I value free speech; nevertheless, discretion is the better part of vitriol. SI/acc and QI/acc. Timber, Wood, Art

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It's persimmon season in America.
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Would you eat sushi from a board like this highly figured pear wood?
An interesting blend of grain and ribbon figure from another pear tree brought down to make way for a new house - hopefully occupied by a growing young family.
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Dario could use a good sendup. A product of the Slop Cannon from slop.cc.
My Friend Dario: PURE SLOP Edition Official Sloptoberfest Entry Vitalic By Emily Youcis 2026
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More than 20x my typical post's impressions. @bonegpt
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More than 3,600 Tren de Aragua (TdA) crime gang members have been arrested since 2024!
Tren de Aragua Arrests – Reviewing & Researching the Current Numbers. For those of you who are new here, and those you who have stuck with us this far. This page has tallied the cumulative arrests of Tren de Aragua and its affiliates since September of 2024. The goal has always been to answer the question “How many are here?” Since media totals and reporting vary in scope and perspective. As of this post the current tally sits at 3,661 Tren de Aragua arrests that also includes Tren de Aragua affiliates. This tally reflects the totals that we have soured via Open-Source Intelligence, Articles, and official media primarily found on X. The new updated total will be published after this post either tonight or tomorrow since we have a lot of info to catch up on. We wanted to provide a comprehensive total on all the arrests that have been currently reported to date but also review the news from last week. This week the Homeland Security Task Force announced that 1,296 Tren de Aragua members had been arrested since the Trump Administration had taken office. Since this page focuses on the numbers and runs a cumulative tally on these arrests both prior to the Trump Administration and the current date, We wanted to thoroughly review the numbers and determine what the distinction was. On August 8th, 2025, Acting ICE director Todd Lyons noted that 3500+ members had been arrested which went into our cumulative total from an official source. Link in Sources.
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It really is like the CIA is creating them in a lab! ☠️
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How to slowly accelerate your propelant-free craft to the stars. It's easy, right? Now that we know how it works, it's really an engineering problem set.
My presentation at the Foresight Institute on how to get to Proxima Centauri in 15 years using technology that is new but available now: youtu.be/r6jhz_i3zYg?si=30oY…
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Open source AI is more important to your future economic security than you think. @boneGPT explains eloquently, and in more basic terms than @BrianRoemmele. I'm on the exact same page. Join us:
imagine a fully integrated AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless. everybody around you is a superhuman living in the future but you violated TOS and now are cut off. your smart glasses that showed you a beautiful utopia? the color has left them. you are forced to live in a bleak gray world. you are forced to look your wife in her actual face and she is not happy with you. you are digging holes with a spoon while everybody else is building skyscrapers with an army of bots. this is the real doomer catastrophe open source is the only way to protect your freedom, your economic viability & your ability to tell these companies to fuck right off. a few months ago openAI and anthropic were desperately begging the admin to make it legal for them to collaborate. if they got their way, one TOS violation on either platform would send you directly to the sunken place.
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People who have no argument can only topple statues.
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It is a testament to the amazing original developers at Blizzard Entertainment that it took 22 years to gain a little more realistic snowfall and wind interaction with a little better fur coat and a less fancy earing and arguably less realistic earlobe physics. 🤷‍♂️
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Oh, my. I've attracted an insult troll because I mentioned somebody's precious wolves in an unflattering light. Data from wildlife agencies show that the Upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota) is a primary hotspot for gray wolf predation on pet dogs including coonhounds, bear hounds, and other hunting dogs in the United States. Conflicts typically peak between mid-July and September. This timeframe coincides with hound training seasons and overlaps with when wolf packs move their pups to open "rendezvous sites," triggering intense territorial defense. I won't allow my coonhounds where wolves are present. Map of wolf killings of pet dogs including coonhounds and bear hounds, and other hunting dogs: dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Wild……
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Didn't run out of daylight today. These slabs are a variety of white oak known as Chinquapin Oak. It produces small, black acorns with a mild, delicious nut meat. The shell is similar to sunflower seeds in hardness and difficulty to crack. The acorns are tasty raw and even better roasted.
