Samir Kumar
@sk121.bsky.social
General Partner & Co-Founder, Touring Capital
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Photo taken by Michael Collins in 1969. Inside the lunar module are Armstrong and Aldrin. In the distance is Earth carrying the rest of all human beings.
So all of mankind is in this picture except for Michael Collins.
So all of mankind is in this picture except for Michael Collins.
June 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Photo taken by Michael Collins in 1969. Inside the lunar module are Armstrong and Aldrin. In the distance is Earth carrying the rest of all human beings.
So all of mankind is in this picture except for Michael Collins.
So all of mankind is in this picture except for Michael Collins.
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We'd be a lot better off if we dump the religions and accept this.
June 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We'd be a lot better off if we dump the religions and accept this.
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This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
www.science.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
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To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
May 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
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Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
this is utter stupidity 🖕elon musk
Scoop: NIST's Computer Security Division — responsible for research & standards on cyber, privacy, cryptography, AI, etc. — has lost more than a dozen people, including its chief, to early retirements. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/nist-cy...
The departures could imperil key work.
The departures could imperil key work.
May 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
this is utter stupidity 🖕elon musk
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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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This is a pretty substantial sign of bow fast AI is changing coding(from the founder of Cursor).
April 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is a pretty substantial sign of bow fast AI is changing coding(from the founder of Cursor).
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Worst Dallas Fed manufacturing survey since 2020:
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
April 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Worst Dallas Fed manufacturing survey since 2020:
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
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Why does physics break down at the Planck scale?
Yes, there is a scale beyond which physics no longer makes sense.
But don't simply use constants like c, G, and ħ to make Planck units; learn what's at the heart of this breakdown.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #science #physics #quantum
Yes, there is a scale beyond which physics no longer makes sense.
But don't simply use constants like c, G, and ħ to make Planck units; learn what's at the heart of this breakdown.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #science #physics #quantum
Why does physics break down at the Planck scale?
There are limits to where physics makes meaningful predictions: beyond the Planck length, time, or energy. Here's why we can't go further.
bigthink.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Why does physics break down at the Planck scale?
Yes, there is a scale beyond which physics no longer makes sense.
But don't simply use constants like c, G, and ħ to make Planck units; learn what's at the heart of this breakdown.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #science #physics #quantum
Yes, there is a scale beyond which physics no longer makes sense.
But don't simply use constants like c, G, and ħ to make Planck units; learn what's at the heart of this breakdown.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #science #physics #quantum
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The lack of responsibility and ethics never ends with these companies: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.
www.wsj.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The lack of responsibility and ethics never ends with these companies: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
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On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms – but researchers say we must interpret the results cautiously
Astronomers claim strongest evidence of alien life yet
On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms – but researchers say we must interpret the results cautiously
www.newscientist.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living organisms – but researchers say we must interpret the results cautiously
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Yes, this is super illegal and also unconstitutional.
Line item vetoes are unconstitutional, as ruled during the Clinton administration, because it violates the separation of powers.
Putting an unelected "agency" in charge of cutting off approved and appropriated funding is worse. Much worse.
Line item vetoes are unconstitutional, as ruled during the Clinton administration, because it violates the separation of powers.
Putting an unelected "agency" in charge of cutting off approved and appropriated funding is worse. Much worse.
BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Yes, this is super illegal and also unconstitutional.
Line item vetoes are unconstitutional, as ruled during the Clinton administration, because it violates the separation of powers.
Putting an unelected "agency" in charge of cutting off approved and appropriated funding is worse. Much worse.
Line item vetoes are unconstitutional, as ruled during the Clinton administration, because it violates the separation of powers.
Putting an unelected "agency" in charge of cutting off approved and appropriated funding is worse. Much worse.
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Chris Hemsworth: 6’3”, 225 lbs.
Grandpa RICO: 6’3”, 224 lbs. 🥴
Grandpa RICO: 6’3”, 224 lbs. 🥴
April 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Chris Hemsworth: 6’3”, 225 lbs.
Grandpa RICO: 6’3”, 224 lbs. 🥴
Grandpa RICO: 6’3”, 224 lbs. 🥴
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“In Russia, dissent can cost critics their business licences, liberty and even their lives. It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum.”
Trump is halfway to making America a police state
The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point
www.ft.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“In Russia, dissent can cost critics their business licences, liberty and even their lives. It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum.”
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting IRS commissioner to resign over deal to share immigrants’ tax data with ICE to help deport them, AP sources say.
April 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.
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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
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Roboverse: unified simulation + dataset + benchmarking that supports many different robotics simulators including nvidia omniverse. One step closer to robotics getting its mmlu, maybe.
April 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Roboverse: unified simulation + dataset + benchmarking that supports many different robotics simulators including nvidia omniverse. One step closer to robotics getting its mmlu, maybe.
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WSJ story on HHS/FDA & vaccines: "In early March, Marks said, Kennedy’s team requested Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling & deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in US" www.wsj.com/health/healt... #medsky
April 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
WSJ story on HHS/FDA & vaccines: "In early March, Marks said, Kennedy’s team requested Marks turn over data on cases of brain swelling & deaths caused by the measles vaccine—data that Marks said doesn’t exist because there have been no such confirmed cases in US" www.wsj.com/health/healt... #medsky
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Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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russian drone hit in front of my family's old apartment. they are not there, but others are. burned cars, broken glass. not sure about victims. but typically there are.
March 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
russian drone hit in front of my family's old apartment. they are not there, but others are. burned cars, broken glass. not sure about victims. but typically there are.
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Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated
The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not on military information being shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...