Michael Guimarin @Guimarin

@orienwu @RedactedDeGen @BowTiedBull Let it go the guy is telling on himself. There are amazing beds above $5k that aren’t all about marketing.

@BrianNorgard compare and contrast who is going into CS/AI right now with who was at Reindustrialize last week. I'm still processing.

@BowTiedKong @BowTiedBull It’s on brand.😂

Yesterday I told you about Starfall, and how bringing orbital material to Earth is critical to the post-terrestrial economy. Today, I'm going to talk about the Valar reactor. In the future, we build things in space because space has infinity free power. Build a solar panel once and milk it forever. Elon Musk is trying to sell you solar panels on Earth so he can develop them for space. Solar panels are awesome in space. But they suck on Earth. What's awesome on Earth is fissionable material. These special rocks just radiate free power. And I don't mean a little bit of free power. I mean a huge amount. Like, you may think your modern automobile is pretty cool because it gets 30 miles to the gallon of gasoline. But a gallon of gasoline weighs 6 pounds. If you could run your car on HALEU nuclear fuel instead, then those same six pounds would drive you 11.3 million miles. You know, just in case you wanted to drive to the Apollo landing site and back. 23 times. But that's only 17 years of continuous driving, so you should probably put that six pounds of fuel in your Tesla instead. That way you could drive to Mars. In 69 years. At the end of your journey, you would have a bunch of highly dangerous radioactive waste, of course... six whole pounds of it. You would have to dispose of it by taking extreme precautions, such as handling it with gloves. And burying it one meter deep. In a coffee can. Do I have your attention yet? Now, the spicy rocks are really great because they're super spicy, but the traditional way of using them involves building a great big power plant that weighs about hundreds of thousands of tons, has to be built on a full square mile of wherever you want your power to be, and, for legal reasons, needs to be covered in the thick layer of federal bureaucrats to make sure things cost more, take longer, and generally suck. So that's where this dude, @isaiah_p_taylor, comes in. And he says "Wait a minute... if the spicy rocks are so goddamned spicy... why do we need a whole bunch of them in a huge containment vessel surrounded by acres of power plant?" That's old thinking. Based on our preconceived notions of what a power plant is, which we got from burning coal and oil and other stuff that can't bring you to Mars with one coffee can. Why not build a little tiny power plant? Like, a power plant the size of a train car? A power plant that you can load onto a train car, or a the back of a semi-rig, take it wherever you need it, and just set it down right there? Each one holds a wee bit more than that 6 pound coffee can. Like, maybe 90 of those. That'll get your Tesla to Neptune, if you have 4000 years to spare. Of course, that's not San Onofre. It won't power New York City by itself. But that's what the word "modular" means. Bring as many as you need. Need one? Bring one. Need ten, bring ten. If you actually do need to power New York City, bring 2000. And 2000 isn't an unrealistic number. Because that's also what the word "modular" means. Standardized. Interchangeable. Perfect the process with one, and then churn them out systematically. At scale. No individualized custom site design. No years of construction. No environmental impact study committees. No thick layer of bureaucrats. One design. One set of safety standards and protocols. One approval process. Then you crank them out forever. The concept is already proven. How do you think the Navy gets from San Diego to the Strait of Hormuz? Immigrant galley slaves? Sailcloth? And that's exactly where you get your workforce of modular plant operators... Navy vets who were running submarine reactors when they were twenty-two years old. Except you can put these on a construction site because they're not a big box of weapons-grade plutonium. They're a barrel of low-grade fuel you have to handle with... gloves. In the Robert Heinlein future, you run your factories in space with solar panels, because don't even get me started on how much power the sun gets from six pounds of hydrogen. But on Earth, you run your air conditioner like this.

Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor

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Good morning. Last night at 8:51pm Mountain Time, the Valar Atomics Nuclear Operations team brought Ward 250 to 10kW thermal output. We held this power level throughout the night. This is another historic milestone from the Valar team, marking first nuclear power by a startup.

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@AskMichaelTaiwo What was the prompt here? 😂

@FinGmbh @BowTiedBull I think natural fibers + goose down in a very low profile pillow is the way to go. Sleeping on the floor is the best. Then a tatami mat Then a bed Then a bed with pillows.

I agree! He helped get Teddy Roosevelt his Medal of Honor which I got to see @ Roosevelt Room at the White House. @realDonaldTrump I have never asked you for anything but this would be a very cool pre end of term thing to do! National Medal of Arts please 🙏 for my Dad!

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John G @JohnG_Arch

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@AmandaMilius El Patron. For medal of freedom!!!! Lets do it

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@NectarFightBJJ @BowTiedBull I wanted to buy one of those Hastings beds but my wife said absolutely not. So it’s some fru-fru $12k mattress the guy at the frette store in Palo Alto recommended.

@BowTiedGSV @BowTiedBull I think her wedding dress was $5-$6/guest. It was a game changer for us. Been married 12 years now with 4 kids. Once she was okay with my way of math’ing everything, I knew we’d be alright.

My FIL has a pool and I keep a running tally of how many hours per summer my kids spend in it. I even bring their friends over and put them in that pool to “game the number.” It makes him feel slightly better. The cost is completely insane though. Like I’m giggling thinking about it.

I did cost per guest for my wedding. 😂 We spent $1.20/guest on the favor. It was a ping-pong paddle I ordered from China (they were actually good) and a monogrammed ping-pong ball. We did a “world record attempt” with them. Ppl still comment about it, and I didn’t spend $12/guest on a bottle opener or shot glasses no one ever uses.

@johnrobb This and the nested OP.

Movez @0xMovez

2 days ago

Andrew Ng: "100% of my tasks are now done by AI agents - hype has exceeded my expectations. Loops is next step. in 3-6 months, everyone will be using self-improving loops. No more prompting." In a 30-minute talk, Andrew Ng explains how to build self-improving agentic systems

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This is one of the movies in production. More on it soon.

Officer Andrew Spottswood recently helped a 75-year-old man who had his wallet stolen. The wallet had the man’s ID, his bus pass, and his debit card. The man told Officer Spottswood that he didn’t have any family or a way to get around. Officer Spottswood first took the man to the DMV to get a new ID. When the clerk asked for the $13 fee, the man didn’t have the money—so the officer reached for his own wallet to pay. In the end, the clerk kindly waived the fee. Then, Officer Spottswood drove the man to the bank to get a new debit card, and to the CATS station to help him get a new bus pass. After that, he took the man to get something to eat, since he was tired and hungry. Officer Spottswood didn’t tell anyone what he had done. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department only found out because the man later called and spoke to a supervisor to say thank you. This week, Officer Spottswood was honored with a CMPD Acts of Excellence award for his kindness.

My review of these energy shots. I don’t take energy shots. I have in the past and they made me irritable and racing heart anxious. I tried one of these. They were different from everything else I’ve tried. No racing heart, no irritability, and like Mike has said multiple times, no crash. I could also feel their effect in a positive way where others was 50-50 bc of the anxiety. They taste good too. Would take again.

Wow

@BasedMedical Check out this open source project my buddy is doing. Might be helpful for you guys. trustedrouter.com/blog/fusion-ev…

Good morning we are going to win

Look how many daughters her dad had. 😂

Maye Musk @mayemusk

2 days ago

Happy Father’s Day to my wonderful sons, my fantastic father and all fathers. 🥰🥰

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