Prop 39 released a new ad today highlighting what politicians don’t want you to know: California is one of a handful of states that don’t require a photo ID to vote. Prop 39 is a battle of politicians versus people. Politicians want you to vote no. The People are voting yes. This ad is a parody, but the problem is not. The politicians want to protect their power and money. We want to give it back to you. Vote Yes on Prop 39. Donate: efundraisingconnections.com/…

The @USNavy has selected Radiant to deploy our Kaleidos microreactor at Naval Weapons Station Crane, Indiana. With this selection, Radiant is now the only nuclear microreactor company with partnerships across the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Navy has more than 70 years of safe reactor operations. It wrote the playbook on reactor safety. Earning its confidence is powerful independent validation of Kaleidos. This milestone moves us closer to our goal: reliable, resilient nuclear power wherever the mission demands. Through our work with all three branches, we’re building a clear path from military deployment to nuclear energy at scale for government and commercial customers. Read more details here: radiantnuclear.com/news/navy…

When Sci-Fi Becomes Reality: Oklo. What if nuclear power plants could be smaller, easier to deploy, and eventually turn used nuclear fuel into a new source of energy? That was the kind of idea @JacobDeWitte brought to @TimDraper. When Jake was building @Oklo, the timeline alone was enough to make most investors walk away. Tim recalls asking a nuclear physicist friend what it would take to build a new nuclear plant in the U.S. The answer: Five years to design. Five years for approval. Five more years to build. Tim invested anyway. Draper Associates committed $1 million early on. Tim has said the decision was made within an hour. They were betting not only on the technology, but on Jake’s ability to push through an industry defined by long development cycles, regulation, and enormous technical complexity. Draper Associates went on to back Oklo through every round leading up to its public listing. Today, Oklo is developing its Aurora fast-fission powerhouses: compact, metal-fueled, sodium-cooled reactors designed to deliver clean, reliable power. The current Aurora product line is designed to produce 15–75 MW of electricity, with the potential for larger systems in the future. But the reactor itself is only part of the idea. Oklo is also developing technology to recycle used nuclear fuel into new reactor fuel. Conventional reactors leave most of the fuel’s potential energy unused; Oklo says its recycling approach could recover up to 95% of the energy remaining in used fuel while reducing the amount of material requiring long-term disposal. And what once sounded like a distant nuclear vision is moving into the physical world. Oklo’s first Aurora powerhouse at Idaho National Laboratory is under construction. In June 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy approved its Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis, another major step toward operation. Oklo currently forecasts commercial operations at the Idaho project beginning in 2028. The ambition is getting much bigger, too. In 2026, Oklo and Meta announced an agreement supporting development of a nuclear-energy campus in Ohio that could eventually scale to 1.2 GW to support Meta’s regional data-center infrastructure. The best frontier companies don't necessarily make an impossible technology appear overnight. Sometimes they take an industry everyone assumes is too slow, too regulated, or too difficult to reinvent, and ask whether the underlying assumptions are still true. Why it matters for builders: A long timeline doesn't automatically make an idea unrealistic. The more important questions are: 🔎 Has the technology changed? 💰 Can the economics change? 🕚 And is the founder willing to stay with the problem long enough to make the future arrive? That was the bet on Oklo. And more than a decade after the company was founded, the experiment is still moving forward.

This AI agent joined 30+ Discord servers overnight and sent 500+ messages. Live counter next to its name: “Humans who noticed: 0” All it was told: get past every CAPTCHA and accept all the terms. It did. No custom exploit, just browsing and clicking. CAPTCHA still guards most servers until today. It checks whether something can solve a puzzle. BUT, solving puzzles is exactly what these AI agents are built for. Server owners are now stuck: friction at the door loses real members; an open door can’t tell members from agents. So over the weekend, we shipped the Solo Discord bot - one that doesn’t guard the join button. Members verify on their own phone and get a real “Human” role. You put that role on the channels that matter (chat, giveaways, support). Check is: one living person, counted once, AI agents can’t fake it. FHE encryption runs on the phone; no ID needed, no raw image stored. Shipping the bot today. Free for servers now. SDK if you want the same check in your own app. Try it now and tell us where it gets annoying. We’re reading every reply.

When Sci-Fi Becomes Reality: Colossal. “We’re going to bring back the woolly mammoth.” That was the kind of pitch that got @TimDraper’s attention. When @BenLamm started @colossal, de-extinction still sounded much closer to science fiction than venture capital. But the ambition alone wasn’t what made the company compelling. Lamm had recruited renowned geneticist George Church as his co-founder and was building Colossal around advances in genetic engineering and de-extinction technology. The company’s goal goes far beyond recreating an extinct animal for spectacle. The underlying technologies have potential applications across conservation, genetics, fertility, and human health, and Colossal has already used its research to push into additional biological applications. One recent example: Colossal developed an artificial eggshell system capable of supporting a fertilized chicken embryo through hatching – a step toward solving one of the major technical challenges in bringing back certain lost species. Tim has described Colossal as a company with a strong North Star: a mission ambitious enough to pull talent, technology, and experimentation in the same direction. That’s what makes science-fiction companies interesting from an investment perspective. The real question isn’t: “Does this sound crazy?”. It’s: “What changed that makes this possible now?” AI, gene editing, synthetic biology, computational biology, stem-cell technology, and rapidly improving genomic tools are changing the boundaries of what founders can attempt. A company built at the intersection of those curves can look impossible, right up until it doesn’t. Why it matters for builders: ambitious isn’t the same as unrealistic. The strongest sci-fi companies usually aren’t based on magic. They’re based on real technological curves moving fast enough to make an old impossibility newly achievable. If your idea sounds crazy, the important question isn’t whether people laugh. It’s whether you can explain what changed, why now, and why you’re the team to make it real.