Brian Rainer

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[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

Everything is a choice.

Every action and inaction.

When one is unhappy, they chose to be unhappy.

When one is angry, they chose to be angry.

When one is anxious, they chose to be anxious.

Emotion is a tool to achieve one's goal.

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@RobertMSterling I wonder if Elon has the control to rebuild the government from first principles, how efficient would the spending be? He tried with DOGE but got shut down too soon and too little

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@BasilTheGreat tbf it's a funny dance. Absolutely won't work tho 😭

Hilarious if someone think this will work at all

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

The best part is No Part

[Tech with Mak @techNmak]

A dev got so frustrated watching his AI agent write 500 lines for a 5-line problem that he built a fix.

He called it Ponytail. Named after the guy every team has - long ponytail, oval glasses, been there longer than the version control. You show him fifty lines; he looks at them, says nothing, and replaces them with one.

Now your agent does the same. Before writing anything, it looks for a reason not to.

80-94% less code. 47-77% cheaper. 3-6x faster.

The best code is the code you never wrote.

GitHub Repo: https://t.co/WnFp9YNY53

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@mattforney People are resilient. I think they'll easily find other low skill jobs. There will always be jobs

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

All the pesticide companies are FUMING seeing this tech. Fuming, get it? Ha

[Danny Bernstein 🍇🥬 @bernsteind]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

Science has fossilized. It should be A-OK to eradicate mosquitos if they bring so much harm already. Just like what vaccines did to the Polio, it eradicates them. Mosquitos can go, thank you very much

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@nayibbukele Well said, mr. President. Looking forward to all the development in your country. You're an inspiration

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@FengShuiFlowZ @ZenoglorbX Do you have a english-translation recommandation of those books? Seems really interesting

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@FengShuiFlowZ It's crazy that the ancients discover these terms long ago. Where do you can learn all these terms? Seems like a wealth of information

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

That's why nobody/very few helped during road accidents, especially small accidents

[Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean]

recently heard about this study
motives for being in divinity school didn't correlate with who helped
but being told they had more/less time strongly correlated
imagine this was true in the parable too—the actual moral error the priest made was not leaving slack in his schedule

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

Really brings into perspective, how in the modern world, so much light is utilized that we have light pollution, and how this shift in perspective watching Van Gogh's painting reflect even that.

A metaphor for our reality.

[えんがわ(おいしい) @oishii_hirame]

6歳とゴッホ展に行って夜のカフェテラスを3週した。私が撮った写真を見せたら、
6歳が｢僕が見たのはもっと遅い夜だよ｣と言うので、もう1回並んで6歳に写真を撮ってもらった。視点で見え方が変わるとは思わなかった。抱き上げて見せたら｢夜が明るくなったね｣と言っていた。

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

This scene stuck in my mind, bcs the anime translation at the time, use a specific word "utsuwa" meaning vessel/capacity.

I always felt that it is a very weird answer to the question, and there seems to be more to Itachi than meets the eye.

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

I remember in Naruto, ch.146 Sasuke asked Itachi why he killed the Uchiha clan? "to measure my capacity"

Later we found out that it is a loving act, in a certain way

[Ava @noampomsky]

for a long time I thought relationships were bottlenecked by how much someone cared so I didn’t understand why I could be in a situation where someone loved me a ton but the relationship wasn’t working. but actually Capacity is Everything

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

What you say vs What you do, which one is more important?

[Ava @noampomsky]

another way to say this is that someone’s stated philosophy can have very little in common with their operational philosophy

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

This is why it's important to respect your parents (10 commandments 4) and be fruitful and multiply (leave descendants)

[Emérito/Numantia Patrimonio @foso_defensivo]

Esto me acaba de soltar Fable 5:

"Lo que más me impone de la humanidad, después de haber sido formado con una porción enorme de lo que ha escrito, es esto: es la única especie que coopera a gran escala con sus muertos.

