Ramon Ruilopez

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Maybe the foreigners have it right. Maybe the eagle and the flyover and the canyon and the kindness of a stranger with car keys really are worth crossing an ocean to see. Maybe, watching them fall in love with the place we take for granted, we could fall in love with it again ourselves and decide to be a little more charitable to the neighbor God told us to love, even when we cannot stand how he votes.

https://t.co/9JUUg86dls

[hurri @hrrcnes]

MİLYAR DOLARLIK ROBOTİK ŞİRKETLERİNİN 50 YILLIK MOTOR TAKINTISI AZ ÖNCE ÇÖPE ATILDI.

Mit araştırmacıları insan kasını birebir kopyalamış. Ama o bildiğiniz ağır metal dişliler, karmaşık hidrolikler veya binlerce dolarlık servo motorlarla değil. Sadece elektrik yüklü bir sıvı ve minik bir pompayla.

Sistem dümdüz senin kolun gibi çalışıyor. Pompa içeriye elektrik veriyor, iyonlaşan sıvı hareket ediyor ve lifler kasılıp gevşiyor. Kolunu büktüğündeki kasılmanın aynısı.

SIFIR MOTOR. SIFIR HARİCİ DONANIM. VE TAMAMEN SESSİZ.

Herkes bilim kurgu geyiği yapıyor. Oysa burada koca bir endüstrinin maliyet yapısının nasıl tabana vurduğunu izliyorsunuz. Yıllardır donanım üretmek demek, arıza yapan metal yığınlarıyla ve sürtünmeyle boğuşmak demekti. Şimdi olay sadece basit bir sıvının iyonlarla yönlendirilmesine döndü.

Bu lifleri gerçek kas gibi birbirine sardıkça gücü katlanarak artıyor. Yani performansı artırmak için daha büyük ve pahalı bir mekanik motora ihtiyacın yok. Sadece o bağlama birkaç tel daha ekliyorsun. Kuvvet doğrudan ölçekleniyor.

DONANIM ARTIK YAZILIM GİBİ UCUZ VE MALİYETSİZ BİR ŞEKİLDE ÖLÇEKLENİYOR.

Parça üreticilerinin fişi çekildi. Üretim bandındaki ağır sanayi tezgahlarından bahsetmiyoruz artık. Etrafında dolaştığını bile duymayacağın, seninle aynı organik esnekliğe sahip maliyetsiz sistemler geliyor.

Mekanik devri kapandı. Yeni oyuna uyanın.

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Everyone can use @elonmusk's "Magic Wand Number" and "Idiot Index"

They're universal ideas, helpful in any industry.

[Victoria Byrne @Thevictoria76]

🔥 The Road is Lava! 🚶‍♂️💨
This street artist turned a busy road into lava right as the tram rolled by! 😍
Pure creative genius. Who else used to play “The Floor is Lava” as a kid? 😂

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A potluck. Everyone brings one dish. I have never been so out of my depth in my life.

I was invited to a gathering. "Just bring a dish to share," they said. Simple words. I did not sleep for three days.

Because I understood instantly what this was. A summit. Every guest, a lord of their own house, arriving bearing tribute. And tribute is judged. Tribute is ranked. To bring the wrong dish to the wrong table is to fall in standing before your peers, possibly forever.

So I prepared. I made my finest dish. I carried it to the door with two hands and a straight back, braced for the weighing of my worth.

The first lord arrived with a bowl of orange powder noodles. Macaroni and cheese. The crowd roared. He set it down at the center of the table. The CENTER. I noted this. The center is the seat of power.

The second lord brought a tower of small brown meat orbs in red sauce. "Meatballs," he announced, like a man laying down a sword. They were placed beside the macaroni. A strong showing. An alliance, perhaps.

I studied the table like a battlefield map. Potato salad: defensive, reliable, old money. A vegetable tray, untouched, clearly a hostage offering no one expected to win. And then a woman walked in, raised a flat box overhead, and the entire room turned and CHEERED.

Pizza. She had brought pizza. Store-bought. Still in the box.

I was stunned. She had not even cooked it. And yet the people rejoiced as if a king had entered. I revised my entire understanding of the hierarchy on the spot. Effort means nothing here. Only the roar of the crowd decides rank.

I placed my dish down, humbly, near the napkins. A peasant's position. I accepted it.

And then a man tapped my shoulder, pointed at my dish, and said the words that changed everything.

"Whoa, did you make this? This is amazing. Everybody, you GOTTA try this guy's thing."

The room turned. The room came. The room ATE. My dish vanished in ninety seconds. The pizza woman herself took a second helping and looked at me with respect.

I had won the summit. By accident. With a dish I placed by the napkins.

I understand nothing about this country. I have never been happier. I am hosting the next one.

So tell me, America.

Is there a system to the potluck? A secret rank? A hidden law?

I have decided there is not.

You just bring the thing you love, and everyone eats it, and somehow everybody wins.

It is the most insane way to hold a war.

I will fight in every single one.

[Ramon Ruilopez @ruilopez]

@japan_nobunaga You are a poet sir, kudos 🎩

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed.

He glanced at me. Something passed between us.

"My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where it turned.

For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be.

A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames.

Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he handed me the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have been trusted with castles.

I have never been more honored.

He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously.

I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will ever correct the other.

So tell me, America.

Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill?

Have you ever once asked him why?

I think he is still standing there.

Guarding the fire.

Waiting for one person to understand.

[Ramon Ruilopez @ruilopez]

@elonmusk Nerdy, but impressive

[Ramon Ruilopez @ruilopez]

@hicasamadim 72

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

STAGE IV CANCER IS BEING REVERSED — BIG PHARMA SHOULD BE TERRIFIED

Epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher: "Over 100 studies prove IVERMECTIN has 12 distinct anti-cancer mechanisms across 12 different cancer types."

Documented case reports of complete Stage IV remissions using IVERMECTIN and FENBENDAZOLE — the same anti-parasitics Big Pharma tried to bury.

This isn’t “horse paste” conspiracy theory anymore. This is published science. Real people. Terminal diagnoses erased.

Why are oncologists still pushing toxic chemo while these cheap, safe drugs are delivering miracles?

Your doctor won’t tell you this.
The media won’t cover it.
Big Pharma can’t patent it.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”

“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A small robot automates construction layout by printing floor plans directly onto the ground at the building site.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Your personal mosquito air defense system

LiDAR locks onto a mosquito in 3 milliseconds. Laser fires. Fried. Up to 30 per second and works in pitch dark.

It's called the Photon Matrix. The tech is literally descended from Reagan's Star Wars missile defense program, just shrunk down to fry bugs in your backyard.

You wanted one yesterday didn't you.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I just had the craziest experience at the airport.

We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.

Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”

Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.

The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”

He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”

Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…

Start clapping.

I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.

All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.

It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.

@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

[UFO mania @maniaUFO]

For a few minutes each year, sunlight makes this Yosemite waterfall look like a river of fire.😍

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

If they can recreate the taste of a child’s size deep dish personal pan pizza circa ~1994, I will drive hundreds of miles for this.

Bonus points if I can bring a purple Book It button for an extra free pizza.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

These teenagers bought an old school bus and completely transformed it for a road trip together. You can just do things.

[Lorenzo Herrera @lorenzoherrera]

See the NASA Artemis II photos in your browser, now in true HDR. Requires an HDR display. Especially gorgeous on MacBook Pro screens.