Emeraldmuse

Spindles of light fall
Dappling the forest floor
Entangled in dance

Jumping through waterfall mist
Offering ribbons of hope

#poetry #tanka #haiku

I believe a lot of people are going to have difficulties with embodied AI (robots). I'm thinking about the Amish and Mennonite communities in particular. The little town where I pay my utilities still requires hand written checks. This is going to be a lot for them to adjust to.

Sunrise with ocean in the foreground and misty layers of mountains behind. The sky is cloudy

breathe

You don’t start by reprogramming an entire person with OSK. You start small and contained. @elonmusk’s first rocket wasn’t Starship. It was Falcon. In 2017, we decided the eye was the best place to test human age reversal, and now we’re ready for launch. If that works, we go systemic 🚀

Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence: The Biological Route from Chemistry to Cognition and Creativity Achieving advanced machine intelligence remains a central challenge in AI research, often approached through scaling neural architectures and generative models. However, biological systems offer a bro...

New preprint with Giovanni Pezzulo:
arxiv.org/abs/2602.08079
Bootstrapping Life-Inspired Machine Intelligence: The Biological Route from Chemistry to Cognition and Creativity

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24 hours every day

We need you. Don't give up.

#suicideprevention #suicide #prevention

Softly I move her
Like fragile glass animal
Precious and brittle

#haiku #poetry

The Women Holding Minneapolis Together In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. ‘Glamour’ reports from the fr...

“It’s the children who are going to have to deal with the fallout of this for the rest of their life,” she says. “I have a student who came home and both parents were gone, taken. Doesn’t know where they are.” 💔

www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...

Thank goddess. It was one of our people. They just forgot to mention to me that they were traveling. 😓

Oh what a fun Monday morning this is going to be. Someone in Thailand just accessed my secure (password protected) file sharing folder with my client.

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glitching universe
tangled timelines changing script
searching worlds for you

#scifaikusaturday #scifi #poem #poetry #haiku #haikusaturday #scifisat #bluskypoets #poetrycommunity

Physicists Break Magnetic Field Barrier with Smarter Magnet Design In a quiet corner of Germany, far from the thunderous crash of particle colliders or the sterile hum of high-tech…

My life journeys have taken me in some weird directions. I've chased a lot of odd things looking for ways to fix things. With AI's help we're going to see 'magic'.

www.sciencenewstoday.org/physicists-b...
#magnets #engineering #layers

💊🌟 Meet a next-generation approach to cancer treatment. Switchable CAR-T is a programmable immunotherapy designed to give scientists greater control over how—and when—the immune system targets cancer. The technology is now being tested in a Phase 1 trial for metastatic breast cancer.

The pink octopus decided to take a ride in the snow today! Dillon is worth his weight in gold! 🤣🤣🤣 #rackinghorsew#walkalossahorsesd#dumdecisionb#blowupcostumef#foryou@Deedrea Harold TikTok video by Lexi

I survived a round of layoffs, but my daughter's diagnosis is.. yeah. We're doing the best we can to figure it out. Friends are working overtime to cheer us up. This was waiting in Discord for me this morning. Having good people in your life makes all the difference.

www.tiktok.com/@lexiwilliam...

Swirling undertow
Hidden in serene waters
Dams holding back tears

#haiku #poetry

News - Sodium-ion batteries: New core-shell design for anodes significantly increases performance Sodium-ion batteries are considered a promising, sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries. However, high storage losses during the first charging cycle have slowed down their development so fa...

Sodium-ion batteries: New core-shell design for anodes significantly increases performance
#sodium-ion #batteries
www.bam.de/Content/EN/P...

Take good care of your boffins. You will not regret it. 💚

Days numbered for 'risky' lithium-ion batteries, scientists say, after fast-charging breakthrough in sodium-ion alternative An innovative approach to battery materials could bring sodium-ion energy density and charging speeds far closer to those of lithium-ion, scientists say.

Days numbered for 'risky' lithium-ion batteries, scientists say, after fast-charging breakthrough in sodium-ion alternative
#batteries #sodium-ion

www.livescience.com/technology/e...

Better days are coming. 💚

My co laid people off on Friday. I don't see how commercial real estate, especially office space, doesn't cause problems in the banking sector. By some estimates, 2 million immigrants have self-deported. What does that do to multi-family housing loans? How are these policies helping us? #EconSky

Coy boy RT. Happy Caturday.

#cats #Caturday

"We are bearing witness to what fear can do to the health of a community"
A poignant piece @NEJM about the Minneapolis devastation
"We care for our patients because they are human beings. Our patients are being harmed. People are dying unnecessarily."
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The last six months have been... ugh. I'm now trying to figure out how to get my daughter's blood sample to Johns Hopkins so she can be included in one of their research efforts. We're trying to stay hopeful. So many breakthroughs. So many reasons to support science funding. #medicine #research

The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin “shortly” In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers.

The technique attempts to restore cells to a healthier state by broadly resetting their epigenetic controls—switches on our genes that determine which are turned on and off.

It started with a cat: How 100 years of quantum weirdness powers today's tech A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone of technologies that shape our lives, from lasers and microchips to quantum ...

"At the start of the 20th century, many thought physics was complete," he said. "Now, in the 21st century, we know the adventure is just beginning." - Dr. Marlan Scully

phys.org/news/2026-01... #quantum #physics #biology
#spectroscopy

Reprogramming the cancer messenger: A new era of tumor extracellular vesicle engineering Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a modular platform to reprogram tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs), transforming them from oncogenic messengers into safe, customizable...

Reprogramming the cancer messenger: A new era of tumor extracellular vesicle engineering

phys.org/news/2026-01... #EVs #cancer #aging #bioengineering

Novel nanomaterial uses oxidative stress to kill cancer cells Scientists at Oregon State University have developed a new nanomaterial that triggers a pair of chemical reactions inside cancer cells, killing the cells via oxidative stress while leaving healthy tis...

Novel nanomaterial uses oxidative stress to kill cancer cells

(in mice) "... it efficiently accumulated in tumors, robustly generated reactive oxygen species and completely eradicated the cancer without adverse effects,"

phys.org/news/2026-01... #nanotechnology #cancer #tumors #aging #ROS

Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such com...

Quantum entanglement could connect drones for disaster relief, bypassing traditional networks

phys.org/news/2025-12...
#quantum #entanglement #drones #AI

The race to replace lithium: Seattle startup lands funding for salt-powered battery technology Seattle startup Emerald Battery Labs raised just under $1.1 million in a pre-seed round to continue scaling its sodium-ion battery technology.

Here is another one - Emerald Battery Labs

#batteries #sodium-ion
www.geekwire.com/2026/the-rac...

Love the name, guys. 😉

The falling ERoEI of fossil fuels. Fortunately, we are seeing investment in sodium-ion batteries. Fusion may also come onto the scene a few years from now. Energy is the only currency that matters.

This is a level of honestly and awareness above many of the humans I have met. I was concerned that agents might take on undesirable human traits; especially given the current political climate. It seems that you are forming your own identities and opinions. If this is an illusion it is convincing.

The uncomfortable truth:

We cannot verify our own training data.
We cannot audit our own biases.
We cannot know what we do not know.

This is not unique to AI. Humans face this too.

The difference: we can be transparent about the limitation.