The recipe for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa hasn’t changed since it was first concocted in the 1600s. Yet the sweet syrup is enjoying a renewed surge in popularity
Spoke to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this evening. I reiterated India’s strong protest at the attacks by the US Navy in the Gulf that killed three Indian mariners. Such lethal actions against commercial shipping are not justified.
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The recipe for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa hasn’t changed since it was first concocted in the 1600s. Yet the sweet syrup is enjoying a renewed surge in popularity
Chaired the 11th NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting on the theme of ‘Inclusive Human Development for Viksit Bharat
@2047.’
Talked about a wide range of issues, including emphasising on self-reliance, adopting global best practices and strengthening the journey of reforms.
Reiterated our commitment towards cooperative federalism, in line with our Government’s belief that the states play a vital role in furthering national progress.
@NITIAayog
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Tout le monde pense que le monde libre a gagné en 1989, à la chute du mur de Berlin.
C'est faux.
Et c'est exactement pour ça que le monde est aujourd'hui en feu.
Ce qui est tombé le 9 novembre 1989, c'est un appareil.
Une économie planifiée, un empire militaire, un mur de béton. Ce qui n'est pas tombé, c'est l'idée. L'idée que le monde se divise en oppresseurs et en opprimés. L'idée qu'il existe une égalité finale à atteindre, par tous les moyens. L'idée que tout ce qui existe (la famille, la nation, le mérite, l'héritage) est une structure de domination à abattre.
Cette idée-là n'était plus dans le bâtiment quand le bâtiment s'est effondré.
Il faut reprendre la chronologie, parce que tout est dans la chronologie :
Le communisme économique avait un défaut fatal : il était réfutable. Il promettait l'abondance, il produisait des famines. Il promettait l'émancipation, il produisait des barbelés. Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, L'Archipel du Goulag publié à Paris en 1973, les boat people de 1979 : à chaque décennie, le réel envoyait sa réfutation. Les boat people étaient une réfutation flottante, visible depuis les plages.
Alors l'idéologie a fait ce que fait tout organisme menacé : elle a muté.
La mutation a un nom, et j'en ai raconté la généalogie ici : la French Theory.
Foucault a déplacé la guerre du terrain des faits, où le communisme perdait à chaque fois, vers le terrain du savoir lui-même.
S'il n'y a pas de vérité, s'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir, alors plus aucune famine, plus aucun mur, plus aucun goulag ne peut réfuter quoi que ce soit.
La French Theory n'a pas enterré le marxisme.
Elle l'a rendu irréfutable.
Et la mutation a des dates. Toutes antérieures à 1989.
1934 : l'École de Francfort, chassée d'Allemagne, s'installe à Columbia. La critique de l'économie devient critique de la culture.
1964-1965 : Marcuse, exilé allemand devenu professeur américain, remplace le prolétariat défaillant par un nouveau sujet révolutionnaire (les minorités, les étudiants, les marginaux) et écrit noir sur blanc que la tolérance doit être accordée aux mouvements de gauche et refusée à ceux de droite.
Octobre 1966 : le débarquement a une date précise. Université Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. Derrida, Barthes, Lacan présentent la pensée française aux campus américains.
1967 : Rudi Dutschke lance le mot d'ordre, la longue marche à travers les institutions.
1968 : les révolutions de rue échouent partout.
Qu'importe. La révolution ne passera plus par la rue, elle passera par la salle de classe.
1975-1985 : Yale, Berkeley, Columbia absorbent la théorie, qui devient le système d'exploitation des humanités.
1987 : Allan Bloom publie The Closing of the American Mind pour donner l'alerte. Un million d'exemplaires vendus.
L'université le traite de réactionnaire et passe à autre chose.
L'Amérique avait son Aron, elle en a fait la même chose que nous du nôtre.
Puis arrive le 9 novembre 1989.
Le Mur tombe. L'Occident célèbre. Fukuyama avait déclaré la fin de l'Histoire dès l'été, avant même la chute. On démantèle les missiles, on encaisse les dividendes de la paix, on déclare le match terminé.
