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[specbid124 @specbid124]

@Rainmaker1973 However is it cost effective to produce.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Materials researchers at MIT have successfully developed a groundbreaking solid-state battery that solves the two biggest bottlenecks in modern energy storage. By replacing conventional liquid electrolytes with a highly advanced superionic ceramic conductor, this new technology eliminates the slow lithium-ion diffusion bottleneck, enabling charging rates 200 times faster than standard lithium-ion models—achieving a full charge in an unprecedented 90 seconds.

Additionally, this unique ceramic structure creates a near-perfect hermetic seal around the stored charge, practically eliminating the self-discharge that typically causes conventional batteries to lose 20 to 30 percent of their power monthly.

Retaining 99.7% of its stored energy after six months of idle storage, and surviving 5,000 full charge cycles with 96.8% capacity retention, this completely non-flammable battery technology could soon allow electric vehicles to charge in under two minutes and grid storage to operate with negligible seasonal losses.

[specbid124 @specbid124]

@CharlesMullins2 Sounds scary to me. It will be weaponised without a doubt.

[X Market News🚨 @xMarketNews]

LIKE 👍 THIS POST IF YOU’RE BULLISH ON GAMESTOP & RYAN COHEN $GME

[Wiz888999 @ODB123]

Ryan Cohen didn't come out talking about stock buybacks, financial engineering, or squeezing shorts.

Man pulled up with a $500M personal check, a plan to cut costs, modernize commerce, build a digital gaming marketplace, then said, "Let's get to work."

Aggressive cost-cutting.

Live commerce.

Digital gaming marketplace.

GameStop brings the gaming community. eBay brings marketplace scale.

Together, the vision is bigger than selling games.

Physical collectibles, digital assets, gaming goods, future RWAs all under one roof.

Most people are staring at today's candle.

RC is talking about the next decade. 👀🚀 $GME

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST BUILT AN ARTIFICIAL RETINA THAT RESTORES VISION AND ADDS INFRARED SIGHT.

Researchers at Yonsei University in South Korea have developed a flexible, three-layer implant that bypasses dead photoreceptors and directly stimulates healthy retinal ganglion cells.

The device not only helps restore vision in cases of retinal degeneration (like retinitis pigmentosa) but also gives the eye the ability to detect near-infrared light that humans normally cannot see.

The key innovation is a soft 3D array of liquid metal micropillars (gallium-indium alloy) that gently conform to the curved retina without causing damage or inflammation a major improvement over rigid electrodes used in earlier implants.

Why this matters:

• Retinal diseases destroy light-sensing cells, but the neurons deeper in the eye often remain healthy and capable of sending signals to the brain
• The implant uses an ultrathin filter + phototransistor array to convert near-infrared light into electrical signals the ganglion cells can understand
• In mouse tests, blind animals regained visual responses, while healthy mice gained infrared sensitivity on top of their normal vision
• The liquid metal electrodes are soft and biocompatible, dramatically reducing the risk of scarring or tissue damage

The deeper implication:

This isn’t just about restoring lost vision it’s about augmenting human sight. If it reaches human trials and proves safe long-term, people with partial vision loss could keep their remaining natural sight while gaining an entirely new sensory channel (infrared).

The biggest open question is how the human brain would interpret this new stream of information whether it would feel like a new color, an overlay, or something else entirely.

We’re moving from “fixing blindness” to “expanding what it means to see.”

How do you think gaining the ability to see infrared light would change daily life or human perception?

Follow for more frontier neurotechnology and bionic vision breakthroughs.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The Reform UK-led Leicestershire County Council has paid off £26.9 million of debt inherited from the previous Conservative administration, reducing the council’s debt to its lowest recorded level in history

[@CharlieSimpsonA]

[Sergei Lonshakov @EnsRationis]

4/ Once connected, open a browser and go to **`192.168.4.1`**. The device serves its own configuration page — there is no app to download.

The first thing you see is the sensor already working: a live table of humidity, temperature, pressure, PM2.5, PM10 and noise, updating in real time. Below it, you choose exactly what the device shares:

- **Publish to map** — tick the readings you want public: temperature, humidity, pressure, particulate matter, noise.
- **Optional extras** if you've added them: radiation, ozone (O₃), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), AQI indices.

By default your data goes to the public map. Untick anything and it stays local on the device — the choice is yours, made on the device itself, not in someone's cloud dashboard.

[Sergei Lonshakov @EnsRationis]

5/ In the **WiFi Settings** section, enter your home network name and password (2.4 GHz), give the device a hostname if you like, and press **Save configuration**.

