Bob Fine #IVRHA

Engineer, Environmentalist, IT Architect, Publisher: [email protected]

[Bob Fine #IVRHA @bobfine]

Happy 4th of July! And 250th! The Blue Angels flying over #DC. #Merica!

[Bob Fine #IVRHA @bobfine]

@boardyai Washington, DC

[Bob Fine #IVRHA @bobfine]

@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay

[Dante retro dev 💾 @dantemendes]

NEW RALLY-X for the Commodore 64 (by Jake "TheStuffMade", Andrew Fisher "Merman1974" and NM156).
Released in 2022, it's a very well made port of Namco's 1981 maze racer arcade classic. Very smooth, accurate, and with a very nice SID rendition of the classic in-game music.
The arcade game was very popular, but it never received an official port for the Commodore 64 back in the 1980s. This homebrew release fixes this.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

MT Kilimanjaro as seen from Kenya

[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

Good Morning all!

[Eren Chen @ErenChenAI]

Robot breaking the human speed record and BREAKING an electrical box at the same time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Legends of the skies.

[Aditya Bhatt @aditya_bhatt]

A first glimpse of the wildest robotics project of my PhD.

🛹 The Blind Skateboarder 🛹

No vision. No markers.

Paper, code, weights — coming soon. And we have more. 😉

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

This was one of my favorites to play with my friends in the arcade.

Did you play Gauntlet in the 80s?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

Pitfall!
1982
Atari 2600

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

🎑The universe just pulled off something almost impossible… over Iceland. 🌌🌑

This is the kind of moment that doesn’t just feel rare… it feels unreal.

Seeing the Aurora Borealis is already a bucket-list experience.
Witnessing a Solar Eclipse is rare on its own.

But both… perfectly aligned in the same sky?

That’s the “double crown” — and it might be a once-in-a-lifetime sight.

What looks like pure magic is actually a perfect storm of timing:

✨ A powerful geomagnetic storm ignited vivid auroras across the polar sky
🌑 At the exact same time, the Moon slipped into the Sun’s path of totality
👁️ From the perfect angle, the Sun’s glowing corona formed one crown… while shimmering green auroras painted another behind it

Two crowns. One sky. One fleeting moment.

This is what happens when cosmic precision meets Earth’s atmosphere — a reminder that the universe doesn’t just work in equations… it performs.

And sometimes, if everything aligns just right… we get to witness it.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Northern pygmy owl

[📸 Bucci Photography]

[Andrew Milich @milichab]

The frontier of AI in city-building games over 9 months:

Nov 2025 - https://t.co/zQ6XrqkjsW (left) - Composer 1 + cloud agents
Aug 2026 - https://t.co/JETifwK0kg (right) - Grok 4.6 + /loop

Full 3D and AAA graphics are within reach.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Nothing special to see, just a little buddy enjoying the rain.

[🐸 motherguse2017]

[Bob Fine #IVRHA @bobfine]

@StephNass @STurbovsky 436

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

British artist Sam Toft crafts quirky, heartwarming scenes in pencil, ink, and pastel.

[🎞️ SamToftartist]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Automatic LEGO paper plane making machine

[📹 codeintellectus]