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[Heskel Balas 🚁 @heskelbalas]

Ok Factorio nerds. Reindustrializing is cool and all. But where's the startup that's supplying all this custom fabrication/assembly tooling? Surely it's a lot of very standard motions (linear movement, insertion of a part, rotation, etc..) just with custom part holding.

I am aware of the massive simplification I am making, but it doesn't make sense that everyone figures this stuff out from scratch every time

[Seth Cohen @OverReactor1776]

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species.

Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty.

Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve.

As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers.

I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing.

If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own.

My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!)

Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future?

America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.

[Joe Barrow @barrowjoseph]

New paper: every law in America is technically public. But not really, until now!

With @DenisPeskoff at UC Berkeley, we built a corpus of ~every publicly accessibly city and county law, and released a huge chunk of it!

2.2 million laws, you're (probably) covered in it!

🧵

[Jayden Teoh @jayden_teoh_]

Next-token prediction is myopic. What if transformers learn to predict their own next latent state?

🌠 We present 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗟𝗮𝘁): a self-supervised learning method that teaches transformers to form compact world models for reasoning and planning. It also unlocks up to 3.3x faster inference via self-speculative decoding! 🚀

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @WHOI, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: https://t.co/yDxWrRjS97

[sphinx @protosphinx]

EVERYTHING IS BOM

[Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner]

This would be a feature worthy of a Bun v2.0

https://t.co/hCZdLOeZF7

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.

This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

[Chris Walker @WalkerATX]

It's 1988 in Austin and you're people watching at Auditorium Shores and Town Lake @fox7austin

[HKEPC @hkepcmedia]

Gave Jensen Huang my wallet to sign, and he straight up emptied all my 1,000-dollar bills to tip the pretty ShowGirls ⋯⋯ WTF 😂😂😂

[Ethan Mok @Emokwx]

Anyone ever seen interstate-induced clouds before? Low level CU developed perfectly along major interstates around Houston this morning. Kind of shocking to see such perfectly lined up clouds. #txwx

[Chris Walker @WalkerATX]

It's 1984 in Austin and you're on 6th Street for Halloween🎃@fox7austin

[patricio @pirodir]

@WalkerATX @UTAustin @TexasFootball @SMUFB @fox7austin Chris, you are on a roll with these clips you’ve been digging up.. don’t stop!

[Chris Walker @WalkerATX]

It's 1947 at @UTAustin and you're up in Dallas to see @TexasFootball's Bobby Lane vs @SMUFB's Doak Walker #HookEm 🤘✌️@fox7austin

[Chris Walker @WalkerATX]

It's 1982 in Austin and you're finding out Mueller Airport was rated the most dangerous airport in Texas. 🛬 @TexasMonthly @fox7austin

[Matt Garman @mattsgarman]

Most people thought flat data center networks would never work at hyperscale.

The @awscloud team figured it out.

Resilient Network Graphs are a completely new network architecture, now live.

33% better throughput, 40% less network power.

https://t.co/LEaIItVqe9

[Fox News @FoxNews]

A massive explosion and fire ripped through an apartment building in Dallas, sending heavy flames and smoke into the air and injuring at least four people.

Nearly 100 firefighters rushed to the scene in the city’s Oak Cliff neighborhood. It's not clear how many people were in the building at the time.

[sunil pai @threepointone]

I can’t take your opinion on taste in software seriously if you don’t watch movies, listen to music, read books, get brunch with friends, enjoy baths and long drives, kiss someone under the moonlight, eat a flaky croissant with a bitter coffee…

this is not a joke post.

[TravisCountySevereWx @TravisCOSW]

We continue to expect a round of strong thunderstorms this evening but beyond that there is an increasing threat of heavy rain thru the weekend, possibly leading to localized flash flooding. Remember your flood safety rules during this period.

[Jim Belosic (SendCutSend) @jimbelosic]

https://t.co/Zx23OClRcO