Well, bad news and good news. We don’t get to dictate to our children what their lives are like. But the good news is that they often go on to do something better than we would’ve imagined for them anyway.

helicopter parenting worked so well, let’s try helicopter speciation

A little progress on both of these paintings...

Discovered an incredibly whitepilled artist - Bryan Larsen today (thank you Desert Island Systems for sharing!). Here's some of Bryan's work. Give him a follow and a share!

Happy #NationalSpaceDay! During the 1960's & 70's, we were part of one of the most remarkable events and history of mankind—the manned Apollo expeditions to the Moon! USGS Astrogeology #PlanetaryScience #Apollo #Astrogeology #Moon 📸 Harrison "Jack" Schmitt with U.S. flag, NASA

A toy model for a Westinghouse power plant! This was apparently a limited run, but we should have far more. Give me an AP1000 model in stores!

@JohnPau88413033 Lucky number 4

The age of Tycho was determined by radiometric dating of impact melt glasses found in samples collected during Apollo 17 in landslide material near South Massif (seen in the background below.) Although 2000 km from Tycho crater, ejecta from its impact landed in Taurus-Littrow.

There's a popular story that the reason why the great city of Kyoto stands today is because US Secretary of War Henry Stimson had spent his honeymoon in Kyoto, and so nixed it from the list of atomic bomb targets. Hiroshima was next in line. The honeymoon story is a fabrication

We're all just living in a scifi book world where electricity is the magic system.

USS Hornet recovers the #Apollo11 capsule, July 24, 1969 contactlight.de forallmankind.de

Alexandr Wang This is a horrible framing - we are not at war. We are all in this together and if we make AI development into a war we are likely to all die. I can imagine a worse framing but it takes real effort. Why would you do this?

Turns out the most realistic part of the Matrix was the future hyper-civilization devoting the bulk of its global energy output to virtually recreating the '90s

Is ‘filial piety’ the most underrated virtue in the American media corpus? (Michael Corleone excepted) Is it the most important virtue in an ascending AI? Obvious solution: Operation Aeneas. $500 billion for 500 Hollywood movies about heroes and parents, 1 a day for 1.3yrs

who called it the world of bits vs. the world of atoms and not Ether/Ore

“aerospace republic”!

Introducing 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥, the language for machine spirits. 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥 is an LLM-friendly functional programming language with Unicode syntax, dependent types, and tensor operations, including uncertainty intervals and precondition/postcondition contracts. github.com/sigilante/goth

If you make it this far, I ask three things of you: 1. Try 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥. It has IDE support & a Jupyter kernel & an LLM spec. File bugs. * github.com/sigilante/goth/ 2. Share the original tweet (link below). 3. I'm looking for a new job. If you're intrigued, let's talk. DMs are open.

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