back because it never stopped working. A flooded field isn't a factory. It's an ecosystem, and apparently it can out-perform a malaria program too.
We protect 100-year-old buildings as historic treasures, then cut down 500-year-old trees for furniture. That's insane.
An old-growth tree isn't just some big tree. It is a living carbon bank, seed source, cooling system, water filter, fungal network, bird nursery, insect factory, and archive of centuries of weather, fire, drought, and survival.
The older it gets, the more jobs it does. Big old trees store enormous amounts of carbon, and research has found they can keep adding carbon faster as they grow larger. Some ancient trees add more carbon in a single year than an entire mid-sized tree contains.
They also make habitat younger trees can't cough up. Cavities for owls and bats. Broken limbs for nesting birds. Dead wood for beetles and fungi. Mossy bark for lichens and invertebrates. Cool, damp microclimates for salamanders and seedlings. Fallen logs that feed the soil for decades.
A thousand-year-old tree is not 'renewable' in any meaningful human timeframe. Cut it down for furniture, flooring, paper, or profit, and the ecosystem it carried does not come back when someone plants a replacement seedling.
We already protect old churches, courthouses, barns, bridges, and battlefields because they connect us to the past. Old-growth trees do that too.
Scotland just delivered one of the most powerful clean-energy statements in modern history. On multiple occasions, the country’s wind turbines generated around 200% of national electricity demand, producing far more power than Scotland itself needed.
It can be done!!!
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #renewables
30 Jun 2026- Space Weather Update! What happened today and what might that mean as we approach July 4th weekend? Check out this SWPC video to learn about the recent solar flare, CME, and what our forecasters will analyze through the overnight and adjust the forecast as needed.