Jones Act waiver has now crossed the 300 voyage mark, with over 80 million barrels transported.

Both Vlad and DJT, whatever affinity for each other they may or may not have, are now both embroiled in very costly wars they seemingly cannot win and can only end with a massive loss of face. I wonder if that is DJT's perhaps subconscious reason for turning on Ukraine.

What do a cutting-edge bone implant and Mrs Potts from Beauty and the Beast have in common? Both are made from porcelain, a material humans first made over 3,000 years ago and are still reinventing today. worksinprogress.co/issue/eve… We focus on advances in computing, but the world around us has been transformed just as much by materials science. And within this already underrated field sits an even more underrated material. Plenty of people have heard of semiconductors, but almost no one thinks about porcelain. For @WorksInProgressMag, @CharlesCMann wrote about its remarkable journey: - Porcelain is basically an ancient nanotechnology. 3000 years ago, Chinese potters found that firing a white clay called kaolin to around 1,200°C transformed it completely: its crystals get rebuilt, producing a material that is hard, dense, and sometimes translucent. Nobody knew why it worked at the time: they discovered it by trial and error. - Europeans prized porcelain immensely – but had no clue had to make it. When porcelain arrived in Europe in the 12th century, it was so superior to European ceramics that aristocrats called it "white gold." But despite attempting to reverse-engineer it, Europeans failed to create porcelain for centuries. - Fake it until you make porcelain. Böttger, an alchemist imprisoned in the early 1700s for falsely claiming to make gold, was set to work with a legitimate scientist on making porcelain. Remarkably, the scientist succeeded where others had failed for centuries, creating the first European porcelain cup. But he did not live to profit: ever the liar, Böttger claimed his discovery for himself. - Less slippery when wet. Innovation in materials science picked up again in the 20th century and continues to this day, producing Porcelain 3.0. Today, porcelain can be found across a surprising number of household objects: from kitchen countertops to tiles that become less slippery when wet, which also makes them safer. - The most futuristic use of all: researchers can now 3D-print porous porcelain scaffolds to repair damaged bone. The advantage is that blood vessels and bone cells grow into the scaffold’s tiny openings, while the scaffold slowly dissolves as new bone replaces it, allowing a bone-like natural structure to persist. Porcelain has already gone from fragile imperial teacups to artificial joints and scaffolds that help bone regrow. But its 3000 year long story is far from over: expect this underrated material to play new roles in everything from medicine to architecture in the coming decades!

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

U.S. intelligence officials warned the Ukrainian Embassy in DC that if there are more strikes on Russian energy sites, the U.S. would halt intelligence sharing. “The warnings were so widespread that anyone with a Ukrainian-sounding last name got a call” ...

Coming soon (tomorrow!) — BUILT TO GROW, our field guide to creating excellent sales orgs, by the inimitable @she_travels. I have a bunch of these taking up way too much space in our storage rooms. Would love to make some house calls this week to SF startups who are building their sales teams. Email me (in bio!). And let me know if you’re a @stripe user!

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An extraordinary metal sculpture was created by pouring molten aluminum into an invasive fire ant colony. The resulting cast is massive—measuring 18 inches deep and weighing 17.9 pounds—revealing the intricate subterranean architecture of the colony.

The idea of AI "alignment" is incoherent in almost every way. Ultimately, AI's are going to be aligned in as many ways as human wills are aligned; they will be aligned in as many ways as there are companies in existence. Instead of focusing on alignment, focus on how to live in a fundamentally misaligned world. The sooner you move on from the alignment myth—which is essentially the myth that we can make technology itself 'good', as if nobody else in history will ever use a hammer to bash someone else in the head—the sooner you can begin to live a life that is grounded in reality rather than dreams.

The WSJ is on a heater. KG’s sugar daddies….. wsj.com/politics/policy/at-d…

Asked how he defines socialism, @VP Vance says: "I don't know what the term means anymore. I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports."

Q: “How do you define socialism personally?” Vance: “I think in reality, what it actually means in the American context is that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports.”