CloudNull

Christian dad & vet. Senior Endpoint Engineer automating with Citrix & Azure. Read sci-fi & chase space dreams.

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I use my Windows device for deep research and extremely technical issues.

I use my Macbook pro for coding and automation.

I use my iPad for monitoring changes and live data.

No idea how it came to this.

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Amazon what are you doing? Why cancel Stargate

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Janice STFU is so good.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Hello Japanese friends. Thank you for everything. The anime, the video games, the culture, the convenience stores, we love you please don’t change. You don’t have to globalize. We like Japan as Japan. You represent a foreign magical land of quirkiness that we respect. Stay Japan.

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@koinu0925 Based

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@BillyM2k Deadlock

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just gutted the AI job panic with one profession.

Radiology.

The field AI was supposed to kill first.

Jensen Huang: “Computer vision was superhuman in 2019. And yet, the number of radiologists grew.”

Not competitive. Not close. Superhuman.

Every forecast said radiologists were finished.

Every forecast was wrong.

Not slightly wrong. Directionally wrong.

There are now fewer radiologists than the world needs. A global shortage. In the exact specialty AI was supposed to erase.

Why?

Because the task was never the job.

Huang: “The purpose of your job and the tasks and the tools that you use to do your job are related. Not the same.”

Reading a scan is a task.

Diagnosing disease is a purpose.

AI handled the task. The purpose didn’t shrink. It compounded.

Faster reads meant more patients seen. More patients seen meant more disease caught. More disease caught meant more demand for the people who decide what to do about it.

The tool did not kill the job. It fed it.

Then the fear did what the technology never could.

Huang: “The alarmist warning went too far and it scared people from doing this profession that is so important to society. It did harm.”

People heard radiologists were finished and walked away from the field.

Medicine bled talent it could not afford to lose.

Not because the work vanished. Because the panic said it would.

The prediction was wrong. The damage was real.

Huang: “The number of software engineers at Nvidia is going to grow, not decline.”

Not hold steady. Grow.

The company building the infrastructure that automates code is hiring more of the people who write it.

Huang: “I wanted my software engineers to solve problems. I didn’t care how many lines of code they wrote.”

Nobody ever hired an engineer to type. They hired them to think.

When the machine handles syntax, the engineer does not become obsolete. The bottleneck just moves upstream. To architecture. To edge cases. To the kind of reasoning no model handles alone.

The world was never short on unsolved problems.

It was short on people free to chase them.

That is the part the fear narrative misses every single time.

340,000 women once worked as telephone switchboard operators.

That job is gone. Nobody mourns it.

What replaced it created millions of roles that nobody in 1920 had the vocabulary to describe.

The losses are always visible. The gains are always invisible until they arrive.

That pattern has survived every technological shift in history.

It is surviving this one.

The people forecasting mass displacement are making the same mistake as the people who forecasted the end of radiology.

They can see the task being automated.

They cannot see the purpose expanding underneath it.

That blindness is not just wrong.

It is expensive.

Every person scared out of a career that AI will actually make more valuable is a cost the economy absorbs for nothing.

Not because of the technology.

Because of the story told about it.

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> see a interesting post on the timeline from someone I follow.
> check the comments
> OP is replying to majority of all comments
> I unfollow

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@martyrmade I’ve been waiting ages. Thank you for all you do

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone is covering Terafab as a chip factory.

It is not a chip factory.

Last night in Austin, Elon unveiled a facility that makes masks, fabricates chips, and tests them inside a single building with a nine-month recursive improvement cadence. No such loop exists anywhere else on Earth. Then he told you 80% of the output goes to space. Then he showed you a 100-kilowatt AI satellite with solar panels and radiators, scaling to megawatt range. Then he said Optimus plus photovoltaics will be the first von Neumann probe, a machine capable of replicating itself from raw materials found in space.

Nobody connected the sequence.

Terafab produces 1 terawatt per year of compute. The entire United States consumes 0.5 terawatts of electricity. Musk is building a single factory whose output in AI silicon exceeds twice the power consumption of the country it sits in. And he is sending 80% of it off-planet because Earth literally cannot power what he is building.

Follow the mechanism. Terafab seeds the chips. Starship launches Optimus robots and solar arrays at 100 million tons per year. The robots mine lunar and asteroid regolith for silicon, iron, and nickel. They 3D-print more robots. They fabricate more solar panels. They assemble more AI satellites. Each satellite runs hotter-burning D3 chips designed specifically for vacuum, where free radiative cooling eliminates the thermal constraints that strangle every terrestrial data center on the planet. The nodes replicate. The replication is exponential.

