Writer | Creator | Engineer AI, energy, tech; the history + future of human systems. Calling out where both sides get it wrong through nuance. Goal: WH Ballroom
Dallas, TX
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With respect to everyone’s concern about Notre Dame’s mysterious lost 1 second… this video puts it to rest. 👇🏻
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Elon Musk’s companies did all of this in the last 6 weeks.
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I want to hate BYU but then they put shit out like this and I just can’t
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I was able to do some research on this effect, as I was having a hard time believing that the amount of water I saw in #Nepal #Flood had me sure that a dammed lake must have been released. But this has been seen before, though not usually at this scale.
Falling ice and snow do not have enough potential energy to rapidly melt themselves, but when occurring in conjunction with a rock-slide, the rocks become very heated as they grind and break, then transferring that heat very quickly to the ice within the mixed slurry. By the time it gets to the bottom of the mountain, the glacier is almost entirely melted. Additionally, the debris flow can be up to 80% rock and sediment and still flow like water.
Essentially, a mountain partially collapsed from a very high height, and the energy released was unbelievably catastrophic.
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Huge breakthrough last night! I haven’t slept much since, because I’m so eager to flesh out this new opening (and epilogue) for my book. 📖
I’ve been hesitating for months on pulling the trigger to start the process of releasing my book, mostly because I really didn’t like my Introduction. For this book, the opening is especially important because it is absolutely crucial in pulling together a collection of seemingly unrelated Articles and Short Stories. Now I have the perfect narrative to tie it all together. Relief! 😅
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Energy security and affordability are very important to our country’s future. This is a step in the right direction!
Nuclear can be 100% safe with the right design and operating discipline.
#nuclear #GreenEnergy #EnergySecurity @elonmusk @Meta @AnthropicAI
Today, an advanced non-lightwater nuclear reactor reached criticality in the United States for the first time in more than four decades.
Thanks to President Trump unleashing the American Nuclear Renaissance, this was made possible. 🇺🇸
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Americans have been building bridges like that since the 1930’s
🇺🇸🇨🇳 American engineers said only God could build a bridge here.
China said hold my beer.
The Shui Luo River Bridge now spans a 650-foot canyon, built using cantilever arms extended from both sides until they meet mid-air.
It uses C80 steel-fiber reinforced concrete, nearly 3x stronger than typical materials.
Quite impressive.
Source: @rawbuildd YT0
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Be careful throwing around the “R” word:
“You have no right to any benefits for which you have not paid.” - A.R.
“A right to goods and services implies an obligation on someone else to provide them.” - M.F.
“A right cannot impose an unchosen obligation on another person.” - A.R.
Access to affordable, fresh food should not be a luxury determined by zip code; it should be a right.
That is why I am grateful to Mayor Mamdani and the NYCEDC for their work to open a public grocery store in Hunts Point and strengthen food access across the South Bronx.
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You can now get 1kW lasers that can cut through tree branches
This IS the future we were promised
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We have the technology to make ticks, mosquitos, etc… extinct from this planet RIGHT NOW, TODAY. The general population is just too ignorant and cowardly to allow it.
technologyreview.com/2016/04…
One tick bite made this man allergic to red meat.
Now over 450,000 Americans are allergic to beef & dairy and the number is rising.
What’s is going on?
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We should build a few square miles of these in the Great Salt Lake! (Though, probably without the fish farming 😂)
It would reduce evaporation rates while providing power to the growing population!
#Utah #UtahDataCentre @MittRomney @SenMikeLee @SpencerJCox
🇨🇳 China just switched on the world's largest offshore solar farm
2.3 million solar panels. 2,934 steel platforms. 11,736 piles driven into the ocean floor. Built to survive force-11 gales and sea ice.
It sits 5 miles off the coast and powers 2.67 million people.
Oh, and they're also farming fish underneath it 😳
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Today, nobody is against electricity, or electrification.
But the anti-data centre backlash we are seeing today has a precedent: the anti-electricity backlash of the early 1900s.
They thought electricity would lead to horrible things.
Here's a propaganda cartoon from then:
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It’s unsettling when you realize that the anti-AI / anti-Robotics movement is fighting to KEEP making humans do these jobs forever. 😞
@elonmusk @AOC @BernieSanders @sama @JeffBezos
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The Seat Test
In the spring of 2023, a youth coordinator in suburban Columbus named Carol made a small change to her annual church trip. Instead of letting the kids choose their seats for the three-hour van ride, she assigned them. Randomly. She taped a seating chart to the passenger window the night before. First names only. No negotiations.
She had done the trip eleven times. She thought she knew what to expect.
She was wrong.
One girl—fourteen, honor roll, dance team, probably the most socially successful teenager in the group—stood in the parking lot and said she felt sick. She asked twice, then three times, if she could please sit with her best friend. When Carol said no, the girl’s mother walked over and asked if perhaps an exception could be made. Carol held the line. The girl got in the van. She sat in Seat 7, next to another girl she had known since third grade. She stared out the window for forty-five minutes without speaking.
Carol told me she thought about that scene for weeks. Not because anything bad happened. By lunchtime the girl was fine. By dinner she was laughing. But Carol kept returning to that image—the pale face, the pleading—and asking herself what it meant. “She wasn’t being bullied,” Carol said. “She was being asked to sit next to a kid she’d known for six years.”
There are three levels here, and they map almost perfectly onto where a teenager can sit.
The first is preference. I’d like to sit with my friends. Normal. Human. Not a flaw.
The second is dependency. I cannot sit anywhere else. This is different. They seem to need to. If they are separated from their one or two safest people, even for a lunch period, a van ride, or a short activity, they react as if they have been placed in real danger. They may shut down, panic, refuse to participate, beg adults to rearrange the plan, or act as though sitting with ordinary acquaintances is a social catastrophe.
The third is leadership. I like my friends, but I can also sit somewhere else—and sometimes I will, because someone else needs it more. This is where maturity begins. And it never develops on its own. It develops through small, accumulated moments of managed discomfort. Through a few hundred instances of surviving the awkward seat, the unfamiliar conversation, the lunch table that wasn’t arranged the way she wanted.
That last kind of teenager is not produced by comfort. She is produced by repeated, low-grade social exposure to people and situations outside her closest circle. She has been, in a sense, inoculated—given small doses of social unfamiliarity until her immune system stopped treating it as a threat.
That is the seat test. Not whether you have friends. Not whether you prefer your friends. But whether you are free enough—and strong enough—to sit somewhere else.
#psychology @jordanbpeterson @joerogan @CharismaOn #confidence #howtowinfriendsandinfluencepeople
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This is the world changing Rosheim joint. It fundamentally changed robotic motion. You will be hearing a lot about these joint over this decade.
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“Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.
That is what terrifies the establishment.
Not that he might fail.
That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.” @elonmusk @CathieDWood
Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.
She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.
Not as praise. As a pattern.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.
Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.
The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.
Start with Tesla.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.
Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.
Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.
Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.
Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.
A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.
Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.
SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.
Which is exactly what the press counts on.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
Mars was never the exit.
It is the lab.
Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.
You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.
Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.
He is not running from the cradle.
He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.
But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.
Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.
Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.
That is what terrifies the establishment.
Not that he might fail.
That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.
A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.
So they do the only thing they have left.
They send the media after him.
Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.
It has worked on every builder before him.
It will not work on this one.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.
The stones always come from inside the walls.
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