The year is 2050. The Great Lakes Megalopolis is the most valuable region on Earth. Minneapolis – Milwaukee – Chicago – Indianapolis – Cincinnati – Detroit – Columbus – Cleveland – Pittsburgh – Toronto – Buffalo – Montreal • 20% of the world's surface fresh water • Urban centers with finance & tech hubs, and great universities • Ontario runs one of the largest nuclear fleets in the world, generating up to 60% of its electricity, with grid-scale SMRs being built ahead of schedule. Illinois leads the US in nuclear power, and Michigan is bringing reactors back online. • The region holds some of the largest untapped copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum-chromite deposits in the world, along with the gallium, indium, and graphite that China guards so jealously. • The densest industrial base in the Western Hemisphere: heavy machinery, metal refineries, steel, auto, batteries, and aerospace backed by a deep pool of suppliers/engineers/skilled trades. • Climate-resilient cities with municipal capacity that can absorb millions more.

breathing is enough to give you away each breath slightly changes how Wi-Fi waves reflect off your chest. with the right receiver and processing, those tiny changes can reveal your breathing rhythm the graphs in this animation use real WiRe-Breath recordings: orange is the rhythm extracted from Wi-Fi, gray is a reference breathing sensor i broke down how this works, and what else you can pull out of the radio waves around you, in the article below ↓

‘Goodbye’ is an alteration of “God be with you.”

Introducing AgentCraft: a multi-agent harness that runs inside Minecraft ⛏️ A team of Claude agents plans, builds in real worktrees, and walks over when they need you.

“Your child’s assignment is in ParentVue. Have you checked Canvas? The homework is in EduSpot. The grades are available on Teacherly. I mentioned this in the WhatsApp group. It was literally sent to your comcast dot net email address. Canvas has it for you. It’s in Canvas.”

bro wtf going on @Apple in 1996 🚲🚲

"we're going to do AI for drug discovery" cool I still haven't gotten over how up until a few years ago we didn't know that this textbook diagram of hematopoiesis was a complete lie for humans