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SpaceX Was ‘Nowhere’ in AI 6 Months Ago — Now It’s an Anthropic Rival After the $60 Billion Cursor Deal, Says Oppenheimer
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=spacex-was-nowhere-in-ai-6-months-ago-now-its-an-anthropic-rival-after-the-60-billion-cursor-deal-says-oppenheimer
<p>Oppenheimer analyst Timothy Horan says Space Exploration Technologies Corp
#oppenheimer #anthropic #nowhere #spacex

10 Movies People Thought Were Too Long: ‘Wicked,’ the ‘Avatar’ Sequels and More
#MovieFeatures #Movies #AvatarFireandAsh #AvatarTheWayofWater #DunePartOne #DunePartTwo #HarryPotterandtheDeathlyHallowsPart1 #HarryPotterandtheDeathlyHallowsPart2 #KillersoftheFlowerMoon #Oppenheimer #Thebrutalist #TheIrishman #Wicked #WickedForGood

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/movies-too-long/

Opinion | Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project – The New York Times

Opinion,

Guest Essay

How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness

Aug. 12, 2025 A Manhattan Project development site in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in 1944. Credit…Chicago History Museum/Getty Images Listen to this article · 7:42 min Learn more

By Garrett M. Graff

Mr. Graff is a journalist, a historian and the author, most recently, of “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb.”

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The 80th anniversary last week of the atomic bombings that helped end World War II came at a most peculiar time. That is in part because we can’t mark that anniversary without also noting the astonishing Manhattan Project that built atomic weapons.

The Manhattan Project was a towering achievement, one of the great stories of human effort and accomplishment. Yet the Trump administration has been systematically dismantling the culture of research that the Manhattan Project and World War II bequeathed us, a culture that propelled American prosperity.

At no other time in modern history has a country so thoroughly turned its back on its core national strengths. The very elements that made the Manhattan Project such a success are today under assault. With devastating cuts to science and health research, the administration is turning its back on a history of being powered and renewed by the innovation and vision of immigrants. What America may find is that we have squandered the greatest gift of the Manhattan Project — which, in the end, wasn’t the bomb but a new way of looking at how science and government can work together.

That the Manhattan Project happened is itself a minor miracle. For nearly two years, the U.S. military seemed to want nothing to do with the effort of inventing an atomic bomb.

From 1939 to 1941, a ragtag group of mostly Jewish refugee scientists from Hitler’s Europe, including Albert Einstein, approached the government and met with military officials. The scientists educated them on the discovery of nuclear fission, its implications for war and their fears that Hitler would develop an atomic bomb first.

The military brushed them off. “The colonels kept rather aloof,” the physicist Eugene Wigner recalled after one such meeting in October 1939, as Hitler took Poland. “They were friendly, they smiled, but they never expected to see a working atomic bomb in this world.”

One of those colonels told Wigner and Edward Teller, dismissively, that he would award $10,000 to whoever could develop a death ray and prove it by killing a goat — the implication being he imagined that project more likely than a bomb that unlocked the power of the fundamental building block of the universe.

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Kudos to my friends at the #InternationalUraniumFilmFestival for bringing awareness of #nuclear issues AND being voted one of the "Coolest Film Festivals"!

"The International Uranium Film Festival (#IUFF) is one of the '25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World 2024'. Thanks to the prestigious MovieMaker Magazine in Hollywood, Los Angeles, which selects the Coolest Film Festivals every year. Founded in #RioDeJaneiro, the unique film festival, also known as #AtomicAgeCinemaFest, is the only film festival in #Brazil to receive this honor this year.

"'The Uranium Film Festival is certainly one of the most unique festivals we've ever had on our list, but its singular focus shines an important light on problems that unite communities all around the world — and in fact our entire world. In the year that #Oppenheimer dominated at the Oscars, it feels like the messages it has carried for years are gaining much wider interest and attention,' says Tim Molloy, Editor in Chief at MovieMaker Magazine.

"'You’ve never seen two people get more done than the life and project- partner duo #MárciaGomesDeOliveira and #NorbertGSuchanek, who run the International Uranium Film Festival in deep collaboration with #activists around the world. The festival has its grand event in Rio, but also does an extensive U.S. tour in regions impacted by #uranium-related industry. Inevitably, folks wonder whether there are enough films on the subject to warrant a festival. The answer is yes. This, of course, is because the issue is expansive, impacting all 50 U.S. states and many more corners of the world than most folks realize. From the #NavajoNation to #LasVegas to #Chicago and many places between, this spirited #DIYArt, #advocacy, and #activism project brings folks together in a space of support, education, #SharedOutrage, and a good time. The International Uranium Film Festival is a refreshing example of what activism and advocacy can be: inclusive, expansive, and celebratory,' writes filmmaker Hadley Austin for MovieMaker Magazine.

'“The International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) is honored by this acknowledgement as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals of 2024! Produced by Norbert Suchanek and Marcia Gomes de Oliviera and based in Rio de Janeiro, since 2011 the IUFF has provided a platform for more than 300 films in more than 50 cities in nine countries around the world: Germany, Brazil, India, Canada, United States, Portugal, Jordan, Denmark and Norway.' #LibbeHaLevy, Producer/Host, #NuclearHotseat and Ambassador to the USA for the International Uranium Film Festival."

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https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/coolest-film-festival-in-the-world-2024

#WaterIsLife #FukushimaIsntOver #NoUraniumMining #NoDumping #NoNukes #NoWar #RethinkNotRestart

Happy Leap Day!

Celebrating with Philippe Halsmann's Jump series: The Men

“In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One has only to snap it with the camera,”

1) Jackie Gleason, 1955
2) Mohammad Ali
3) J Robert Oppenheimer
4) Richard Nixon, 1959

#leapday #leapyear #leap #philippehalsman #jump #jumpology #jackiegleason #oppenheimer #jrobertoppenheimer #mohammadali #richardnixon #photography #photographer #fotografia #fotografie #portraitphotography #portraits