PB

Geek. Aristocrat. Humble cosmopolitan global elite.

[Marlow Stern @MarlowNYC]

ok but what about him

[Stanford University @Stanford]

The most important briefings of the day.

Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares the news of his Nobel Prize with his kids.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3 year old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us" - Edward Teller

[New Jersey @NJGov]

we just want to talk

[Alice Teodorescu Måwe @alicemedce]

Det mest obehagliga med många politiker och andra som yttrar sig i offentligheten är att inget tycks vara på riktigt. I snart två decennier har det talas om det stora demokratihot som SD skulle utgöra men nu när det uppdagas att valfusk och klanröstning skett, att antisemitism och terrorvurm premieras, så är det påfallande tyst från just de som tidigare låtsades bry sig om Sveriges demokratiska tillstånd.

Sanningen är att de aldrig brydde sig, däremot såg de sin chans att demonisera och fragmentisera och i den strävan var inget omoraliskt, oproportionerligt eller ens orimligt.

[Hanif Bali @hanifbali]

SVT är en oironisk variant av Norm Macdonalds odödliga tweet.

[Hanif Bali @hanifbali]

Hade Orban lockat ryska medborgare med sociala förmåner och gett dem rösträtt enbart efter en mandatperiod med vetskapen att 70% av dem kommer rösta på honom eller hans koalitionspartners hade vi nog tyckt att det var problematiskt.

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

Rare footage of a 90s PC gamer who just realized he’s still 2 kilobytes short of running Wing Commander after fiddling with AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, and HIMEM.SYS for half a day…

Kids today will never know.

[Foundring 🇺🇸 @foundring1]

Engines in My Factory
Arr. Foundring (2026)

[Maria M Stenergard @MariaStenergard]

Nu är det snart bara 50 timmar kvar till vallokalerna stänger. Den svenska demokratin står stark, men vi befinner oss i det allvarligaste säkerhetspolitiska läget sedan andra världskriget. Därför förtjänar väljarna att få veta:

Vad vill oppositionen, och i synnerhet Socialdemokraterna, i utrikespolitiken?

Eftersom S ställde in en pressträff om sin utrikespolitiska strategi tidigare i veckan så får man anta att det inte finns en tillräckligt utvecklad plan för hur man ska få med sig V och MP för att besluta om en Natoinsats i månaden, säkerställa tillräckligt stöd till Ukraina och få EU att besluta om nya frihandelsavtal.

S ber om väljarnas röst med svensk säkerhet som insats.

[Carl-Oskar Bohlin @CarlOskar]

Vilket ansvar har jag för vad meningsfränder, meningsmotståndare, botar och rysstroll skriver i sina svar på X? Tydligen ett strikt ansvar om man får tro SVT.

Igår deltog jag i en av de märkligaste och mest tesdrivna intervjuerna jag någonsin gjort med public service. Jag kommer att publicera den i sin helhet, men här har ni en försmak.

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

the Mesopotamian student whose math homework is being clowned 4,000 years later at the UChicago Ancient Cultures Museum is my spirit animal:

[Viktor Barth-Kron @viktorbk]

Är de stora svenska företagen med oss i rummet nu?

[Maria M Stenergard @MariaStenergard]

Hey München, Schweden zieht in! 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 Die schwedische Regierung hat beschlossen, ein Generalkonsulat in München zu eröffnen, um die Beziehungen zu Deutschland zu vertiefen und Handel, Investitionen sowie Innovation mit den wichtigen Bundesländern Bayern und Baden-Württemberg zu fördern. Dies ist wichtig für die etwa 400 schwedischen Unternehmen, die in der Region tätig sind, sowie für die 7500 Schweden, die in der Region leben. Gemeinsam erhöhen wir unsere Sicherheit, unser Wachstum und unsere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.

[Carl-Oskar Bohlin @CarlOskar]

Jag tror att Daniel Helldéns utfrågning idag är det närmaste ett perfekt recept för att förstöra Sverige jag hört en etablerad politiker leverera. Ändå är det socialdemokraternas förstahandsval som regeringspartner. Det är nästan svårt att ta in.

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

DESTINATION TOKYO (1943) has one of the coolest transition dissolves I've ever seen.

The rippling light rays linger on the sonarman as he tracks the cruiser.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

The most manufactured device in human history was not invented by Edison, Tesla, or Steve Jobs. It came from Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng, two scientists whose own employer failed to see what they had created.

Atalla was born in Port Said, Egypt.

He moved to the United States, earned his PhD, and joined Bell Labs in 1949.

At the time, scientists were trying to make smaller and more reliable electronic switches from silicon.

But they kept running into the same problem.

The surface of silicon trapped electrical charges. This made it difficult to control the electricity flowing through it.

Atalla spent years studying that surface.

He eventually discovered that growing a thin layer of silicon dioxide over silicon could protect it and allow electricity to be controlled properly.

It sounded like a small improvement.

It became the foundation of modern electronics.

In 1959, a young Korean scientist named Dawon Kahng joined Bell Labs after completing his doctorate at Ohio State University.

Atalla asked him to use this new method to build a type of transistor scientists had imagined for decades but had never managed to make work.

Kahng succeeded.

The device had three simple layers: metal, oxide, and silicon.

That is where its name came from.

The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor.

Or MOSFET.

Think of it as a microscopic switch.

It can turn electricity on and off. Put enough of these switches together, and they can store information, perform calculations, display images, run software, and process almost everything a computer does.

Atalla and Kahng had found a way to make these switches small, cheap, and easy to place together on a chip.

They showed their invention to Bell Labs.

The company saw a slow device that solved no urgent problem in its telephone network. It decided not to pursue it.

Kahng tried to explain what they were missing.

In a 1961 memo, he pointed out that the device was easy to manufacture and could be packed into integrated circuits.

Bell Labs still placed it on the shelf.

Researchers at RCA and Fairchild Semiconductor understood its potential and continued developing it.

By 1964, the first commercial MOS devices had arrived.

Then the entire industry began to change.

MOSFETs required less power and took up less space than the transistors used before them. Manufacturers could place thousands on one chip, then millions, and eventually billions.

They entered calculators, memory chips, personal computers, digital cameras, phones, cars, satellites, medical equipment, and almost every other electronic machine.

Modern AI chips contain billions of them.

Every time you unlock your phone, start your car, open a website, send a message, or ask an AI a question, huge numbers of MOSFETs switch on and off to make it happen.

By 2018, the Computer History Museum estimated that humanity had manufactured 13 sextillion MOS transistors.

That is 13 followed by 21 zeros.

No other human-made device has been copied more often.

Atalla and Kahng never became household names.

Their invention became so common that it disappeared inside everything.

The next time your phone turns on or an AI answers you in seconds, remember the two scientists who made it possible.

Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng.

[Johan Romin @JohanRomin]

Det har gått rejält långt med radikaliseringen och missbruket av public service när Bosse Larsson och Calle Schewens vals ersatts av personer klädda i militärkläder som bedriver extremistisk propaganda.
En skamfläck.

[Andy Olivera @soyandyolivera]

Graves disturbios en Suiza tras quedar eliminados

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

STOLTENBERG: My country, Norway, borders Russia. Just on other side of our land border, we see highest concentration of nuclear weapons in the world: missiles, submarines, bombers. These weapons are not directed at Norway — they're directed at United States.

Yet Norway helps United States monitor and track those submarines, share intelligence, provide early warning, and report precisely what Russians are doing.

This is part of America’s homeland defense, delivered by a NATO ally. And there are many other similar examples.

So United States is safer with a strong NATO. That is why I expect and believe the United States will remain committed to the Alliance.