Mug Runcher

Talks a lot of shit, most of it's true. Lover of fishing, firearms, geopolitics and hockey. Watching 🇺🇦🇮🇶🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦. All views are my own; mildly abrasive.

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@ACleverNickname @AndriySadovyi A little Russomiscism never hurt anyone!

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@vcdgf555 Nothing is set in stone, especially concrete

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Alan Turing was 41 when he died. Two years earlier, the country he helped win the Second World War put him on trial for being gay, then gave him a choice: go to prison, or take hormone injections that would chemically castrate him. He chose the injections. And in those same final years, he was quietly working out the math behind how a tiger gets its stripes.

Start with the war. At Bletchley Park, Britain's secret codebreaking base, Turing led the team that cracked Enigma, the machine the German navy used to scramble its messages so no one else could read them. He built his own machine, the Bombe, to crack the code faster than a room full of people ever could. That work, some historians think, shortened the war by two years. It may have saved as many as 14 million lives. Then in 1950 he wrote a paper built around one question: "Can machines think?" He even laid out a way to test it. We call it the Turing test today, and every chatbot you have ever used goes back to that page.

He did all of this in secret, and the country he saved never knew. In 1952 the police found out he was gay, and back then that was a crime in Britain. He was convicted, lost his security clearance, and was put on the injections. That same year, he published a paper showing how two chemicals, spreading and reacting across a surface, can cover it in spots, stripes, and swirls all on their own. It started a whole new field: using math to explain how living things grow. A codebreaker had just handed science the rules for how nature makes its patterns.

He was still working on that puzzle when he died in 1954. He was 41. Ten more years would have taken him to 51, in 1964, right as the first working computers were being built and the field he imagined was taking off.

He never got to see any of it. The patterns he predicted on paper were not proven in a lab until 1990, 36 years after he died. It took the British government until 2009 to say sorry, and 2013 to pardon him. In 2021 his face went on the 50-pound note, with a sunflower on the back, a nod to the pattern work he never finished.

Turing asked "Can machines think?" in 1950. The field built on that question got its name, artificial intelligence, at a meeting in 1956. By then he had been dead for two years. He never heard the words. The machine he dreamed up now sits in your pocket, and it answers when you talk to it.

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@Kama_Kamilia Hope it stays this way

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

C'mon #Ghana 🇬🇭

[Stu Cowan @StuCowan1]

Shooting the puck - especially on a power play - isn't a bad idea. #Habs

[OrcaSlicer @real_OrcaSlicer]

OrcaSlicer V2.4.0 Alpha is here 🐋

This one's packed!

Orca Cloud is the big new platform — centralized profile sync, preset bundles, and community sharing at https://t.co/tWJs5DbsXh. Your profiles on every machine, no more config-file juggling.

Z Anti-Aliasing (ZAA) brings micro-non-planar contouring for noticeably smoother curved top surfaces.

Fuzzy skin gets a Ripple mode — tunable patterned textures that finally look intentional.

Non-crossing tri-hexagon infill — stronger, more isotropic infill with no line intersections.

Plus: optimized Gyroid infill, combined brims, Machine Input Shaping, Expert user mode, native Wayland support, a redesigned printer selection dialog, and a mountain of bug fixes.

Free, open source, and better than ever.

🧵 1/7

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@mikenelson586 It's a workable solution for big nuts.

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@LilianOzelame I'll read this if you gargle my hairy balls whilst singing "O Canada"

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@SwiftOnSecurity Silly me, I've been ding things for *them*!

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@BluekandyWX Andy, you (and Ryan & team) have been doing amazing work tonight! Keep it up!

[Toronto Public Library @torontolibrary]

"Toronto Public Library, Believe in Yourself!" 🥹💙

Welcome home, Jeremy Hansen.

@Astro_Jeremy @csa_asc #ArtemisII

[Jeremy R. Hansen @Astro_Jeremy]

One last message before the launch of Artemis II...

[Jeff Foust @jeff_foust]

Artemis 2 countdown clock is now counting down.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

[Forgotten Weapons @ForgotWeapons]

I don't know what the solution to this is, but people treating AI bots as omniscient oracles is extremely dangerous.

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@vcdgf555 Shipping ship shipping ships shipping ships?

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@NotWoofers

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@JayzTwoCents irc

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Even if this passes the senate it can’t unheal the damage done with the relationship with Canada. Indeed it will likely worsen when Trump vetoes it.

[Mug Runcher @MugRuncher_]

@JimmySecUK Phil's probably in the Epstein files. https://t.co/rBEkqSzcyS