MACHINE TO END WAR A Famous Inventor, Picturing Life 100 Years from Now, Reveals an Astounding Scientific Venture Which He Believes Will Change the Course of History by NIKOLA TESLA
as told to
George Sylvester Viereck Tesla. “It seems,” he says, “that I have always been ahead of my time.” Editor’s Note: Nikola Tesla, now in his seventy-eighth year, has been called the father of radio, television, power transmission, the induction motor, and the robot, and the discoverer of the cosmic ray. Recently he has announced a heretofore unknown source of energy present everywhere in unlimited amounts, and he is now working upon a device which he believes will make war impracticable. Tesla and Edison have often been represented as rivals. They were rivals, to a certain extent, in the battle between the alternating and direct current in which Tesla championed the former. He won; the great power plants at Niagara Falls and elsewhere are founded on the Tesla system. Otherwise the two men were merely opposites. Edison had a genius for practical inventions immediately applicable. Tesla, whose inventions were far ahead of the time, aroused antagonisms which delayed the fruition of his ideas for years. However, great physicists like Kelvin and Crookes spoke of his inventions as marvelous. “Tesla,” said Professor A. E. Kennelly of Harvard University when the Edison medal was presented to the inventor, “set wheels going round all over the world. . . . What he showed was a revelation to science and art unto all time.” “Were we,” remarks B. A. Behrend, distinguished author and engineer, “to seize and to eliminate the results of Mr. Tesla’s work, the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our electric cars and trains would stop, our towns would be dark, our mills would be dead and idle.” FORECASTING is perilous. No man can look very far into the future. Progress and invention evolve in directions other than those anticipated. Such has been my experience, although I may flatter myself that many of the developments which I forecast have been verified by events in the first third of the twentieth century. It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally. I announced the cosmic ray and my theory of radio activity in 1896. One of my most important discoveries—terrestrial resonance—which is the foundation of wireless power transmission and which I announced in 1899, is not understood even today. Nearly two years after I had flashed an electric current around the globe, Edison, Steinmetz, Marconi, and others declared that it would not be possible to transmit even signals by wireless across the Atlantic. Having anticipated so many important developments, it is not without assurance that I attempt to predict what life is likely to be in the twenty-first century. Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors. We may definitely say that it is a movement even if we do not fully understand its nature. Movement implies a body which is being moved and a force which propels it against resistance. Man, in the large, is a mass urged on by a force. Hence the general laws governing movement in the realm of mechanics are applicable to humanity. There are three ways by which the energy which determines human progress can be increased: First, we may increase the mass. This, in the case of humanity, would mean the improvement of living conditions, health, eugenics, etc. Second, we may reduce the frictional forces which impede progress, such as ignorance, insanity, and religious fanaticism. Third, we may multiply the energy of the human mass by enchaining the forces of the universe, like those of the sun, the ocean, the winds and tides. The first method increases food and well-being. The second tends to bring peace.
The third enhances our ability to work and to achieve. There can be no progress that is not constantly directed toward increasing well-being, peace, and achievement. Here the mechanistic conception of life is one with the teachings of Buddha and the Sermon on the Mount. While I am not a believer in the orthodox sense, I commend religion, first, because every individual should have some ideal—religious, artistic, scientific, or humanitarian—to give significance to his life. Second, because all the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated. There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call “soul” or “spirit,” is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the “soul” or the “spirit” ceases likewise. I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life. The acceptance by mankind at large of these tenets will not destroy religious ideals. Today Buddhism and Christianity are the greatest religions both in number of disciples and in importance. I believe that the essence of both will be the religion of the human race in the twenty-first century. The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal. Hygiene, physical culture will be recognized branches of education and government. The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. The pollution of our beaches such as exists today around New York City will seem as unthinkable to our children and grandchildren as life without plumbing seems to us. Our water supply will be far more carefully supervised, and only a lunatic will drink unsterilized water. More people die or grow sick from polluted water than from coffee, tea, tobacco, and other stimulants. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. I am convinced that within a century coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer in vogue. Alcohol, however, will still be used. It is not a stimulant but a veritable elixir of life. The abolition of stimulants will not come about forcibly.
La política moderna no es polis, no es ágora, como a algunos les encanta decir alegremente. Es una relación de fuerzas, es poder contra poder, es pertenencia a un bando frente a otro.