The device reboots, drops its own access point, joins your home WiFi — and starts publishing. From here every measurement is cryptographically signed on the device, bundled to IPFS, and its hash committed to the [Robonomics](https://t.co/CV3VmkiVHi) parachain on Polkadot. Within a minute your station appears on [https://t.co/bRn9D2scoR](https://t.co/GxKZ65GHFw) as a new dot on the map.

[Football Factly @FootballFactly]

Best thing you'll see on the internet today. ❤️

Martin Ødegaard leads the Norway squad and thousands of fans in the iconic Viking Row after securing their place in the World Cup knockout stages. 👏🚣🇳🇴

Football is about moments like these.

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 CHINESE SCIENTISTS JUST INVENTED 3D PRINTING THAT CREATES OBJECTS IN 0.6 SECONDS USING ONLY LIGHT.

Researchers at Tsinghua University have developed a new method called DISH (Digital Incoherent Synthesis of Holographic light fields) that can print complex millimeter-scale objects almost instantly. Instead of slowly building layer by layer, the system fires thousands of precisely patterned light images from multiple angles into a still vat of liquid resin.

Where the light overlaps, the resin instantly hardens into a solid 3D object.
The entire process takes just 0.6 seconds.

Why this matters:

• It’s currently the fastest volumetric 3D printing method ever demonstrated
• Achieves extremely fine detail features thinner than a human hair
• The resin stays completely still, so there’s no vibration or distortion
• It can work with watery (low-viscosity) resins, making it suitable for biological applications
• The team has already printed complex structures like blood vessel-like tubes and even a tiny bust of a historical figure

The deeper implication:

Traditional 3D printing has always been limited by speed and the need to move either the print head or the resin. This approach removes both constraints by using light itself as the sculptor. Because it can print directly into still liquid (and potentially onto living tissue), it opens new possibilities in bioprinting, medical devices, and rapid manufacturing.

If the technology can be scaled beyond millimeter sizes, it could fundamentally change how we think about making physical objects turning “print” from a slow process into something closer to instantaneous fabrication.
We’re moving from “layer by layer” to “all at once.”

How do you think instant volumetric 3D printing like this could change medicine, manufacturing, or everyday life if it becomes widely available?

Follow for more frontier manufacturing and materials science breakthroughs.

[Rossi @RKH4658]

My car insurance is currently with @Churchill my current policy was £301.

My renewal is £333 despite 10 years no claim discount. I call up and they offer me £307.

A quick comparison check, £272 with who?? Oh yes @Churchill but they won’t do it on the phone!

Scam

[Nigel Farage MP @Nigel_Farage]

My response to the Makerfield by-election result.

[Jason James Morey @morey28]

@TenHagBaller As much as it benefited England, I think as soon as the pen taker staggers his run, the players can become active. It would stop all of these stupid run ups (Eze etc) & mean they have to hit the ball.

[Jake Friedel @zebular0]

$GME
We're within - 5% of the 52 week low, 7 year 30 day IV low and less than 5% away from @ryancohen share tranche price. Yeah, I'm good with loading the boat here.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In the 1920s, a Stanford psychologist tracked genius children for 50 years.

Malcolm Gladwell breaks down what he discovered:

Rich families → successful. Poor families → failures.

Not average. Failures. Genius-level IQs that produced nothing.

He spent 60 minutes at Microsoft explaining why we're wrong about success:

The psychologist was named Terman. He gave IQ tests to 250,000 California schoolchildren.

He identified the top 0.1%. Kids with IQs of 140 and above.

His hypothesis: these children would become the leaders of academia, industry, and politics.

He tracked them. And tracked them. For decades.

The results split into three groups:

The top 15% achieved real prominence. The middle group had average, moderately successful professional lives.

And the bottom group? By any measure, failures.

The difference wasn't personality. Wasn't habits. Wasn't work ethic.

It was simple: the successful geniuses came from wealthy households. The failures came from poor families.

Poverty is such a powerful constraint that it can reduce a one-in-a-billion brain to a lifetime of worse than mediocrity.

There's a concept called "capitalization rate."

It asks a simple question: what percentage of people who are capable of doing something actually end up doing that thing?

In inner city Memphis, only 1 in 6 kids with athletic scholarships actually go to college.

If our capitalization rate for sports in the inner city is 16%, imagine how low it must be for everything else.

Here's something stranger.

Gladwell read the birth dates of the 2007 Czech Junior Hockey Team:

January 3rd. January 3rd. January 12th. February 8th. February 10th. February 17th. February 20th. February 24th. March 5th. March 10th. March 26th...

11 of the 20 players were born in January, February, or March.

This isn't unique to the Czechs. Every elite hockey team in the world shows the same pattern. Every elite soccer team too.

Why?

The eligibility cutoff for youth leagues is January 1st.

