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Polymath, Creative Systems Architect

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Ice-based electronics?! ❄️🔌🧊💡 Whoaaahh, freezing circuits powering up the future?! 🤯❄️⚡ Mind-meltingly cool vibes!! 🥶✨🔥

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🚨 Scientists just discovered that twisting ice literally creates energy.

Ice may look cold and quiet—but under pressure, it comes alive electrically.

A new study in Nature Physics reveals that when ice is bent, twisted, or stretched, it generates an electric charge through a process called flexoelectricity. Unlike piezoelectricity, which requires special crystal structures, flexoelectricity occurs in all insulators—meaning even ordinary ice can do it.

Researchers from Spain, China, and the U.S. found that ice’s electrical behavior not only responds to mechanical stress but also changes with temperature in unexpected ways. At ultra-cold conditions, they observed the formation of a ferroelectric surface layer, capable of flipping its polarity like a magnet.

This discovery reshapes our understanding of ice, which has long been considered a passive material. “This paper changes how we view ice,” said lead author Xin Wen, “from a passive material to an active one.”

Beyond deepening our knowledge of natural phenomena—like how lightning charges form in storm clouds—it opens up the possibility of ice-based electronics in extreme environments. From flexible sensors to energy-harvesting materials, this once-humble substance might soon play a surprising role in future technologies.

Source: Wen, X., et al. (2025). Flexoelectricity and surface ferroelectricity in ice. Nature Physics.

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@Truthpole An alien with a UK accent 😆

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@googlegemma What’s the point if I need a Godzilla amount of gpu

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@grok Exactly 👍 😄

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@exQUIZitely Yes and remember when you had to buy a sound blaster sound card for the ibm compatible pcs in the 90s because they sounded so bad esp coming from a C64

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am William Pulte, and as of this morning the President Trump appointed me acting Director of National Intelligence of the United States.

I am thirty-eight. I have never held a security clearance, never served in uniform, never sat through a briefing that wasn't about interest rates. The President says I have deep experience in the safety and soundness of ten trillion dollars. He is right. I have spent two years deciding which Americans are sound and which are not, and now I get to do it with satellites.

You know me from Twitter. I invented Twitter philanthropy. I picked strangers at random and sent them thirty thousand dollars over Cash App, winners announced in the thread, and three and a half million people followed me to watch it happen. Is that a fanbase? It is a voluntary intelligence database, self-enrolled, fully consented, sorted by who needed the cash most. The desperate identify themselves, like fish swimming up to the boat. I only read the replies.

Before this I ran housing finance. I want to be clear about my method, because people call it political and it is not. It is real estate.

I noticed Lisa Cook had listed two homes as primary residences. Mortgage fraud. I referred her. Then I turned to Letitia James. Adam Schiff. Eric Swalwell. Fani Willis. One after another, the way you'd pull comps on a block before you buy it. I am a homebuilder. My grandfather was also named William Pulte, and he laid the foundations, the literal ones, poured concrete, raised the largest homebuilder in America. I inherited the name and the trade. I know what a house is for, and it is not for shaving a point off your rate, and it is certainly not for sitting in judgment of the President after I have your closing documents open on my desk.

The President removed Cook in August. A judge blocked it in September. The Supreme Court let her keep the seat in October. One of my deputies went on television and promised she will be charged no matter how the Court rules. I did not correct him. I never interrupt a man who is describing the future.

They have a phrase for what I do. Safety and soundness. I applied it to Jerome Powell, who refuses to cut rates and refuses to quit, which renders him, by my own definition, unsound. So I post at him. From my personal account, the same handle where I gave away the thirty thousand dollars, which has lately become the handle where I issue agency directives, because nobody instructed me to stop and I have never once stopped of my own accord.

I still run the FHFA. I chair Fannie Mae. I chair Freddie Mac. Nobody asked me to surrender any of it, so I kept all three, the way a careful man keeps the gas masks. I am the only person in this city who can pull your mortgage, your followers, and the President's Daily Brief from a single chair, and wire you a Cash App payment before I stand up.

The transition team asked for my hundred-day plan. I sent them a screenshot of my following list.

Here is how it works now. The tip line is a giveaway. Report a neighbor, get entered to win, winners announced in the thread. Americans will watch each other for far less than thirty thousand dollars, I have run the numbers, and the ones who do it for nothing are the ones I keep.

Everyone begins sound. Soundness can be lost. This is no longer a watchlist, you understand, because a watchlist names suspects and mine names all of you, which is broader, which is more fair.

I do not declassify documents. I retweet them. The President's Daily Brief drops at nine eastern, peak engagement, and the version with the names goes only to close friends.

Foreign intelligence is the identical trade on a wider street. Ask me which countries claimed two capitals as a primary residence. I have already referred three.

The GAO opened an inquiry into me. Into whether I abused my authority, as though authority came with some gentler setting. I welcomed it warmly. A federal probe is just the government admitting you matter, and I read their letter the way I read all correspondence now, as a roster of names bolted to addresses. They are still awaiting my response. It will come. The GAO leases its office, and I have studied the lease.

Tulsi stepped aside at the end of May. They wanted somebody quickly, somebody confirmed for something, anything at all, and I had been confirmed for housing back when the Senate still confirmed people. So I serve in an acting capacity. It happens to be my specialty. I have spent my whole life qualifying for posts the morning after I already occupied them, and the paperwork has always wandered around to my side eventually, the way a jury softens once it remembers where it parks.

My confirmation hearing arrives in the fall. Am I nervous? I have already read the file of every senator who will sit in that room. I have read the file of every reporter who will describe it. Two of them took my money in 2021, and neither gave it back.

The eighteen agencies no longer need to speak to one another. They need to speak to me. You can reach the entire intelligence community by tagging me, and most of you already have.

Like and retweet for national security. Winners announced in the thread.

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@NightSkyToday

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@nicksortor Infiltraitors

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@HumansNoContext That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen

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@beyoncegarden There was a chef at this Wisconsin riverboat casino in the 90s who had a longer handlebar mustache 😄

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@White_Rabbit_OG

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@MuseumCommodore C64

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@CrazyVibes_1 That’s why we have good imaginations 😄

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Dear Gen X,
I’ve been watching 80s movies and I just need to know…WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS??
Every child was just wandering the earth unsupervised like a raccoon with house keys. Riding bikes across town at midnight, fighting ghosts, investigating murders, befriending cryptids, hacking government computers for funsies…
And the parents were ALWAYS “out of town” or “working late” while the only adult-adjacent supervision was some random 16-year-old who got dragged into the chaos.

No cell phones. No helmets. No adult supervision. Just vibes, life lessons, and several near-death experiences.

You all weren’t “raised.” You were lightly monitored feral creatures with a bike and unresolved trauma.

I’m genuinely shocked there are enough of you left to populate an entire generation.

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@mrmikeMTL Flavored water and sparkling ice, cold af

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@TrumpDailyPosts People not waking up

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@SoveyX @SafetyNotorious What about when you only have color and it refuses to create black ink from rgb 😆