America was so rich in the 2000’s that we used to pay gay men to hook up with women just to sell some jeans.
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Remember the plastic straw debate?
I was curious how banning straws globally would stack up against @TheOceanCleanup’s current impact.
US beach cleanup data suggests straws make up just 0.005% of plastic pollution.
The Ocean Cleanup is now stopping 2–5% of global plastic inflow (and growing rapidly)
So our current impact is already ~400–1000x what a global straw ban could ever achieve!
🤖 Made with AI
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This is very believable to me.
12-13 years ago I built a laser interferometry system that collected PB of data (2GB/s) and I built a rocks HPC cluster and trained neural nets to predict multiphase flow rates inside oil and gas pipelines from 2-3 miles away.
This was before transformers so it was very hard, but managed to get it working with a tonne of reference data that we collected at NEL.
Bought some German SWIR laser interferometers, and stuffed the beams through long fiber optic loops to get huge Fabry-Perot distances, and we had insane picometer/second accuracy on surface velocity or space-time vibration (depending on your reference frame), we had 3.2 million samples/second so could get out to 1.6MHz on our FFT.
We creating insanely high fidelity multispectral spectrograms (frequency, time, power), and this was the training data we used to train our very crude AI to predict physical reality.
We could detect a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. it was Star Trek sensor tech.
NEW: The CIA used a secret tool called "Ghost Murmur" that uses AI to find heartbeats to rescue the U.S. airman who was stranded in Iran, according to the New York Post.
The secret technology was allegedly used for the first time in the field, according to the Post.
"The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise," the Post reported.
"It’s like hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert," the source said.
"In the right conditions, if your heart is beating, we will find you."
"The name is deliberate. ‘Murmur’ is a clinical term for a heart rhythm. ‘Ghost’ refers to finding someone who, for all practical purposes, has disappeared..."
"Advances in a field known as quantum magnetometry, specifically sensors built around microscopic defects in synthetic diamonds, have apparently made it possible to detect these signals at dramatically greater distances."
CIA Director John Ratcliffe appeared to hint at this technology on Monday, saying the CIA possessed "unique capabilities" but said he couldn't "tell you everything that you want to know."
President Trump also revealed during the press conference that the CIA spotted the officer from about "40 miles away."
Insane.
Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on the state of the information environment and the population's cognitive resilience.
"We really are living in a cognitive wild west. Most people have near-zero memetic defenses or cognitive security suited for the online age". She adds, "any semblance of it is easily brute-forced by the onslaught of information & the situation is even worse when it comes to AI agent-orchestrated psyops."
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Racing plasmoids controlled by a tiny neodymium magnet. The magnet reshapes the local magnetic field, the plasmoid locks to it, and suddenly a chaotic, self-organizing plasma behaves like it’s on rails. Only 563 views on YT
Is anyone working on snow cat groomer that lays down a fluff instead of a hard pack? #hardtech #reindustrilize #latechweek
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Sometimes spite is a strong motivation.
Like this legend who went to a lot of trouble to take a good and genuine photo of trifluoronitrosomethane (which looks amazing) after finding out someone had put up fake hue-edited chlorine on the Wikipedia page.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=REm6O6…
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was looking up natural diy ant repellent and i came across this post on r/Buddhism and this comment is so precious to me
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there is a catastrophic failure mode of steel called hydrogen embrittlement which increases in likelihood with, ironically, strength of the alloy
as the design engineer, there is no way to prevent or identify its potential occurrence
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