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I build intelligent local systems for business. Tell me what’s slow or manual, I build one that handles it.

[Heisted @Heistedxyz]

if you’re seeing this, you are extremely early.

something mega viral is coming soon.

any interaction will be considered for priority access.

[Reilly @metaxological]

@svpino We do less lower level thinking, just like reading a book or listening to a podcast. Agreeing with the smaller ideas. Our lives quantified in other ways, thinking and ideas now have to catch up.

[Midwest Passenger Rail Association @MidwesternPRA]

We agree!!

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

You will live in the pod, eat the bugs, use the only AI, and live on UBI.

[Ali Yahya @alive_]

i still think about this

specialization is for insects

[1517 Fund @1517fund]

Robot arms don't have to be boring.

There are more configurations of robot arms possible in this verse than are dreamt of in Fusion 360.

Case in point, Clément Gosselin's redundant planar parallel mechanisms.

From: Gosselin et al. (2015) DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2015.2409433

[Jack 🤖 @JacklouisP]

WTF is this maze cast into your automatic transmission?

It’s a mechanical computer that picks the right gear for you. Runs on oil, not electricity. Worked out decades before the microchip.

Here’s how it works:

- The inputs. Two oil pressures. One rises with road speed. One rises with how hard you press the gas. That’s all it knows: how fast am I going, and how fast do I want to go.

- The job. Route oil to the right clutch so the right gear engages for what you’re asking of the car.

- How it works. A spool, a small grooved cylinder, slides in a bore. Oil pushes each end; harder push wins. Speed pressure on one end, throttle plus a biasing spring on the other.

Slide one way it blocks a passage, slide the other it opens one: oil floods a clutch, the clutch locks, that’s your gear. Floor it and throttle pressure shoves the spool over, drops you a gear, the car surges.

Ease off and speed pressure wins, sliding it back to grab the next gear up. Two pressures, fighting it out.

- Why a maze? No valve decides alone; each one’s output is another’s input. So oil has to run from every valve to the others that depend on it, and oil can’t jump gaps. Every connection needs its own channel carved in metal. Dozens of valves, hundreds of passages, none crossing where they shouldn’t

- It’s a routing problem. Same one a chip designer faces: connect many things to many things without the paths colliding. They even stack plates with a drilled separator between them, like vias on a circuit board.

The result: a real-time computer in aluminum and oil. Only in old-school automatics. In a manual, you’re the computer.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨LA residents set up fake homeless encampments right outside mayoral candidate Nithya Raman’s home.

After she said she doesn’t care about tents near schools and daycares, angry locals brought the reality to her doorstep.

[Reilly @metaxological]

here comes the wave of "this thing doesn't work good anymore"

That's because it is smarter than you now, it is coming for all of us. enjoy your time

[Owen Brake @OwenBrakes]

Before Si transistors, we had vacuum tubes.

Before tubes, power engineers were doing something stranger: magnetic amplifiers.

A small DC winding biases a core.

Unsaturated = high inductance, current blocked. Saturated = low impedance, current flows.

[Reilly @metaxological]

@OwenBrakes Solid state batteries will make this possible

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

Chicago is basically just a warzone

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The USDA has kept raccoon rabies out of the central United States for over 30 years by air-dropping fish-flavored ravioli from helicopters.

Each one is a small packet coated in fishmeal with an oral rabies vaccine inside. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and skunks find them by smell, bite through, and swallow.

Many animals that consume the bait develop immunity, helping build a protective barrier across populations.

The bait is generally considered safe for pets and tested in many non-target species.

The USDA's Wildlife Services has been running this since 1995. Without the bait program, raccoon rabies very likely would have spread much further west.

A federal program you've probably never heard of is protecting your pets and your kids by feeding wild animals ravioli from a helicopter.

[Reilly @metaxological]

CRAZIEST THING EVER

[Yakov @yak32]

I finally finished my Gaussian Splat based FPS demo.

It's a @playcanvas project, runs in a browser. On a real photoscan. With physics, baked lighting, pathfinding NPCs.

Here's how 👇

[Reilly @metaxological]

@cyberwhisperr @Merocle so toasty

[Reilly @metaxological]

@jun_song get the m1 ultra itll run a 122b like pi

[Dip Wheeler @DipWheeler]

the boys hit beijing.

[Reilly @metaxological]

@bcherny I tried out /goal for the first time.
“a world where ‘substrate, not model’ is the obvious right xis for ai-assisted programming, and rail is the existence proof”

It’s built what we need, but I have gotten stuck in “acknowledgement” loop twice burning session limits.