Jeffrey B. Layton

@owainkenway But it has taken me years to come to terms that I belong in a room with others or that I have done some things. I still struggle all the time. You are extremely accomplished. Give yourself some grace from time to time. That is very difficult to do as well, but you deserve it.

@owainkenway My therapist had me sit down and write out my past results (I hate to call them accomplishements). Give it a try. It's good starting point.

One of the things that I hadn't really grasped because it wasn't important to me, was that in agreeing to be the Principal Investigaor for our National Compute Resource "Charger", I had accidentally agreed to be "director", a title that I am struggling a bit to apply to myself.

In 1851, somewhere in the cotton fields of Texas, a child enters the world with no name recorded, no rights granted, no future promised. The law doesn't see her as human. She's chattel. Property. Her blood carries the stories of three peoples America has spent centuries trying to erase: African, Mexican, Native American. Most enslaved children born that year would live and die in obscurity, their names lost to history, their voices silenced forever. This girl would do the opposite. She would become so powerful, so dangerous to the established order, that the FBI would watch her every move for four decades. When death finally claimed her at 89, federal agents would race to her home and seize her life's work before her funeral could even be planned. What transforms a nameless slave child into the woman J. Edgar Hoover's FBI feared most? Lucy Parsons spent nine decades perfecting the answer. After emancipation, she walked out of bondage with nothing but rage and brilliance. She taught herself to read in a South that made Black literacy a crime. She married a white former Confederate soldier who'd rejected his racist upbringing, their interracial union in 1871 Texas so dangerous that lynch mobs forced them to flee north. In Chicago's brutal factories, she found her calling. While industrialists grew fat on sixteen-hour workdays and child labor, Lucy stood on street corners and factory floors, her words cutting through despair like a blade. The Chicago Tribune called her "more dangerous than a thousand rioters." They meant it as an insult. She wore it as armor. Then they murdered her husband. Hanged him in 1887 for his politics, not his actions, after the Haymarket bombing that no evidence connected him to. Lucy arrived at the prison with their children, begging to say goodbye. The guards turned her away. Most people break when power crushes them that completely. Lucy Parsons spent the next fifty-five years getting louder. She spoke in every major American city. She organized workers, wrote pamphlets that spread like wildfire, was arrested dozens of times. Each arrest made her more determined. The morning after the house fire that killed her in 1942, FBI agents were already inside, boxing up sixty years of writings, letters, manuscripts. They locked away her words because they understood what tyrants always learn too late: ideas are harder to kill than people. Born property. Died a legend the government still feared. Lucy married Albert Parsons knowing it could get them both killed. Interracial marriage was illegal across most of America, and in Texas during Reconstruction, it was essentially a death warrant. They married anyway, in 1871, and fled north when the Ku Klux Klan made it clear they wouldn't survive in the South. In Chicago, Lucy became one of the most electrifying speakers of her generation. Crowds of thousands would gather to hear her speak. The Chicago police maintained surveillance files on her from the 1880s until her death in 1942, over sixty years of constant monitoring. They called her "more dangerous than a thousand rioters" not because of violence, but because her words inspired workers to demand dignity. After her husband's execution in 1887, Lucy raised their two children alone while becoming one of America's most prominent labor organizers. She helped found the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote for dozens of radical publications, and never stopped speaking truth to power. She was still giving speeches on Chicago street corners in her eighties. The FBI raid on her home after her death in 1942 remains controversial. They confiscated her entire personal archive, thousands of documents spanning six decades. Most have never been released to the public. Many historians believe crucial parts of American labor history remain locked in government vaults because Lucy Parsons' words are still considered too dangerous. © Daughters of Time #archaeohistories

@Aviation_Intel Love that water injection :)

B-52s bring their own overcast.

@Aviation_Intel 100% agree.

US needs a totally new air defense strategy. This also includes congressional advocacy, procurement, etc. Leadership has failed us here. Little movement for many years when it was clear the nature of the mission was morphing rapidly. Time for a new playbook. We are in no way ready for the Pacific.

3rd grader was denied by her teacher, who claimed groundbreaking pilot Bessie Coleman wasn’t a hero. after the assignment was rejected, the girl presented on her in front of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) instead after being invited.

