Parallels with radium and and the tulip bubble are insufficient because there were other things going on at the time — even in the asset bubble space, even in the snake oil space. We only have LLMs.
February 17, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Parallels with radium and and the tulip bubble are insufficient because there were other things going on at the time — even in the asset bubble space, even in the snake oil space. We only have LLMs.
It's like finding someone who still drinks radium water or something.
Truly, the internet is a weird place.
Truly, the internet is a weird place.
February 14, 2026 at 1:09 AM
It's like finding someone who still drinks radium water or something.
Truly, the internet is a weird place.
Truly, the internet is a weird place.
This wastewater is a complex brew of toxic salt, carcinogens, heavy metals, and radioactive radium. Radium is a bone-seeker that can mimic calcium. It is the same substance that killed the “Radium Girls" who used radioactive paint in the early 1900s.
More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
February 12, 2026 at 8:05 PM
This wastewater is a complex brew of toxic salt, carcinogens, heavy metals, and radioactive radium. Radium is a bone-seeker that can mimic calcium. It is the same substance that killed the “Radium Girls" who used radioactive paint in the early 1900s.
More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
We are all Radium Girls now.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM
We are all Radium Girls now.
Very old! 2014
Hazmat Girls: Crocodolite Asbestos, Cesium, and Radium & Uranium
Cute girls based on hazardous materials in locations where they are!
#NSFWart #NSFW #Hentai #Pinup #Hazmat #OC #OriginalCharacter #18+ #Lingerie #DigitalArt #CharacterDesign #Women
Hazmat Girls: Crocodolite Asbestos, Cesium, and Radium & Uranium
Cute girls based on hazardous materials in locations where they are!
#NSFWart #NSFW #Hentai #Pinup #Hazmat #OC #OriginalCharacter #18+ #Lingerie #DigitalArt #CharacterDesign #Women
February 17, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Very old! 2014
Hazmat Girls: Crocodolite Asbestos, Cesium, and Radium & Uranium
Cute girls based on hazardous materials in locations where they are!
#NSFWart #NSFW #Hentai #Pinup #Hazmat #OC #OriginalCharacter #18+ #Lingerie #DigitalArt #CharacterDesign #Women
Hazmat Girls: Crocodolite Asbestos, Cesium, and Radium & Uranium
Cute girls based on hazardous materials in locations where they are!
#NSFWart #NSFW #Hentai #Pinup #Hazmat #OC #OriginalCharacter #18+ #Lingerie #DigitalArt #CharacterDesign #Women
I'm thrilled to report I have a hole in the roof, not a freaky deaky nail that was painted with radium 😮💨🥲
As for how daylight is getting in, I'm beyond stumped
As for how daylight is getting in, I'm beyond stumped
Stay tuned for sunset when we find out if the weird nail still glows
i just found a freakishly glowing nail. My phone of course cannot take focused pics anymore. At firstnI thought it was a hole in the roof, but when I look with the flashlight there's no visible opening.
It has occurred to me more than once that there may be radium items among my Pop-Pop's stuff 😬
It has occurred to me more than once that there may be radium items among my Pop-Pop's stuff 😬
February 18, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I'm thrilled to report I have a hole in the roof, not a freaky deaky nail that was painted with radium 😮💨🥲
As for how daylight is getting in, I'm beyond stumped
As for how daylight is getting in, I'm beyond stumped
4) This was a common mistake at the time, and the treatment would not have differed.
Lacks was treated with radium tube inserts as an inpatient and discharged a few days later with instructions to return for X-ray treatments as a follow-up.
Lacks was treated with radium tube inserts as an inpatient and discharged a few days later with instructions to return for X-ray treatments as a follow-up.
February 13, 2026 at 2:39 AM
4) This was a common mistake at the time, and the treatment would not have differed.
Lacks was treated with radium tube inserts as an inpatient and discharged a few days later with instructions to return for X-ray treatments as a follow-up.
Lacks was treated with radium tube inserts as an inpatient and discharged a few days later with instructions to return for X-ray treatments as a follow-up.
MY reasonable conversation (and most leftist people will agree) is that AI is a tool. It's an algorithm that could be useful in certain contexts. But it's like radium. It's very specifically useful and in a few years we'll wonder why we put it in everything.
February 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
MY reasonable conversation (and most leftist people will agree) is that AI is a tool. It's an algorithm that could be useful in certain contexts. But it's like radium. It's very specifically useful and in a few years we'll wonder why we put it in everything.
Lil radium for flavor
February 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Lil radium for flavor
My husband's grandfather worked at MGM as an electrician.
He started during the Silent Film era.
He came up with the 'glowing radium' prop in 'Madam Curie (1943)'--the first use of fiber optics in a film, family legend says.
