On a lark I started watching Gundam 00 again after not having watched since it aired back in 07-08 and wow it seems more relevant to today with all the conflicts and such. Also how even with all the weird gn drive stuff still feels like the most grounded, both tech and politically.

I hope this is a big bullhorn to Arianespace and the EU to get moving on development of Maia/Prometheus and something bigger launching before 2030. This is embarrassing being this far behind. Having all affordable launch capacity be in control of Musk is irresponsible and dangerous.

Exhibit G for why it's insanity to build your entire economic wellbeing around a piece of corpo software they can and will eventually abandon. And why there is a moral imperative to use open source software, even if it's rough at first. Because it can never be taken away from you.

Reading this thread, there is an even simpler reason why I like the Mamdani approach. He treats being Mayor as a job with deliverables, vs other politician treating it like an avenue for self enrichment and engaging in the bare minimum of what is needed. He actually has had to work for a living

March 28th is grand opening for 2 line in Seattle! I'm going to time it so I can watch the sunrise from the floating bridge.

To real 4 me

I wonder with the threats to Canada from another angle. The Thiels and Musks convincing Trump this is for the survival of the United States in a ice cap melt off. The Oggalla Aquifer is looking to be depleted by 2050 and get worse by the inevitable dust bowls. voices.uchicago.edu/triplehelix/...

Something that burns me up. I have stuff for job boards set up to focus on stuff in the Seattle area, but it keeps refusing to keep it in Seattle proper. I need to be within the transit net. Stop sending me stuff for Bellvue and Redmond. They may as well be in another state commute wise.

Time to be a big boat foamer, get on a big boat, and then go to a boat museum Nautical nonsense lmao. Notes in the alt tags as well.

I remember when I had bottom surgery in 2019 Out of pocket 5K, insurance paid 40K. Hospital funny money number, 900k. There is a special place in Hell for whoever at hospitals and insurance companies created this racket.

Hey #seattle robot enthusiasts, come to the market on Saturday at 10 AM at the old flea market in Caphill, it's robot fighting time! Brackets start then 416 15th Ave E I'll be driving a bot in it, lookout for BONESAW Going to be a fun time!

Some level 1 villain In DND that got caught stealing sheep looking guy

Oof owwie oof this just described my career

My only hope is it ends up like Myspace, and these guys all lose a fortune and other sites come to dominance with a userbase that hates the GOPs guts.

If these groups had cross site links and some sort of federation model to help fund it, would be the second coming of gawker. If it had decent search, would also obviate the need to have to play nice with Google and Microsoft's AI monster that doesn't even send traffic anymore.

If this happens, it will be the end of non corpo chat and non corpo forums in America. There is no way for the small web to survive this with what the law wants. And by proxy would also end all non corpo affiliated open source dev. It has to be stopped.

Gotta stop being depressed and get back in the design game. There is cool stuff to do. Western Alliance Robotics is doing big fights in Seattle Cap Hill in November and I want to make something for it. I had so much fun with 12lbers www.robotcombatevents.com/events/5045

The Guardian: Can AIs suffer? Maybe, just maybe 🤔🥺😔 Also The Guardian: Can trans people suffer? Not fucking enough 😡

Reading this stuff and thinking of my media diet, I remember folks giving deus ex mankind divided shit in August of 2016 for being unrealistic in countries deporting folks to places like Oman, detransitioning folks (in game putting bioprinted bits in against consent), and general mistreatment

Mississippi got blocked because of their UK like age Verification law and all my homies are switching to VPNs. Not a hell hot enough for the GOP using kids as a justification to try and lock the Internet down

I dislike genAI for most use cases, but I find it kind of funny that most people don't know you can run autonomous. And I can see smaller more targeted models going into edge intelligence, even if chatGPT implodes. Same as any other AI winter, the useful stuff becomes boring and normal.

one thing i wish ttrpg players would do more is think about all the ways big and small they can make their characters less like themselves

Good day for a ride, got to see seals and salmon #seattle is great

I will use this whenever somebody says ask chatGPT. It doesn't know this will kill people in special ways and take advantage of folks who don't know it isn't an AGI

Just got me some really cool servos and a controller from Waveshare. Looks like they are already doing tariffs if you order from them direct they charge so much less than amazon. No suprises I got a dumb idea with cable drives that I want to show off soon that take advantage of their torque sense

All this tariff and data manipulation stuff in the US is making me painfully aware that most people even corpos aren't aware of just how much stuff only works because free trade. And that it's going to take decades of smart little guys having to work around the edges to make it less bad.

Great thread, and why credentialism is dumb and the current pipeline for tech is setting ourselves up for preventing real skills from developing. Also how jank ass windows can be and how frustrating proprietary evaluation software is.

I'm sitting here and wondering at that sort of spend, this guy would be better off buying a really really nice GPU and running a local instance. Would pay for itself in two weeks compared to this spend. So not only is he an addict, he's a whale for corpo tech.

Dudes Rock

With the move to private space, grimly think this was inevitable. Folks go to the moon not to learn about earth, but to get the He3 fusion fuel and water for building crypto and AI training farms and military infrastructure no place in the universe capitalism doesn't despoil.

Seriously one of the movies I've been looking forward to for the last few years.

Really useful tutorial for disabling Gemini and Google Assistant. Still doesn't pass the -AI tag but better than wasting battery, but still something.

I miss Kayla, back when I lived in Memphis she was super helpful while I was coming out. Glad to see she is still keeping the fight up

Heading home soon from #RMRRF, great seeing folks, talking tech, and seeing some old friends. Got me buzzing to take the printed drive core concepts to the next level. Stuck for a bit because of the current wing strike at SeaTac, so have to wait to go home. I'm just glad no one got hurt.

Doing the #rmrrf thing. If you are at the con, hanging out with friends and talking electromagnets. Love to talk to folks.

Taking an impromptu vacation for the next two weeks. Gives me a chance to get ready for #RMRRF in a few weeks Important to remember to take a break, else the take breaks yous.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

If Shenzhen gets in on this, the machine tools and automation sector in the US is boned Some of the stuff coming out of Shenzhen allows even small fries to be able to build stuff that give even the big industrial vendors for conveyors and the like a run for their money.

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

Trump Admin bringing back slavery to own the libs. And they fricking gloat about it to.

My Procrastinating kicking me in the butt today, need to sync my radio and do some practice driving for the robot fights in Everett. No pressure lol

Going to get to drive a bigger fighting bot for the 2025 Everett fights for WAR. 30lber! It's going to be neat I've never driven something this big before.

@rmrrf.bsky.social looking forward to seeing my friends there in a month and change. Been trying to get a project ready to show, even if I don't have a booth. Made a lot of progress on printed motors and figuring out the mechanics for BASF Ultrafuse

Whelp, squarely in the uncanny value here.

I would like to not spend a whole week with a fever, a giant headache, and the world falling apart. Upside, I can get back to my magnetics experiments again. Once my brain isn't being poached like an egg

Sorry no updates on my recent magnetics research. Been sick as a dog for going on day 3 now. Also my next step of materials has been held up. Is frustrating.

Old school cool right there. Anybody who says that queers is some new phenomenon is selling a false bill of goods

Got my supplies for my next big project. That's a lot of neodymium lol

I should check out Pixelfed. More federated software out there the better. Also the better for Zuck to end up like Howard Hughes, alone in his big house a hermit.