Akira Morgan

I don't take things seriously. But if I do, its probably Important.

[Gaurab Chakrabarti @Gaurab]

This furnace melts tungsten, the metal with the highest melting point of any element at 3,422°C. At that temperature every conventional crucible dissolves into the melt and contaminates the batch. Three tungsten electrodes fire simultaneously into one point on a water-cooled copper hearth under pure argon. The convergence point exceeds 3,500°C. The copper stays cold. Water cooling removes heat faster than the arcs deliver it, so the metal never touches a surface hot enough to taint it. Then a seed rod descends into the molten pool and draws upward at 0.001 millimeters per minute, slow enough that a single crystal forms instead of a mess of grains. Tungsten, tantalum, and molybdenum line semiconductor sputtering chambers, monitor nuclear fuel rods as thermocouple wire, and survive solid rocket exhaust above 3,000°C. This furnace is a research instrument. It grows one unbroken crystal, pure enough to reveal what these metals are actually capable of.

[Akira Morgan @stargater162]

@LimitingThe It pained me to watch and I only got half way through before calling it quits.

[Angus (dirtman) @dirtman]

Someone should create an index of the companies with the worst ESG ratings so I can invest

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

This may just be the single greatest tweet of all time

#worldcup

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

This says it all. They hate this country.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Avraham Eisenberg @avi_eisen]

Is this AGI

[Iamemperor @Iamemperor00]

My roommate accidentally convinced our entire apartment building that he was a government agent because he didn’t know how to end conversations normally.

It started because he ordered a shredder.

That’s it.

Just a regular office shredder from Amazon.

But the delivery guy asked,
“What do you need this for?”

And instead of saying “old bank statements” like a civilian, my roommate pauses for two full seconds and goes,

“Can’t really discuss that.”

Why would you say that.

Now the delivery guy looks nervous.
My roommate notices the nervousness.
And instead of correcting himself, he doubles down because apparently social anxiety turns him into a Batman villain.

He leans closer and says:
“Appreciate your discretion.”

The delivery guy left like he had just transported nuclear launch codes.

After that, weird things started happening.

Neighbors became oddly respectful.
People stopped asking him dumb small-talk questions in the elevator.
One old man saluted him once.

At first we thought it was coincidence.

Then our downstairs neighbor knocks on our door and quietly asks,
“Are we safe?”

My roommate, who is eating cereal at the time, just stares at him and says:
“For now.”

FOR NOW???

The neighbor looked like he was about to evacuate his family immediately.

Turns out the delivery guy had apparently told multiple people in the building that “federal people” were living on the third floor.

And honestly my roommate’s lifestyle was NOT helping.

He leaves the apartment at random hours.
Owns three identical black jackets.
Rarely explains where he’s going.
Has terrible posture but walks fast enough to seem important.

One time he came home carrying a locked briefcase.

Do you know what was inside?

A sandwich.

But nobody else knew that.

The paranoia escalated when building management installed new security cameras and my roommate casually muttered,
“About time.”

Now everybody thinks he requested surveillance upgrades.

Then came the incident with Apartment 4B.

There was a huge screaming argument downstairs around midnight.
Doors slamming.
People yelling.
Somebody crying.

The whole building could hear it.

My roommate walks into the hallway, listens for ten seconds, then calmly says:
“They’re moving earlier than expected.”

EARLIER THAN WHAT??

A woman across the hall literally gasped.

The next morning 4B had moved out unexpectedly because apparently they were already behind on rent and the fight ended the relationship.

But now the building believes my roommate orchestrated a covert extraction.

People started treating him like some kind of undercover protector.

Neighbors would randomly update him on “suspicious activity.”

One guy whispered:
“There’s a blue Honda that keeps circling the block.”

My roommate nodded and wrote something down.

Do you know what he wrote?

“Buy oat milk.”

But the guy saw the note-taking and immediately went,
“Knew it.”

Then management offered him a free parking spot “for operational convenience.”

HE TOOK IT.

At this point I asked him why he kept feeding the delusion instead of stopping it.

And he said something I’ll never forget:
“It’s gone too far to explain naturally.”

Which somehow made him sound EVEN MORE like a spy.

Then things became catastrophic.

A package got delivered to the wrong apartment and went missing.

Management called a building meeting about “recent security concerns.”

In the middle of the meeting, somebody actually turned toward my roommate and asked:
“What do you think we should do?”

This idiot crosses his arms and says:
“Keep communication limited. Don’t panic.”

The room nodded collectively.

I was watching a man fail upward into the CIA.

Then an actual police officer showed up later that week because somebody reported “possible federal surveillance activity.”

We thought the game was over.

But when the officer knocked on our door, my roommate opened it halfway, looked at the badge, and sighed like he was disappointed.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

I just got bullied by AGI

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

Democrats overwhelmingly vote late and by mail — but only Nithya Raman Democrats, not Karen Bass Democrats.

Just totally insane stuff.

[Ross Gerber @GerberKawasaki]

People continue to quote predictions markets as some sort of fact. This is a bad way to look at things. These markets are rigged and manipulated by the people who want you to think they are winning. It’s one big corrupt market place that should be shut down.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: The US Senate has just REJECTED the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation, 48-50 — would've required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide

REPUBLICAN NAYs: Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins

UNBELIEVABLE!!

It needed 60 votes.

Why can't the Senate pass what over 80% of Americans want?!

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

writing software in a factory is peak

the value can be so concrete and obvious

i.e. you do 50 jobs a day on a $1000/hr machine. write a feature that reduces the setup time by 30 seconds for each job. congrats, that feature is going to print $400/day forever multiplied by how many machines you have

[nic carter @nic_carter]

I ate one almond the other day. Then I felt bad about the water usage, so I thought to myself - well I just won’t make the next 15,000 AI queries I was planning on making

[Ryan Hansen Space @RyanHansenSpace]

Roll at the end seems a bit undesired for a catch simulation but I wonder if that was on purpose so the cameras would have a chance to see more of the heat shield prior to the exciting ending.

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

Return the government of Ireland to the people of Ireland as it once was under God!

The only way. 🙏🇮🇪

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

LONG LIVE IRELAND! 🇮🇪 🙏