Engineering Death Commando
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laura ⚔️ retweeted
It's astonishingly frequent for rich dentists to load up their entire family in a private plane and wipe out their entire bloodline. This isn't what happened today - Learjets are a whole new price tier *and* required skills tier. The pilot was 55-year old Jeff Gregory, and the co-pilot was 20 year old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras. Thus they were professional charter pilots, and as one would expect, the young newbie was flying as co-pilot, with the very experienced older pilot being pilot-in-command.
Pilot-in-command means "pilot in command." The co-pilot does not make decisions for navigation or anything else; they may be instructed to assist the pilot in those things; such as making radio calls to ATC to route around storms and such, but the pilot in command is the one flying the plane and making the decisions. The buck stops with him.
I've said this before when the usual shitbags come slithering out of their holes after a disaster like this, but the shameless blood libel has never been more egregious or disgusting.
Fuck all of you shameless grifting bastards. God damn you all to hell.
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laura ⚔️ retweeted
"...we should be actively goading more billionaires into spending on irrational, high-variance projects that might actually advance civilization. No one cares about your Loro Piana. If you've built an empire, the best possible use of it is to burn its capital like a torch and light up a corner of the future. Fund the ugly middle. Pay for the iteration loops. Build the cathedrals. This is how we advance civilization..."
laura ⚔️ retweeted
For a more formal reason why ranked choice voting is flawed and bad, you can look up Arrow’s theorem. @grok what does Arrow’s theorem imply about the manipulative possibilities with ranked choice voting?
Vance is actually correct here. While the rules of rank choice voting are clear (to most people) it also creates room for game theorizing the average voter doesn't engage in.
For example, to maximize the chances of your preferred candidate winning, you shouldn't rank anyone else. But this isn't obvious to most voters.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
In ranked choice voting, ranking anyone beyond your first choice does not change your first choice's chances of winning. Any choices made past the first choice only are counted once the top choice has been eliminated.
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laura ⚔️ retweeted
BREAKING: The U.S. Army is preparing to stress-test America’s manufacturing capacity and supply chains. In early 2027, Army facilities and private manufacturers will compete in the first-ever “Manufacturing Rodeo,” designed to expose bottlenecks in America’s defense industrial base.
laura ⚔️ retweeted
It's finally here! At last we have phase-3 results for retatrutide!
So, did the drug join the scores of pharmaceuticals that fail at this last crucial step?
If you've tried retatrutide recently, you'll realize the answer is 'no': it performed amazingly🧵
laura ⚔️ retweeted
We meet here via Microsoft Teams on internet infrastructure stolen from Bell South,
laura ⚔️ retweeted
For reference on how bad US military industry is the most useless car company in the world is pulling off “impossible” production miracles immediately after entering the market
Pretty cool that General Motors was able to retool a car factory to make the outer shells of the Patriot missiles. They've managed to make the delivery to Lockheed just 22 days after signing the contract.
(22 days!!!!! We still got it...🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸)
Lockheed says this work normally takes months or years for the previous supplier (General Dynamics) to fulfill.
There's a strain of neoliberal thinking that says if domestic carmakers can’t compete, they should just be allowed to fail. No bailouts. Just let Japan or China make cars because of comparative advantage or whatever.
Imagine if we had believed that automobile manufacturing was something to offshore.
It's now clear that the argument for preserving that industrial base is not simply nostalgia for a previous bygone era. It simply is the case that you cannot improvise precision manufacturing overnight once it has disappeared.
laura ⚔️ retweeted
Americans are innovators
60 million Americans need water from the Colorado River
Cloud seeding is an American innovation that provides water to:
- help our farmers and cattlemen
- housing developments and industry
- make ecosystems, like the Great Salt Lake, beautiful
laura ⚔️ retweeted
Crazy, unexpected science news today: the brain is actually 2 colocated but independent organs that develop from 2 totally separate progenitor cells in early development. Big implications for some research areas (eg ALS) & for creating ethical brainless clones for transplant.
laura ⚔️ retweeted
So here's my call to action:
If you are a company that is trying to make your product accessible to Al agents, build a good API and API key system as your base layer. Then advertise it as the most reliable way to connect an agent!
You will still need to put out an MCP, annoyingly, because your customers will ask for it. But the MCP can just be a cheap wrapper around the API key system, and this is a much more sound architecture. If your users want to torture themselves with MCP, thats their choice. They can always choose to bail once they have had enough, and your API key system will be ready for them.
laura ⚔️ retweeted
I’ve successfully run the full retained MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome, all 166,700 neurons, inside Minecraft, with its simulated neural activity driving a fly’s movement.
V1 Currently in development. Built with the help of GPT-6 Astra.
Props to the @OpenAI team and @thsottiaux for this release. Code and mod coming soon!
For the first time, scientists have mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly — a key model organism in science. 🪰
Working alongside HHMI Janelia Research Campus and the scientific community, @GoogleResearch scientists and researchers used AI to combine millions of 2D images into 3D neural shapes, reconstructing a record-breaking 166,000+ neurons. This foundational map of the adult male fruit fly brain can help accelerate our understanding of the brain, and is a major milestone in neuroscience.
ALT Vibrant 3D digital reconstruction of a fruit fly brain against a white background, displaying a dense, intricate network of multicolored neural fibers and cell bodies in shades of blue, cyan, orange, and purple.
ALT A complex 3D visualization of a fruit fly brain, featuring a dense, symmetrical network of thousands of tiny, multicolored neurons and fine, interconnected fibers in shades of blue, magenta, orange, and green against a solid white background.
laura ⚔️ retweeted
the single thing that would most accelerate our work at @ScienceCorp_ is a connectome
the mouse is probably only ~$300M away, something highly worth funding
Introducing a complete map of the male fruit fly brain and central nervous system, created in partnership with @HHMIJanelia. With over 166,000 neurons, this is the largest cellular brain map to date. Learn more: goo.gle/4qQTtIW
laura ⚔️ retweeted
Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations.
We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data.
In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall.
Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months.
We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need.
Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim.
Rainmaker Century.
rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…
