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AI is choking Earth with power hunger and heat.

SpaceX wants to move the brain to orbit.

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New vacuum-deposited perovskite solar cells hit 19.3% efficiency in the lab

Solvent-free process scales manufacturing without toxic chemicals

Tandem designs could soon smash silicon limits at lower cost

Cheaper cleaner energy everywhere

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AI is choking Earth with power hunger and heat.

SpaceX wants to move the brain to orbit.

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Scientists built CRISPR that skips editing

It shreds bad cells instead

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https://t.co/ZopF363299

[Dr. Tau Braun @drtaubraun]

In the labs of the University of Utah, Utah State University, and Akribion Therapeutics in Germany, a team of scientists has published a new RNA-triggered cell-killing system based on the CRISPR enzyme Cas12a2. Most of us already know it as the Killswitch if you have been following my work.

Here is how it works. You design a short strand of guide RNA. Slip it into a cell, tucked inside lipid nanoparticles, the same delivery system used in COVID vaccines. The moment that RNA finds its matching transcript, perhaps a unique mutation, a viral message, or any genetic signature you choose, the enzyme wakes up. It does not edit. It does not cut once. It triggers rampant double-stranded DNA breaks in trans across the genome. The cell’s own repair systems are overwhelmed. Within hours, the cell is dead.

The researchers demonstrated it on HPV-infected cancer cells in mice. Tumors shrank. Healthy cells walked away untouched. They also used it to eliminate cells that failed gene editing or carried a common KRAS cancer mutation. The paper describes it as programmable and sequence-specific elimination of eukaryotic cells on the basis of their transcriptional profile.

But the Killswitch does not have to be all-or-nothing. In theory, partial or lower-dose activation could damage enough DNA to disrupt cell function without full death. This could be used to turn on diseases and chronic illnesses. That opens the door to subtler control: dialing down metabolism in targeted tissues to produce widespread fatigue, interfering with neurons to create confusion or cognitive fog, or even altering activity in brain circuits linked to impulse control, potentially increasing aggression or violence.

A pharmaceutical company could make entire populations chronically sick, then sell the treatments needed to manage the symptoms they quietly engineered.

One blood draw, one discarded coffee cup, or one hacked medical file is enough to map a person’s unique transcriptomic fingerprint. From there, synthetic RNA payloads could become a silent tool of domination. Delivered by aerosol, tainted food, or direct injection, the system slips in unnoticed.

Military research has a way of eventually finding its way into the public domain, often dressed up as medical progress. I wonder if the scientists realize they are just replicating work that has already been done and has already been executed.

We have spent decades celebrating CRISPR as a scalpel for healing. This Killswitch is not a scalpel. It is a remote-control off button for human beings based on which RNA a cell is expressing. And the switch is already built and installed. The only question remains how much is it already being used?

RNA-triggered cell killing with CRISPR–Cas12a2
May 6th 2026
https://t.co/jr3To5qL9G

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Cities run out of land for solar

Floating panels fix that problem fast

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https://t.co/w29GUiQ6et

[International Energy Agency @IEA]

One of the world’s largest floating solar PV plants is under construction in Indonesia.

Paired with an existing hydropower facility, the innovative project will be integrated into the Java-Bali grid, the backbone of 🇮🇩's electricity supply.

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