Mathias Sundin

📰 Editor-in-chief of The Angry Optimist - Founder of the Warp Institute 🚀 🌏 Author of The Fifth Acceleration. 🇸🇪 Swede living in Brussels.

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

A new potato called Poulette tastes like roast chicken when baked, says Row 7, the seed company selling it.

No chicken, broth or seasoning. The flavor comes from the variety itself.

It took just over ten years of crossing and selection.

https://t.co/FXpWYItAFh

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

Sorry, today is doomsday!

A 1960 paper in Science said world population would become infinite today, November 13, 2026.

Since then we have more than doubled, and famine deaths have fallen by almost 90 percent. More people means more brains to solve problems.

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@jsundlo

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

Sorry, today is doomsday!

A 1960 paper in Science said world population would become infinite today, November 13, 2026.

Since then we have more than doubled, and famine deaths have fallen by almost 90 percent. More people means more brains to solve problems.

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

Whaling left only 150 humpback whales along Australia's east coast in the early 1960s.

The hunt was banned in 1963.

By 2024, there were over 50,000. That is around 20,000 more than before commercial whaling began in the early 1900s.

The ban did more than stop a decline. It made room for more whales than before industrial whaling.

https://t.co/I84Yj7GUm6

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

I don't care about this, I rather think it is good.

We'll get used to the buildings (and maybe even appreciate them), and it is WAY BETTER that Trump spends his time on this than on politics, and the gold can be scraped off after he is gone.

(I, of course, am not American.)

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

I haven't been reflexively anti-ballroom. I recognize the need for a space like this and I didn't hate it when initially private donors would pay for it.

But now... I mean look at that monstrosity. It dominates the White House and has become a black hole of corruption

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

Our podcast is back.

It covers the week's fact-based optimistic news. The first news episode came out on Wednesday.

One of the stories: AI spots pancreatic cancer on scans that look normal.

https://t.co/QBMQHx7YHr

[The Angry Optimist 🇸🇪 @AngryOptimistSE]

Jonas Birgersson behöver både gamla och nya besättningsmedlemmar, skriver Mathias Sundin.

Staffan Ekholm från Framfab-tiden är tillbaka. Jonas Bohlin, medgrundare av Assently, är produktchef på ViaEuropa.

Han kallar det de bygger Star Trek-framtiden.

https://t.co/SdAd8naP9v

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

@mpawlo @kajsadovstad Det där var min position i den senaste grundlagsutredningen. Om man har bluffat sig till medborgarskapet ska det gå att ta tillbaka, annars inte, av ungefär de skäl du anger.

(Jag hann tyvärr inte fullfölja uppdraget dock.)

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

In 1990, 277,000 children under five died of meningitis.

In 2023, the number was 86,600.

That is from a study in The Lancet Neurology covering 204 countries. Vaccines against the bacteria behind the disease explain a large part of the decline, according to the researchers.

The world's population grew a lot over those years.

More people did not mean more deaths. Total meningitis deaths fell by 45 percent.

https://t.co/tFYkANgJGz

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@jsundlo @packyM

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In 1972, husband and wife earned about the same in 11 percent of US marriages.

In 2022, it was 29 percent.

About the same means each spouse brings in 40 to 60 percent of the income, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.

https://t.co/cMnt2fCXyZ

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

JUST IN: Employees at TSMC have raised a leather jacket at half mast outside a Taiwan fab.

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@chellivia @TheEconomist Nice! Looking forward to reading it.

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Serbia's student movement had no traditional party leader. Decisions were made in open student assemblies.

On October 25, its Student List won 53 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results.

Vladan Lausevic writes about the methods behind it.

https://t.co/cJhBKEH0fR

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

Scenario: a severe storm will hit in a few hours.

In Lund, I watched Jonas Bohlin switch on emergency mode in a demo. The batteries charge to full. If the grid goes down, 278 households keep power for 48 to 72 hours. Cooking works. The sauna doesn't.

https://t.co/ZLOt0oxzSP

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

@ramez @AISafetyMemes Hey, don't sabotage their propaganda with facts!

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@kylegawley

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Age-related macular degeneration is one of the most common causes of irreversible blindness.

In a clinical trial, a 2-millimeter wireless chip under the retina gave 26 of 32 patients a clinically meaningful improvement in vision after twelve months.

About 84 percent could read letters, numbers and words again.

This kind of blindness has been seen as permanent. For most patients in the trial, it was not.

https://t.co/XGsRoRu3ir

[Mathias Sundin @MathiasSundin]

@ramez Yes, it is the same kind of thinking that is not attached to the real world, as the doomer worries.