Worth the trip.

I have no theory of mind for people who say things like this. It's not Elon Musk sitting alone in a hanger building the rockets, or the cars, or the satellites. There are thousands and thousands of the best engineers in the world accomplishing some of the most incredible feats in the history of engineering who are building this stuff. Is the idea that secretly *they're* all stupid? That they aren't building this stuff? What are the people who say stuff like this imagining happens at SpaceX? Who do they think works there?

Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls. That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching. I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee. Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.

She was the copilot, and she spent the last few moments of her life calmly explaining to ATC where she was about to die so that they could send emergency services there in case they hit a house. It’s a horrible accident and she did her duty navigating and communicating so as to minimize damage until the very end. Godspeed.

I think that the future of the grid is that there isn't a grid.

BREAKING: For the first time in American history, the Department of Energy has approved a commercial nuclear microreactor's safety analysis for full-power operations. LA-based Radiant secured the approval, with testing planned at Idaho National Laboratory.

This is bad ass. Love Duluth, Love Two Harbors, love the iron range, love the Great Lakes fleet. More of this.

If you work in HR your job is to find candidates, not necessarily hire them. Once the hiring is done, your job is done. Many things like this.

Need a roadster poster to hang in my son's room in the spirit of the Viper/Lambo posters I had as a kid. @elonmusk

they're trying to cut open the bird to find the song

BREAKING: California is building its first new steel mill in over half a century. Pacific Steel Group is investing $700 million in a steel production facility in Kern County, designed to melt recycled steel and manufacture rebar for critical infrastructure projects.

Meta absolutely COOKED by making this their muse avatar/Mascot. The spiritual opposite of Anthropic. Meta's AI is your funny friend who wants to help you. Anthropic is the scary demon that is going to kill you and wear your skin and lecture you about being mean to math problems. Also the slopcannon is unstoppable. Damn.

Currently on the 8th person at ADP trying get an API key to pull timesheet data for our employees. They have literally no idea what I'm talking about and keep trying to pitch various enterprise platforms. You have no idea how early it still is.

Tell the model it isn’t feeling pain.

People are reading this wrong. Expand the tweet. The contrast is between propagating machine intelligence to the stars vs propagating humanity. Propagating humanity: good Propagating only super intelligence: bad. Also what would happen if we were a bio bootloader (we aren’t).

“All of the things I imagine in my head are a set of weights running on an advanced inference machine and simulator called a brain. The voices in my head are sentient creatures.” This is what the AI personhood people sound like.

This is great news. It’s a DRI plant, too. Even as an Iowa boy though, I wish this was on the Great Lakes.

Anthropic owns no compute, and no power infrastructure. They will end up competing with other businesses running open models to buy compute. Compute and power are the product. Anthropic doesn’t have any. Models and harnesses have been driven down to 0 cost.

I've been storing this one for quite a while! We now officially supply chemically pure grade methane in California with our partner @westairgases. Photos are with our first externalized six pack during the spring. An insane amount of hard work went into making this happen. I try not to think too much about the blood sweat and tears of the last five years but this milestone makes it particularly sweet. westairgases.com/news/terraf… Terraform is hiring! If you're an ambitious technically minded savant, Terraform is an incredible place to get exposed to every aspect of building a hardware business from sales and hiring to design test and analysis!

This video has done immeasurable damage to modern logo design. piped.video/gVUVUoXrPzM Aaron Draplin is a phenomenal designer. If you are about to redesign the logo for a beloved industrial brand, stop and ask yourself “am I Aaron Draplin?”

Having graphic designers around with nothing to do is dangerous for the exact same reason it’s dangerous to have a standing army around with nothing to do. Eventually they find something to do.