Oct 7, 2023
Readers it’s the 26th issue of the the White Pill, which means it’s this newsletter’s six-month anniversary. A LOT of good stuff in this issue: we get detailed about warp drives in our space section, open the LLM black box in our engineering and computing section, show one reason why Neuralink implants won’t need a tangle of wires sticking out of wearers’ heads in the medicine section, and have some good old fun stuff for you at the end.
Onward.
the u.s. department of energy will invest $2.7b in america’s ability to finally create its own nuclear fuel, a feat we haven’t been able to pull off since the 80s
we talked to substack's former vp of comms and the ceo of anti-pr pr firm rostra about why she raised a $40m vc fund to invest in founders who aren't boring
in january 2025 the whole world changed — a look back at all the bangers, as pirate wires covered the intersection of politics, technology, and culture