Walter Hickey

@walthickey

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been thinking about doing this for ages...might finally pull the trigger 👀 https://www.laurieherault.com/articles/a-thermal-receipt-printer-cured-my-procrastination

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whoa: researchers identified the 17-gene pathway in yew trees that makes the chemical in one of the most important chemo drugs in the world. they put it in a tobacco plant and it *works.* next up, yeast https://www.science.org/content/article/newly-discovered-plant-genes-could-slash-cost-making-key-cancer-drug

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they're doing Spaceballs 2! The Search For More Money begins... https://bsky.app/profile/officialmelbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lrgcy27tyk2e

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cool feature on Sherwood about the guy who wants to apply Strategy's Bitcoin strategy to Solana https://sherwood.news/crypto/meet-the-man-who-wants-to-be-the-michael-saylor-of-solana/

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not gonna lie as a massive fan of the Hyperion novels the name Farcaster was an instant hit for me

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Weird Al is selling out massive arenas, doing 20 costume changes a night, and keeping all his tickets under $200

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weird al's still got it https://www.billboard.com/music/features/weird-al-yankovic-tour-billboard-cover-story-1235991234/

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“Bank-level wealth requires bank-level security thinking" https://sherwood.news/crypto/the-alarming-surge-of-wrench-attacks-in-crypto-puts-owners-on-edge/

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A deeply fascinating story up on Sherwood today about the jawdropping rise in "wrench attacks" affecting crypto owners https://sherwood.news/crypto/the-alarming-surge-of-wrench-attacks-in-crypto-puts-owners-on-edge/

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Zohran is really closing the gap with Cuomo.

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How The Lord of the Rings saved New Zealand's tourism industry – twice!

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The University of St Andrews has developed a new tool to quickly identify poisonous books For years, a primary way to make an emerald green book cover was soaking it in arsenic and copper, which will poison you. Some libraries just put all their green books from a certain era into a forbidden shelf out of an abundance of caution. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/06/tool-to-identify-poisonous-books-developed-by-university-of-st-andrews

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The U.S. is seriously concerned about the supply of the specific rare earth "samarium," exports of which China is restricting. That's bad news for Lockheed Martin. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/business/china-rare-earth-samarium-fighter-jets.html

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GPS orbits 12,550 miles above the Earth Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, China’s Beidou — the issue they all have is given the distance, GPS is easy to jam. That's bad if you want to make drones common. So Xona Space Systems wants to build Pulsar, a constellation of 258 satellites in low Earth orbit that would be 12,000 miles closer. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/06/1117978/inside-the-race-to-find-gps-alternatives/

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this brand new ✈️737 • Flew from Boeing in Seattle > Hawaii > Guam > Zhoushan • rejected due to tariff • Flew back to Guam, chilled there for weeks. • Gave up, returned to Seattle 4/19 • On Friday, left Seattle! • was JUST accepted by Xiamen Air 🥲 https://sherwood.news/business/tracking-one-boeing-737s-journey-through-the-us-china-trade-war/

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interesting story up on Sherwood about two more companies joining in on Strategy's playbook of buying bitcoin https://sherwood.news/crypto/strategy-kicks-off-the-week-with-usd110-million-bitcoin-buy/

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