Andrew Côté
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Andrew Côté
@Andercot
engineering physicist, writes about deep tech, physics, energy, sci fi and whatever. founder @hyperstition_x produces @deeptechweek
San Francisco Katılım Eylül 2012
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One of the companies we should all be paying more attention to is @Monumental_Labs - buildings of the past are beautiful and ornate because labor was so cheap
Robots can turn property development back into what it should be - building a civilization
Micah Springut@mspringut
After a few months, our carving work on Carnegie Hall seems to be blending in better with the original. Thank you, grime! I always say the first day of a stone building is its worst.
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@claudeai I'd like to flag the anti-christ early defense warning team on this one
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@Andercot if black holes are computers
and white holes are production floors,
then sf and gundo are <<literally>> microcosms
(just that the the einstein-bosen high speed rail between them is MIA tho)
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Imagine taking home an SN1a smokeshow and waking up to find she's non-binary
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
🚨: Newest image from JWST just dropped.
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@lichthauch This is the samsara business model, to sell to the fear of death without inducing the suffering necessary to stop fearing death and embrace it. Those who fear death are condemned to repeat life eternally.
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@Michaelkornuta There is one based on causally ambiguous duration sorting effect, a statistical anomaly observed with photons under some specific conditions, but viability, reproducibility, commercial applicability TBD
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Is anyone seriously working on a time machine? Is there a venture backed startup working on time travel as a service or product? I bet @Andercot would know if there were.
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@Andercot He probably got stoned and spent an entire afternoon on beetles.
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If nature is any indication of revealed preferences then really we should consider God an obsessive Beetle designer and humans something of a weekend project
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the equivalent of YC's first batch photo for hard tech
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Shotspotter detects … gunshots using microphones. It doesn’t passively surveil non-gunshots.
Catching people who discharge firearms in cities seems like a good idea.
Swann Marcus@SwannMarcus89
Cambridge disabled Shot Spotter because they said it was racist. Then a black Public Works employee got shot, lay undiscovered for over an hour while bleeding out in a public park, and died because first responders didn't know a shooting happened cbsnews.com/boston/news/ca…
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@Andercot If you’re going to write about this, you need to understand that none of the allied fighters the ME-262 faced were turboprops. A turboprop has a jet turbine driving a geared propellor. The P-51, etc. were powered by piston engines with powerful forced induction.
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The Me-262 versus turbo-prop dynamics of late 1945 establish the central psychological trauma of the modern Aerospace Republic - the existence of an adversary with superior fight jets, and a national government willing to do a deal with the devil for superior jet tecehnology
Andrew Côté@Andercot
You know it's an Aerospace Republic when the most controversial, secretive and propagandized topic in the nation, one thats posed as a threat to world-religion and civilization as a whole, is the possibility there is a better way to design fighter jets
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@cynical_centre @ericweinstein perhaps the most foundational tenet is the individual is unconstrained by circumstances of their birth to achieve their highest potential, and what enables this is the lack of kinship morality that creates two-tiered systems of justice.
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@Andercot @ericweinstein So no room in it for me and mine?
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In the Judeo-Christian western world, Islam is:
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@DanielleFong at least you're not publishing command and conquer mods
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one more turned myself in civ vi into a daze last night like summers past.
totally destroyed physically but coffee will revive me 🥱
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Documented and authentic footage of the first time American Air Force pilots encountered a hostile and superior alien technology
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@davidasinclair I should make t shirts that say "Intergenerational trauma is stored in the DNA methylation state"
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My mother smoked constantly, including in the car with the windows rolled up and no air conditioning. As a kid, I dreamed of a world without cigarettes. That world now largely exists. Sadly, so does a world without my mom
Lifespan@JoinLifespan
New research finds that babies raised around mothers who smoke have altered DNA methlation patterns that could negatively affect the baby's health years later. Now's the time to quit
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@emmalsalinas Line would've been a real charmer if I hasn't already pledged my body to Christ
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@emmalsalinas Clearly a better future exists in the union of our imaginations
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In the future there will be cries for jovian independence to give a native homeland to the growing population of sentient emotional support zeppelin whales
clankr@clankrmedia
Researchers built a soft floating robot for indoor interaction. It uses helium and flapping fins instead of propellers. The result is quiet, lightweight, and safe to touch. It can follow people, give reminders, and act as a study buddy. Published at ACM DIS 2026.
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