Justin Becker

I fiddle with computers for money.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

what about now

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

[AA @measure_plan]

coding is easy these days

[Zephyr @zephyr_z9]

> be me, Intel
> world domination status: achieved
> have a license to print money with x86
> life is good
> be 2007, some fruit company named Apple shows up
> "hey can you make a chip for our new phone?"
> my CFO brain activates
> look at their offer... pathetic
> my margins! my beautiful margins!
> "lmao no," I tell them, "get that low volume, low margin peasant shit out of my office"
> tell them to go bother some Korean foundry
> they call it the "iPhone"
> it only sells, like, a bazillion units
> oops.mp4
> should have listened to my gut, but my gut was too busy counting shareholder dividends
> speaking of shareholders
> CEO is now a finance bro
> innovation is for nerds, stock buybacks are for chads
> spend $36 billion to make line go up
> R&D? how about R&Buyback
> TSMC and Samsung are building fabs? cute.
> we're building value for our shareholders
> meanwhile, in the basement...
> be AMD, literally on life support
> selling their HQ to pay the rent
> "hey guys what if we made a good CPU for once?"
> entire Intel leadership room dies of laughter
> we're still milking 14nm++++ for the fifth year in a row
> what are they gonna do, beat us with... checks notes... core count and efficiency?
> HQ focused on PPT presentations and buybacks
> R&D team: "hey we have this 10nm design but it's kinda... impossible to manufacture?"
> me: "JUST MAKE IT WORK, I HAVE A DIVIDEND TO ANNOUNCE"
> requirement: quadruple the transistor density, tooling: from the stone age, yield: literally negative
> "10nm is fine, everything is fine" for five years
> entire company is stuck on 14nm++++++++
> watching AMD just call TSMC and get a shiny new 7nm node like it's nothing
> suddenly, AMD's "Zen" thing is actually good
> gamers and redditors are calling me a "dead company walking"
> my stock is in freefall
> panic.jpg
> hire back Based Pat Gelsinger to save us
> Pat comes in: "what in the goddamn..."
> find out we're now outsourcing our own chips to TSMC
> mfw we missed mobile, lost the process lead, got rekt by AMD, and our grand plan is to ask the government for money
> mfw we're now a fabless fab with an identity crisis
> mfw the once-proud "Intel Inside" is now "TSMC Inside"
> at least the shareholders had some good quarters
> company_cope.jpg

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Cope and seethe @PressSec

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

It really is top down narrative control. As soon as news happens, the message goes out to all MAGA influencers to repeat the same talking point.

It just seems silly to complain about MSM groupthink relative to this kind of pure, organized propaganda.

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

China has clearly noted the fact that WW2 didn't end until the combined bombing offensive focused on and destroyed the Axis powers' oil supplies. The war was unwinnable for Germany and Japan from mid 1942 on the basis of industrial production, but both had sufficient raw materials stockpiled to maintain production of weapons until about 1947. But in 1944, their oil supply was finally strangled and their war effort collapsed within months.

China is currently far ahead on industrial production and maximizing the rate of the on-shoring of their energy production.

Today, anyone could shut down the Straits of Malacca. By 2030, China will no longer depend on it. With enough solar power, they can internalize mass production of energy, oil, silicon, metals, and everything else they could possibly need.

The US easily has the financial power to buy all the production of Chinese solar factories and deploy them in the US, to ensure our children have near infinite free energy. But we've decided to privilege the aesthetic value of 200 million acres of featureless lifeless uninhabitable desert over ensuring that American values ensure freedom for humanity in the eternal future light cone.

What's the plan here? Just hand the next millennium to China on a silver platter?

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Our biggest economic competitors have train stations that look like this and Americans want to debate whether we should have trains that connect major cities?

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

We have GOT to have a serious conversation about the trade-offs of the heckler’s veto. A handful of litigious, well connected NIMBYs/locals can massively delay, distort and destroy multi-$billion projects that will benefit millions of people.

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

You could chose your leftism to be identified with A) Build tons of cool fast trains and airports and affordable homes or B) Use a lot of weird words no one understands and ABOLISH COPS and 'eating bananas is actually colonialism.'

One of the above works

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

If you have anxiety, try scheduling your worry time earlier in the day so it doesn’t interfere with your sleep.

[dax @thdxr]

my wife's water broke so she went to download an app to time her contractions

i grabbed her phone out of her hands "what are you doing! don't you realize we live in the age of personal software?"

we downloaded replit and vibe coded the perfect app with threejs and supabase

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING — AND I AGREE — THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR) DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHY? BECAUSE OF THE “MOST INCREDIBLE MAPS IN THE HISTORY OF MAPPING” (EVEN COLUMBUS). THESE MAPS WILL END THE “VERY RIGGED” ELECTIONS, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN (MAGA!!!), RETAKE CONGRESS “FOR THE PEOPLE”, AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE DONE THIS — CERTAINLY NOT THE “SELF-PROCLAIMED” MASTER DEALMAKER DONALD “TACO” TRUMP (TINY HANDS) WHO MISSED “THE DEADLINE” AND LOST (SAD!). PEACE THROUGH MAPS — NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE. I AM THE “PEACE TIME” GOVERNOR NOW, STOPPING “POLITICAL WARS” BEFORE THEY START. HARMONY, UNITY, EVEN LOVE. THE NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS GIVEN THIS AWARD TO LESSER PEOPLE FOR MUCH LESS. I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, ACTUALLY EARNED IT. THE WORLD WILL BE SAFER, KINDER, AND FRANKLY MORE “BEAUTIFUL” BECAUSE OF MY MAPS. GIVE GAVIN THE NOBEL, MANY ARE SAYING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Yeonsoo Go, a 20‑year‑old Purdue University student, went into what she thought was a routine visa hearing in New York. When she walked out, ICE agents arrested her on the spot and sent her to a detention center in Louisiana. Go was in the country legally.

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

Day in Trump's economy:

> Wake up, check the news
> BLS: "10 billion new jobs created"
> Check my phone to see what today's tariff rates are.
> Norway up 20%, Cambodia down 5%
> Go to my iphone assembly line job where I make $7.25/hour
> Spend next 4 hours putting chips inside phones
> Take 15 minute break
> Check my shitfartpisscoin holdings
> Rugged
> Watch the FOMC meeting
> FOMC is just Trump
> Trump goes on stage and announces he's raising rates from -10% to -5%
> Also announces date of Jay Powell's public execution
> AI manager scolds me for taking 16 minutes on my 15 minute break
> It's only been 12 minutes
> Call employee help line to complain
> It's also AI
> Go home frustrated
> Complain to my girlfriend about my job
> She's also AI

[Open Sauce @OpenSauceLive]

“hey can you make sure my drink doesn’t go anywhere?”

the ever deceitful 12 legged walking coffee table:

[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

This is literally superpower suicide.

These are some of the most talented public servants doing critical work.

Champagne corks are popping in Beijing and Moscow after they already emptied the wine cellars celebrating the end of USAID.

[Bill Gates @BillGates]

The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.