Phill Treddenick

Build all the things

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

Long past time to build reliable nuclear power.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

@PhilJankowski ERCOT says the possible rolling blackouts Monday are because of
1) the heatwave and
2) very little wind power

https://t.co/iyW1S1EjqH

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

The Americans are right, tofu should absolutely be outlawed.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

There's a TV show in Japan
that has run for over 30 years.

The premise: a parent sends
their two or three-year-old child
on an errand. Alone.

To the store. To buy tofu.
Across actual streets.

A camera crew follows secretly,
hidden, never helping,
as a tiny human in a backpack
completes a task most countries
wouldn't let a child attempt.

The kid cries. The kid forgets.
The kid gets distracted by a dog.
And then the kid comes home,
holding the tofu, glowing.

It's the most-watched thing
of its kind in the country.

Americans who discover it
cannot believe it's legal.

In Japan, we cannot believe
it's remarkable.

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

I agree that Iran’s purpose was clearly for weapons, but this statement is not true. Power reactors can be designed to use any enrichment level. It’s just that we don’t allow highly enriched uranium to be used for civilian purposes in the US.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

People don't seem to understand various uses of enriched uranium:

3-5%: For nuclear power plants
20%: For some specific research purposes
60% and beyond: Only military uses

Iran enriched uranium to 60% for one purpose only: build nuclear weapons. There is no other use for that.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Shiny!

[Nick Touran @whatisnuclear]

Don't ever let anyone tell you that Three Mile Island was the reason we stopped building nuclear plants in the USA

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

@jmhorp The labs that were spawned by the Manhattan Project are still around and costing taxpayers $12B+/yr, so I wouldn’t say it’s ended.

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

If you were born in the 20th or 21st century in the US, you won the biggest lottery of all time.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

This is good perspective.

No one from 100 years ago had the simple pleasure of a hot shower.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I am unreasonably excited about self-driving. It will be the first technology in many decades to visibly terraform outdoor physical spaces and way of life. Less parked cars. Less parking lots. Much greater safety for people in and out of cars. Less noise pollution. More space reclaimed for humans. Human brain cycles and attention capital freed up from “lane following” to other pursuits. Cheaper, faster, programmable delivery of physical items and goods. It won’t happen overnight but there will be the era before and the era after.

[Bryan Larsen @BryanLarsenArts]

Everyone is posting their pictures of the moon from last night. I didn't get one...so here's my picture of the moon viewed from orbit in...oh...let's say 2141 (but painted in 2023).

(Detail from 'The Lights of Home')

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

We need more financial products and innovation.

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

There is a missing mortgage which would be valuable: Variable Term, Fixed Rate

A mortgage which responds to interest rates by shortening or lengthening maturity, while monthly payments stay the same

Provides borrowers w security of FRM, while sheltering lenders from rate risk

[Louis Anslow @LouisAnslow]

Wild idea

Encryption method that doesn’t show gibberish when using the wrong encryption key - so attacker doesn’t get signal they got wrong key - instead it uses plausible LLM generated text to ‘decrypt’ fake data

Makes quantum key cracking irrelevant!

https://t.co/gFvBY00R9C

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

Airlines are gaslighting masters. “Congrats your flight is less delayed”. That is, it is only 7 hours delayed instead of 7 hours and 10 minutes.

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

I just think that people who care about climate change would do better to focus on the cool fact of the market success that is natural gas and try to apply that to other stuff like nuclear instead of being like “we must interrupt traffic until people live in teepees”

[Paul Hsieh @PaulHsieh]

A great poem for a great country.

[Simon Willison @simonw]

I like this take by @KentBeck on how AI-assisted programming changes the balance of which skills are most important

[Thomas Eiden @AtomicEiden]

@isaiah_p_taylor Catch us if you can!

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

@BryanLarsenArts Heavily curate your feed to eliminate any of the nonsense. Particularly political nonsense.

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

To put it another way: life isn’t fair. And you should get over that.

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

Right direction but this seems very unambitious. That’s only 10k per year. Austin is crushing that.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Manhattan used to be full of working-class families, and too many have had to move out as housing prices went up.

We're going to build 100,000 new homes in the next decade to reach a total of 1 MILLION homes in Manhattan.

Our vision is called “The Manhattan Plan.”

[Phill Treddenick @treddeni]

@whatisnuclear Do you have a link to the report you can share?