Electrical Engineer, maker, retired Senior Foreign Service Officer @statedept. Caltech. IBM PCs, Space & Star Trek Enthusiast. Engineer at @adafruit.
Joined February 2016
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I love it! I'm a femme in STEM too. Let's keep this phrase
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A worker appears to remove a letter from President Trump's name from the wall of the Kennedy Center from behind a tarp
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Donald Trump’s name is being removed from the Kennedy Center right now
Via @DCNewsNow
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Stock market crash 1995 vs 2026
Same pattern:
1995: Huge overvalued Palm IPO -> Dot-Com Bubble crash
2026: Huge overvalued SpaceX IPO -> AI Bubble crash coming
Remember that I was first to warn you
JUST IN: SpaceX valuation nearly equals the combined value of every major US IPO since 2000
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SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED
it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas
to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text
its called asciline, and here's the trick:
> the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets
> the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p
> ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch
> it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet
since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm
however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well
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Jun 11
Just a friendly reminder before the SpaceX IPO tomorrow
The company doesn’t make money
Has revenue of <5% of Google
Priced about 50% of Google’s market cap
Do with this information what you will
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Shortly, after SG-1 was cancelled, we stopped receiving network notes. As a gag, I wrote a scene into a script that saw our resident alien, Teal'c, inadvertently attend a reading of the Vagina Monologues. I assumed that, when they saw it, they would ask me to remove it...
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I made a personal black hole that makes you take breaks 🕳️
A shader for Ghostty that spawns a small black hole in your terminal - it drifts around, gravitationally lensing your text. The longer you work without stopping, the bigger it gets, until it's basically demanding you go touch grass
Take a break and it quietly shrinks away
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Jun 11
Why Trump really just decided bomb Iran…
This was just published.
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Jun 11
The Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: subscribe for free
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Jun 11
Catlantean 3D - making graphics like it's 1993
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As someone who studied spacecraft design, this is the single dumbest thing I've ever read on here. Thread (1/x)
Okay this is genuinely insane.
SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.
It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.
AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.
They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.
So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.
In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.
And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."
One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.
AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.
And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.
The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.
@SpaceX
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Jun 10
keyboard skirt update:
it survived WWDC
fun fact: i pretty much stood all day because i was scared it would rip (i also packed a backup outfit)
Jun 10
i hand-sewed a keyboard skirt for WWDC
so many people came up and asked if it actually worked lol
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Jun 11
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
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An Amstrad CPC 464 / 664 / 6128 emulator for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2
@Raspberry_Pi
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Floating Point: The Origin Story
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i hand-sewed a keyboard skirt for WWDC
so many people came up and asked if it actually worked lol
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