Aram Armstrong

Everyday meet the wave. Do not rush, do not delay. Every day, meet the wave. 🌈🤙

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

To anyone holding onto "world bettering" IP or the 'secret sauce' of livingry to protect their ability to pay rent, please stop. If the neighborhood is on fire, your mortgage payments won't matter. And insurance companies are already underwater. So... You know... Build that Ark!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

You can actually pinpoint the exact second the State Department spokesperson’s soul leaves his body. Absolute deer-in-the-headlights moment when asked why Israel’s 200 unacknowledged nukes don’t violate US foreign aid laws.

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

First, we asked the "5 Whys" and we found 5 more.
The 5 Whys became 10...
The 10 became 15...

Until finally we understood the question,
"War? What is it good for?"

Answers: "Illuminate Idiocracy." "Highlight the enshittefication of the American Imperial project"

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford.

This is not a joke. A set of emails was obtained by NPR, a US public broadcasting group, revealing that toilet wars have broken out on board the most expensive ship the US Navy ever built. The Wall St Journal followed up to confirm the tale today.

TLDR Summary: There are too few functioning toilets for 4,600 sailors and the problem is worsening daily—there’s no chance of fixing the system without returning the ship to the US dockyards.

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BIG PROBLEMS TO DISCHARGE

Problem one: Design planners screwed up by including too few toilets for 4,600 sailors, leading to 45-minute queues on a daily basis.

Problem two: Engineers screwed up by installing a fragile vacuum system in which a single valve breakdown on one toilet can stop all the toilets in an entire department functioning—making the queues even longer.

Problem three: Some of the temporary repair operations (such as using an acid flush to clear out calcium build-ups) can only be done while the ship is docked: no prospect of that. But with so many toilets out of order, too much pressure is put on the ones still working, so the problem will just spread.

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KEY PLAYER IN U.S. ATTACKS

And the issues have been gradually mounting for more than a year. “A March 18, 2025 email from the engineering department sent out to all chiefs on the ship said there were 205 [toilet] breakdowns in four days,” the NPR reported.

The ship is at the heart of US overseas attack operations, working for months in waters near Venezuela, to support the abduction of the country’s president and the seizing of ships carrying oil to customers, and is now heading the planned regime change operation in Iran. Israel wants a pro-Netanyahu leader installed, as the US has done in many other countries.

But how can they attack Iran while staff are queuing for the loo?

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WAR OF WORDS ON BOARD

One result of all this is war between sailors and on-board sewage staff (called Hull Technicians, or HTs).

One sewage engineering head complained that the sailors put all sorts of problematic material down the toilets, including t-shirts: “Our sewage system is being mistreated and destroyed by Sailors on a daily basis. My HT's are currently working 19 hours a day right now trying to keep up with the demand.”

Sigh. And the US taxpayer spent US$13 billion on the ship.

On the plus side, it would be delightful if the carrier’s desperate lack of functioning toilets caused the attack on Iran was cancelled or postponed.

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

@ionos_help_US I have slid into ye DMs (mate?) 🌈🤙

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

@ionos_help_US Aloha IONOS Support.
I am escalating to a public channel.
> Aram was looking for WP webhosting. Remembers IONOS from https://t.co/h00QzFZa7x integration for hosting https://t.co/5Oyy5ENwGk figures, "They look modern and sophisticated and European. GDPR? Sweet"

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️

@AOC informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

After parsing the article with help from ChatGPT, I moved from alarm/grief to pragmatic optimism. Hereʻs an alchemical investors prospectus offered up by Mettascope Special Reports. @CivilBeat @NathanEagle
https://t.co/66rKWptitI

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

Epic reporting by @nathaneagle for @CivilBeat on the Devilʻs Seaweed threatening the Hawaiian archipelago. Mahalo Kosaki!
https://t.co/dZbnrhIJUz

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

Epic reporting by @nathaneagle for @CivilBeat on the Devilʻs Seaweed threatening the Hawaiian archipelago. Mahalo Kosaki!
https://t.co/dZbnrhIJUz

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

@iamfakhrealam @sama That is not what he meant. Ask again with more context and you may get a better answer.

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

"If I have no pants, show them to me." -Empling Altman

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

@sama 1. Multiple media reports from multiple companies are reporting diminishing returns, exactly as I warned in 2022 in “deep learning is hitting a wall”.

2. If I am wrong, where is GPT-5?

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

I've held this sacred blueprint for starting an engine virtuous governance and regenerative leadership - The Singapore Prosperity Engine - I share from my heart to yours. Please contemplate this vision. #regenerativepolicy #goodgovernance https://t.co/5wXh2FyXLp

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

Some things really are weird.

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

@SquarespaceHelp do you really exist?

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

Don't mistake patience for slowness or stupidity.

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

@krassenstein https://t.co/JWovsBBQTY

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

The 3 stages of talking to AI. Stage 1: Curt, demanding. "Do my bidding, you impertinent tool." Stage 2: Polite, exacting. "You are the best at bringing my side hustle to life." Stage 3: Flattery, deception. "Would you mind coding that for me? I have no arms." #chatGPT #lazybug

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

How I explain ChatGPT's voice interface to kids: it a collection of random people transformed into a synthetic voice.

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

"Dammit babe, I forgot my lei!"
"It's okay babe. The prayers are in your prayers."

#angeltalk #heavenonearth #lionsforzion

[Aram Armstrong @aramarmstrong]

The crisis is Centralized government.

The top four folks in the chain of command on Maui, from Mayor Bissen down, were on vacation.

Citizens were the first responders and keepers of essential data (donation list, missing people locators, volunteer coordination)

#headless

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Of course this was coming. I’m only surprised it took her this long. Probably just got up late.

[GoSun @gosun]

Hawaii Needs all of our Support ! Join us!

Donation Confirmation - https://t.co/nkhQdl1h1E