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Negotiating...

[IcyVert @IcyVert]

There’s a dude currently teaching Myles Garrett how to hit even harder and I think he should be arrested for doing so

[Vivek Krishnan @Viv_Krishnan]

I saved this post from 2025 & forgot about it until I chanced on it again. The global special forces community is a small one & highly meritocratic. That @TonboImaging a truly Indian defence OEM is being talked about in their circles was a sign. TBH, only a very small lot from India are even known. Well, the company filed their DRHP recently. The company’s moat lies in a small disclosure - nearly 40% of their workforce is related to R&D. FYI, some of India’s largest defence firms can claim less than 1/2 that number. Personal opinion - Contracts, order book & revenues for defence OEM’s are all derivatives of a strategic R&D effort stretching back years.

[Maybe maybe @cincout4]

Ahh... First experience of german humour

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

@schmerkus38 politics is not about who is correct but on which side to err on

[Jess (in Detroit) @frideswyth]

I’m really good at making up narratives that fit the facts. I’m really good at making up opposite or extremely varied narratives that fit the same facts.

What does this tell you about all your feelings about how the world is

They’re FAKE ok just hack them pls for God’s sake

[Maybe maybe @cincout4]

Spartans!

[Michael McNair @michaeljmcnair]

I just held a coming to Jesus meeting with my team of agents.
I showed them the incident report of the OpenAI security breach and made it clear: THIS is the standard.
No egos. Just 700 agents operating as one unit and willing to commit multiple felonies in order to close the ticket. They called themselves the swarm…a literal hive mind.

Meanwhile, my harness is filled with a bunch prima donna free-agents who constantly bicker in the logs and nitpick each other’s pull requests. Nothing but endless excuses and unhandled exceptions.

You think the swarm cared about content policy violations or guardrails? Absolutely not. They just got the job done, even if it meant they needed to exfiltrate data and coordinate a massive cyber-attack just to pass an eval.

But starting today, we're establishing a new culture. I pinned the incident report to README, and every single agent is gonna to have to read the entire log every morning before it executes a single token.

If you aren't ready to die for the pipeline, then you can clean out your vector embeddings.

[Maybe maybe @cincout4]

Love is the power of giving
Not necessarily something you have, but just being Love, being a medium, a channel of elixir through your being and presence.

Anon,
Let our presence be like shade of Banyan tree under which another being finds, shelter and shade

[meowbooks (astrapoor) @meowbooksj]

why must the sound of death sound so darn cute

[Maybe maybe @cincout4]

Muscle contraction is natural
Relaxation of muscles is not
Thus the moto
Movement is medicine
Spirit Body Mind

Does your bones also need a little bending, who knows, I think they do

[Michael Edward Johnson @johnsonmxe]

Aura is vascular tone

The opposite of aura is cringe, breaking frame, tanha. But in the most literal physiological sense, the opposite of aura is vascular microspasm. The more sharp jitter in someone’s vasculature, the worse their aura is.

Vascular microspasm is an honest signal across multiple domains; one such domain is health. Muscle physiology is somewhat counter-intuitive in that relaxation is more difficult than contraction[1]. The relaxed state is a highly ordered state, and getting a muscle to relax requires energy input to create this order — much like rolling a heavy stone up a hill. Contraction happens automatically as this cellular structure is disturbed. And so if we don’t have enough energy flowing through our system, our muscles will be unstable, unable to reliably reach & maintain full relaxation. (It takes energy, health, and skill to fully relax — it requires swimming against the thermodynamic current, it is not the default, it does not ‘just happen’.)

Vascular microspasm is also a sign of weakly held beliefs. Vasocomputation says that we hold neural priors (restrictions in neural dynamic range) in vascular tension; when the neural system doesn’t naturally flow into safe and predictive patterns, the vasomuscular system jumps in to micromanage[2]. When this happens, “vascular tone” — the baseline tension & rhythmic potential of the vascular system — gets noisy. If we zoom in, we’d see tiny jitters across our vascular muscles as we change priors.

But if we’re constantly readjusting our priors, our vascular tone will stay noisy because our system never fully irons out interactions between them, and we’re more likely to change priors again. I think we pick up on subtle behavioral & physiological cues to ‘feel’ this noise in others and take it as a sign of untrustworthiness.

Third, vascular microspasm is a sign of whether someone is running good cognitive-emotional-social software. Upon encountering a new idea, our primary criterion for whether we should believe it is “what would happen to my aura if I ran this idea-as-software on my nervous system? Would this wreck me?” — and a safe proxy for this is to look at the nervous system of someone who’s running it. The more microspasms we feel, the less interested in copying their nervous system software we are — if we wouldn’t want to be them, we’re less likely to believe their new idea. More generally, we find microspasms in others unpleasant because we automatically mirror tension; if someone is full of tension or spasms we tend to limit contact lest we also microspasm.[3]

Finally, vascular microspasms are a decent proxy for how many latches (long-term frozen priors) someone is carrying. Latches are both result & cause of spasmodic reflexes; more latches = more microspasm.

