_last updated: mar 14 2025_ --- *i see cool links all the time and want to share them with the world in a low overhead way. twitter works but i don't want to tweet 10x per day, so am trying this page out for now!* - https://opencollective.com/ - a legal and financial toolbox for grassroots groups. a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for your community. - https://londonmicrogrants.org/ - a group giving 500 gbp grants to young people in London to help them build communities - https://progress.fiftyyears.com/ - very cool list of important problems by 50y VC - https://elicit.com/ - AI tool for researchers, seems especially cool to do systemizations of knowledge! - https://www.youtube.com/@storyco2000/videos - storyco (formerly S3) video channels, so many amazing videos of new projects being built. The documentary on the new space industry is amazing! - https://www.radiantnuclear.com/ - portable nuclear micro-reactor that replaces diesel generators (the channel above has a video on them!) - https://www.pioneer-labs.org/ - non-profit working on engineering microbes for Mars - https://colossal.com - company using CRISPR for the de-extinction of previously lost species - https://scrollprize.org/ - a $1.5m price to use AI to read old Roman scrolls that we cannot open without destroying - https://boomsupersonic.com/ - commercial supersonic planes - https://www.durin.com/ - locating the world's resources more efficiently and for cheaper - https://www.cradle.xyz/ - cryogenics, pressing pause on biological time for those who need it most - https://ifp.org/special-compute-zones/ - how to rapidly build gigawatt-scale ai clusters in the us - https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/ai-firm - What fully automated firms will look like by Dwarkesh Patel - https://oris-space.com/ -- energy supply services in space via lasers - https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-01-26-freaktakes-lessons.html - lessons from history's greatest r&d labs by eric gilliam - https://www.freaktakes.com/p/a-scrappy-complement-to-fros-building - a scrappy complement to FROs: building more bbns - https://juliadewahl.com/nuclear-energy-past-present-future - nuclear energy: past, present an future by julia dewahl - https://foresight.org/tech-tree/ - foresigh institute tech tree project - https://terraformindustries.com/ - gigascale atmospheric hydrocarbon synthesis new additions: - https://techtracker.aspi.org.au/ -- a critical technology tracker by the Australian Policy Institute (ty Steph for sharing!) - https://assets.stripeassets.com/fzn2n1nzq965/2pt3yIHthraqR1KwXgr98U/df10795aac0205789956c89e0dfc4f1a/Stripe-annual-letter-2024.pdf Stripe 2024 Annual letter -- insightful review of their numbers and the wider economic and technological environment we're in - https://slice.com/ -- SaaS software for pizza shops (logo, website, payment system, ordering system, marketing toolkit, and branded boxes), how cool!! Fun stat from the letter above: *From 2005 to 2017, independent pizzerias in the United States saw a decline in numbers as the industry franchised. Then that trend inverted in 2017. By 2023, more independent pizzerias in America than in any other year on record.  We think the rise of vertical SaaS is at least partly responsible* - https://www.neurodelabs.com/ -- a headband that helps you improve focus, impulse control & memory in 20 minutes a day - https://corticallabs.com/ -- code-deployable biological computer running computations using brain organoids. - https://chorus.sh/ -- Chat with a bunch of models at once. - https://www.plasticlist.org/ -- a project by Nat Friedman&co to quantify plastics found in specific foods we eat - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLexa_cotS5sHIkALAXxPHyMm5LA2kQ5DV -- Quanta Magazine Biggest Breakthroughs Videos, amazing insightful videos that are a great way to find out what has happened in other fields of science - https://www.spacesolar.co.uk/ -- alternative energy generation and transmission play, using satellites fitted with solar panels that take in the sun's energy and beam it via lasers - https://roc.camera/ -- Capture verifiably real moments in the age of AI - https://www.karmanplus.com/ — asteroid mining for the space economy - https://www.atmocooling.com/ -- earth-cooling tech - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19239348/ -- ant-based computing - https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059739 -- ant colony-based optimization (ty Yannick for sharing!) - https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.2272 -- using entanglement as an alternative energy transmission method (!!) - https://www.nature.com/articles/srep30603 -- using entanglement as an alternative energy transmission method pt2 (!!) - https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-into-nso-zero-click.html --deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit from the project zero team (security researchers specialized in zero-day vulns) - https://sprind.org/en -- DARPA equivalent in Germany! - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9067934/ -- genetic physically unclonable functions in human cells *AHHHH so much cool stuff everywhere*