MarkBruns

- Live simply, imitate Christ
- Build discipline for hard times or opportunity
- Optimize cynicism, accept min govt
- Make citizenship great again
- Open source

[MarkBruns @MarkBruns]

Since I'm a $SPCX owner now, I'd like my company to become a visual universe-scape of the connections between all researchers, ie we're ALL researchers ... I know, I know -- ownership does not mean that I get a vote, but I want my stake to be worth more.

Maybe @Grok or @NikitaBier or somebody working @SpaceXAI or @ElonMusk or somebody else has more ideas on how we can turn @X into more of an obvious visual BUT VIRTUAL navigable universe-scape of connected ideas, without being CREEPY-connected about it, ie we don't actually want people dropping by our homes or favorite places and hanging out with us in a physical sense ... it's JUST about separate, distinct, different ideas ... but NOT about hyper-summarized, homogenized, AI-swaged, hyper-aggregated SUMMARIES that one gets in a @Grok response ... what we really want is navigable universe-scape of connected ideas and thoughtlets ... maybe like @ConnectedPapers, but not for the useful research that might matter like the @SemanticScholar stuff, but just for ALL dumbshit research ... dumbshit stuff is the precursor of useful stuff.

Yes we are all doing RESEARCH ... ok, not all of us do USEFUL stuff -- we're are ALL just dumbshit researchers, but the most insufferable dumbshits don't know they're also dumbshits ... so we don't need to dwell on our limitations.

[alphaXiv @askalphaxiv]

Introducing the Global Researcher Map 🌎

We mapped every AI researcher into a visual landscape you can explore

Search your favorite authors, topics, or institutions, and see who’s behind the work

[Mike Lindell @realMikeLindell]

Help secure our Election Platforms and Save Our Country by removing Electronic Voting Machines! https://t.co/YDaIy9zZIq

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

@ClaudeDevs I smell fear

[Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina]

John Thune is planning on drafting his own version of the NDAA actively working to try to block the SAVE AMERICA ACT. This will now have to be done in conference. A Manager’s Amendment from the Chairwoman Fox of rules can Force this in once the Senate sends us their version.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

The only reason why nuclear power is expensive is because of compliance regulations, which you and the rest of your colleagues in Congress have the power to change.

Nuclear fission reactors / power plants are incredibly cheap in to build China, where they’re building reactors for $2.50 USD / watt. Wind is a loser that cannot power industrialized societies.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

Alberta doesn’t have to accept decline just because Canada has.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

At the Great American State Fair, I just announced a proposed roll back of the Biden admin's overburdensome truck emission rules. This proposal, which includes a permanent and total elimination of Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) deratements, would save American truckers $12 billion. https://t.co/9EzvvjKkgR

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

SpaceX is building the Gigasat Factory in Bastrop to manufacture AI satellites at massive scale.

This facility is planned to enable rapid production and deployment of thousands of AI satellites starting as soon as late 2027.

[Royce White 🇺🇸 @Highway_30]

We have to stop these people, or we won't have our sanity... Much less a country.

Royce White for U.S. Senate MN 2026
Vote Primary August 11th

[Pizza Pepe @PizzaPepe]

Insurance is the biggest scam ever!

Listen to this!

[RoboHub🤖 @XRoboHub]

The “last mile” has always been the weakest link in autonomous delivery.

Autonomous vehicles excel on structured roads.

But stairs? Grass? Narrow walkways? That’s where they start to struggle.

That’s why the vehicle + quadruped combo actually makes sense.

Workflow:

→ Autonomous vehicle: warehouse → delivery station (efficient, long-haul)

→ Robot dog: takes over the messy final few hundred meters — stairs, doorsteps, uneven ground.

The quadruped carries 30 kg, handles rough terrain, and works in harsh conditions.

The bigger idea isn’t replacing workers — it’s building a system where each robot does what it does best.

Wheels for speed. Legs for the places wheels can’t go.

That’s how autonomous delivery starts to feel real.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

Every state and local election official is on notice – knowingly encouraging noncitizens to vote or conspiring to fraudulently register noncitizens is a federal crime. The @CivilRights Division is ready to help with compliance as American citizens deserve free and fair elections!

[MarkBruns @MarkBruns]

Just ROLL with it ...

... it's not like anybody's keeping score.

[Iowa State Men’s Wrestling @CycloneWR]

Coby Merrill's 🇺🇸 quick tech fall over Carlos Cabrales Encarnacion 🇲🇽 in Round 2.

📺 @FloWrestling

[MarkBruns @MarkBruns]

Sequester carbon as LIFE ... as the neurocomputational foundation ... not just for us, but EVERYTHING living, thinking and exchanging knowledge around us.

Sequester carbon as LIFE.

Obviously, carbon (C) is centrally depicted in this 3D spiral visualization because of its unique and fundamental role as the primary "building block" of complex matter—especially the organic molecules that form the basis of chemistry, biology, and life on Earth.