This is a Dyson Swarm bootstrap hidden inside a semiconductor announcement.

The math is public. The Sun outputs 3.828 times 10 to the 26th watts. A 2022 paper in Physica Scripta calculated that 5.5 billion satellites at 290 kilograms each, robotically manufactured from Mars resources, capture enough solar energy to meet all of Earth’s power needs within 50 years. A 2025 paper in Solar Energy Materials calculated a partial swarm capturing 4% of solar output yields 15.6 yottawatts, roughly a billion times current human civilization’s total energy budget. Musk just announced the factory that builds the chips that go inside the satellites that replicate themselves forever.

92% of advanced logic chips are fabricated in Taiwan. One factory in Austin does not fix that. But one self-replicating system seeded by that factory, launched by the only company with reusable heavy-lift rockets, assembled by the only humanoid robot in mass production, and powered by the only star within reach, does not fix a supply chain. It obsoletes the concept of supply chains entirely.

The market priced this as a $20 billion capex story about semiconductor independence.

The actual announcement was the engineering blueprint for Kardashev Type II.

Humanity sits at 0.73 on the Kardashev scale. 18 terawatts. The distance between here and harnessing a star is not a technology gap. It is a recursion gap. And recursion is exactly what a single building in Austin that makes its own masks, builds its own chips, tests its own chips, and launches the output into orbit on its own rockets was designed to close.

Every civilization that makes it past this point never looks back.

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@AutismCapital https://t.co/IfId41EYDI

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Just found out breaking rust is ai. Maybe ai content ain’t so bad.

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@JakeSucky Deadlock

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@DEI4WhiteGuys Little seasoners unite

[Zack Kanter @zackkanter]

This meme was originally meant as pejorative satire and ended up describing uncomfortable reality.

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@timthetatman Go back to deadlock strimmer man

[klöss @kloss_xyz]

imagine you’re Travis Kalanick

you built Uber from nothing into a $70 billion company and changed how every city on earth moves

then in the worst three weeks of your life, family tragedies hit, and five of your investors hand you a letter demanding you resign

so you step down

the board replaces you, your successor and board sell off the self driving division you created, the thing you believed was Uber’s entire future

gone

$4 billion to Aurora

the mainstream media tries to write your obituary: toxic culture, bad leadership, and a cautionary tale

silicon valley moves on
as they always do

but you don’t

you don’t really forget

you go quiet, completely quiet

you take $150 million and buy a ghost kitchen company called CloudKitchens

you raise over a billion dollars, hit a $15 billion valuation, build a company with thousands of employees

and nobody even knows the name
eight years in stealth, employees aren’t even allowed to put your company on their LinkedIn

then today you rename the company Atoms, and it’s not a kitchen company anymore

it’s a robotics company

1. food
2. mining
3. transport

your first move?

acquiring Pronto

the autonomous vehicle startup

built by Anthony Levandowski, the same engineer you originally swooped away from Google to build Uber’s self driving program

oh and he went on to deploy 100+ autonomous trucks for one of the largest materials companies on earth

now he’s coming back to work with you
and the reports say Uber itself

the same company that pushed you out, is now backing you to go after self driving harder than Waymo

the guy they removed is the guy they end up needing

poetic justice

your framework aka everything in civilization is mined or grown, manufactured and moved

you call it the golden age

your manifesto ends with three words:

“I never left”

eight years of silence

then this

but here’s what people keep getting wrong about your situation

everyone wants to call it a comeback or a revenge story

it’s neither

you just went quiet and built for eight years while everyone who wrote you off had stopped paying attention

that’s not revenge, that’s just what true builder obsession looks like

most founders would’ve stayed bitter

most would’ve written a book and done a podcast tour, most would’ve taken the $2.5 billion in shares and disappeared off to a beach or Epstein’s island

you didn’t do any of that
you just kept building

and now the same people who pushed you out need you again

so whether you love him or hate him

the most dangerous person in any room is the one who goes quiet yet never stops building

karma is real

welcome back Travis

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@greg16676935420 @BillAckman @raanii_6 Greg from the top rope

[Sage VALE (Mina Ha thrall) @Sage_VALE_]

Positives: Big streamer gets general audiences interested before the beta drops
Says game is is great and unlike any game he played before

Negatives: tim may have just birthed thousands of mo and krill mains

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@timthetatman welcome to the pain. Enjoy