Joe Hackman

Is AI the most empowering technology of our lifetime? I wanted a program to help me keep track of numerous things. With the help of @cursor and @anthropic (Sonnet 3.5) I wrote it. I wanted a song for a friend struggling with a health crisis, so I wrote one and produced it with @SunoMusic and published it on @Spotify using @DistroKid so he could "add it to his play list". I wanted to learn about physics, so I had @grok tutor me. I wanted a low carb no added sugar recipe for cookies, so I had @ChatGPTapp help me make one. I mean, you could easily argue the Internet was necessary to make AI work so well, but AI seems to be a universal life hack if you put in a little effort.

@gak_pdx Ouch. Thanks for the info, good to know.

Never use fully synthetic coolant. For the love of the machining gods, I’ve seen 4 month old machines that look like a decade of hard service because: synthetic coolant. Don’t know why anyone even bothers selling it. Synthetic has two big drawbacks: 1- It strips lubricant off of everything in the machine. Every seal goes dry, every greased area gets washed out, every mechanism goes crusty. Your tool setter gets rickety, your way wipers crack. 2- it deposits this tacky talc on everything. This eats paint, and generally makes everything in the machine suck to work on. Your workholding needs constant cleaning, your ball screws and linear guides need extra PMs. On those 4 month old machines, we had a complete spindle failure… what happened? They used through spindle coolant, and that tacky film built up in the Deublin rotary union’s carbide:carbide seal. This seal actually seals under pressure, and opens a bit when under no pressure (the fluid acts to keep it cool, so when the spindle runs without coolant, this design keeps it from burning up at 20k RPM). Remaining synthetic coolant dried across these faces, and prevented them from closing fully- every time the TSC was turned on, a tiny dribble of coolant leaked from the union. This worked down the shaft, infiltrated the spindle when the machine was powered down (Brother uses positive pressure on the spindle casting to prevent contamination). Well under 2 oz of this synthetic coolant washed all the Kluber grease from the upper spindle bearing, leading to spindle death with <100 hours of production. Sad! Synthetic coolant is the devil! (And I had to personally deny the warranty claim, and that sucked. We warned them about the evils of synthetic coolant at install, they fully understood the issues and the warranty does not cover damage caused by full synthetic coolant. Even warned them *this* can happen… but their FDA facility documentation and cleaning process was based on this coolant, selected 12+ years ago. They had no choice.)

@BernieSanders So you'd like to concede the future to the CCP?

We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligence, with enormous risks to jobs, society and humanity itself. AI must work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. That’s why I’m introducing a moratorium on new AI data centers.

@hovinthenorth Does it only work with Suno? I use Suno to create and publish on Spotify, etc. Here are a few of my artists: open.spotify.com/artist/4tmZz6F… open.spotify.com/playlist/0IBUG… open.spotify.com/artist/5KR3ot3…

Do you make music with Suno? Reply below I want to hear and feature on my WindowsXP simulator.

@BridgetPhetasy Nice! Well deserved.

Hell yeah

@hovinthenorth Yeah original "on" should have been "in". I missed that.

@Hackmanj oh i see - you get visions from being in nature and observing existence - yup checks out!

Many are interested in dreams Not enough are interested in visions Where do the flashes of inspiration come from? One of the most fundamental questions of our existence, in my opinion

@hovinthenorth They come from awe, appreciation of existence, being still in nature. I call the Sierra Nevada mountains "my church".

@Hackmanj How so?

@ZavalaA Wow. Yet we are supposed to believe he is a serious candidate?

I asked California candidate for governor Tom Steyer how he would grade Gavin Newsom for his two terms as governor. He would not. "I haven't followed it closely enough to give him a grade."

@ArynneWexler Ummm, no.

"U.S. can no longer be the sole author of the terms, we have to share power with China.” - Tucker ‘America First’ Carlson

Marco Rubio finding out that HE'S Chuck Norris now

A nice change from the usual crap decorating Toronto’s streets.

Just a reminder that in China, there is only energy addition, not an energy transition.

You do not honor other cultures by weakening your own. You honor them by standing firmly in what is yours. Shakespeare is not a symbol of domination. He is one of the clearest expressions of what human language can reach at its highest level. His work survived because generation after generation, across cultures, found truth in it. What they are calling decolonising is diluting something rooted, tested, and refined over centuries. This is what happens when a civilization loses confidence in its own inheritance. The idea that Shakespeare being universal is harmful reveals something deeper. It suggests that greatness itself has become suspect. That if something endures across time and place, it must be explained away, not studied. That instinct erases standards. Tradition is not exclusion. It is memory. It is the record of what a civilization discovered was worth preserving. Once you start apologizing for that, you create a vacuum where nothing holds. A culture that cannot defend Shakespeare will not be able to defend anything else that made it.

Pre-save my new release "Peace on the Other Side" on Spotify: distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ro… (powered by @distrokid)

@hovinthenorth Nice.

@Hackmanj Hey thank you! Thinking of open sourcing it

I’m calling it DoorsXP It’s my localhost OS that contains all the apps i make with AI.

بدأت الثوره في إيران كل التوفيق لهم

@AJamesMcCarthy Loved the book, excited to see it.

Project Hail Mary was amazing No spoilers, just …yes.

@Polymarket Can we bring back @Schwarzenegger

After ten long years, I finally heard my brother’s voice again. It came through a shaky phone line, passed along by someone willing to help. The moment he spoke, something inside me cracked open. He had no idea I’d gotten married, no idea I was a father. So I told him: I have a three-year-old daughter now, and a five-month-old son. His voice lit up. “I’m an uncle?” he asked, almost laughing through the disbelief and joy. Then he said: “Don’t let them stop. The regime is finished. It’s over.” He told me he’ll see me and my children in Tehran. In the same streets where we grew up, where we used to run and dream. Iran will be free. And we’ll be together again.