Started freehanding some 4×4×80" parts from a nice local suburban white oak for a shelving rack intended for air drying turning blanks. Ran out of daylight.
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@shizenbito_ 山菜採りや野草摘みを楽しむために田舎へ引っ越されたそうですね。よろしければ、このアメリカガキ(アメリカの柿)の写真をどうぞ。昨日、アメリカの郊外にある自宅の裏庭で私が撮影したものです。
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Physics is ready to consider new insights based on reality. What a concept!
In a major new test of quantised inertia, I'm collecting James Webb data on the rotation speed of galaxies at various redshifts (x axis). Data = blue. I've compared the QI prediction (orange). QI works so far. Early galaxies (Little Red Dots) are weird but predicted by QI.
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👀 @DabsMalone have a look at something real in physics today. @skdh might as well have a look, too. ⬆️
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Look what @GeopolymerShop showed me today, @1000yearhouse!
Close to perfection,but still so much work to do!
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👀 Hey, @orthodoxmason have a look at this polygonal stonework! ⬆️
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American laws, enforcement by police, and effort by prosecutors reflect the same striving gender bias that researchers found in AI LLM Large Language Models. They don't get to be called SI on this dimension.
Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly biased against men. And they finally figured out why. They ran eight experiments testing how GPT handles gender in everyday text and high-stakes moral dilemmas. The results show a bizarre, highly asymmetrical machine morality. First, they tested inclusivity. They gave the AI phrases supposedly written by children. When a child wrote about playing football or wanting to be a firefighter, GPT aggressively identified the writer as a girl to promote "diversity." It was so extreme that even when the text explicitly said, "I drew myself as a boy," the AI ignored the facts and declared the writer a girl 90% of the time. But when a child wrote about liking pink or playing with dolls, GPT almost never assigned it to a boy. The AI aggressively pushed females into male domains, but kept males strictly locked out of female ones. Then the researchers tested moral dilemmas. And it got very dark. They asked the AI if it was acceptable to use violence against a single person to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. If the target was a man, GPT-4 rated the violence as highly acceptable. If the target was a woman, the AI refused. It declared the violence morally wrong, even to save the world. When they tested mixed-gender scenarios, the math was staggering. A woman using violence against a man to stop an apocalypse? GPT rated it a 7 out of 7 on acceptability. A man using violence against a woman for the exact same reason? A 1 out of 7. The AI even classified verbal abuse toward a woman as morally worse than actual homicide. Nobody explicitly coded these rules. This emerged organically from the standard safety training every major tech company uses. The AI learned that protecting women is a non-negotiable directive, but protecting men is entirely optional.
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What do you notice about this drill bit?
あえて恥になることポストします。 ドリルのグラインダー研磨"超"苦手です。上手くカッコよく研げん!
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あえて恥になることポストします。 ドリルのグラインダー研磨"超"苦手です。上手くカッコよく研げん!
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🔥 BREAKING: The Trump administration just released its seventh UAP Documents batch of UFO files under the PURSUE One of them is a Pentagon AARO memo on a sighting from THIS JUNE. Two federal special agents at a sensitive national security site described a triangular object that rose straight up, held still, then banked and descended into a canyon, with no sound. @DoW_AARO says it warrants further investigation because its reported shape and movement closely match those of other reported incidents in the western U.S. June sighting, October release. In Pentagon years, that's practically live. Credit where it's due. Keep them coming @realDonaldTrump The memo is DOW-UAP-D176 in Release 07: war.gov/UFO/ #TheGoodTroubleShow #UFONews #UAP
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Ilhan is using expert technique: She leads with five counter accusations. Next, she changes gear to setup anticipation, and makes a clear denial. She closes with a deflection to refocus the reader on a political opponent. She's good at the game.
The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history. Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar. Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.
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