Matt Ocko

Romanticizing the Soviet Union is a marker of deep ignorance. No country willingly joined the USSR — Eastern Europe was occupied by Moscow. That’s why liberation brought prosperity and safety to those who joined NATO.

Now do this for coffee

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

It’s a long read, but this is a WILD press release from @USAttyEssayli office re: the prosecution of a dual US/Chinese citizen in SoCal who stole trade secret technology developed for use by the U.S. military to detect nuclear missile launches, transferring 3,600+ files to USBs.

Happy @DCVC is on this list from @IlyaStrebulaev of @Stanford in such august company. A number of the folks here were defining how to create big wins for all stakeholders back when I was still jealous that 1978 Apple IIs had color graphics and my Z80 box did not… 😉

It’s really tough when corporate or Federal standards force you to store all your critical/classified data in China… …sorry, I mean in Sharepoint, same difference…

Beautiful marble run carved in rock [📹 tsubotasekizaiten]

The amazing weapons screening tech of @EvolvTechnology keeps every park attendee safe from anything except maybe food poisoning… and divorce…

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Children announced from pronuclear transfer study in UK. Idea: avoid mitochrondria disease by moving genome of fertilized egg into a donor egg. Problem: risk of reversal to unhealthy mitochrondria type. Ethics: OK to make sick babies, sometimes? technologyreview.com/2025/07/16/112…

As the earliest investor in @capellaspace + other critical space cos, + as a leading investor across quantum compute + sensing/navigation, we're delighted to see the trust we’ve built in both realms help these two cos unite to empower America, Western countries, + allied nations

Dance like there’s no Tomorrowland.

A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma newscientist.com/article/248747…

This needs immediate investigation —$MSft is essentially outsourcing top secret US defense work to China 🧐

Francisco Oliveira is a hair prosthesis specialist. He creates and styles hair additions that go much beyond a simple wig, especially for kids who experienced accidents or serious illness. [📹 franciscoprotesecapilar]

25+ years of backing #quantum tech and 1st time I ROFL’d at a physics meme (h/t Michael Jackson from LinkedIn)

And PRC-fake-product-flood Amazon product search is the enshittified ring that rules over shitty Apple and MSFT search and in darkness binds them… 😑

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Dennis Ritchie, the man who invented C, co-created Unix, and is largely regarded as effectively influencing every software system we use on a daily basis. His death was largely ignored, overshadowed by Steve Jobs' death, one week before.

This is a genius idea. Ditto for UUV’s and USV’s in a similar approach