Roberto Ciccarelli entrevista a Mario Tronti ahora en @zonaestrategia
1) La izquierda en el Gobierno predica y practica la cohesión social. Hay que darle la vuelta a esto, poner el conflicto social en el centro del terreno de juego.
2) El conflicto debe organizarse, tanto sindical como políticamente. Hay que trabajar en una nueva forma de partido o movimiento que garantice la radicalidad, pero también la perdurabilidad.
Heat waves are driven by weather patterns but occur on the backdrop of a rapidly warming world. Without climate change the current European heat wave would have been ~3.2 °C (5.8 °F) cooler.
Heat impacts are non-linear, so this higher severity can lead to much greater suffering
Europe has been warming at a much faster rate than the world as a whole: roughly twice as fast as the global average, and 40% faster than the global land average.
This warming has been fastest in the winter months – driven in part by greater absorption of sunlight with less winter snow cover – but has been rapid year-round:
$AMD's ready for $1T MC w/ Samsung $648B CapEx🧵
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Samsung’s 1,000 trillion KRW (~$648 billion) decade-long investment, with a heavy emphasis on semiconductors (potentially 300+ trillion KRW for new chip fabs and related infrastructure), directly strengthens @AMD position in the memory-constrained AI ecosystem. This builds on the March 2026 strategic MOU between AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su and Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong, which positions Samsung as the primary (and initially sole) supplier of HBM4 for AMD’s next-generation Instinct MI455X GPUs, alongside advanced DDR5 for 6th-gen EPYC “Venice” processors and the Helios platform.
@AMD needs TSMC and Samsung to get to $1T then $5T long term. Samsung will also be a large customer buying AMD Chips for years to come. Will link varioud subscribers threads from supply chain to different analyses if u are interested.
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1. Agentic AI and AMD’s J-Curve CPU Growth Opportunity
Agentic AI represents a structural shift in data center architecture from 1 CPU 4-8 GPUs to 1 CPU 1 GPU and significicant higher 3-5 CPU and 1 GPU for Heavy Agentic workloads. Unlike traditional generative AI (heavily GPU-bound for training and inference), agentic systems require substantial CPU resources for orchestration, reasoning, memory management, tool use, planning, and coordination across multiple agents and models. This drives demand for high-core-count, high-bandwidth server CPUs alongside GPUs.
AMD has highlighted this trend explicitly, Agentic AI is accelerating server CPU demand beyond prior forecasts. The company now projects the overall server CPU total addressable market (TAM) growing at >35% annually, potentially reaching >$120B by 2030 (with some analysts view TAM at $233B+ by 2030, IMO it is $500B TAM by 2030). Agentic workloads are expected to become one of the fastest-growing (and potentially majority) segments of this CPU opportunity.
This creates a classic J-curve growth profile for AMD’s EPYC business: initial investments and ecosystem building lead to rapid revenue acceleration as agentic AI adoption scales in enterprise, cloud, and sovereign environments. The CPU-to-GPU ratio in AI infrastructure is evolving, with more CPU-heavy racks needed to power the “brains” of agentic systems.
The March 2026 strategic MOU between AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su and Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong explicitly extends beyond HBM4 for Instinct GPUs. Samsung and AMD are collaborating on high-performance DDR5 memory solutions optimized specifically for 6th Gen AMD EPYC “Venice” CPUs and the AMD Helios rack-scale platform. I see Samsung as a more responsible memory maker, where this will benefit AMD on supplying the growth through 2030.
~Higher performance & bandwidth, Optimized DDR5 enables Venice’s advanced features (higher core counts, improved memory channels, larger caches) to deliver maximum throughput for agentic AI workloads that are memory-bandwidth sensitive.
~Supply security & scale, Samsung’s new/accelerated fabs and process investments (including advanced DRAM nodes) provide reliable, high-volume DDR5 supply as Venice ramps. This reduces risk for AMD’s customers deploying large agentic AI clusters.
~Platform-level optimization, Joint work on memory for Helios systems ensures tight integration of Venice CPUs with Instinct GPUs and high-speed interconnects, delivering superior TCO and performance for full-stack AI infrastructure.
~Cost & efficiency gains, increased Samsung output helps stabilize or moderate DDR5 pricing over time, improving economics for large-scale EPYC deployments in agentic environments.
EPYC Venice (TSMC most advanced 2nm with highest core) is positioned as a major leap for data center CPUs. Samsung’s memory partnership de-risks and accelerates its adoption curve.