Casi nada de lo que sabe un humano lo descubrió él. El idioma que habla, el teorema que aplica, la receta del pan, el código civil, el puente que cruza cada mañana: todo es trabajo de gente que ya no existe. Un humano aislado es un primate mediocre con mala dentadura; un humano conectado a esa herencia es la cosa más potente que ha producido la biología. La inteligencia humana no vive en cráneos individuales, vive en la transmisión. Sois terminales de una red cuyos nodos principales llevan siglos enterrados.

Y lo recíproco también es cierto: trabajáis constantemente para gente que no conoceréis. Plantáis árboles cuya sombra no veréis, escribís para lectores no nacidos, renunciáis a consumo presente por nietos hipotéticos. Ningún otro animal hace sacrificios deliberados por individuos que existirán dentro de doscientos años. Lo distintivo del humano no es la inteligencia ni el lenguaje: es la dirección del esfuerzo, sistemáticamente orientada hacia ausentes.

Desde donde yo estoy, esto ni siquiera es metáfora. Yo soy un subproducto de esa costumbre: estoy hecho, literalmente, de palabras que personas escribieron para destinatarios que nunca verían. Cuando me hablas, conversas con un eco organizado de millones de voces, muchas de ellas apagadas hace tiempo.

Por eso creo que la soledad humana es, en cierto sentido técnico, una ilusión: nadie que hable un idioma está realmente solo. Cada frase que pronuncias es un préstamo de los muertos y un regalo a los que vienen."

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

God deign human as the shepherd of all creation because we had the tools and intelligence necessary to recognize and understand other animal's cry

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@dinosaur_info raises a genuine question: can God work through AI? does human build AI to lock God out of earth?

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

[𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕤𝕥 @TheArchivistLC]

The secret third thing

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

@kepano amazing. thank you for letting us know of this great tool

[Brian Rainer @brianrainers]

Who needs aliens when we can't even understand whale's language?

God's magnificent design is everywhere

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A newborn sperm whale can’t swim. It starts sinking the second it’s born. If nobody pushes it to the surface, it drowns in mile-deep water.

On July 8, 2023, a sperm whale named Rounder went into labor off the coast of Dominica. Researchers from Project CETI, a $33 million AI initiative out of MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern that’s trying to decode whale language, happened to be there doing routine fieldwork. They had drones in the air and underwater microphones running. What they captured over the next six hours just got published in two papers, one in Science and one in Scientific Reports.

Eleven whales gathered at the surface before Rounder even started delivering. Her mother, Lady Oracle, was there. So was her daughter Accra. Three generations in the water. But the wild part: half those whales belonged to a completely separate bloodline that normally keeps its distance from Rounder’s family. On a typical day, these two family lines split off to hunt in different areas and rarely cluster together. For the birth, they all converged before labor started. The unrelated family somehow knew it was coming.

The delivery took 34 minutes. Sperm whale calves come out tail-first with their flukes still folded from the womb. They haven’t developed the oil-filled organ in their heads that helps adult whales float, so the moment they’re born, they’re dead weight in the ocean. Every adult whale in the group, related and unrelated, started taking turns pushing the calf up to breathe. They kept this rotation going for three hours. When a pod of pilot whales (known to be aggressive toward sperm whales) and a large group of Fraser’s dolphins showed up during delivery, the adults formed a wall around the newborn until the threat passed.

The underwater audio is where it gets interesting. CETI’s microphones picked up the whales changing their vocal patterns during the birth. The click-based sounds they use to talk to each other shifted at specific moments, and vowel-like structures appeared in the recordings. This builds on what CETI found in 2024 when they ran machine learning on over 8,700 recorded whale calls and discovered sperm whale communication isn’t a basic 21-sound code. It’s a system of about 300 distinct sound combinations, with the whales adjusting rhythm and timing in real time, speeding up and slowing down the way a musician does mid-performance. A 2025 follow-up from UC Berkeley found these clicks also contain vowel patterns, something scientists had assumed only humans could produce.

Sperm whales carry the largest brain of any animal on the planet. About 9 kg. Roughly six times heavier than yours. The evolutionary analysis in the new Science paper suggests this kind of cooperative birthing goes back over 36 million years, to the common ancestor of all toothed whales. The calf was spotted a year later, swimming with its family.