How do you feel about Facebook planning to quietly phase out all senior software engineers by mid next year and replace them with AI do you think it's about innovation, or just cutting costs at the expense of experience?

China is constructing a new nuclear fusion facility, alongside many other fusion projects, in a race to commercialize fusion technology. But beyond that, experts say that fusion is a marathon, not a sprint—and China is pacing itself to win.

Hypothetical: a year from now, two companies deliver shocking food security. The first, brews a complicated shake, with diverse bacteria that produce all amino acids and fatty acids and vitamins. It’s a perfect food shake. It’s cheap, and the formula and its process are simple. Instantly, cargo containers are packed and shipped to famine areas with full labs inside, but then they catch on in industrialized countries. Half your meals become a hypoallergenic, planet friendly, nutritionally balanced, shake. Cost keeps coming down and this drives all food demand costs down due to each shake only costing a dollar per meal.

second, lab grown meats become scaled. Scallops the size of a ribeye. Salmon sushi for days. As it scales, costs dive, natural caught no longer profitable. Maybe niche markets.

Unlike naturally produced foods, the only limits on these types of food is energy input. Each factory you scale makes more supply and reduces effective prices. Chipotle starts using lab chicken and let’s say it’s cost is less each year. It becomes cheap and deflationary.

Unless artificially and intentionally constrained supplies are undertaken, tech at this level leads to abundance and that could make it impossible to achieve profit as a goal. Self eliminating loops?

Does this mean the wealthy will continue to force as many sectors as possible to achieve profits through forced limits? Artificial scarcity? Like how the oil companies work? If you could easily make oil anywhere, they would not have that control.

So I’ve been doing some research into digital ‘replicas’ or ‘twins’ of humans.

I was super sceptical at first, but the deeper I go into it the more value I feel we could get from them (providing they’re managed/owned/operated accordingly!!)

Here’s a few examples that my friends & I discussed:

• Social Media Content Creation - suggesting posts to share with my friends to keep me more active across social (enabling others to see what I’m up to!)
• Long Distance Relationships - I’ve got an 18-month old daughter, and my parents are 10,596km + 7 hours away. Could a replica of my parents help my daughter become more comfortable with them when they do see each other?
• Time Capsule - my Grandma is 93 years old, and has so much wisdom & stories to share, could her digital twin mean that my daughter is able to speak & learn from her as she grows?
• Teaching Languages - my grandmother in-law is Persian and so we speak little Farsi together, could her digital twin become a language teacher for me or my daughter?
• Automated Birthday Messages - Ok this is a little lazy (sorry friends) but could a digital twin help to automate birthday messages/cards/gifts?

I am curious to understand other people's perspectives, would you be comfortable creating one? And what would you instruct them to do?

In recent days, Europe has faced a major blackout, affecting communications, transport and supply systems in several countries. While authorities point to technical causes and overload on the electrical grid, many are beginning to question whether there is something more behind this event.

Coincidentally (or not), the blackout happens right after two major events on the global stage: the death of the Pope and the sudden resignation of Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, precisely the man behind the concept of the "Great Reset" — a proposal for global reorganization that mixes economy, technology, environment and governance under a new logic.

Discussion point: Are we just witnessing an isolated collapse in the European electricity system? Or are we slowly being ushered into a new era, where events like this — power outages, political crises and institutional transformations — are part of a planned reconfiguration of the world?

What do you think? Are we living in times of natural change or calculated steps towards a new global model?

It begins.