Phil

21 | Writing code and doing art stuff 🤏

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Bukele is hated by a lot of elites because he proved that large parts of social collapse were tolerated, not unavoidable.

He destroyed the professional alibi. He showed that if a state decides order matters more than procedural vanity, activist status games, and bureaucratic self-protection, it can reassert control very fast.

That is the wound.

A huge amount of modern leadership culture is built around managed helplessness. Crime is “complex.” Disorder is “systemic.” Decline is “multifactor.” Public misery gets translated into language that removes agency from the people in charge. Bukele broke that machine. He made the issue embarrassingly concrete. Use power. Back the police. Crush gang control. Reclaim territory. Restore fear of the state. Suddenly the old excuses sound fake.

That is why the hatred is so intense. He did not just change El Salvador. He exposed a ruling-class preference. Many leaders would rather preside over decay than be accused of being too harsh while stopping it. They fear moral contamination more than they fear public ruin. Bukele reversed that hierarchy and won.

The part people still do not say out loud is even simpler. Disorder benefits insulated elites more than they admit. They do not live inside the consequences the way ordinary people do. They can moralize from protected neighborhoods, private schools, guarded buildings, and abstract language. The working and middle classes eat the actual cost. Bukele made that arrangement harder to hide.

My real view is this:

He proved that state weakness in many places was a choice.

He also proved that restoring order requires concentrated coercive power and a leader willing to absorb elite disgust. That is the trade. People who praise him usually understate the concentration-of-power part. People who hate him usually lie about the order-restoration part.

The deepest truth is this:

Bukele is dangerous to the prestige class because he turned their favorite sentence into a joke.

“We can’t” became “you wouldn’t.”

[Zalasta @Zalasta]

Ma prof d'histoire boumeuse devant l'éternel qui nous racontait qu'il était faisable de traverser le Sahara en voiture sans problème de son temps, et qui ne voyait pas que cette chose devenue impossible marquait l'échec flagrant de sa génération

[Alexander Stahel 🌻 @BurggrabenH]

9% of the European chemical capacity has been announced to be closed in 2025…! Most capacities will be closed in Germany and the Netherlands.

Why? Energy costs are too high. The wind & solar utopia starts to bite in Germany and the Netherlands. As does the carbon tax that basically makes China win market share with cheap exports into Europe, free of tariffs or Carbon Tax. Just ridiculous

[Ivan Velichko @iximiuz]

Computer Networking Fundamentals (mini-course)

Everyone who wants to understand container and Kubernetes networking should start from the basics. This heavily illustrated free course walks you through the first two layers of Computer Networking: Ethernet and IP.

A must for any developer or DevOps engineer who wants to build a solid understanding of computer networking before they move to the higher-level protocols like TCP, UDP, and even HTTP.

https://t.co/Cm4NTgcjK9

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Is Zurich really the Silicon Valley of robotics?

Well, if you look at their robotics ecosystem, it seems true!

Zurich is a great place to start a robotics company because everything you need is close and well connected.

It has top engineering talent, mainly from ETH Zürich, one of the best robotics and AI universities in the world.

Many successful robotics startups come directly from ETH research. Also, the presence of Disney Research and RAI Institute helps to be on the frontier of physical AI.

The city also has strong industry and customers nearby. Switzerland is home to global companies in robotics, manufacturing, and automation, such as ABB Robotics, which often work with startups as partners or early customers.

Zurich offers good access to funding, especially for deep-tech and robotics. Investors here are used to long development cycles and complex hardware products. 💰

Finally, Zurich is known for stability and quality of life. It is safe, well organized, and centrally located in Europe, making it easier to attract international talent and scale globally.

Listing some of the Zurich-based companies here:

→ @anybotics -  builds autonomous four-legged robots for industrial inspection and maintenance, and has raised $150M+ (€127M+) in funding.

→ @GravisRobotics - develops AI-powered autonomy systems that turn heavy construction machines into self-driving robots, and has raised ~$27 M in total funding.

→ Verity - builds autonomous indoor drones for warehouse inventory tracking and has raised ~$60M+ in funding.

→ @mimicrobotics - develops AI-powered robotic picking systems that enable fast, reliable item handling for warehouse and logistics operations.

→ @BotaSystems - develops high-precision force-torque sensors and sensing software that give robots real-time tactile awareness for manipulation.

→ @duatic_ag - develops advanced human-scale robotic arms and mobile manipulation systems.

→ @rivr_tech - builds autonomous Physical AI-powered wheeled-legged robots for last-mile doorstep delivery and has raised about $22 M in seed funding.

→ @FlexionRobotics - builds the autonomous AI “brain” and software stack for humanoid robots, and has raised about $50 M in funding.

→ FORGIS - develops AI-powered edge software that makes industrial machines and factory systems autonomous and intelligent, and has raised ~€3.8 M (~$4.5 M) in pre-seed funding.

→ Voliro - builds autonomous aerial robots for industrial inspection and maintenance and has raised ~$23 M in Series A funding.

→ @7Srobotics - built AI-powered 3D vision navigation tech for autonomous mobile robots and was acquired by ABB Robotics in January 2024.

→ Tethys Robotics - builds autonomous underwater robots (hybrid ROV/AUVs) for automated inspection and subsea missions, and has raised a €3.5 M pre-seed round to scale its technology.

→ Embotech - develops Level 4 autonomous driving systems for industrial logistics and has raised about CHF 23.5 M (~$27 M) in confirmed Series B funding.

→ Ascento - builds autonomous outdoor security patrolling robots with AI for industrial sites and has raised about $4.3 M in pre-seed funding.

→ @Wingtra -  makes high-precision VTOL aerial mapping and surveying drones and has raised $20M-$25M+ in Series B/B1 funding.

→ @auterion - builds a common AI-enabled operating system and software stack to power and coordinate autonomous drone and robotic fleets, and has raised a $130 M Series B to scale its platform.

→ Loki Robotics - builds autonomous robots that clean complex real-world environments like commercial restrooms and shared spaces, and has raised about $1.6 M in pre-seed funding.

→ Nautica Technologies - develops autonomous underwater robots that clean and inspect ship hulls to improve fuel efficiency and sustainability, and has raised about $4 M in seed funding.

I'm aware that there might be some companies missing, and the map is not completed!

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[Phil @philp2p]

@gxstmenow Stark Jana

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

A reminder: apps on your phone can see other apps.
Your bank app knows you have that crypto app.
That govt app knows you have that political app.

That's why I recommend using @GrapheneOS so that you can silo apps across profiles.
https://t.co/pdCfpk5Hhi
https://t.co/nCfqiGkNGB

[Phil @philp2p]

@mplessy_44 Better start thinking about Baby names dawg

[Phil @philp2p]

@mplessy_44 Alpha

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube channel for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up.

The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the entire agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing over America.

[wi(l)d-screen bæddel @NINtendo_maya]

Ohhh i get it, they're going to use the ram shortages as the justification to push thin client computers onto consumers and make people dependent on cloud computing subscription services finally

[cursr @0xCursr]

They are slowly phasing out consumer grade pc parts in an effort to make owning your own hardware unaffordable so that in the future you will no longer be able to self host your own content and offline AI

The time for piracy is now. Start hoarding hard drives like your life depends on it and download anything you can before its too late

[Phil @philp2p]

@Figuchan Eine Miku Figur 🤔

[Phil @philp2p]

@uniligaGG Mein Desktop ist nun 8 Jahre alt und hört sich an als würde er gern aus dem Fenster springen

[Uniliga @uniligaGG]

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[Phil @philp2p]

@Figuchan Ich denke es könnte frieren sein 🙌