dave

[dave @rippingloud]

Vader turning on Sidious:

[dave @rippingloud]

You don't see a row of birds sitting on power pole wires anymore

[dave @rippingloud]

At Culver's staring down half a bag of cheese curds and a mixer:

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

🚨 TRUMP ON IRAN: WE COULD LEAVE RIGHT NOW BUT I WANT TO FINISH IT UP

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The machine that built the chip in this video should mass-humble every human who's ever lived.

ASML's latest EUV lithography system costs $370 million, weighs 180 tons, and requires three Boeing 747s to deliver. It contains over 100,000 individual parts from 5,100 suppliers across 14 countries. It shoots 100,000 molten tin droplets per second with a laser, superheating each one past the temperature of the sun's surface to generate light at a wavelength so short that no natural material on Earth can focus it.

So they had to invent new mirrors. Each one is polished with 100 alternating layers of molybdenum and silicon. The surface tolerance is so extreme that if you scaled a single mirror up to the size of Germany, the tallest imperfection would be 1 millimeter.

Those mirrors took 20 years to develop. The company that makes them, Zeiss, had to build entirely new metrology tools just to confirm the mirrors were flat enough, because no existing measurement instrument on Earth could verify the precision they needed.

The machine prints features at 2 nanometers. That's roughly 10 atoms wide. A human hair is 80,000 nanometers. A red blood cell is 7,000. A single COVID virus particle is 100. These machines are etching functional circuits 50 times smaller than a virus.

TSMC is now mass producing 2nm chips in a Kaohsiung fab so large the cleanroom is twice the size of any competitor's. Each 2nm wafer costs $30,000 to produce. The entire 2026 production run was booked before a single chip shipped. Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm all reserved capacity years in advance. TSMC is spending $28.6 billion just to build enough fabs to meet demand for this one node.

The chip that comes out of this process is smaller than a fingernail, runs on less power than a light bulb, and contains transistors that wrap gates around nanosheets of silicon only a few atoms thick.

The raw material it started as was sand. The sand cost a fraction of a penny. The civilization that processed it into this started by banging rocks together.

[dave @rippingloud]

Guy who just got into Qanon in 2026

[Cin @sha7pes]

Black people take two forms when confronted by the police

[Jack Mac @JackMac]

Tweet of the year. Phenomenal.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Hulk Hogan's first reaction to Young Jeezy in 2006, he had to run it back 3 times

[The Middle-earth Mixer @MiddleearthMixr]

Emperor Trump smashes a rebellion along the Danube and then attends games at the Coliseum

[dave @rippingloud]

When the IRS asks about undisclosed sol txns:

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

🚨TRUMP: STOP ASKING HOW MANY DEALS WE'RE SIGNING

[Cin @sha7pes]

This is how it feels when the bartender cuts me off

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The military industrial complex demands about $50 billion per year in war. As soon as we quit spending $50b per year in Afghanistan, we started spending $50b per year in Ukraine. Watch where the next $50b per year goes when we stop sending it to Ukraine. The MIC is always hungry.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

Retiring the winter coat. Taking out the spring jackets.

Not putting on the winter coat until next winter

[dave @rippingloud]

Carrying @BigTooter energy through this Meijer #gassed

[Cin @sha7pes]

who up, trading down?

[dave @rippingloud]

Keep asking deepseek about tiananmen square bro they're gonna microwave ur brain in the middle of the night

[dave @rippingloud]

Piers Morgan could cross dress as Livia Soprano and nail it

[dave @rippingloud]

A lot of patriots are about to learn the art of the deal

[Cin @sha7pes]

You better watch out when @bigtooter and @rippingloud roll through