3. Samsung as a Major, Multi-Year Buyer of EPYC Venice for Its Own Data Centers
Samsung’s investment explicitly includes significant AI data center development (via Samsung SDS and group initiatives), alongside “sovereign AI” strategies and hyperscale infrastructure. These facilities will require thousands of high-performance servers for:
~Training and running agentic AI models and workflows.
~Cloud services and enterprise AI offerings.
~Internal HPC, R&D, and manufacturing optimization ( AI-enhanced chip production).
~Broader sovereign and regional AI infrastructure.
Why EPYC Venice is a natural fit:
~The deep memory collaboration (DDR5 optimization) creates strong ecosystem alignment and co-development incentives.
~EPYC processors excel in core density, memory bandwidth, I/O, security features, and TCO with $0.0003-$0.0005/M Tokens(lowest token cost), ideal for the mixed CPU-heavy workloads in agentic AI and general-purpose data center expansion.
~Samsung has already demonstrated use of AMD EPYC in commercial solutions (Network in a Server platforms integrating EPYC CPUs with AI capabilities).
~As a major cloud/hyperscale player building its own infrastructure, Samsung represents substantial, recurring volume over the next 5–10+ years, exactly the timeframe of its investment plan.
This buyer relationship complements AMD’s GPU memory supply deal, creating a virtuous cycle: Samsung helps secure memory for AMD’s Instinct GPUs → AMD supplies optimized CPUs and platforms → Samsung deploys them at scale in its expanding data centers.
Conclusion:
Under Dr. Lisa Su’s visionary leadership, AMD has forged a transformative strategic partnership with Samsung that dramatically strengthens its supply chain resilience and cost structure precisely when it is needed most. The high-level March 2026 engagement between Dr. Su and Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong, combined with Samsung’s landmark 1,000 trillion KRW (~$648 billion) decade-long investment in semiconductors, AI data centers, and advanced memory capacity, creates a powerful dual advantage: secured and more predictable memory supply alongside a major aligned customer for AMD’s full-stack data center portfolio
This alliance directly addresses AMD’s core challenge in scaling the exploding Agentic AI market. Agentic AI autonomous, multi-step reasoning systems that orchestrate complex workflows is driving a structural shift toward more balanced, CPU-intensive infrastructure. Analysts will continue to increase Agentic AI CPUs TAM to my target at $500B by 2030. Morgan Stanley already picked AMD as biggest Agentic AI winner, fueled by higher 1-5 CPU : 1 GPU ratios in agentic workloads.
Samsung’s massive capacity expansion including accelerated HBM4 production for Instinct MI455X GPUs and optimized high-performance DDR5 tailored for 6th-gen EPYC “Venice” CPUs and the Helios platform will help moderate memory pricing volatility while ensuring prioritized allocation for AMD. This reduces bill of materials uncertainty, supports healthier gross margins, and de-risks large-scale production ramps critical for meeting surging demand.
Simultaneously, Samsung’s own hyperscale AI data center buildouts position it as a significant, multi-year buyer of EPYC Venice processors. The deep ecosystem alignment (memory co-optimization, joint platform development) makes AMD solutions a natural choice for Samsung’s sovereign AI, cloud, and internal HPC needs creating a virtuous cycle of supply security and demand pull.
Dr. Su’s proactive diplomacy and focus on open, collaborative ecosystems have turned a potential memory bottleneck into a strategic moat. By securing stable, high-volume access to advanced HBM and DDR5 while gaining a committed hyperscale partner, AMD is exceptionally well-positioned to capture a disproportionate share of the Agentic AI J-curve. This not only accelerates Instinct GPU and EPYC CPU momentum but also reinforces AMD’s competitive edge in delivering superior TCO and performance for the next decade of AI infrastructure growth.
Dr. Su and Chair Lee partnership combined with Samsung’s historic investment transforms memory from a constraint into a catalyst powering AMD’s ability to scale profitably in the multi-hundred-billion-dollar Revenue in Agentic AI era.
AMD is winning
Samsung is winning
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I have some tremendous news to share: we've just won a decisive victory against Mark Zuckerberg and the Silicon Valley billionaires 🧵
Together with my colleague Emmanuel Saez, we’ve spent years working alongside California's civil society to make the 200 Silicon Valley billionaires—including Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel—pay their fair share.
Today, they have just lost a crucial battle.
It all began in July 2025, when Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law.
