Matthew Schmidt
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| U New Haven | CNN + BBC Analyst | xJedi @ School of Advanced Military Studies | Слава Україні 🇺🇦| IMPOLITCast https://t.co/LEBwL1urT8 | Voice of Bedtime
New Haven, CT
Joined December 2011
RT @Gerashchenko_en: PM Orbán: I iust got off the phone with President @realDonaldTrump. Preparations for the USA-Russia peace summit are…
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NEW Quinnipiac POLL --TRUMP job approval 37%, disapprove 55% --67% disapprove of Trump's handling of Epstein files --By 56-41% people disapprove of troops in DC --By 60-32% people oppose sending more military aid to Israel --76% do not trust Putin to honor a peace deal See
poll.qu.edu
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine responded to the decision of the Russian government to denounce the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. https://t.co/Yw2dWFE85d
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Oppenheimer’s famous reference of the Bhagavad Gita quote years later is true in a much deeper way. Atomic power could yet be a destroyer of our world in a literal sense, but it’s already destroyed our world as we’ve known it for millennia.
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For instance, imagine the effect of figuring out the way to get to and mine an asteroid that ends the competition over rare earth minerals. Rare “earth” won’t matter anymore. All that with a population that increasingly lives close to twice the lifespan we do now.
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Beyond that, the power of atomic energy unleashed in the New Mexico, will power the human+Ai era to transform our lifespans, fabricate the material to put payload into orbit cheaply and routinely on elevators into space, and explore the galaxy in a real and deep sense.
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That is, the technology to kill the planet, may, in the end save it.
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Fusion energy makes power-hungry Ai feasible in the long term, and it’s likely that the the computational power of that tech, alongside human genius and cooperation, will eventually allow us to swerve out of the way of total climate apocalypse.
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The effect of this can’t be underestimated. In some ways the whole of human history has been a story of the contest for, and cooperation to increase, access to energy. Changing that changes everything.
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The fission bomb was a necessary step to reach fusion power, which we finally seem near to controlling. Fusion will put cheap, near limitless power into the geopolitical and social structures of our lives.
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If we keep surviving the capacity to kill ourselves that was unleashed in the high desert of New Mexico, it’s that same power that will allow us to emerge as a species with radically different technology and the social structures new technology has always created.
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The explosion at 5:29 put us on the brink of self-immolation, but the power at the heart of that situation is also the power to power a completely different world.
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Trinity was about harnessing energy. From the earliest days, the scientists working on fission were thinking about energy producing reactors. The bomb was an implied possibility, not the original goal.
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Most of the commentary today will center on the geopolitical, but in the future history of humanity the Trinity test will mark much more.
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Trinity was a paradox. It was a quirk of history that at that moment the energy of the atom was engineered to kill. The longer legacy of that day will be much greater than “the Bomb.” 80 years ago the world stepped into the epoch of the galactic.
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Merz is saying out loud what so many are saying privately
german chancellor friedrich merz earlier today: “there is no reason to criticize what america did at the weekend.” “yes, it is not without risk. but leaving things as they were was not an option either.”
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The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine reveals new details about the operation "Spiderweb". According to Vasyl Maliuk, a total of 117 drones were used in the operation to destroy the enemy’s strategic aviation. These were unique strike UAVs equipped with 1.6 kg
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No one trusts Trump’s critique of Putin, but it will be a hard summer in Ukraine. My take on the latest. https://t.co/BOx8M15hha
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For decades, US politicians + Jewish leaders have told Palestinians to produce Gandhis. (Without asking Israel to do the same). This is my friend, @Issaamro. He's literally called "the Palestinian Gandhi." This is how he's treated. But none of those politicians + Jewish leaders
Last night, Israeli settlers attacked my house with stones, they came at 4 am to throw stones and make fire on my family land, chanting about the death of my brother, and wishing that I will die too or killed. Before that Israeli army came to make sure that I am alone in the
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