Dan Lowe

Biodiesel, compost, aeroponics & earthworks can solve every problem. Unless we have another world war.

#permaculture #fungi #algae #dev #noNPSM7

[MOSS @MOSS_Global]

🤗 MOSS-Image is now open source on @huggingface .
Built on a 5B Diffusion Transformer (DiT), MOSS-Image brings Chinese & English text rendering and controllable layouts to image generation — from posters and infographics to creative visuals.@Open_MOSS

What it offers:
📝 Long prompts & text rendering — up to 4K-token prompts, including multi-line text
📐 Experimental JSON layout control — specify text, objects, and their positions using bounding boxes
🖼️ Flexible generation — multiple aspect ratios, resolutions, and customizable inference settings 🛠️ Developer workflows — Python (Diffusers), Gradio, ComfyUI, and a Prompt Enhancer Skill
📦 Base & SFT checkpoints are both available, with open model weights and Apache-2.0 licensed inference code.

🙌 Huge thanks to @sgl_project @vllm_project @ModelScope2022 for the Day-0 support!

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@BrianMcDonaldIE The cruel irony is that I truly don't believe Russia invaded Ukraine to control it let alone intended to ever invade Europe but I also think that if authorities want something similar to current institutions to exist moving forward Russia has to represent international 'order'

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@borntoFLY11135 @ImpactMediaFR Ninky nonk in a french accent, acting like they have never heard of it

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@angeloinchina I thought these same people elected a different government last year

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

https://t.co/WO8EZbtMra

[AJ Signal @aj_geo_analysis]

Iran just put its MISSILE MAKER in charge of the Defence Ministry...

When the war started back in Feb 2026, Iran's Defence Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh, a former air force commander, along with the IRGC chief and the armed forces chief of staff were all killed.

For almost 8 months the seat stayed empty under an “acting” minister deploying the MOSAIC Doctrine.

Today the Iranian parliament put another person in charge as the new Minister of Defence with a vote of 237 yes to 15.

The man is Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabchi, a career engineer and a Defence Ministry figure with decades in Iran's MISSILE and aerospace industries and the former head of the Aerospace Industries Organization, the body the @USTreasury named as the overall manager of Iran's missile program.

@UN sanctioned him back in 2007, then US sanctioned him in 2008, and with NO published war command.

...So what?

The former Defence Minister was a pilot who came up through command.

Akhlaghi spent his career BUILDING the missiles Iran has been firing since February.

He knows that system from the inside, the factories, the suppliers, the dispersal sites, how a missile moves from the line to the launcher and how long it takes to replace one.

As minister he now runs ALL of it, the missile lines and the drone lines, under a US naval blockade.

But WHY him?

Because Tehran's number one priority now is PRODUCTION and Advancement of the industry.

His own program to parliament is to spread defence manufacturing across Iran's industrial network, push research, and restructure the ministry for the current threat.

In plain English, build faster and build in more places, so no single night of strikes can take it out.

And it is not only his plan. The same day, the Army Chief Major General Amir Hatami, himself a former defence minister, sent Akhlaghi what read like his own declared marching orders.

Two wars and another round of sanctions, he said, have proven Iran's defence power now rests on domestic capability, innovation and self-reliance, and he expects rapid steps to raise combat readiness and deterrence.

The Army, he added, now treats tighter synergy with the Defence Ministry as a strategic necessity and stands ready to build indigenous equipment alongside it.

The whole military establishment is lining up behind one task, make more at home, faster, and stop depending on anything from outside.

Akhlaghi also sent a message to Washington. He said "Trump should be thinking about getting his people out of the region safely," and that if Trump drops one bomb "he should see how many of his people he will have to carry out horizontally." He picked that line on purpose.

The Pentagon's own count stands at 21 dead and 865 wounded going into the midterms, and he knows which number the @WhiteHouse can NOT afford to see grow.

SO, is he more dangerous than the last one?

For the people planning the next strike, YES. Killing a commander leaves a gap someone else fills.

A missile builder who spreads production across the country leaves far fewer single targets to hit.

Both sides now play the same game, Washington and Israel go after the head, Tehran spreads the body.

Even Pezeshkian of Iran told parliament he hoped his nominee would "remain alive." He knows what that job title means on the other side's target list.

The first real test is whether Iran puts new production or new systems on show in the next 4 to 6 weeks.

The IRGC said in September more was coming, and I will be tracking every piece of it this winter.

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@laserboat999 No, you need to learn to let go of believing anybody does

[DailyPapers @HuggingPapers]

NVIDIA just released Kimodo, a controllable human motion diffusion model, on Hugging Face

It turns text and kinematic constraints into high-quality 3D human and robot motion, trained on 700 hours of mocap data.

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@docMJP Republicans didn't show up for J6ers and Democrats aren't leftists so this is still a long way from civil war. If it's manhattan shitlibs vs the populist working class that transcends our stupid rigged elections then sure

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@CarolinaLion2 The risk isnt using it, it's losing it and building some media frenzy for a full scale retaliation. Iran (and historically Houthis too but just saying) know not to try to sink it

[Carolina Lion @CarolinaLion2]

I really like how people on here act like Trump is just going to use one aircraft carrier to knock out a well trained, well equipped, entrenched battle hardened field army of 350,000-400,000 strong.

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

This could be a breath of fresh air to do things in person again but it's also a tragic end of an era for sharing to remote audiences. Hopefully studios and developers save records for once their games are released

[Mr #PitchYaGame @LiamTwose]

RIP #SteamNextFest
RIP #PitchYaGame
RIP #ScreenshotSaturday
RIP #WishlistWednesday et al.

Gonna have to embrace the full shadow drop method at this rate.

[New York Post @nypost]

Vance reveals 'there's a chance' he won't run for president in 2028: 'We've got 4 little kids' https://t.co/3yZ2T2Iew1

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@GlobeEyeNews Try creating a new Trade Union and defense pact with Russia.

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@MPUniversityUS @PeteButtigieg Balloon animal to your head, do you pick Pete over Trump if Dems had a last minute debate cycle to appoint Biden's successor, had he come out against the campaign in Gaza? Assuming proper debates and townhalls would have sufficiently identified that concern with the electorate

[Nick Maynard @maynard_nick]

Navi Pillay on the legal proof for genocide in Gaza | Israel - Palestine... https://t.co/uYtrOYr0dj via @YouTube

Please watch this short video. It is essential viewing

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

There was only one qualified MLB hitter with an OPS+ of at least 160 this year (Yordan Álvarez at 190).

There hadn't been fewer than three qualified 160+ OPS+ guys in any one MLB season since 1986.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

None of the israeli posts you see gaining traction are organic, they almost all involve platform manipulation and paid campaigns. We have published Part 2 of our investigation into Israeli foriegn influence and platform manipulation campaigns.

You can access it here: https://t.co/irFWqxn2MJ

We will add an interactive map later this week. Everything is availble for researchers to download.

God bless.

[Dan Lowe @alsodanlowe]

@mischapaullin Yoyoyo some people have raised some concerns about this event, so here's an iceberg diagram of the rifles that have been used for public executions over the years. Stick around and I might even tell you which ones make my S tier

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

... Limoges’s civic heart was a rich medley of medallions & mansards with elaborate rustication, high windows and a doorway to die for. ‘We are Limougeauds, we have been here for two thousand years and we love our city’, it proclaimed. Alas, no more.