Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations.
We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data.
In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall.
Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months.
We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need.
Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim.
Rainmaker Century.
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Dalio: own “a bit of Bitcoin.”
Druckenmiller’s Duquesne: $23M bet on PURR.
Tudor Jones: loaded up on IBIT.
Citi, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are building out their crypto teams.
Retail left crypto for dead but the institutions have never been more here.
Americans are very spoiled and coddled so we pretend we don’t have to fight like hell, with all we’ve got, just to keep what we have, and are on track to lose it all right now.
Those of us aged ~35 to 80, especially those over 60, have never known anything but a USA enjoying great prosperity. Those of us ~35 and down have only known its broad decline, but from a great height, and almost none of us have any memory or recent transmission of genuine national hardship — from 1959 to 1961, so many Chinese were starving so badly that cannibalism, including homicide to get human meat to eat, was becoming commonplace in China.
In contrast, Americans were listening to Elvis Presley at sockhops and watching West Side Story in theaters and Bonanza on early color TVs.
Do you get that? Plenty of young PLA officers today, and young Chinese research scientists working in academia and industry, grew up with stories from grandma and grandpa of having to eat people to survive.
Then their own parents, the current ruling class, faced brutal Communist reprisals at every level of society in the cultural revolution and Chinese “rustification” of the youth thereafter, a period that makes East German crimes look like stern management.
Their ambitions are shaped by this. They know how to 吃苦耐劳 - to “eat bitter and suffer toil” - we can’t deal with not having the latest iPhone, which they now build, bc there’s no way for us to do it.
So for now, these feats of superior robotics will be used to amusement, but make no mistake, the greater the gap between US military and industrial technology and China’s, the more interested they will be in tightening some very painfully placed screws we are currently blissfully ignoring.
@ONLYSEZCALMDOWN I want data center buildouts to come with housing, shopping, money invested in local schools, parks, and police and direct cash payments to residents in perpetuity, just like the Gulf States do with oil 👍👍
Nick Thibodeau, former Knicks assistant video coordinator & nephew of Tom Thibodeau, on LinkedIn: "As the summer reaches its midpoint, this was long overdue.
A year ago, on June 3, I was hurt. I was confused. I was bitter.
I knew I was likely going to lose a job at a place where we had experienced success together and where I had built relationships that I’ll value for the rest of my life.
Fast forward one year: the New York Knicks are NBA Champions.
When the final buzzer sounded, I felt a flood of emotions. At first, many of the same ones I felt a year ago resurfaced—hurt, confusion, and bitterness. But as the days passed, those emotions gave way to something much greater: gratitude.
I found myself overwhelmingly happy for the incredible people in that organization. I was fortunate enough to be part of that journey, even if only for a chapter, and to build relationships with people who have left a lasting impact on my life.
Having worked in the video room, I have a unique appreciation for what those guys do every single day. It’s a role that requires selflessness, adaptability, and an unwavering commitment to the team. You’re expected to be ready for anything—supporting the coaches, helping the players, and doing whatever is needed behind the scenes to give the organization its best chance to succeed.
But the video room is only one piece of what makes a championship organization.
The athletic trainers, medical staff, performance team, equipment managers, public relations staff, front office, chefs, security, travel staff, and countless others all contribute in ways that often go unnoticed. Championships aren’t won by one group—they’re built by an entire organization pulling in the same direction.
Those are the people I miss the most.
Living in New York and being part of one of the most historic franchises in sports was an incredible experience. But what made it truly special wasn’t the city or the logo—it was the people. Nothing compares to showing up every day, embracing the grind together, and sharing it with people you genuinely love being around.
Seeing the Knicks reach the mountaintop reminded me of something important: gratitude will always outlast disappointment.
So I just want to say thank you.
Thank you to everyone who made my time there meaningful. Thank you for the lessons, the friendships, the laughs, the long hours, and the memories I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.
Congratulations to an organization filled with first-class people. No matter where my journey takes me, I’ll always be grateful that, for a time, I got to be part of yours.
# NewYorkForever"