Otavio Coelho

Late bloomer.

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

good summary about the floaty rock drama so far

“if you’re not following LK99, you’re missing out on the most fun thing happening or the internet now. Feels like the old internet.”

https://t.co/ETlt031ObZ

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@8teAPi @justthisguy @Aleph0Tech Qcenter, Kwon, Qanon...

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@paulg Few things more terrifying than when someone wiser than you say "as everybody knows".

[Sinéad Griffin @sineatrix]

https://t.co/TW81iqiS9C #lk99

[Prakash @8teAPi]

The Race To Validate

⏰Previously, on Friday 28 July
Kwon goes rogue and presents at the MMC conference.
Lee is forced to give an interview to Yonhap, retracting the 3 author paper, and disclosing Kwon had been fired 4 months earlier.

⏰Continuing:
🇺🇸 Virginia:, HT Kim, shrugs off the frenzy, corrects the 6 author Arxiv paper. He resubmits on Saturday, with the correction to be mailed out by Arxiv on Tuesday morning. He then starts on his calls and emails.

🇺🇸 Illinois: At DoE funded, Argonne National Labs, Jorg Maser at the Center for Nanoscale Materials gets a call from HT. Maser is trying to figure out what is happening in LK99 as its superconductivity fades around the critical temperature. HT and Maser brainstorm before dialing off.

🇰🇷 Seoul: JH Kim is in the salt mines, supervising production of more LK99, trying to scale up the manufacturing process. HT has more questions on the manufacturing process, which JH quickly answers. Later in the day Lee storms in to the office, swearing at JH’s LinkedIn shitposts. JH deletes everything on his LinkedIn, killing the last Western social media presence of any member of the core team. On Saturday, an Internet influencer from China makes a visit to the modest Qcenter headquarters, is told “Yes, yes we have it” by reception, handed a business card and shooed away.

🇺🇸 Los Angeles: Andrew McCalip, Head of R&D at Varda, a space factory company, reads the description of the LK99 synthesis, and realizes he has most of the equipment in the office. If this is the first room temperature superconductor, there’s no way he’s missing out, so he hustles to secure the ingredients and livestreams the process on Twitch. It is perhaps the most watched stream of a live furnace on the platform in history.

🇨🇳 China: Chinese social media has exploded with speculation. Posts and hoaxes about the LK99 material abound. What is certain is that the materials are widely available, and the process described simple enough, that dozens of labs decide to make an attempt.

🕊️ Twitter: On a widely attended Spaces on Saturday evening, Korean sleuths track down and translate the Korean language scientific papers from Qcenter. They find that a serendipitous accident, the destruction of the quartz capsule on removal from the furnace, resulted in the first sign of the superconductor. This kink begins suspicion that the manufacturing process described in the papers in insufficient. Andrew McCalip, who is on the space, reacts to the news with a sigh. His materials are cooking, and the furnace removal is upcoming. He fires off questions to a number of people. Teams from multiple places start poring over translated Korean language scientific papers with a fine tooth comb.

🇷🇺 Russia: Soil scientist and anime catgirl Iris, stumbles upon the papers and reads them casually on Friday morning. Russian scientific practice when replicating Western papers is to deconstruct the science into abstraction. Not having the same access to equipment, Russian inquiry delves into the why much more deeply, to concentrate on the essence required to produce the outcome. With that starting point, cursing and swearing in inimical Russian style, she recognizes the smokescreen of the method in both papers immediately, cursing the idiocy of the Korean team (normally it would American, but the curses work just as well on Koreans). You want to produce a crystal, get good quality, well mixed starting inputs, and perform the actual exothermic reaction that produces the desired outcome. She posts her kitchen chemistry process over the weekend, at arrives at 2 confirmed Meissner effect levitation stones, beating all other public teams. She posts the pics on Twitter and begins to indulge in her favorite hobby, insulting the intelligence of westerners.

📈In Corporate Boardrooms Around The World: Eyebrows are raised, what-ifs are asked, quiet emissaries are despatched.

⏰Monday

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

idk I've known enough eastern europeans that i'm inclined to trust the insane soviet lesbian staying up for days to run a custom synthesis process in her kitchen and posting it all to twitter

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@Fighterman_FFRC Alien tech they've been reverse engineering?

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@paulg Objectively more conventional or less exciting? I'm pretty sure it's the lack of empathy that causes it.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@72spare_ribs @shashj If Baghdad had the same kind of manpower that Uk has, US wouldn't have invaded. It's a non issue.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@mitchellh @dannysullivan @xan_nick It seems to me that someone gave gpt-3 a credit card and it went on a site building spree with sub-par/uncanny content.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@MarkHertling @NATO @mattgaetz @SecDef 63 more to the "genocide enablers" list.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@phildstewart @SecBlinken So... genocide?

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@EliotHiggins I have a feeling we'll soon find mass executions of civilians in the city of Sumy.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

"The official legal definition of genocide(...) has huge problems because it doesn't give us clear thresholds(...) The UN definition is problematic, but in this case it fits like a glove".

[Eugene Finkel @eugene_finkel]

Got questions about why I think it is genocide. Until this morning I resisted applying the term. War crimes? Sure. Heinous rhetoric? You bet. What changed is the combination of more and more evidence, from different places, and even more importantly, explicit official rhetoric /1

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@Sputnik_Not @AbraxasSpa Ah! The good'ol bear trap!

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@L_Team10 They were expecting to correct the failure that was the first day of war. Plan was to decapitate Ukraine's government. Now they know it won't be possible.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@PhillipsPOBrien https://t.co/Dz01WSkNdq
Apparently they will.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

...OU talvez seja um truque! (astutos como uma topeira) Anunciam um cessar fogo no NE enquanto esperam reforços.
P.S.: A Russia já perdeu/abandonou 327 tanques (t-64, t-72s, t-80s), e 235 blindados (BRMs, BMPs, MT-LPs, etc..). Confirmado visualmente.

[Otavio Coelho @0tt049]

@christogrozev Maybe because symptoms fit with pesticides (organophosphate) poisoning.