The illustrious Tom Reed

 An illustrious alumni of LLNL passed away in February.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/tom-reed-co-founder-of-clos-du-bois-winery-and-former-air-force-secretary/

I found his books enlightening and and he was an engaging speaker. A life well lived.

China's AI project, a challenge to US

 https://www.newsweek.com/china-us-conflict-artificial-intelligence-espionage-struggle-ai-computer-science-1873990

China is building a vast, AI-based intelligence platform dubbed "Supermind" to track millions of scientists and researchers around the world so it can hoover up breakthrough technologies for industry and the military, according to a person with close knowledge of the project and public sources reviewed by Newsweek.

UK fusion startup breaks pressure record using giant ‘gun’ machine

 British fusion charlatans perform experiments on the Sandia Z machine

https://thenextweb.com/news/uk-fusion-startup-breaks-pressure-record-giant-gun-z-machine

The coming Chinese revolution

 Here's another video that hints at some of the issues facing modern China:

https://youtu.be/httM1osjGEk?si=SWbkxeHI1Rof5Txc

There are certainly a number of ongoing crises, however it is certainly possible that the bad outcomes in this video may be averted given that advancing technology may create more favorable circumstances.

Psychological black death

 This is a nice video, it goes into how society leads many people to have significant psychological issues. As many people become subject to this, it could become self-reinforcing, leading to rapid social change in perhaps undesirable ways:

https://youtu.be/s0K0sI5XiP4?si=GiWL42ozc2XhLawe

The video mentions of course, the United States, but similar issues could afflict other countries, of course. While the video has a right-wing orientation, you could also use these arguments of course, to support immigration (bringing in people with greater psychological resilience) or less wealth inequality and greater provision of social services.

LLNS contract

 The basic term of the LLNS contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344, will end on September 30, 2026. What policies and practices should the NNSA (hopefully with employee input) preserve, review, or change for the next LLC contractor?

Brevity means clarity

 Hello,

I appreciate and encourage contributions. I admit there are posts and comments that are interesting and to the point. However  on certain topics, some have a tendency to do a " brain dump". Long-winded comments tend to lose the reader. Scientists are the probably the best brain dumpers.

I find brief comments clearer. Long ones inevitably turn into a long ringing road to nowhere.

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