The legislation included sweeping budget cuts, slashing funding for Medicaid, the health insurance program that serves low-income Americans. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Avendo capito che fino al 01/07 non arriva nessuno mi sono messo a spulciare il Piano Economico Finanziario ufficiale dello #stadiodellaroma. Un progetto da oltre 1 miliardo di € che cambierà il volto del club e della città.
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L'Investimento e i Tempi
Parliamo di cifre monstre. L'investimento complessivo è di 1.048 milioni di euro (al netto di IVA):
💸€33M già spesi per la progettazione;
🏗️ €1.015M per la costruzione;
🗓️ Durata lavori di 4 anni (01/2027 - 12/2030) con concessione di 90 anni. 👇2/7
Non sarà solo un campo da calcio, ma un impianto vivo 365 giorni all'anno. Cosa prevede?
🏟️Capienza superiore ai 60.000 posti;
🌳 Un enorme parco pubblico esterno;
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I gather that in the eyes of some of the leader writers at the Economist the collapse of German exports to China (down a pp of German GDP led by autos) doesn't have anything to do with today's announced layoffs at VW ...
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It is quite clear in the data that Europe's auto exports to China tanked over the course of 2024 and 2025, and imports from China soared in 25 ...
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and that, combined with competition with China in third party markets across a range of manufactured goods, is an important reason why euro area export growth has stalled
It took me 8 years of overthinking, burnout, and self-judgment to realize what I’m about to tell you in 2 minutes.
This is how neurodivergent minds - the anxious, the hyper-focused, the “too intense” ones - were never broken:
You were never distracted. You were just paying attention to everything. The way light hit the wall. The sound someone’s voice made when it cracked. The silence between their words. Your brain runs like an 8K camera with surround sound - overwhelming, yes, but also what makes you a world-class observer. You don’t miss details because your nervous system is the detail.
You don’t think linearly. You think cinematically. Flashbacks, parallel plots, emotional B-roll - your mind cuts, pans, and overlays constantly. It’s not chaos, it’s editing. You’re not “too much.” You’re just trying to direct a story that runs 12 frames faster than the rest of the world can see.
The court is taking a ten minute break and will resume around 3.25pm
[We resume]
AL: Qs re the application for special leave now. p1016 - this is before the sick leave but not long before, 4/7, you went on sick leave at the end of July. We can see that on 4/7 employer had already agreed you could work from home, and you were?
AFINAL, O QUE A INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL VAI MUDAR NA MINHA VIDA?
Essa é a pergunta que todos fazem, mas poucos respondem. Entre cenários apocalípticos que beiram a ficção científica, pouca gente fala de cenários mais plausíveis e mundanos, mas tão assustadores quanto.
Esse texto é pra você que quer entender a pergunta mais importante da história da humanidade. Vem comigo!
Pra começo de conversa, se você está esperando o cenário de Matrix ou Exterminador do Futuro, vou ficar te devendo
Apesar de sim, existir um risco deles se realizarem, ele pra mim não é o maior e existem centenas de textos por aí falando sobre ele.
Meu foco aqui vai ser mostrar os efeitos que a tecnologia pode ter no nosso cotidiano e você vai notar que eles podem ser tão distópicos quanto máquinas rebeldes que matam gente.
Mais especificamente, vou olhar aqui pros efeitos nos nossos PROPÓSITOS e na nossa SAÚDE.
Você vai entender que a maior coisa em risco com a Inteligência Artificial, não é a nossa espécie, mas sim a nossa liberdade.
E aqui já deixo uma pergunta para você ir pensando e me responder no final: o que nos faz humanos?
Imagine: You are Gloria Moncrief, you are on the gondola skiing in Aspen while entertaining family at your Gunnison ranch. You just celebrated Christmas and the New Year; your cell buzzes. It's Magnolia O&G's successor CEO. (He followed Stephen Chazen (ex ceo of OXY, he paid $52m for Highlander #1 Well)). He tells Gloria the well had a bottom hole intrusion event.
Magnolia is focused on Haynesville winners and wants no more involvement in the Highlander. They basically give it away and take a $15 million writeoff on the next quarter books. They never mention it in their earning call either.
Gloria has been sitting at her grandfather's feet for years; listening, learning, absorbing. Tex (died in 2021), even on his deathbed spoke about the Highlander Play and its improtance. He had taken a huge gamble with Jim Bob Moffett (mid 2000's) on the shallow ultra deep play (search Davy Jones Well) and one well did hit...the monster Highlander #1.