Jensen Huang just called out every CEO who’s been firing people “because of AI.” Jim Cramer asked him why companies are laying people off if AI is supposed to make everyone MORE productive. Jensen's answer: "For companies with imagination, you will do more with more. For companies where the leadership is just out of ideas, they have nothing else to do. They have no reason to imagine greater than they are. When they have more capability, they don't do more." Read that again. The man who built the most important tech company on Earth just told you that if your CEO is using AI to cut headcount, it means one thing: They have no imagination. They have no vision for what comes next. They got handed the most powerful tool in human history and their FIRST instinct was to fire people. This is the CEO of NVIDIA. The company whose chips power every AI system on the planet. If anyone on Earth has the right to say "AI replaces workers," it's Jensen Huang. And he said the OPPOSITE. He said every carpenter could become an architect. Every plumber could become an architect. AI elevates capability. It doesn't eliminate it. But here's where it gets really interesting... During the same interview, Jensen revealed something nobody's talking about: He said AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic are seeing their revenues increase by one to two billion dollars a WEEK. And he wishes these companies were public so the world could see what he sees. One to two billion per week. That's a $50 to $100 BILLION annualized run rate. For companies that most people think are burning cash and making nothing. The entire Wall Street narrative that "AI companies aren't profitable" might be completely wrong. Jensen sees their numbers. He sees their compute orders. He sees their growth. And he's saying the revenue is real. So if the money IS real, why are other companies firing people? Because they're not building AI products. They're not creating new revenue streams. They're not using AI to expand into new markets. They're using AI as an EXCUSE to cut costs because they ran out of ideas 3 years ago and need something to tell the board. Jensen's company added $500 billion in new orders in 5 months. He expects $1 trillion in cumulative revenue through 2027 from just two product lines. That number doesn't include the new chips, systems, or partnerships announced this week. And he's not cutting people. He's hiring. Because when you have imagination, more capability means MORE opportunity. Not less headcount. Meanwhile Salesforce cut thousands. Meta cut thousands. Amazon cut thousands. All blaming "AI efficiency." Jensen's response: You're out of imagination. He also said something that stuck with me. Cramer asked if he ever thought he'd build a $10 to $20 trillion company while waiting tables at Denny's. His answer: "I was just trying to make it through the shift." Biggest tip he ever got? Two, three dollars. Now he's building tech that increased computing demand by one million times in two years. He announced OpenClaw, which he says is as big as ChatGPT. And he's got 21 months of new business that isn't even counted in the trillion dollar figure yet. When asked how long he plans to keep working? "I'm hoping to die on the job. And I'm not hoping to die anytime soon." This is a man who believes every single thing he's building. And his message to every CEO using AI to justify layoffs is simple... You're not innovating. You're surrendering. The technology wasn't built to shrink companies. It was built to make them limitless. If your leadership can't see that, the problem isn't AI. It's THEM.

Indiana's statehouse just signed two bills that cannot survive being read in the same sentence. The first: public universities must now accept the Classic Learning Test for admissions. The CLT draws its questions from classical texts. Plato. Augustine. Cicero. Shakespeare. The argument is that these works represent the intellectual foundation of Western civilization and self-government. The second: public colleges must eliminate programs deemed to produce "low earning" graduates. No carve-out for humanities. No protection for the programs where students actually read and wrestle with those classical authors the first bill just elevated. Fort Wayne's Redeemer Classical School sent a representative to the statehouse to champion the CLT. Their students read Homer and Euclid. Their graduates will now test into universities that are legally required to accept their scores and simultaneously required to shut down the departments built around the tradition those scores are supposed to measure. You cannot champion the classics as a signal of intellectual seriousness and then eliminate the classrooms that make the ideas real. That is not education reform. That is a credential without a curriculum.

@INDems 47th in education.

After 21+ years of one-party Republican control in Indiana, Hoosiers have the 43rd lowest average weekly wage in the country. Even adjusted for cost of living, Indiana ranks 36th.  Hoosiers need a change. greenfieldreporter.com/2026/03/04/ste…

@BSakbun This is wonderful! Thank you!

Earlier today, the administration awarded medals and books to some of our young writers in Vigo County. The Unity in our Community Writing Contest is a great opportunity to teach kindness and acceptance of others. wthitv.com/news/indiana/m…

@Aviation_Intel Crowd control from the air has been attempted several times. It has never worked, local or not.

The Misconception That Air Supremacy Has Been Achieved Over Iran While there are areas where air superiority exists over Iran, total air supremacy has not been achieved, which should be no surprise. twz.com/news-features/…

In 1963, Delia Derbyshire hand built the Doctor Who theme using only tape loops, oscillators, filters, and razor blades, long before techno existed.

The Trump Administration claims the Treasury has authority over Venezuelan assets. I asked Treasury Secretary Bessent directly what grants him this authority. He seemed to have no idea that he controlled these assets, let alone the authority behind them.

@NavyLookout It's embarrassing.

New in-depth analysis article: The strategic logic and industrial peril of Trump’s battleship plan for the 🇺🇸US Navy navylookout.com/the-strategic-…

Complete crap here from your HHS Secretary The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is so effective it is on the way to ELIMINATING cervical cancer! RFK Jr is an anti vaccine fanatic who would rather your daughter got cervical cancer than a vaccine Horrible man

@aviationarchive Really interesting - thanks for sharing. But I have to say it reminds me of the first Iron Man suit in the movie. Still, for 100 years ago, it's very cool.

The 1926 Dyle et Bacalan DB-10 was a French heavy night bomber prototype. All-metal; open cockpit; only one built; lost to LéO 20 in competition. Pioneered thick-wing concept, influencing later DB-70 transporter.👀

@owainkenway In the past I haven't had any issues but that's been 8+ years ago :) I'm sure it's changed.

I am inches from dropping teaching BeeGFS because it always gets to this point in the year and I have to do some debugging of a very complex thing with opaque error messages and very bad documentation. E.g. We moved the logs to an sqlite DB. WHYYY

@Hush_Kit I loved the YF version. After the AF changes, it was still a nice plane but not as good.

The F-16 is 52 today (its maiden flight was accidental). The weight of all the F-16s made combined (empty) is around the same as 6 aircraft carriers’ worth of steel or 15 Great Pyramids

52 years ago today, The Six Million Dollar Man premiered. And the advent of kids running in slow motion and making springy noises when they jumped, began.

. @AskFrontier My father's YouTube TV wants a login now. Isn't it included on his subscription?