'Forbidden Planet' was the last film he worked on. 😁
He started during the Silent Film era.
He came up with the 'glowing radium' prop in 'Madam Curie (1943)'--the first use of fiber optics in a film, family legend says.
'Forbidden Planet' was the last film he worked on. 😁
February 13, 2026 at 9:43 AM
My husband's grandfather worked at MGM as an electrician.
He started during the Silent Film era.
He came up with the 'glowing radium' prop in 'Madam Curie (1943)'--the first use of fiber optics in a film, family legend says.
'Forbidden Planet' was the last film he worked on. 😁
He started during the Silent Film era.
He came up with the 'glowing radium' prop in 'Madam Curie (1943)'--the first use of fiber optics in a film, family legend says.
'Forbidden Planet' was the last film he worked on. 😁
Radium, DDT, asbestos, laserdisk...
Any history of technology people know if there are other technologies that were touted as "here to stay" in the manner of generative AI that...didn't stay?
i guess worth looking into whether people were similarly convinced about other technologies in the past
February 9, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Radium, DDT, asbestos, laserdisk...
Radium 1926 – AI 2026
February 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Radium 1926 – AI 2026
Kór když si k vaření pustila radium.
February 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Kór když si k vaření pustila radium.
AI is our generation's radium, as in SA Forums Poster Radium, whose modifications to the forums software included load-bearing slurs.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 10, 2026 at 1:35 AM
AI is our generation's radium, as in SA Forums Poster Radium, whose modifications to the forums software included load-bearing slurs.
If you’re a Republican my two suggestions are a pineapple and radium.
Trump’s new AI nutrition chatbot advises users which foods to insert into your rectum www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/quic...
Trump's new AI nutrition chatbot advises users which foods to insert into your rectum - LGBTQ Nation
Don't do it, even if the Department of Health and Human Services chatbot says it's okay.
www.lgbtqnation.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:09 AM
If you’re a Republican my two suggestions are a pineapple and radium.
Why can't we have a reasonable discussion about the benefits of Radium?
February 12, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Why can't we have a reasonable discussion about the benefits of Radium?
Or radium containing tonics.
One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Or radium containing tonics.
"Putting asbestos and radium in everything was good, actually".
Asbestos was quite good for a lot of applications, and was exactly as fireproof as people selling and using it thought it was. And for that matter radium also really did all the things it was sold as doing.
February 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
"Putting asbestos and radium in everything was good, actually".
the radium metaphor for AI really is good
It's an even more apt one in that, circa 1920, you needed to put radium into everything to get attention/funding. If you didn't have a way to do that then, by jiminy, you damn well better find a way to work the word "radium" into the name of your product/service/company.
Bullshit never changes.
Bullshit never changes.
February 9, 2026 at 5:18 AM
the radium metaphor for AI really is good
I keep pointing to radium and hydrocortisone -- both turned out to be super-useful in certain niches, both were wildly over-used early on with disastrous consequences.
February 12, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I keep pointing to radium and hydrocortisone -- both turned out to be super-useful in certain niches, both were wildly over-used early on with disastrous consequences.
We are all radium girls now
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM
We are all radium girls now
I was going to say the difference was that people didn't know the harm radium did, but it turns out business owners did indeed know radium was harmful to their employees but covered it up until a lawsuit exposed them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium#...
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
I was going to say the difference was that people didn't know the harm radium did, but it turns out business owners did indeed know radium was harmful to their employees but covered it up until a lawsuit exposed them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium#...
J’ai eu exactement cette conversation vendredi soir : c’est pas la première fois qu’on découvre des choses dont on fait n’importe quoi, au point que rétrospectivement ça paraît débile.
Voir le kit du petit chimiste (dès 6 ans) au radium, ou les cosmétiques au radium du musée Curie à Paris…
Voir le kit du petit chimiste (dès 6 ans) au radium, ou les cosmétiques au radium du musée Curie à Paris…
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 AM
J’ai eu exactement cette conversation vendredi soir : c’est pas la première fois qu’on découvre des choses dont on fait n’importe quoi, au point que rétrospectivement ça paraît débile.
Voir le kit du petit chimiste (dès 6 ans) au radium, ou les cosmétiques au radium du musée Curie à Paris…
Voir le kit du petit chimiste (dès 6 ans) au radium, ou les cosmétiques au radium du musée Curie à Paris…
Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women.
Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪
Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪
February 11, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Today is the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience 👩🔬 This graphic highlights women of the periodic table, the elements they discovered, and the two elements named after women.
Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪
Plenty more graphics on women in chemistry here: www.compoundchem.com/category/wom...
#ChemSky 🧪
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline