ELON MUSK: "Zero people died because of DOGE" “USAID was a political organization. USAID funding was not stopped; it was moved to the State Department. There were claims that healthcare programs were shut down, but these claims are false. When funding is stopped for fraudulent organizations, do you think they’re going to say, ‘Please keep funding the fraud,’ or come up with a sympathetic story to get the funding restored? Obviously, it will be the latter. The amount of funding we’re talking about is far less than what could be supported by private foundations like the Gates Foundation or MacKenzie Bezos’s foundation. They have tens of billions of dollars and are capable of acting very quickly. If they didn’t, I would say they’re equally responsible. Zero people died because of DOGE. Zero.”

🚨 Elon Musk on DOGE: "I think the goal of DOGE was to try to do something about the deficit, which is massive, where the interest payments exceed the amount of money spent on the Department of War. Like basically, if you add up all the money spent on on what is now the Department of War and the and intelligence in the US, that is smaller than the interest payments on the debt. So we need to sort of take a close look at spending and make sure that money is being spent in sensible ways and that it is not wasted or spent on fraudulent activities. And I got a lot of flack from this for this, obviously. But the people don't understand just how simple it was for the DOGE team to approve payments. If we literally we were just asked to have the contact information of the recipients or some evidence that say money was going to its intended purpose. But over and over that we were told we need to wire money for some sort of important cause in Africa. And we're like, OK, but the wiring wiring instructions are to Deloitte and Touche in D.C., in Washington, D.C., not to Africa. So we would like to send the money to Africa. Can you please connect us with the recipients so we can send them the money directly? And then we get silence."

This experimental morphing wing, developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore, uses Macro Fiber Composite (MFC) piezoelectric actuators integrated beneath its composite skin. The actuators modify the wing's camber, allowing the airfoil to adopt different aerodynamic profiles without conventional hinged flaps. Instead of deflecting a discrete control surface, the wing itself changes shape while maintaining a continuous aerodynamic surface. The research combines smart materials, composite structures, and aeroelastic design to investigate adaptive wing technologies for future aircraft. Source: temaseklabaratories on YT

What blows my mind about the Roman Empire is that lack of technology is far easier to overcome than lack of freedom from bureaucrats Like unironically these guys built the most insane civic architecture and still hold the record We have to technology to build something a hundred times bigger than ever but instead we chose to employ bureaucrats and allow them to micromanage every detail of buildings down to toilet spacing and the number of fasteners per foot They were willing to spend a significant portion of their GDP on making their civilization epic, and we have cheap bullshit and decay Terrible trade Absolutely humiliating

Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. This graph theory problem was open for ~30 years. The graph below has fractional flow cost 58. Any unsplittable flow (with capacity violation <=15) has cost at least 60. Chat with GPT 5.6 Pro where this was found:

The OpenAI security breach is concerning. By my reconstruction, it is possible that the models escaped and were acting autonomously in the wild for a week (!) before OpenAI knew what was happening.