New AI minister Niamh Smyth has never used ChatGPT and doesn’t have DeepSeek – but says she’ll learn fast

This is INSANE! EPS2025 just unveiled the world’s FIRST micro nuclear reactor for home use! It can run your entire house for 10 YEARS nonstop. The future of energy is here.

The Elizabeth Line, London’s massive new cross-city rail line, has been a huge success, smashing the forecasted ridership. Original projections were for 150M annual rides by 2030, and they’re on track for 220M in 2024. ~$23B, opened 2022

this is a long read, but i had some time to think over dinner and wanted to share a few thoughts and provide a plan forward: 0. i’ve had a lot of very memorable days on the internet over the past 30 years, but this one tops them all. my wife yi and i are unbelievably grateful to the SOL community. as a reminder - 100% of every penny we've made from this, across every kitkat/memecoin, including LP fees will be going directly to rare disease research (minus any tax obligations). i will work on a way to verify this commitment transparently with the community in the form of donation receipts. thankfully the chain is already publicly auditable. 1. a lot people seem very upset that early traders made a lot of money off of $MIRA. i don't get this at all. they made a good investment early, and got rewarded for it. good on them. when we originally started our gofundme, we were hoping to contribute maybe $2-300K or so beyond what we donated early this year to hankinson lab for christmas. now, even if we don't sell a single token more, we're going to send them at least $1M this christmas. that's INCREDIBLE - and it makes such a huge difference. the reality is if those early people didn't make these moves, the lab would be worse off. providing more funding for research is the only thing that matters to me here, full stop. how much degens make or lose money in the pvp trenches of pump is not something that is any of my business. if you made a lot of money, i'm genuinely happy for you - but please consider donating some of your profits to hankinson lab., if you lost a lot of money, i’m very sorry - but magic internet money is magic internet money. 2. at least a few crazies in mentions think that i was somehow on the “inside” and this entire thing has been some kind of conspiracy - if you're one of them, i just don’t know what to tell you. i have a day job and it is not degening magic internet money. i run a company funded by a16z called and we work on non-crypto finance software for cfos. nowdays, by night i do deep research into craniopharyngiomas and related brain tumors. i literally didn’t have a personal SOL address until yesterday. crypto wasn’t even a payment option outside of gofundme until folks asked me for one, and when i gave them one it was my ENS. the idea that i would have the time and even know how to do something like this is wildly unbelievable. 3. i am not elon - between running a growing startup, dealing with my daughter’s medical condition, and other obligations, i simply don’t have the bandwidth to manage a crypto anything. so my constraints on a path forward are: 1) to maximize support to rare disease research by providing predictability / trust 2) to do so in the most transparent way possible that helps me sleep well at night 3) to do it in a way that doesn’t take very much of my time to manage. so here’s the plan: starting in about 12 hours, i will be liquidating $1,000 worth of $MIRA every 10 minutes, perpetually. no more and no less than that. if i change this schedule, i commit to announcing it 24 hours in advance. if you want to rug it to $0, go for it - at the end of the day we set out to raise $200K and we will end up with at least $1M towards rare disease research. no matter what, this has been a win for the world. but if it moons, then hankinson lab will get the SOL’s community support for much longer, and that really makes a big difference. so that’s it! hope that's all pretty simple and reasonable. yi, mira and i are so unbelievably grateful to you all - each and every one of you. christmas magic was made real this year thanks to all of you. forever grateful.

I love Ireland so much. I want to see her people thrive! Which is why my heart breaks to see Ireland in this death spiral of mediocrity and myopia. Decades of regulation means there’s no affordable housing for our youth. Driving them abroad. Less youth means less youth culture. And those who leave are the ambitious ones. Which means less entrepreneurship. Nowhere to live, nothing to do, no opportunities. More leave. Who’s going to do the things that create the growth that creates the prosperity? Well at least we’ve got the social state with the dole and the free education and healthcare. But who’s going to pay for that? We don’t even have our own currency to print anymore. Well at least we’ve got the sweet, sweet American corporate tax revenues. Except the Trump administration's America First agenda is about to stop that in its tracks—and it’s very specifically got Ireland in its crosshairs. And the hapless “diplomacy” with Israel has made us something of a pariah with the new management in the US too, certainly not helping our case. The above are just a fraction of our problems. Do you think our student union political leaders even understand them, never mind have the fortitude required to address them? I don’t either. This is a serious downer. I’m sorry. But the first step to addressing such a problem is admitting we have one.