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DTC opportunity waiting to happen - Fresh Peaces direct to consumers

@michaelmiraflor *not meant to be a shitty comment

@michaelmiraflor What I worry about is once we start building a moon base is that Trump will declare the moon as a US territory

Feeling some Obama-era optimism because of these Artemis II moments. I missed that feeling, it's been a long while.

new instrumental LP is out. some beats by me, MetalFlowerz some beats by @BOMBAYdaRealest Today, April 6, is both me & Bombay's birthday. in an ode to the "special herbs" titles I helped DOOM select when he did the first few volumes of beat tapes, I named all the songs after my favorite flowers. Heaven On Earth on sale now on @bandcamp digital, jewel CDs, tapes & color vinyl. nowaahtheflood7.bandcamp.com/album/heaven-o…

@WALASIA Happy bday @walasia!

Today is my 52nd birthday. Please feel free to send cake. CashApp $WALASIA Venmo @WALASIA PayPal, Zelle thegoldennutrients@gmail.com 🎂🎂🎂

@kcrw who ever is DJing right now, tell them this is not the vibe for a Easter Sunday. Right now it’s giving Vegas pool party

Solstice 5 was one of the best things I watched in 2025. Looking forward to this new film!

@GamerLXXXVI @Dexerto Break out recipe on TikTok of the past few years. Hugely popular

@Dexerto WTF is butter chicken?

Taco Bell's Butter Chicken Taco is releasing in the US later this year after fan vote

This was my point when I posted about Crypto payments needing to attack the current credit card infrastructure that has led to consumers being charged just to use their own money. Ridiculous. A zero fee payments protocol built on top of a popular mobile messaging app is exactly the type of killer app we need to upend the current system

@sakura_grow What are your favorite strains out there? Any Landrace genetics in Chiang Mai?

あなたの国は違法ですか？ 俺は日本で、3回大麻で捕まりました。 だけど、大麻を悪いものだと思ったことはありません。 アルコールやタバコよりも、ずっと自然で穏やかな植物です。 だから、日本を出ました。 今はタイのチェンマイで、大麻工場と店舗を経営してます。 チェンマイは不思議な場所です。 何でここに人が集まるのか、吸えばわかります。

The machine that built the chip in this video should mass-humble every human who's ever lived. ASML's latest EUV lithography system costs $370 million, weighs 180 tons, and requires three Boeing 747s to deliver. It contains over 100,000 individual parts from 5,100 suppliers across 14 countries. It shoots 100,000 molten tin droplets per second with a laser, superheating each one past the temperature of the sun's surface to generate light at a wavelength so short that no natural material on Earth can focus it. So they had to invent new mirrors. Each one is polished with 100 alternating layers of molybdenum and silicon. The surface tolerance is so extreme that if you scaled a single mirror up to the size of Germany, the tallest imperfection would be 1 millimeter. Those mirrors took 20 years to develop. The company that makes them, Zeiss, had to build entirely new metrology tools just to confirm the mirrors were flat enough, because no existing measurement instrument on Earth could verify the precision they needed. The machine prints features at 2 nanometers. That's roughly 10 atoms wide. A human hair is 80,000 nanometers. A red blood cell is 7,000. A single COVID virus particle is 100. These machines are etching functional circuits 50 times smaller than a virus. TSMC is now mass producing 2nm chips in a Kaohsiung fab so large the cleanroom is twice the size of any competitor's. Each 2nm wafer costs $30,000 to produce. The entire 2026 production run was booked before a single chip shipped. Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, and Qualcomm all reserved capacity years in advance. TSMC is spending $28.6 billion just to build enough fabs to meet demand for this one node. The chip that comes out of this process is smaller than a fingernail, runs on less power than a light bulb, and contains transistors that wrap gates around nanosheets of silicon only a few atoms thick. The raw material it started as was sand. The sand cost a fraction of a penny. The civilization that processed it into this started by banging rocks together.

@michaelmiraflor but how's the coffee?

"You can't help but appreciate the brand once you think of it as modern art." Post-DTC era premium mediocre retail aesthetics are uniquely American and are indeed easier to appreciate if you consider it to be postmodern art (even if that is not its original intention).

The transaction fees that all these vendors are now trying to add on to consumer's trying to use credit cards to pay, is probably the best case for the adoption of accepting some sort of crypto payment at retail. But then again it shows how out of wack the industries priorities are that they're not seizing on this moment and turning it into a major issue with consumers to provoke them to revolt in mass against this emerging trend. At this point the transactional cost on blockchain has gone down to pennies or fractions there of, so why isn't crypto attacking the credit card industry and making this more of an issue? Consumers should be angry that they increasingly being charged more just to access paying via credit card.

i dont know what i'm looking at exactly, but this looks amazing

You all are overthinking your side projects. >This guy made digital balls physically bounce off real objects/sticky notes using just a webcam, a projector, and JavaScript. Go build something fun. (via ig/bongyunng)

You can cut one of these robots in half, and both halves keep moving. The severed leg rolls away on its own and can rejoin the group later. I looked into the guy behind this. Sam Kriegman at Northwestern. In 2020, he built xenobots, tiny living robots made from frog cells, less than a millimeter wide. They could barely scoot around a dish. In 2023, his AI designed a walking robot from scratch in 26 seconds on a regular laptop. Now he’s merged both ideas into one thing, and the paper just dropped in PNAS (one of the top science journals in the world). Each piece is about two feet long. Two sticks connected by a ball that has a small computer, a battery, and a motor packed inside. One piece by itself can roll around and jump. But snap 2 to 5 of them together, and the AI takes over. It runs a sped-up version of evolution, breeding and killing off virtual body designs until it finds shapes that move well. Some slither like seals. Others hop like kangaroos. These robots were trained on flat ground inside a simulation, then dropped onto real sand, mud, gravel, tree roots, and uneven bricks. Worked immediately. No tweaks needed. Scientists have been building snap-together bots since the early 2000s, mostly tested indoors with body shapes picked by humans. Kriegman’s claim in the paper is specific: every legged robot that ever walked outdoors had a body designed by a person. These are the first where the AI picked the body shape, and it actually worked outside. One detail buried in the data: a single module alone can roll across concrete but can’t handle grass. Only when modules snap together does the group cross every terrain type. That gap between one module and five is where all the capability lives.

@WALASIA @DelHIERO One of the best logos of all time

The Hieroglyphics "Third Eye" logo, now one of the most globally-recognizable symbols in all of Hip Hop, was created by MC, producer and Hiero Crew co-founder Del the Funkee Homosapien @DELHIERO in the early 1990s. The symbol - Three Dots, Above a Line - turns out to also be the Mayan numeral for eight.

This mixed reality app lets you create and ride thrilling rollercoasters in your own living room. It uses physics-based tools to design tracks that adapt to your space and then simply hop in the front seat for a first-person ride like no other.

@orenmeetsworld Feels like there’s a lot of room still for better educational apps. So I’m not totally opposed, but I think the research is pretty terrifying when it comes to letting kids anywhere near social media

@jnicely we fly all the time he's been international regularly since birth, so a reader and a good plane sleeper this more as its a constant conversation with other parents now as most of the girls already have their own phones and the boy parents are debating the right age (they're 9)

have come full circle on screen time for kids if they have friends and still do activities let them use screens as much as they want as long as its in and around creating and learning things youtube, chatgpt and a hobby their into and your average 8-10 year old is an unstoppable force