Certified Association Executive (CAE). SSH Director of Marketing. Loves: Associations, Weather, Sports, Tech, People, Blockchain/Crypto. KCSAE Past President.
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Curtis Kitchen, CAE retweeted
'Mass Casualty' incident at Stryker Sports Complex. Wichita police say a child and an adult have died following the incident. There is no additional ongoing threat from the driver. Police are asking drivers to stay away from the 29th and Greenwich area.
#kwch12
Why is the @KCStar recently posting an increased amount of week-old news weather news?
Did they fire the last remaining friends?
Heavy rain threat shifts toward Kansas City; see updated storm forecast kansascity.com/news/weather-…
Curtis Kitchen, CAE retweeted
BREAKING: American Airlines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines are now cancelling certain flights, scaling back flight capacity and adjusting schedules due to the sharp surge in fuel costs, with American Airlines saying the latest jump in fuel prices alone is adding about $1 billion to its fourth-quarter costs, per Reuters.
Southwest has already cut its planned 2026 capacity growth roughly in half and could trim further, with its CFO saying that if fuel is "higher for longer," cutting capacity is the "natural response." United said yesterday it will cancel December flights and could cut into the first quarter and 2027, with its CFO saying "we are not flying to maximize market share."
US jet fuel is now at $4.70 a gallon, up 108% since the war began.
Curtis Kitchen, CAE retweeted
Our employees have been begging us to try a four-day workweek.
I'm open-minded, so we ran a pilot.
Monday through Thursday.
Same salary.
Same workload.
Productivity actually increased.
People were happier.
Turnover dropped.
It was one of the most successful HR experiments we've ever conducted.
So naturally we ended it.
If they can get five days of work done in four days, imagine how much they can get done in five.
No.
NEW
ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too.
....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it
wired.com/story/ice-plans-to…
Carlos, as nicely as I can…
Because teachers are desperate for help supplying tools needed to teach and hopefully meet the next admin-conjured metric, and R-led state & federal government keeps failing them.
Some teachers are 20-, or 30-year veterans making less than 45k.
Curtis Kitchen, CAE retweeted
76 years ago, Ray Bradbury published "There Will Come Soft Rains," an apocalyptic short story about a time when we have wiped ourselves out—but our AI obliviously continues automating our empty smart homes.
Bradbury set the story on August 4, 2026.
btboces.org/Downloads/7_Ther…
When will we get to call this stupidity out in full color and not allow it to breathe?
Unbelievable, #kansascity.
Take a bow. A big one.
My town.
Our town.
#kansascity
Curtis Kitchen, CAE retweeted
Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…
Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?
Curtis Kitchen, CAE retweeted
Humanoid skills are about to make Claude Skills look like a joke
Unitree just launched UNISTORE, an app store for humanoid robots.
You can create, publish, buy, and deploy robot skills with one click across all their models.
Just the motion library is live right now: basic moves, dances, martial arts, all available as free downloads.
It's only out in China now (international coming soon).
But the platform move is obvious: Unitree is building the iOS of physical robots.
Now imagine what this looks like once it matures:
Right now when you download a skill for Claude or Codex, it changes how your AI writes and works inside your computer.
It's all just digital output, stuff that happens on a screen.
But when you download a skill for a robot, it changes what a physical machine can do in your house, your warehouse, your office.
One click and suddenly your robot knows how to make coffee.
Another and it's running nightly inventory in a warehouse, sorting and logging without supervision.
Another and it's harvesting ripe produce row by row from your garden, adjusting grip pressure for each fruit so nothing gets bruised.
We're going from downloading apps for phones to downloading skills for AI to downloading physical capabilities for robots that operate in the real world.
Very cool to think about.
I made a visual of what this might look like in the future:
MAJOR SEVERE WEATHER PATTERN with 5 days in a row of severe weather possible and increasing #tornado threat this weekend!
THURSDAY: Hailers in central Kansas
FRIDAY: Late night severe weather in red KS to IA
SATURDAY: Oklahoma dry line, supercells and tornadoes possible Oklahoma to Iowa
SUNDAY: This sequence peaks with another southern Plains to Upper Midwest large warm sector
We are hoping to deploy the #Dominator 3 as peak season is arriving for the second half of May into June!
