Thomas L Matula Ph.D.

I have a Ph.D. from New Mexico State University and have been doing research on space commerce for over 30 years. We must develop space to save the Earth.

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

This is why it is important to look at economics from the Free Market - Command Market spectrum instead of Marx’s Capitalism-Communism dichotomy.

India was a “Capitalist” economy by Marx’s definition with multiple political parties and private ownership of Capital. Yet it had what was functionally a Command Market economic system through excessive regulation and licensing, which was why for decades it preformed as bad as a “communist” economy. Only when they eliminated most of the licensing and moved towards a Free Market did it boom.

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[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A new study shows offshore wind farms can alter ocean currents.

By 2050, offshore wind capacity in the North Sea is set to increase more than tenfold.

Researchers modelled the long-term impact.

Turbines slow surface winds, foundations obstruct tidal flow, and those wake effects combine to slow surface currents by up to 20%, not just immediately around the wind farms, but across the North Sea.

That changes sediment movement, water mixing, and marine ecosystems.

This is not a local effect, it is a system-level change, and the full impacts are unknown.

[Old School Eddie @Old_SchoolEddie]

In a Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany, archaeologists found a small silver amulet from around 230 to 270 AD.

This tiny capsule, only about 3.5 centimeters long, held a thin silver foil with 18 lines of Latin text.

It is the oldest known evidence of Christian faith north of the Alps.

The man buried there wore this amulet around his neck until the end.

Modern scans revealed the inscription, which speaks of Saint Titus, declares "Holy, holy, holy," and confesses faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

It shows a clear devotion to the Lord in a time when Christians often faced danger.

This discovery reminds us how the good news of Jesus spread even in the early days of the church, far from the places we usually read about in Scripture.

As the Apostle Paul wrote in Acts, the word of the Lord grew and multiplied despite trials.

Here was a believer holding fast to his faith, perhaps drawing strength from verses like Revelation 4:8, where heavenly beings cry, "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty."

Friends, this amulet from nearly 1,800 years ago stands as quiet proof of lives changed by Christ.

It calls us to remember that our Savior reaches hearts in every age and place.

Let it encourage us to walk faithfully, just as that early believer did, trusting in the grace of God through Jesus.

May we too confess Him boldly in our own time.

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

AI enabled hackers are coming for our industrial base and critical infrastructure.

We can solve the problem today, while we still have water, power, and sewer.

Or we can solve it in the dark.

But those are the only two choices.

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Michael was brutally attacked by riot police at the Southampton protest. His fault was that he was filming the protest and was armed with a lethal mobile phone. If anyone has any footage of the incident, please share. He wants to sue these corrupt police.

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

Note that the best refutation of @PikettyWIL 's argument is his own picture. Billionaires increased most in the two places where the economy grew and poverty drastically went down: South Asia and East Asia. The best solution to poverty is a freer, growing, dynamic economy.

[Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright]

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit Sable Offshore Corp., where oil is flowing once again!

This restart marks a bold shift from restrictive, energy-subtractive policies to a future of strengthened domestic production, lower prices, and greater energy security.

[Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy @GovNuclear]

FACT: More than 90% of the potential energy still remains in spent nuclear fuel.

Some advanced reactors under development could consume or even run on this fuel in the future.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The intellectual life was never something that only the elites enjoyed.

In England there has long existed a massive, self-directed culture of education among working-class people. Coal miners in industrial England read voraciously, with many even self-studying Latin or history after long shifts underground or in factories.

Coal miners, mill workers, and mechanics built their own libraries and formed reading societies to study Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton, even Plato. A grassroots intellectual movement that grew independent of elite institutions.

Jonathan Rose makes this case in "The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes", one of the most illuminating cultural histories of recent decades.

While elites might have consumed culture for status, ordinary readers engaged with it morally and personally, seeing in Shakespeare and the classics a means of moral development and self-mastery. This revelation directly challenges the 20th-century academic assumption (inspired by postmodernism and Marxist cultural studies) that "high culture" is inherently exclusionary.

