when bugs are features: twitter shortens urls in posts, but only visibly. when selecting and copying you get the whole link, which is handy when copying posts or avoiding the link shortener. whereas bsky shortens urls both visibly and when copying, so requires an extra copy step when copying a post.

lockheed's CL-1201, jet fuel-powered for lift-off, nuclear powered for 30 days of continuous flight. what a silly idea. wish they atleast built a prototype... www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXTR...

this sounds so good and i love the idea but i bet that at no point in the decision making process was a single cost-benefit analysis involved

Grok becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time,

hello again, biskies. somehow, the "inauthentic behavior" ban algo has returned.

possibly the most h.r. gigeresque nuclear reactor envisioned

this i assume is due to the strong influence of german medical science in japan at the time. iirc this also lead to delays of fixing scurvy in the japanese navy even after the british already found solutions, since german scientists had a different opinion.

crazy specs on this drone: battery with 16kw peak power, requiring water-cooling for electronics; so fast that if it passes too close to the controller doppler effect causes connection loss and crash

while researching personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, researchers discovered that the non-specific immune effects of mRNA vaccines are strong enough that they don't need to target cancers to benefit cancer therapy www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/res...

Space Force satellite catalog is now at object 65973, expected to pass the 66000 mark by tomorrow. Object 00001 was the rocket upper stage from Sputnik 1.

now that reliable age-verification has been established by force of law, sam altman can finally build the endless AI-turboporn tape machine from the novel "don't build the endless AI-turboporn tape machine"

gm fellow bizarro vibe calculators

"valuations? where we're going we don't need valuations"

useful episode about several indicators for whether there is a bubble in AI (or elsewhere). graph from www.exponentialview.co/p/is-ai-a-bu..., checklist from www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ai-..., transcript: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...

i don't remember how i found this account but it's perfect if you're learning or refreshing both your japanese and french

ancient chinese curse

> IDs from age verification leaked in breach To the surprise of absolutely nobody.

they don't tell you this but you can just replace the pineapples on a pineapple pizza with apples. since the start of this apple season i have eaten dozens of apple pizzas.

looking at "latest from follows": haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!! looking at "popular with friends": well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.

enhanced rock weathering via calcium solution mining could get as cheap as $20 per ton of co2: "The costs for solution mining calcium might be <$20/ton CO2 under the most optimistic scenarios with a fraction of the surface disturbance." austinvernon.site/blog/rockwea...

china mars sample return is what NASA's MSR should have been. but its arguably unnecessarily complex mission led to slipping timelines & ballooning budgets, while introducing additional technical risks. it's been in danger of getting cancelled for a while. slim chance current admin be will helpful.

wouldn't call it a disaster yet but the combination of worsening response rates to surveys and an admin that blindly cuts budgets and isn't big on data in any way will pave the way for a real one down the road. the spending needed to improve data collection methods won't materialize anytime soon.

"members of the groupchat noticed notifications going off and asked: "do you have a 'hot take' in your drafts?" obliquely referring to the discussion they were having moments earlier. "not anymore" replied [...]"

if you ever receive a letter from the FDA containing the word "filth" you're probably ngmi "Because your drug products were prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions, whereby they may have become contaminated with filth [...]"

it's a silly idea but i feel a weird compulsion to create breakcore/drum&bass music videos using timelapses of the nuclear energy videos from @whatisnuclear.com . no idea who'd watch that. "breakcore mix to watch particle tracks to" "breakcore mix to install containment building domes to"

surely that gas bottle is for supplying nitrogen-free breathing air for maximum knurdness (westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/a...). the only downside is an aesthetic on the level of the golden EVA suit from the 2007 movie sunshine. or a plus if you want to be left alone...

you may not be interested in AI slop, but AI slop is interested in you

first H-bomb airdrop test result: targeting is harder than you'd think

funny how GPT-4o seems biased towards citing papers published just before the replication hit

pull method of inducing lactic acidosis nausea. the push method will become available later this year:

the credential treadmill will never get rolled back, temporary solution is to create new credentials on top of existing ones: let's call them 5% degrees that only 5% of all degree-holders can obtain. eventually these will get diluted again, creating an ever more nested credential matryoshka.

the tanks are round

I perceive the currents of slop, Mandrake, but I do not grant them my essence

why are so many asteroids lobed, which process produced them?

AI scrapers are mindlessly strip mining the commons, sometimes becoming the majority of traffic. they've been likened to DDoS attacks. smaller community projects hit hardest. there's an example where an admin had to block the entire country of brazil: www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/...

endogeneity of science funding aside, what if most of secular stagnation could have been overcome by simply trippling governmental r&d budgets?

Long-term interest rates since 1315

today is a good day for whole grain barley coconut bread

Some big Fervo Energy news today. We’re excited to welcome Shell as a new customer at Project Cape. And announce that we are upsizing the project by 100 MW to 500 MW, using the same number of planned wells, due to productivity breakthroughs we have achieved. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

helpful interface for bluesky advanced search terms. can't wait for bluesky to add more parameters since search is still too basic. i can't even search for all replies to me. filters by number of likes, reposts, by type of content, would be great too.

things should not "somehow explode". having issues with manufacturing the almost 70 year old technology of ICBMs a bad sign for US military supply chain.

how it's going:

daily anki experience: immediately recognizing the same few words whose meanings i always struggle to recall. i know it when i see it, and can't recall it.

update: i also stood with the european military-industrial complex before it got a $800bn european defense fund

When your timelines are shorter than the discovery phase of a copyright lawsuit.

the reactor core vessel is round

just noticed i got my twitter account back, after the 19th appeal, yay. anyone who wants me to follow back on the hellsite, let me know

this site got issues, and always towards the same old direction. on twitter you never know which schizosphere might target you. you might end up targeted by *multiple* simclusters of insanity at the same time.

name all the molten salt reactor concepts: