Talk About Tennis 2.0

Suliso wrote: ↑Thu Sep 25, 2025 7:29 am Some time ago we discussed a potential exodus of scientists from USA. The link below is a press release by EPFL (one of the two Swiss federal institutes of technology) about appointment of new professors and promotion of existing ones. In the new appointments section every single one is relocating from US (some with previous Swiss connections). There have always been some, but not like this...

https://actu.epfl.ch/news/appointment-o ... ssors-171/

And we deserve every damn bit of it.

Who didn't see this coming? It's like half of the intellectuals just went into the NCAA transfer portal.

Gil Durán‬
‪@gilduran.com‬
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This week: The Network State conference in Singapore.

Watch as radicalized tech billionaires and authoritarian governments openly plot a post-democracy, post-USA crypto future.

The Network State is an extremist tech cult based on the work of Curtis Yarvin. It calls for a program of "tech zionism."



To understand the Network State cult, read this piece I wrote about Balaji Srinivasan's terrifying fascist fever dreams for the future. Balaji's ideas are ignorant, paranoid & bizarre—and he's deeply influential in tech/crypto circles where he's regarded as a genius.

newrepublic.com/article/1804...

I should also note that Balaji is extremely wealthy but has been reported to subsist on a diet of Tate's Bake Shop cookies crumbled into a bowl of half-and-half.
And he says California is not a democracy but lives in Singapore, which has one-party rule and strict limits on speech.

By the way, it is usually live-streamed on YouTube.

"Genius"
Mmhmm.

Nobel prizes will be announced this week. Disregarding Peace there are lots of ideas by various people who might, but >50% of the time it's a bit of a surprise.

There is a lot of talk about folks who came up with the GLP-1 receptor agonists as anti obesity treatment. That would not be a surprise, same with quantum computing in physics.

How, in this day and age, is this possible?

Gergely Orosz
‪@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com‬
Didn’t think we’d see incompetence at this scale.

The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one.

Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…


If they would have hired any external consultant, they would have gotten the advice to have the backup in a different location than the primary. Plus, to have offline backups.

A backup on AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle or any cloud would have avoided this…

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10...

2025 Nobel prize in medicine goes to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi or their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic ... s-release/

Again a little bit of a surprise. Physics is tomorrow and Chemistry the day after.

The last flight of SpaceX Starship version 2.0 was a full success as explained below by Scott Manley. Now onwards to version 3.0 early next year.