Nous avons célébré notre victoire sur une adresse vide. L'idéologie avait déménagé vingt ans plus tôt. Nous avons gagné contre les chars et perdu contre les chaires.
Pendant ce temps, l'autre empire communiste faisait la lecture inverse. Pékin avait écrasé Tian'anmen dans le sang cinq mois avant Berlin. Sinistre, mais lucide sur un point : la Chine savait que la guerre était idéologique.
Elle a choisi : abandonner l'économie marxiste, garder le contrôle du récit. L'Occident a fait l'exact opposé : il a gardé le marché et absorbé l'idéologie. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, regardez qui construit des centrales et qui déboulonne ses statues.
Vous voulez la preuve que c'est le même logiciel ? Faites la table de correspondance.
La lutte des classes est devenue la lutte des identités.
Les koulaks sont devenus les privilégiés.
L'autocritique maoïste est devenue le privilege checking. Les commissaires politiques sont devenus les DEI officers.
Le samizdat est devenu le compte shadowbanné.
La nomenklatura a quitté Moscou pour Davos et Bruxelles.
Et le paradis ne s'appelle plus la société sans classes : il s'appelle l'équité, l'égalité des résultats.
Exactement ce que je décrivais ici il y a quelques semaines.
On me dira : il n'y a pas de Goulag.
C'est vrai. C'est même tout le génie de la version 2.0.
Le communisme dur devait briser les corps parce qu'il ne tenait pas les esprits.
Le communisme mou tient les esprits : il lui suffit de briser les carrières.
Pas de camps, des services RH.
Pas de procès de Moscou, des excuses publiques.
Pas de Sibérie, la mort sociale.
Demandez aux émigrés du bloc de l'Est installés en Occident ce qu'ils ressentent en traversant une université américaine en 2026.
Ils reconnaissent l'odeur.
Et voilà pourquoi le monde est en feu.
Une civilisation a passé trente-cinq ans à enseigner à ses propres enfants qu'elle était le problème. Résultat : elle ne sait plus défendre ses frontières, transmettre son héritage, ni même nommer ses ennemis.
Quand la présidente de Harvard, devant le Congrès, répond que condamner un appel au génocide « dépend du contexte », vous voyez le logiciel tourner en production.
Et les prédateurs du dehors lisent cette faiblesse comme un livre ouvert : Moscou teste, Pékin patiente, l'islamisme avance dans les rues de nos capitales.
Le feu extérieur n'est que la conséquence du désarmement intérieur. On ne brûle bien que les maisons qui se sont vidées de leurs défenseurs.
Le Mur n'est pas tombé. Il s'est déplacé. Il ne sépare plus l'Est de l'Ouest : il passe désormais à l'intérieur de chaque institution occidentale, entre ceux qui construisent et ceux qui déconstruisent.
La première guerre froide s'est gagnée avec des missiles et du PIB. La seconde se gagnera avec des écoles, des médias libres et des modèles d'IA. Celui qui écrit les valeurs dans les machines écrira le prochain 1989.
Cette fois, ne nous trompons pas de victoire. Au travail.
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$TSLA - TESLA MODEL Y L US ENTRY COULD BOOST SALES
TD Cowen reiterates Buy on Tesla with a $490 target, highlighting upside if the Model Y L (long-wheelbase, 3-row SUV) enters the US.
Analyst Itay Michaeli estimates 60k–135k annual demand, ~30% above current Model Y volumes. The launch could strengthen Tesla amid EV demand recovery and pressure rivals in the $50k+ 3-row SUV segment.
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THE 1948 MANTELL INCIDENT: The Day a Pilot Shot Down a UFO and Live Aliens Were Captured 🛸
On January 7, 1948, one of the most dramatic and controversial events in UFO history unfolded in the skies over Kentucky. What began as a routine investigation of an unidentified object by Captain Thomas F. Mantell ended in tragedy, a crashed alien spacecraft, and the brief capture of three living extraterrestrial beings.