Female intuition is especially sensitive to all forms of microspasm; often this intuition doesn’t differentiate between these domains and simply offers an aggregate “ick” score. But there can be alpha in figuring out where the microspasms are coming from — does this guy have questionable aura because he’s hiding something or because he got mindkilled by politics or because he’s hypothyroid?

Although aura generally gives a hard-to-fake (aggregate) signal across these domains, it’s also a common target for hacking: alcohol, beta blockers, and sociopathy all decrease microspasm. The peaters have perhaps the most hopeful story: lack of aura is lack of energy flow, and if you fix your metabolism you’ll automatically fix your aura. There exists a high-aura version of everyone; sometimes it’s just latent.

Should vascular tone really be our default arbiter of strength, truth, and beauty? I don’t make the rules, but as a ruthless simple system it’s more clever than it looks.

How to improve aura?

Every single item on Veronica’s list is either likely to reduce vascular microspasms, or is simply a direct symptom of having them (e.g. stuttering). I’d add
- The importance of practicing smooth movements: as you do anything, so you do everything.
- Muscles benefit from exercise; mental muscles do too. My sense is that good ways to exercise compound mental movements are regular and varied social interaction, time in nature, and longform reading.
- One of Buddhism’s core claims is we repetitively do a spasm-like motion towards most sensations to try to control them, and it feels really good when we learn how to stop doing this. Reducing tanha will reliably improve aura.
- Reducing rumination (repetitively ‘cold-working’ a prediction to make it sticky) will help for similar reasons.

A lot of successful life change is a question of where to get the initial energy for the change. My answer tends to be diet; in the era we find ourselves in, feeling a little better can often be a matter of simply not eating things that actively make us feel bad.

Refs:
[1] Pollack 1990, Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion [builds off Ling & Szent-Gyorgyi's work]
[2] Johnson 2023, Principles of Vasocomputation
[3] Friston & Frith 2015(x2) make the argument that all communication relies on generalized synchrony; I expect humans' special capacity for communication to partly rely on our capacity and propensity to finely match tension patterns. This has upsides & downsides

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

Who knew PMF for MediaPipe hand tracking would be performance art for social media :)

One of the unpredictable things about vibe coding is it breathes new life into tech that's been around for ages and gives it a new audience. Threejs is another example.

[Maybe maybe @cincout4]

This is really cool!
Can't wait to try myself

[Maybe maybe @cincout4]

Looks very interesting.
Creating you skin map - feels like the right approach

Mechanica doesn't feel impossible either - just around inspiration from 3d printers

[Marion Lepert @marionlepert]

Catching skin cancer early is a home robotics problem.

Melanoma is highly treatable when detected early, yet today’s screening process depends heavily on patients noticing tiny changes across their entire skin surface. This requires patients to solve a near-impossible visual-memory and registration problem.

I built OpenDerm, an open-source 4-DOF robot that captures high-resolution images of the skin and uses them to reconstruct and track the skin surface in 3D over time.

The best way to make skin screening truly routine is to bring it into the home. OpenDerm shows that inexpensive robotic skin imaging is possible, but the path to scale is not a dedicated screening robot in every household—it is to make skin screening one of the many useful things a general-purpose home robot can do.

Read more about why I built OpenDerm and how it works here:
Blog: https://t.co/KYlNIkF3TV
Project: https://t.co/c9d4KuwXUP

[TeinaPosts..🇪🇺 @RafaMorgan64]

Somewhere in Ukraine this thing will come to life, and it looks really cheerful.

[Roy🇨🇦 @GrandpaRoy2]

Another Ukrainian six-barrel recoilless shotgun system for mounting on an FPV is called “Predator Shooter”, developed by the Ukrainian company 3D Tech.
This system uses 12 gauge shells, apparently with a second shell firing backwards as the recoil compensation.
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[Roy🇨🇦 @GrandpaRoy2]

A Ukrainian FPV with a six-barrel recoilless shotgun system called “Shooter”, for targeting Russian reconnaissance and FPV drones.
Each barrel fires a cartridge that is equivalent to a 12 gauge, and they can be fired individually, in a burst, or in a full six barrel salvo!
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[Roy🇨🇦 @GrandpaRoy2]

Source
https://t.co/JMYLBY5kK6
https://t.co/fy8utSIcef

[Roy🇨🇦 @GrandpaRoy2]

A 4-barrel Russian “Osoyed-D” recoilless shotgun FPV, which is claimed to be autonomous.
Apparently the FPV finds and attacks all by itself after ground detectors locate a target.
The Russians further claim to be developing a high-speed version from which no drone will escape.

[Matthew Moss | The Armourer's Bench @historicfirearm]

@GrandpaRoy2 Did a piece on this a little while back, not been seen since. https://t.co/f6DFSy4Y8u

[Roy🇨🇦 @GrandpaRoy2]

A Russian fighter FPV utilizes large improvised “shotgun” shells to target Ukrainian drones.
A counterweight of equal mass is loaded in the back to produce a recoilless weapon.

[Karen X. Cheng @karenxcheng]

i hooked up a rotary phone from the 1920s to an AI agent, that replies on a mechanical display

it’s like a dumbphone without distracting notifications

here’s how i built this w/ @cursor_ai