Hovercraft Amps

Custom Tube Guitar & Bass Amplifier Maker - with a nascent motorcycle problem

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@jjreeves Do an ‘unsolved mysteries’ style deep dive into:

with regards to the recently relaxed importation rulings - new imports to usa - vaporware or reality?

-civilian g36 from hk
-daewoo dr200
-pindad fnc and pm12

what other parts of the world have now opened up to the US market?

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@JeremyNguyenPhD @JTAlexander make sure and have it read to you in sean connery’s voice.

“Chestarrrshunnn”

magnificent.

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@gothburz Like a hammer factory to the face after a lifetime of letting fake fruit flavor marshmallow peeps dissolve on your tongue and saying “thanks for dinner” so the other people in the room dont get uncomfortable.

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@Tobias_Arms The surface texture looks really good. Incredible how far along the tech has come.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

https://t.co/X9foRslGiN

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@FN_America

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@HecklerAndKoch A licensing agreement and technical transfer documents. 😍

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@GroovyBruce groovy!!

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@QuirkyRides

[Sokol @sokol_cc]

I'm a Bang & Olufsen enthusiast and collector. Today, a package arrived with a 25-year-old speaker. The design surpasses all new products and technological solutions. I increasingly think our civilization peaked in 2000...

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@sivers you just explained political intractability perfectly 🤌🤌🤌🥂

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@Palle_Hoffstein My fave game ever.

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@TheAKGuy Best of luck!

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@TrungTPhan @tunguz get video of them laughing. those are priceless.

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@geezerbutler @OfficialRJDio i can’t read this and not think of the 2 bob’s :

[Siqi Chen @blader]

over the weekend, i built an app that i sincerely hope you will never have a need for, but if you do happen to need a friendly, free, private mri viewer designed to make it easy for you to track tumor progression, you can try it here: https://t.co/DQeMgOjDhM

here's the story:

as some of you may know, last last september, my six year old daughter mira was diagnosed with an extremely rare brain tumor called an adamatinomatous craniopharyngioma, and since then our family has been doing everything we can possibly do to find a cure for her.

we tortured chatgpt deep research, put together our own private research team, raised $1.4M and donated it all to @HankMitraLab research thanks to $MIRA, explored every remotely applicable drug whether on the market or not, and even began working with md anderson to develop a personalized vaccine that we hope can lead to a more permanent cure

unfortunately, we received the devastating news last march that the tumor has continued to grow since her initial surgery, and we had to start to consider more drastic options which would have seriously impacted mira’s quality of life.

thankfully, with the help of dr. sabine mueller @UCSFChildrens and the @HankMitraLab at the university of colorado, in april, we started her on an alternative but extremely experimental treatment for this disease.

to our unimaginable relief, her tumor has responded extraordinarily well to this treatment which combines tocilizumab (an arthritis drug that blocks IL6 receptors) with avastin (a colon cancer drug that inhibhits VEGF proteins).

we know this, because mira gets an MRI scan of her brain every few months.

and every time we get a new scan, the first thing we do is compare it against her last scan. so we have to find the matching weight of the scan, and then find the same plane, and then carefully find the slices of the scan where the tumor is visible, and then find the closest match to last month’s scan, then adjust the zoom, rotation, and brightness / contrast so they all look the same.

we got pretty good at this.

but it shouldn't be this hard.

so i built https://t.co/77sBd5thMI last weekend using gemini 3 with some gpt 5.2 xhigh.

you just import your DICOM MRI files (either zip, files or a folder), and you can align all of your scans across multiple dates instantly,

just click and drag a rectangle around the tumor on any image, and it will use some very clever algorithms to automatically align up and find the closest matching slice from all your other scans, match the brightness / contrast, rotation, pan, zoom, and even shear to make sure the registration is as close as possible, and make it as easy to possible to compare tumor progression.

it has a grid view so you can see all your scans for the same location all at once, and an overlay view so you can quickly compare two scans visually (by holding down the space bar to toggle quickly between two scans), along with tools to animate your scans both within the same sequence as well as over multiple scans to show progression.

there is no server, it runs entirely locally on your browser - nothing ever gets uploaded and it's all open source: https://t.co/9cOmDAZZID

if you've found this useful, please consider a donation to the @UCSFChildrens hospital foundation, who has given us extraordinary care over the past year or so:

https://t.co/wAvSxJFxTA

[RT @RT_com]

Has your phone ever shown you an ad for something you only whispered...?

Google agrees to fork over $68MN to settle claims that its Assistant was SECRETLY recording your convos WITHOUT 'Hey Google' & feeding them straight to targeted ads — The Hill

No wrongdoing admitted though

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@VintageGuitar this is relevant to my interests 🤩

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NOT APRIL FOOLS

https://t.co/oxwlkW0Ur8

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selling off the trade show demo 2x12 open back cabinet..
clearing out the shop over the next few months

linky: https://t.co/MjU646SgaQ

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