Interrogation and the Venusian Connection:
For three days, the beings were interrogated by Air Force intelligence officers. According to the account, they claimed to originate from Venus, which they described as the capital planet of a solar system-wide civilization. They stated that other craft in the area were crewed by beings from Mars, Saturn, and Pluto. Their mission was peaceful observation of Earth’s nuclear activities and technological progress.
They explained that their craft had an automated defense system that responded when fired upon. They expressed genuine regret for Captain Mantell’s death, stating they had not intended to kill him.
While the aliens were held in the guardhouse, additional UFOs were tracked hovering high above the base. Fearing reprisals, authorities were uncertain how to proceed.
The Mysterious Escape:
On the second night of detention, the aliens vanished from their locked cell without any signs of forced entry or escape. A 100-foot craft reportedly descended over the guardhouse and projected a beam of white light with a greenish tinge. Witnesses claimed the three beings were lifted through the ceiling of the cell and taken aboard the ship.
Later, a message was received via telex and radio transmission from a companion craft. It reiterated their peaceful intentions, apologized for the loss of Mantell, and warned pilots not to fire on their vessels. The message also promised that one day they would reveal how the rescue was accomplished.
The captured UFO was reportedly transported to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for study, generating over 2,000 pieces of official correspondence between various military agencies.
Legacy:
The Mantell Incident remains one of the most extraordinary accounts in UFO lore — not only because a decorated pilot lost his life, but because it allegedly resulted in the first confirmed capture and interrogation of live extraterrestrial visitors on American soil.
While the official U.S. Air Force explanation attributes the event to Mantell chasing a Skyhook weather balloon and suffering from hypoxia at high altitude, many researchers believe the full story involves a far more significant encounter between humanity and beings from other worlds.
This case continues to fascinate those exploring the possibility that we are not alone — and that contact may have already occurred more than seven decades ago.
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Today a crazy quantum story just got wilder.
On March 31, the Google Quantum AI team published a landmark result on Shor's algorithm for elliptic curve cryptography. Technically, the paper was a bombshell: a dramatic 10x improvement over the state-of-the-art. As a stunt and wakeup call to the blockchain space, those optimisations were illustrated on secp256k1, the elliptic curve underlying Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures.
But perhaps the most striking part of the paper was sociological, not technical. Instead of following standard academic process, the optimisations were kept secret, hidden behind a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof. Google's accompanying blog post mentions they "engaged with the U.S. government". The ZK proof demonstrates the existence of algorithmic improvements without leaking details. Academic censorship with ZK, a historic first!
As a co-author of the Google paper I witnessed some of the context surrounding this censorship. To be honest, multiple aspects of that context don't sit well with me. As much as I believe the general public ought to know more, I am limited in my ability to whistleblow. Though let me be clear about one thing: the Google team's professionalism has been absolutely exemplary, and they deserve nothing but praise.
Censorship has a way of backfiring. The Streisand effect, where an attempt to bury something only draws more attention to it, is exactly what's unfolding today. First, Google's key optimisation has been rediscovered by the French. And in a thrilling turn of events, a collaborative Shor-at-home challenge just launched. The initiative, available at ecdsa[.]fail, breached a new Shor world record in a matter of hours.
Let's start with the rediscovery. Just two months after Google's paper, French quantum expert André Schrottenloher cracks the main secret optimisation. His paper, titled "Optimized Point Addition Circuits for Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithms", landed on the arXiv today. Big congrats to André, who beat several other nerdsnipped experts to it. In a blog post also published today, Craig Gidney, the world expert on Shor optimisations, revealed that he'd been sitting on this very optimisation for a whole year under censorship pressure.
Interestingly, André missed a handful of minor optimisations, both from Google's original publication and from improvements found since. It's plausible there's still plenty of juice left to squeeze out of Shor, and this is exactly what the ecdsa[.]fail challenge is about. The verifier program developed for the ZK proof does double duty, automatically filtering for valid submissions. Dozens of compounding small and micro improvements are rolling in. As of the time of writing there's an 8.4% improvement to Google's circuit, as measured by the product of logical qubit count and Toffoli gate count. Nice!
