Jul 8, 2023
Reader, it’s the 13th edition of the White Pill, where the Pirate Wires crew rounds up all the most evocative, excellent news in space, science, medicine, energy, and engineering from this past week. Welcome back.
What makes this issue of the White Pill the best one yet? This week we’ve potentially got a new planet in our solar system (in the Oort Cloud region, but still) that got here from another solar system, a new brain cancer sensing nanowire, a mindbending experiment demonstrating the incredible audacity of evolution, new research on how to pack the most amount of stuff into a container, a video of a newly developed material that can, inexplicably, count to 10, and pics of a giant orb that’s recently appeared in Vegas in the Fun Stuff section, among other things. Also, another White Pill Investment Index, where we track all the most interesting companies that raised venture capital this week.
What’s not to love? Enjoy it.
research shows most large language models, when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, would save the lives of palestinians over israelis, zionists, and ultra-orthodox jews
a 1967 treaty bans ownership and resource extraction in outer space, preventing colonization and development. we must end it to secure humanity's survival.
after threatening american tech companies for years, the eu finally hits 𝕏 with its first major penalty under the digital services act