Notorious RBMK

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equal parts shitposting, left politics, physics, DIY science, and photos (space/birds/stuff). formerly astroparticle physics, now astrodynamicist. "dr" in certain extremely specific professional contexts. ohio for 3 decades then west coast (sfbay, now pdx)

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

behold the Covid Lockdown Keyboard. designed the PCB, wrote the firmware in the Arduino IDE, autocad’d the case, and soldered it myself. kind of a weird cul de sac of a project, but keep meaning to open source it properly

using a very bizarrely layed out keyboard I designed from the PCB up during covid lockdowns, and not hating it! maybs can be my daily driver again

discord dnd night selfie. in my natural element with all my fuckin gadgets

mark of the beast

if this happens it’s gonna happen FAST. Unstable equilibrium. like 50% chance it happens in the next week

we’ve been in the “no take!! only throw” economic system for 45 years

It's always trickle down economics and never grow up economics. People who have more money, spend more money. You'd think capitalists would understand this very basic concept.

fun Me Fact this is my absolute favorite shuttle because i spent a tax refund in grad school on a solo trip to see it launch (STS-127)

i remember when they moved that shit through LA! also endeavour (it’s named after a ship that uses the pre-reform spelling)

temu i gotta say i have NO notes here

doin the moon reflections thing. was heard in asiatic russia by a guy named sergei tonight but i couldnt hear him

bonus content from last night: saturn with a color cam, and an ittttty bittttttty mars

another image from much earlier saturday morning, here is the planet Saturn, in infrared light it’s almost edge on this year! and in 2025 the rings will nearly “vanish” from our perspective 🔭🧪

the planets are still out in the daytime, can confirm (taken about 15 minutes after sunrise)

the entire United States economy, circa Q2 2024

when i pass restart to an init.d script

i like that my truck tailgate has two built in butt imprints and a drinks tray imprint

incredibly, *and also completely incoherently* mad about all this biden shit and i think a lot of other people are too, so hold some grace we are all thinking a lot of very strong things at the same time rn

getting caught up on the uk election

HOLY SHIT I JUST MADE A HAM RADIO CONTACT WITH AN OLD SOVIET STATION IN ANTARCTICA

they dont even know about george washington

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

ah, capitalism, the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

photo MOON-1 from last night yes i named it no *youre* a nerd

lazy iphone humbo photo

A more interesting question is: is pee pee a kind of poo poo

mysterious image received via radio tranmission

the hummingbird bird buddy has a rolling shutter and it was sunny today and lmaooooo i fuckin cant

on my mr wizard shit tonight bc i got a new moon amp in the mail so i packed it away real nice in my go kit and did some testing about 350 watts out just like it says on the tin!

gene one year ago in her one-gene pool that she had all to herself