Carbon stands out among ALL elements for several key reasons rooted in its atomic properties and chemical behavior ... including tetravalency and versatile bonding for versatility that transcends scale ... as the foundation of organic chemistry and biomolecules, including clusters of lighter elements critical to organic chemistry—C, N (nitrogen), O (oxygen), and F (fluorine)—which commonly combine with carbon in functional groups and molecular structures ... being central to life as the structural backbone of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids and biological matter.

When atoms come ALIVE, things become much more interesting ... otherwise, the molecules are just a pile of DEAD, lifeless stuff ... with no BEING, no personality, no LIFE, ie the molecules could just as well be just STUPID AI, ie nothing but stupid fantasy or some scribbled depiction of molecules.

Because of it's transition between solid, liquid and gaseous forms, carbon is unique [at Earth's temperature] as a "DYNAMIC 3D spiral" of the building blocks of LIFE and matter ... carbon is the fundamental, versatile building block of our lives, especially for our more complex, neurological structures.

Carbon is special ... its bonding properties enable the rich, intricate chemistry that turns simple atoms into the complex world around us ... it is SENSELESS and STUPID to sequester carbon in lifeless, DEAD forms.

Carbon is what makes our lives come alive ... not just in the atoms in our body, but in greater sense of the LIVING world around us.

[Mathematica @mathemetica]

Visualization of the building blocks of matter in a dynamic 3D spiral.

Elements are arranged by increasing atomic number in layered, helical paths, with central focus on lighter atoms such as C, N, O, and F, expanding outward through transition metals, lanthanides, and superheavy elements. Color zones highlight blocks and periodic trends in a continuous structure.

[Helion @Helion_Energy]

Our new small-scale pulsed plasma testbed is used for studying how first wall materials interact with our circuits.

Comparing materials in plasma conditions helps us quantify losses, efficiency, and performance before scaling.

[MarkBruns @MarkBruns]

This is NOT intended to be a sales pitch or marketing brochure for Deno, rather than Bun ... just an explanation.

Do your own research.

Deno prioritizes security with a strict permissions model offering native TypeScript support. It is ideal for projects a semblance of security and alignment with web standards ... OF COURSE, npm compatibility (~95%) will be slightly limited, because there's some stupid asinine shit that you have no business doing. #NOasaService

Bun, prioritzes speed rather than security, excelling in HTTP throughput (110,000 req/s) and package installations (1 second). If you're a YOLO kind of guy who wants to just light the whole bag of fireworks and fuck everybody's shit up fast, think Bun for high-performance, serverless, and no-rules startup environments which total lack anything like a formal long term service policy OR any expectation that any moroon will come along want to use your DISPOSABLEaf bullshit code ever again.

https://t.co/VvFs3mBd6R

[MarkBruns @MarkBruns]

Any high-performance JS runtime that deeply integrates with a foreign GC (JSC in Bun’s case, V8 in Node/Deno) will have tricky memory boundaries ... WHY is this not OBVIOUS ... FROM THE START?

Maybe the severity and cost were not inevitable in the same way ... maybe somebody was being pushed, per vibe coding norms in tokenmaxxing world, to just get something, anything kinda [but not cleanly] shipped ... it's safe to say that this kind of thinking is how decisions are made in places like @AnthropicAI ... or other places, like @OpenAI, eagerly involved in the headlong scramble to just ship the equivalent of Netscape's Navigator <blink> icon ...

"That's so HOT -- everybody will LOVE it! SHIP IT!!"

Zig made the problem worse AT SCALE: Manual allocators + explicit defer/errdefer everywhere + no automatic cleanup on error paths + no borrow checker. Maybe one-third of recent PRs were about GC interop class ... and, thanks to Zig, it was getting worse and worse.

The garbage collection interoperability [or the PAINFUL boundary between two completely different memory worlds in Bun (and any JS runtime] was amplified by the vibe coded fiasco. When the Zig codebase hit 535k LOC, a huge percentage of bugs (use-after-free, leaks on error paths, stale pointers) became chronically worsening and EXPANDING.

Rust was ORIGINALLY designed to prevent exactly this class of fiasco. Ownership, borrow checker, RAII-style Drop, and move semantics catch most of those issues at compile time ... OR BEFORE ...

... because, RustLang programmers start to understand what kinds of crap is never going to have a chance of compiling and thus the RustLang codebase is OVERALL better, with no bad examples to imitate, replicate vibe-wise ... as is the case with other POPULAR languages that make it easy for any moroon to imagine that they can program ...

The leaks/crashes Bun was fighting would have never existed if written in safe Rust. Deno (which is zero-config JavaScript runtime written in Rust) proves this approach is stable.

[Shravan Venkataraman @theBuoyantMan]

Anthropic porting bun from zig to rust with billions of tokens being used in the process - exactly the kind of marketing Anthropic needs at this time.

But Andrew Kelly's criticism is sharp and valid (about the project itself) but teeters on the edge of envy and disdain.

Sad to see this.