When you're 10 years old, a kid born in January has 10 months of maturity on a kid born in October. That's 3 or 4 inches of height. The difference between clumsy and coordinated.

So we look at a group of 10 year olds, pick the "best" ones, give them special coaching, extra practice, more games.

We think we're identifying talent. We're just identifying the oldest.

Then we give the oldest more opportunities, and 10 years later they really are the best.

Self-fulfilling prophecy.

The capitalization rate for hockey talent born in the second half of the year? Close to zero.

We're leaving half of all potential hockey players on the table because of an arbitrary date on a calendar.

Kids born in the youngest cohort of their school class are 11% less likely to go to college.

11% of human potential squandered because we organize elementary school without reference to biological maturity.

Now here's the part about math.

Asian kids dramatically outperform Western kids in mathematics. The gap is enormous and consistent across decades of testing.

Some people say it's genetic. It's not.

It's attitudinal.

When Asian kids face a math problem, they believe effort will solve it.

When Western kids face a math problem, they believe the answer depends on innate ability they either have or don't.

Here's the proof.

The international math tests include a 120-question survey. It asks about study habits, parental support, attitudes.

It's so long most kids don't finish it.

A researcher named Erling Boe decided to rank countries by what percentage of survey questions their kids completed.

Then he compared it to the ranking of countries by math performance.

The correlation was 0.98.

In the history of social science, there has never been a correlation that high.

If you want to know how good a country is at math, you don't need to ask any math questions. Just make kids sit down and focus on a task for an extended period of time.

If they can do it, they're good at math.

Why do Asian cultures have this attitude?

Gladwell's theory: rice farming.

His European ancestors in medieval England worked about 1,000 hours a year. Dawn to noon, five days a week. Winters off. Lots of holidays.

A peasant in South China or Japan in the same period worked 3,000 hours a year.

Rice farming isn't just harder than wheat farming. It's a completely different relationship with work.

There's a Chinese proverb: "A man who works dawn to dusk 360 days a year will not go hungry."

His English ancestors would have said: "A man who works 175 days a year, dawn to 11, may or may not be hungry."

If your culture does that for a thousand years, it becomes part of your makeup.

When your kids sit down to face a calculus problem, that legacy of persistence translates perfectly.

Now consider distance running.

In Kenya, there are roughly a million schoolboys between 10 and 17 running 10 to 12 miles a day.

In the United States, that number is probably 5,000.

Our capitalization rate for distance running is less than 1%.

Kenya's is probably 95%.

The difference isn't genetic. The difference is what the culture values and where it spends its attention.

Here's the most fascinating finding.

30% of American entrepreneurs have been diagnosed with a profound learning disability.

Richard Branson is dyslexic. Charles Schwab is dyslexic. John Chambers can barely read his own email.

This isn't coincidence. Their entrepreneurialism is a direct function of their disability.

How do you succeed if you can't read or write from early childhood?

You learn to delegate. You become a great oral communicator. You become a problem solver because your entire life is one big problem. You learn to lead.

80% of dyslexic entrepreneurs were captain of a high school sports team. Versus 30% of non-dyslexic entrepreneurs.

By the time they enter the real world, they've spent their whole life practicing the four skills at the core of entrepreneurial success: delegation, oral communication, problem solving, and leadership.

Ask them what role dyslexia played in their success and they don't say it was an obstacle.

They say it's the reason they succeeded.

A disadvantage that became an advantage.

Here's what Gladwell wants you to understand:

When we see differences in success, our default explanation is differences in ability.

We forget how much poverty, stupidity, and attitude constrain what people can become.

We refuse to admit that our own arbitrary rules are leaving talent on the table.

We cling to naive beliefs that our meritocracies are fair.

The capitalization argument is liberating.

It says you don't look at a struggling group and conclude they're incapable. It says problems that look genetic or innate are often just failures of exploitation.

It says we can make a profound difference in how well people turn out.

If we choose to pay attention.

[domoshi @heydomoshi]

The results of eBay shareholder votes, including the outcome of Proposal 4, will be revealed during eBay's Annual Meeting tomorrow (June 17, 2026)

$GME $EBAY

[specbid124 @specbid124]

@WasAcop @RebelliousBard He just made apple and google phones obsolete, teenagers are tech smart , they will figure out a way around. Some kid will create an app around it and make millions.

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

This is how the oil crisis was postponed, not avoided. Furthermore what’s coming is going to be even worse since now most of the buffer (SPR + Commercial reserves) is gone - it will not take months, but years to re establish

Enjoy your last days of affordable gasoline and diesel

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We had NHS dentists, and free education, we owned Rail, Mail, Telecoms, Water, Energy, Steel and Ship Building, Social housing was built, and we owned care homes.

All of this was stolen to allow the rich to rob us forever for using essential services.