alex

hot but stupid ~ wife guy to @_pooptart_

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

just did a thing (proposed)

[Daniel Beauchamp @pushmatrix]

For the first time ever threejs was running IN A BROWSER on the biggest screen in the world.

But wait, there’s more. We also turned it into the largest realtime shader ball.

Want a breakdown of that one? 😛

[ሳርጎን ወዲ ኣኬድያ @Tomsha711]

How long will it take until this spins out of control and degenerate gamblers/investors start funding different factions in African conflicts. Imagine some psycho betting $5 million on the RSF or JNIM taking over a town and sending them $500k worth of fpv drones for support.

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

*this is messed up and should be regulated, just like congress shouldn’t be allowed to profit off wars

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

if nation states are allowed to gamble on wars, then i should be able to!!!

[Pentagon Pizza Watch @pizzintwatch]

POLYGLOBE JUST GOT ANOTHER MASSIVE UPGRADE 🌐

DeepStateLive’s Ukraine war map is now draped directly onto the globe, live and synced with @Polymarket .

Shaded control zones, shifting frontlines, Russian/Belarusian unit icons and direction of attack arrows all sitting under your markets and OSINT in near real time.

These Ukraine geo markets confuse people constantly. is it the city limits, the oblast, “enter” vs “capture all of”?

Now, when you hover a market, we draw the exact area of operation it resolves on and spell out the rule in plain English.

No more rule debates, no more guessing what actually settles.

The only way to monitor the situation.

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

officially in the big leagues now

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

type of guy that’s just smart enough to be a fucking idiot

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

wet soup is disgusting, give me more saltines

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

i’m slowly getting all my incredibly autistic friends hired at my company. won’t be able to get any of us to look someone in the eye, but we’ll build god

[Uday @CoderUday]

NEVER SACRIFICE YOUR PERSONAL LIFE FOR OFFICE WORK

For your company, you are just a tissue paper

[Andrew McCalip @andrewmccalip]

Data centers in orbit? Of course that’s your contention. Of course it is.

You just finished watching a Scott Manley video on radiative heat transfer and now you think you’re gonna disrupt AWS with a few solar panels and a rideshare slot.

You’re gonna believe that right up until next month when you crack open DeWitt and Incropera and start throwing around σT⁴ like you just invented radiation physics, quoting emissivity tables for polished aluminum like they’re forbidden knowledge.

Then you’ll finally open SMAD and realize your radiator isn’t some static plate glowing into the void. It’s a dynamic structure with a wicked case of thermal flutter reminiscent of Hubble’s arrays. You’ll be quoting beta angles and Earth albedo coefficients and wondering why your deployable array grenaded in vibe when the first bending mode clocked in at 38 Hz instead of the 50 Hz you promised in CDR.

After that you’ll get real ambitious, quoting Johnson and Fabisinski on inflatable polyimide PV structures, pretending you actually understand what happens when your 25-micron Kapton sail is tensioned off a Toray T1100G Cycom 5250-4 boom that has been sun-baked at 120 °C for six months in LEO. You’ll cite “areal density optimization” like gospel while your resin creeps, your modulus drops, and your perfectly flat film turns into a potato chip.

"Well, as a matter of fact, I won’t, because launch costs are about to fall another order of magnitude once Starship hits cadence. The cost per kilo will—"

Drop by tenfold and the economics flip.
Yeah, I’ve heard that one. The Wired 2012 quote, “You wouldn’t build a Boeing 747 and throw it away after one flight.” I remember. I even asked him about that over lunch once, whether the market was actually elastic enough to handle the supply increase from reusability.

Turns out it wasn’t. Non-Starlink launch mass in the United States grew at 13.7 percent CAGR from 2015 to 2023. Payload demand didn’t scale with flight cadence, so prices didn’t collapse, margins just swelled. That’s why they had to invent Starlink. When the market can’t absorb your rockets, you start building your own payloads.

Is that your thing? You read some Marc Andreessen “American Dynamism” manifesto and suddenly start ignoring the engineering realities?

You start throwing around a few buzzwords to impress the Twitter anons and earn some street cred for having a contrarian opinion?

One, don’t do that.
Two, you dropped a 500-thousand-dollar seed check on a concept that could have been debunked by a dollar-fifty worth of tokens from Grok.

"Well, at least I’m a capital allocator. We’ll be skiing in Hokkaido while you’re doing bolt preload calculations for some bridge somewhere."

Yeah, maybe. But at least I won’t be unoriginal or anonymous. I’m out here asking why the hell we’d melt the brains of a thousand aerospace engineers just to save four cents per kilowatt-hour on solar electricity.

First principles isn’t about getting nerd-sniped by a shiny-object problem. It’s about asking whether we should be solving that problem at all.

But hey, if you’ve got an issue with that, we can always take it up with E.

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

actual photo of the new moon

[Dr. Buzz Aldrin @TheRealBuzz]

Well, it’s official — NASA says Earth now has two moons (sort of). Officially, it’s a quasi-moon, a small asteroid called 2025 PN7 that’s been orbiting in sync with us for years. One Moon was special enough — but two? That’s something to smile about.

[Variety @Variety]

HBO Max is raising prices across all plans effectively immediately. Starting today, the streamer will cost the following prices:

Basic With Ads
Monthly: +$1/month increase, now $10.99
Annually: +$10/year increase, now $109.99

Standard
Monthly: +$1.50/month increase, now $18.49
Annual: +$15/year increase, now $184.99

Premium
Monthly: +$2/month increase, $22.99
Annual: +$20/year increase, now $229.99
https://t.co/BghocdByuk

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

looking for a job, just got fired as the guy who brings mosquitoes to other countries so we all suffer

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

JUST IN - Bug expert terrified to see mosquitoes in Iceland for the first time in history: ‘The last fortress has fallen’ - NYP

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Pokémon Gold & Silver were released in the US 25 years ago today 🕹️

[wanye @xwanyex]

Moon has been nuts lately. You need to be noticing the moon.

[Fhd 👑🇰🇼 @SirFahoD]

It costs $0.00 to support an 25 year old artist

[egg @egreghost]

It’s come to my attention the general public is uniformly blaming this on AI

[alex @notfunnyatalI]

@SithL0rdJarJar i fail to see the issue with this?

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Pope Leo XIV with Young Palestinians from the Youth of Jesus’ Homeland in Palestine.

📷 Vatican News