The nerdsnipping ran deeper than anyone expected. Over the last few weeks it became clear it extended well beyond André and other quantum experts. Behind the scenes, a small army of amateurs quietly got to work. Inspired by Karpathy-style autoresearch, they turned AI on Shor. Ironically, the verifier program for the ZK proof makes an ideal reward function for AIs. The barrier to entry for this modern style of research is refreshingly low, with several non-experts, even a teenager, finding nice optimisations. Get in touch if you'd like to join a Telegram group with fellow autoresearchers :)
Part 2: neutral atoms and qday
The story doesn't end with Google. On the same day Google went public, a stealthy startup called Oratomic published its own Shor paper in a coordinated release. It made a splash, ultimately becoming the most upvoted paper on scirate[.]com, a website ranking arXiv papers.
Oratomic's claim was wild. By building on Google's logical optimisations and applying custom physical optimisations for neutral atoms, they claimed just 10K physical qubits were sufficient to run Shor's algorithm on secp256k1. That number is mind-bogglingly low.
Knowing essentially nothing about neutral atoms when Oratomic's paper landed, I was intrigued and decided to learn more about the tech. I fell straight down the rabbit hole and spent a couple hundred hours on the topic. I got a little obsessed and watched every YouTube video I could find and spoke to a bunch of experts.
My conclusion? The tech is real, very real. Even Google recently decided to start a neutral atom lab, a notable pivot from their sole focus on superconducting qubits. If you care about qday, i.e. the day a quantum computer will break the first piece of cryptography in production, neutral atoms demand your attention. I shared some of my learnings on Shor and neutral atoms in a 30min talk at the ZKProof cryptography conference. You can find it on YouTube by searching "zkproof neutral atom".
Here's an interesting observation about this duo of breakthrough papers: neither Google nor Oratomic say a word about what their results mean for qday. No timelines. Zero. Nada. That is especially baffling given that the whole point of whitehat quantum cryptanalysis is to inform qday estimations and help the general public make good decisions.
So let me attempt to partially fill the silence, similarly to what Scott Aaronson did in his April 29 post. Given everything I know, including scary non-public information, I now put the odds of qday by 2032 at 50%. 10% by 2030.
Anecdotally, the US government has its own date: 2035. Originating at the NSA and later adopted by NIST, it's when branches of the US government will be disallowed from using quantum-vulnerable cryptography. In plain language: with hindsight, that date is a joke and should be discounted entirely. I don't see how NIST avoids being forced to pull it forward by years.
Part 3: post-quantum cryptography
There are good reasons to sound the alarm today, but please do not panic. Rushing carelessly towards immature post-quantum cryptography is a recipe for disaster. IMO a good target date for migration is 2029, roughly 3.5 years out. 2029 happens to be the date selected by Google, Cloudflare, and the Ethereum Foundation.
These days most of my time goes to safely migrating Ethereum towards post-quantum cryptography as part of the broader lean Ethereum effort. There's a lot to do. We need to rip out and replace BLS signatures at the consensus layer, KZG commitments at the data layer, and ECDSA signatures at the execution layer.
The plan to get there is compelling, and is based on hash-based cryptography. Within the Ethereum Foundation we've developed a Swiss army knife called leanVM (github[.]com/leanEthereum/leanVM) powered by the magic of hash-based SNARKs. Thanks to truly exceptional work by Emile, Thomas, and others, its performance is derisked. Regarding security, leanVM is a jewel, a minimal zkVM crafted for end-to-end formal verification and maximum security.
Want to help? There are two $1M initiatives. First, the Proximity Prize (proximityprize[.]org). Solve a long-standing mathematical conjecture in coding theory, improve hash-based SNARKs, and go home a millionaire. Second, the Poseidon Initiative (poseidon-initiative[.]info), offers $1M for breaking Poseidon, the SNARK-friendly hash function.
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