Systems and automation engineer. Fighting weaponised disinformation since 2020. Military reserve. @ironmecanic.bsky.social

Joined May 2016
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This will go down as one of the biggest scams in history
SpaceX just went public. Elon Musk is using your retirement savings to become the world’s first trillionaire.
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Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred. Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in August 2012, and by December that year NASA had already extended the mission indefinitely. Thirteen years and 35.5 kilometers later, the rover is still going, but the wheels started cracking just 14 months in. The damage came faster than anyone at JPL predicted. Sharp embedded rocks were punching straight through the skin between the treads. So NASA assembled a Wheel Wear Tiger Team (a crisis problem-solving tradition that goes back to Apollo 13) and got to work. In 2017, they uploaded a traction control algorithm from Earth that adjusts each wheel’s speed in real time based on the terrain, reducing force on the front wheels by 20%. They rerouted the rover to softer ground and started driving backward when possible, because pulling wheels over rocks produces less force than pushing them into rocks. The wildest part: if enough treads snap off, Curiosity is designed to find a sharp rock on Mars and use it to deliberately rip out the damaged inner section of its own wheel. JPL tested this on a replica rover and found Curiosity can keep driving on just the outer third. They predict this won’t be needed until around 2034. Every 1,000 meters, the rover pulls over and uses the camera on its robotic arm to photograph its own wheels so engineers on Earth can count every crack. Each wheel also has tiny holes that spell “JPL” in Morse code, which Curiosity uses to measure distance by photographing its own tracks in the dirt. These photos directly changed the next rover. When NASA built Perseverance, engineers 3D-printed about 70 different tread designs before landing on 48 curved treads instead of Curiosity’s 24, with thicker skin. They tested the new wheels over 60 kilometers and got zero damage by Curiosity’s original failure definition. “A boring graph with no data on it,” as one JPL engineer put it. A $2.5 billion machine doing self-surgery with rocks on another planet because the mission outlasted its design by 6x.
【Breaking 🚨】 Curiosity wheels taken yesterday, showing the damages caused during the 13 years it has been on the Red Planet
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This is what Republicans controlling all 3 branches of government looks like.
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What's up Elon, not to keen on free speech right now?
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OPERATION EPIC FURY 🇺🇸
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Dying for the noble cause of protecting pedophiles.
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BREAKING: MAGA Reacts to Trump attacking Iran: Marjorie Taylor Greene: “We voted for America First and ZERO wars.” Tucker Carlson: “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Alex Jones: “Trump‘s HUGE gamble accelerates the world‘s trajectory towards a nuclear world war.” Andrew Tate: “Why would going into a war with Iran benefit anybody in American at all?”
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RT @SundaeDivine: “Some of you may die, but it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
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Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!
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Just a friendly reminder that Trump's "assassination attempt" was just a photo op to gain sympathy.
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Everyone’s missing the real story here. xAI didn’t beat competitors by moving faster. They beat them by ignoring the rules competitors follow. The 122-day Colossus buildout? Powered by 35 unpermitted gas turbines that the EPA just ruled yesterday were operating illegally. The company exploited a local loophole classifying trailer-mounted generators as “nonroad engines” exempt from Clean Air Act permits. They ran those turbines for over a year in South Memphis, a majority Black neighborhood where cancer risk is already four times the national average. The “city-level power” comparison in the tweet is accurate. xAI essentially built a 422 MW power plant in a residential area without any environmental review, public notice, or pollution controls. The Shelby County Health Department only permitted 15 turbines. xAI operated 35. While OpenAI and Anthropic are waiting 12-24 months for grid connections and permits at their Stargate and Rainier facilities, xAI discovered you can move faster if you simply don’t ask permission. Oracle’s OpenAI data centers just got delayed from 2027 to 2028 due to labor and material shortages. xAI’s secret? Skip the permitting process entirely, deal with the lawsuits later. The expansion to Colossus 2 across the Mississippi border wasn’t “genius” site selection. It was jurisdiction shopping after Tennessee regulators started getting heat from NAACP lawsuits and EPA scrutiny. This tells you everything about how Musk views regulatory compliance as a competitive moat to be tunneled under. SpaceX and Tesla have the same pattern. Move fast, break environmental rules, pay fines later. The EPA ruling yesterday closes the loophole. Future xAI expansions will face the same permitting timelines everyone else deals with. The “speed advantage” was a one-time regulatory arbitrage play, and it came at the expense of Memphis residents breathing 2,000 tons of NOx emissions per year.
xAI has officially become the first to bring a gigawatt-scale coherent AI training cluster online That’s more electricity than the peak demand of San Francisco While competitors are still drafting roadmaps for 2027, xAI is already operating at major city–level power today The execution speed is unreal: Colossus 1 → from dirt to fully operational in 122 days Colossus 2 → just crossed the 1 GW barrier, targeting 2 GW total Elon’s playbook hasn’t changed: move faster than everyone, scale before they finish meetings The strategy is clear: speed and execution at scale
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🚨 JUST IN: In a stunning development, Denmark's streets explode into anti-American rage as thousands flood Copenhagen's City Hall Square, waving Danish and Greenlandic flags in a massive "Hands Off Greenland" showdown. Protesters scream "Greenland is NOT FOR SALE!"
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Trump to American workers:
U.S. billionaires got $1.5 trillion richer during Trump's first year in office.
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Wouldn't it suck if Trump saw this all over twitter?
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Musk is a Nazi. Like share and retweet

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Before and After the convicted felon tore down the White House without permission from anyone. Can we now tear Mar-a-lago down without permission?
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