Pulling from autobiographies and letters, Rose shows that workers often described reading as a form of inner liberation, citing writers like Ruskin, Carlyle, and Dickens as their moral guides. They read with a degree of seriousness we rarely see today, treating their books as beloved companions in a lifelong pursuit of wisdom.

The rise of mass media and television following WWII made a preference for reading slowly give way to one for passive entertainment.

And the democratization of education paradoxically coincided with a lowering of intellectual standards — just like how more people than ever attend university today, yet popular culture as a whole is much less intellectually vibrant than it was 50 years ago.

[Michael Mattox - The Mad Ox @TheRealMadOx]

Man it’s tough not to put those neighbors on blast and show up protesting at their front doors. The urge hits hard when you see how they weaponized the government against a veteran and his dog. But we stay peaceful. Lucy is still locked up in that cage. Get her home safe first. Then we handle the rest the right way. #SaveLucy

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Shots fired at a country concert in Toledo, Ohio. Multiple victims. 🙏

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

Across Europe, people are taking to the streets to honour Henry Nowak.

No riots. No looting.

Just peaceful gatherings demanding an end to anti-white racism and paying tribute to a student killed for his skin colour.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

NEWSFLASH: there's deep genetic reasons why Europeans don't "Eat ze BUGZ."

Europeans and their colonial descendants have a deep rooted aversion to eating insects. New reseach finds it's not just cultural, it has a genetic origin going back thousands of years.

A new genomic study from Spain’s Institute of Evolutionary Biology analyzed dental calculus (tartar) from 745 ancient human samples across Eurasia, some up to 33,000 years old. They found almost no evidence of routine insect consumption in northern Eurasian populations — in stark contrast to humans in tropical regions and even Neanderthals.

Key findings:

• Northern Europeans showed very little insect DNA in their ancient dental tartar.

• Genes for chitin digesting enzymes (chitinases) carry mutations that reduce the ability to break down insect exoskeletons in northern Europeans. These mutations became fixed around 9,000 years ago.

• Neanderthals, who lived in the same environments, appear to have consumed insects more regularly (including fly larvae and mosquitoes), with better adapted chitinase genes.

Tropical populations of humans (as well as chimpanzees and gorillas) still carry genetic variants supporting higher chitin digestion, reflecting more consistent insect availability and consumption.

Lead researcher Pablo Librado explained: “The scarce presence of insects in the diet of northern Eurasians suggests that the absence of entomophagy is not solely due to recent cultural factors, but also to a long ecological and evolutionary history.”

Lower insect biomass and diversity at higher latitudes likely made regular entomophagy impractical, leading to genetic and cultural abandonment over millennia. Though the fact that Neanderthals consumed insects regularly throws doubt on this as a sole explanation.

The study highlights how deeply our diets have been shaped by our genomes and environments. It's a compelling look at the deep roots of what we do (and don’t) eat.

[Dennis Wingo @wingod]

Yep

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Such injustice!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Helpful tool for improvement. It’s just physics thinking in the limit.

[Digital Financial Market @BestCryptoTwits]

@ThomasLMatula @is_OwenLewis I do not have a degree in it, hence why I sell solar panels and not designing them.

And I am extremely adept with AI (I used to work for Microsoft Retail before AI went big) and honestly most corporations are too ill advised to use AI properly, they hand millions to idiots tho

[Digital Financial Market @BestCryptoTwits]

@ThomasLMatula @is_OwenLewis Fuck,

I'm feeling that.

Companies running outta money.

Need a more secure paycheck

[Digital Financial Market @BestCryptoTwits]

@ThomasLMatula @is_OwenLewis My back hurts too much for that.

I sell solar

Need any solar + battery?

[Thomas L Matula Ph.D. @ThomasLMatula]

@BestCryptoTwits @is_OwenLewis Well that may be your option, becoming an AI consultant on the side. Showing businesses, especially small business how to use it to increase productivity.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Yes.