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Social security cuts are coming!

SSA Warns CUTS to Social Security Checks Coming

“Social Security is headed for a day of reckoning, and Congress is running out of time to save boomers. Lawmakers are proposing some hard choices”

-FORTUNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKC3YgYZPPw

Change in recurring laser energy

 “The EYC project will raise NIF’s peak recurring laser energy from 2.2 megajoules to 2.6 megajoules.”

Are there new or planned upgrades to the NIF optical system to effectively handle
the higher energy without increasing optical maintenance or replacement intervals?

https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-and-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-advance-laser-upgrade-nuclear-0

Pu research at LLNL

 Pu Research and Security Increases at LLNL

https://www.livermorevine.com/livermore/2026/06/17/environmental-group-opposes-increased-plutonium-research-at-llnl-as-feds-seek-to-expand-nuclear-weapons-production/

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2026-05/arod-eis-0547-s1-llnl-site-wide-2026-05.pdf

Nuclear fusion is in deep trouble

 “Things Aren’t Looking Good For Nuclear Fusion”

“…Basically it’s a way to circumvent proof of commercial viability…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVw5TKUil3o

AI to end humanity?

 https://youtu.be/b30d7FR8YP0?si=f-q537ShfkTN8ZP4

Sean talks with writer Sigal Samuel about AI successionism, the growing movement that sees artificial intelligence as humanity’s rightful successor. They discuss why some people in the AI world think humanity should be replaced, how this vision borrows from old religious ideas about salvation and transcendence, and why artificial intelligence is a dangerous thing to worship.

Pacific Fusion is defense contractor

 Pacific Fusion registers as a defense contractor

https://legis1.com/news/new-lobbying-registration-pacific-fusion-corp