Dillon Alam, LAT, ATC

❤️05/25/22 | Athletic Trainer for Christus St. Vincent-Capital High School | opinions are my own and do not represent CSV or CHS

[Dillon Alam, LAT, ATC @AlamDillon]

“The secret of the care of a patient, is caring about the patient”-John Lopez, LAT, ATC

[Dillon Alam, LAT, ATC @AlamDillon]

@fuqekgs This is why I’m like…cause I’ve heard a guy I know going into gyno make a joke like this. It’s still odd to me and I don’t really trust guys in gyno cause it’s like - of all of the many many things you could go into as a man…that one?

[✨neuron divergent EKG slayer MD✨ @fuqekgs]

So anyways, I was selected for yet another oral presentation at the same national conference this year 🥰🥰🥰

[Martin-Baker @MB_EjectEject]

We’re pleased to share that Martin-Baker will once again be exhibiting at the Annual SAFE Symposium in Mobile, AL.

Stop by our booth #108 to chat with the team about the latest in Ejection Seat Technology! 🔻

#EngineeringForLife

[Dillon Alam, LAT, ATC @AlamDillon]

@NatureUnedited He is trying to get your hand actively, evil little fucker

[Dillon Alam, LAT, ATC @AlamDillon]

My first day and my last day.

Has been a wild, absolutely wild 3 years @capital_jaguar

But I wouldn’t rather have gone through it with any other group.

Thank you for giving me a home after college. Love and will miss all of you.

Excited for a new chapter.

[Dillon Alam, LAT, ATC @AlamDillon]

Honored and happy to be named @positiveath NM AT of the Year :)

ALSO

Congrats to @CHSJagsFootball Niko Salazar for winning one of the Athlete of the Year spots. Cant imagine someone who deserves it more. Kid works his butt off every single day.

[Dillon Alam, LAT, ATC @AlamDillon]

We have the Apache at home

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

China's new Z-10B recently broke cover, and if rumors are correct, it’s already on PLA’s active roster. The new helicopter borrows heavily from the Z-10ME export variant built for Pakistan, packing a mast-mounted radar, satcoms, and a beefy EW suite. Visually, the only real way to tell the Z-10B apart from the Z-10ME is the tail. The domestic version drops the complex scissor-type setup for a simplified, conventional tail rotor design. Anyway, here is a quick visual overview of the new bird. What do you think of it, #avgeeks?

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

This will happen to all of the wildlife that are going to be affected by these data centers btw.

[David @dqveed]

Wym “allegedly”, his drunk ass right there on camera 😭

[Onixx @fowontmiss]

She's going to remember that hug during those times when things get rough. That hug communicated things words never could.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I just had the craziest experience at the airport.

We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.

Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”

Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.

The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”

He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”

Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…

Start clapping.

I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.

All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.

It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.

@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The last time an El Niño this strong hit, it killed 50 million people. That was 3 to 4% of the entire world population. Scale that to today and you're looking at 250 million equivalent.

The 1877 Super El Niño triggered simultaneous droughts across India, China, Brazil, and East Africa. Crops failed on four continents at the same time. The famine lasted three years. Researchers have called it "arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity."

NOAA's latest update gives a two-in-three chance this one reaches strong or very strong by fall. European models are even more aggressive. Sea surface temperatures need to exceed 2°C above normal to qualify as "super." The trajectory is pointing directly at that threshold.

Here's what makes 2026 structurally different from every previous Super El Niño: there are two independent supply shocks converging on the same crop cycle.

The Iran war has shut down roughly a third of the world's seaborne fertilizer trade through the Strait of Hormuz. US fertilizer supply was at 75% of normal in mid-March, right when the Corn Belt needed it most. Fertilizer prices hit their highest level since 2022. That input shortage is already baked into the 2026 growing season.

The El Niño yield shock operates on a 6 to 12 month lag. India is forecasting below-normal monsoons for the first time in three years. Indonesia and Malaysia carry 90% of global palm oil, and El Niño production declines in those countries take 6 to 24 months to peak. Every strong El Niño in the past 55 years has reduced global cocoa production.

So the fertilizer shortage weakens the crops El Niño is about to stress, and the El Niño yield collapse hits in 2027 on fields that were already under-fertilized in 2026. Two shocks with nearly identical lag structures, converging on the same harvest window.

The difference between 1877 and 2026: we can see this one coming six months out. The commodity futures curve is barely pricing either shock. Whether that's rational discounting or willful denial depends entirely on what the Pacific Ocean does between now and October.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A simple software update now lets soldiers use the radios they already carry to stop enemy drones. L3Harris created this new tool called Wraith Shield, which works with their common Wraith radios like the AN/PRC-171 model that many U.S., NATO, and allied troops already have.

The radios scan radio waves around them while an onboard computer detects signals from enemy FPV drones
When a soldier spots one, they push a button, and up to 40 radios in the group work together to jam the drone’s signal, causing it to crash, hover in place, or return home.

The update costs only a few thousand dollars per radio, and soldiers need no new gear or much extra training. It will soon support bigger groups and more radio types later this year.

Older anti-drone tools can be expensive or require special teams, but Wraith Shield gives every small unit this capability using equipment they already have.

It works best against radio-controlled drones and does not fully stop fiber-optic drones, fully self-flying ones, or specialized military drones.

The first units are ready to ship now, and both the U.S. and other countries want them.

[Russell Varone @Russell_MFG_USA]

Re- the Idaho Navy Jet Crash...

As much as it sucks that 4 pilots almost died and we lost two very expensive jets...

There is an upside.
4 more people get to buy this watch.

Martin Baker "Red Barrel" Watch - only available to pilots who have used a Martin Baker Ejection seat.

[Martin-Baker @MB_EjectEject]

Yesterday, two Boeing E/A-18G Growlers collided mid-air during an airshow demonstration at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

All four pilots successfully ejected using the Martin-Baker US14A (NACES) Ejection Seat.

#EngineeringForLife

[Vril Nye @VrilNyeX]

Fuck your data centers

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter
Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure

his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy

what he revealed:

> Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers
> sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits
> DynamoDB + SQS for async provisioning
> Packer + SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale

Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers

this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

save this

[Truthful🛰️ @Truthful_ast]

This is why all the big entities want to control Steam

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

ICU doc here.

This is a cardiac arrest not a heart attack and this is terrible resuscitation. Not managing the airway. Trying - unsuccessfully - for a hand IV. The LUCAS device looks malpositioned and its use is associated with worse neurological outcomes than manual CPR.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

My hot take is US Senators should be paid whatever their states minimum wage is. That’s how you represent your constituents, you live like them.