Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻

You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

The single best software engineering graphic you need to know.

https://t.co/tfZVY1lJCL

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot.

He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud.

He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery.

He was impeached by his own party for corruption.

Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas.

Together we will stop him.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Then vs. now

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

My good friend Dave @triprideordie just said, "can confirm: my Kepler was a space heater that did math"

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

What SI crazy is this: Joules/token.

Part of "we put floating point in your floating point" NVFP4 quantization magic from nvidia (Jun 2025). https://t.co/Fnd8fhKb8L

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

@watchdutyapp @Googleorg whisper! Couple years back, some kid at Cal Berkeley was monitoring the local fire and police response, sending it to a speech-to-text, filtering on keywords, then posting on twitter. was excellent.

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

(turn your volume down first). This is pretty epic, chasing the weakest tornado in California. Very cool

[DL Scales @RealDLScales]

The zero meter in question. Very weak, but still counts. Made the 10 hour drive well worth it. #cawx

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

Good read on transformers: more than meets the eye.

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

Half of America's AI data centers planned for 2026 are delayed or cancelled. They're waiting on transformers. I build chemical plants. Transformer prices have tripled in the last four years. Lead times are 2 to 4 years. Each new plant we build competes with AI data centers for the same grid equipment. Every large power transformer in America runs on grain-oriented electrical steel. It's made by rolling iron and silicon together until their crystals align in one direction. No other alloy works at utility scale and only one US company makes it: Cleveland-Cliffs. The average large power transformer on the grid is 38 years old. Service life is 40. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft committed $650 billion to AI infrastructure this year. Nvidia's most expensive GPU is useless without a transformer.

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

It's 10:59pm. I'm sliding in with 1 min at nearly my session limit. This is the 2026 equivalent of posting iPhone screenshots with 1% battery left.

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

@usgraphics Dying. You've seen their BIOS boot up screen. The fact they've stuck to it this long.

[Drew Tuma @DrewTumaABC7]

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose have NEVER seen a 90° day in the month of March. Next week we could have several days of 90°+. This will be an unprecedented March heat wave beginning Monday. For context, temperature records in SF go back to 1874.

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

This is buried under the noise.

By November, it may be the story that mattered most.

If you read one thing today, make it this.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

The cover of the Lancet. It says it all.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État https://t.co/lb2Kgl7aCr

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

It's worse than expected, and that's saying a lot.

[Embassy of Mexico in the U.S. @EmbamexEUA]

This post is false.

The military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, aimed at capturing Rubén “N,” alias “Mencho,” was planned and executed by Mexican Special Forces.

The action was carried out within the framework of bilateral cooperation, with U.S. authorities providing complementary intelligence.

Mexican National Guard and Army troops are currently reinforcing security in Jalisco and neighboring states to maintain order.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

This storm is a meteorological masterpiece. I’m just in awe.

As the storm explodes in intensity, it will evolve into something elegantly extreme.

In the “warm sector,” a few tornado-strength waterspouts are likely 250 miles offshore. Those same thunderstorms could produce large hail and destructive winds; mariners should be extremely cautious.

Just west of the rain/snow line, snowfall rates or 3+ inches per hour will be likely over the open Atlantic, with thunder and lightning. There could even be some pea-sized hail with the thundersnow.

At the storm’s center, a calm, clear eye-like feature may develop. NOTE: it is NOT an eye; it forms in completely different ways due to “baroclinic” processes. (Sinking air, a warm blob secluded from the rest of the warm sector, etc.) But it will still be mesmerizing on satellites.

And lastly, a 75-90 mph “sting jet” may form east of the Delmarva Peninsula as wraparound moisture (clouds and precipitation) is blown into the storm’s dry slot. That caused the clouds to evaporate, leading air parcels to sink and dragging destructive upper-atmospheric winds to the sea surface.

Simply incredible.

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

Just launched Twitter first time in maybe 6 months to check on the Nevada 5.9 earthquake, as warned by myShakeApp. Didn't feel it in Bay Area, but I'm sure they did in Carson City!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

President Trump has now pardoned 12 members of Congress convicted of crimes varying from tax evasion, campaign corruption, lying to the FBI, bribery, insider trading, obstruction, etc.

If Jeff Epstein were alive today, he’d be a free man in Trump’s America.

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

4.5 is my guess

[Scott Stanfield 🇺🇸🧢🌻 @seesharp]

Flying over Burning Man, Mon Aug 25 ~1:45pm PT. Can't tell from 30k feet they've had major windstorms.