Dave Ridley

@DLivingston__ @alexbhturnbull I scanned back in time in the FIRMS data and it didn’t look dramatically different to other days. Nice job with the proper analysis.

Jubail and Sabic are done. Its all on fire

@Wolltigerhueter March 14th, nothing unusual going on based on this

NASA FIRMS shows unusually many heat sources at the Jubail refinery in Saudi Arabia. Known static thermal anomalies highlighted in magenta, new detections of the day in red.

@Plinz I keep thinking about this. Music is the synchronization of mental configurations… it is motivating me to rethink how I make music.

The purpose of music is to synchronize mental configurations. Language is the subgenre of music that synchronizes conceptual representations.

@Andercot Almost did a PhD studying the Casimir effect but a PhD using earth observing satellites sounded cooler and paid £12k instead of £10k a year… in hindsight I should’ve taken the £2k hit to work on infinitely energy solutions.

Traditionally we think of the vacuum as just that - empty But since 1947 there has been experimental confirmation via the Casimir effect that it is not empty. Rather, its filled electromagnetic modes whose lowest energy state is not zero

BREAKING: While a new War for Oil erupts in the Middle East A Physics Paper just quietly dropped TODAY that will eventually make Oil, and the entire current Energy Industry, irrelevant. Ushering in the era of Zero-Point Energy @EagleworksSonny Here is the breakthrough🧵

@atmoio Isn’t the ultimate goal to solve a problem? If you’ve solved the problem then, regardless of the method, that’s the goal achieved and the reward? You set out to solve the problem, not the AI. I don’t write code, but I now solve problems I could never have solved before.

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

@Plinz I like this definition. Do you think it triggers the same mental configurations in others, or is it unique to each person? As a creator of music, I’m bewildered by the impact that it has on people I’ve never met that feel compelled to reach out. Events feel synchronising too.

@LukeSmith050825 @GeoffNorcott My theory is that everyone should have as many as they can without going mad/broke, whatever that number is. 3 was our limit, I rarely wonder if we should’ve had a 4th 😂

@GeoffNorcott Third due in August. Will be a squeeze and stretch us financially but I wouldn't trade it for the world.

It’s weird how rarely you hear what it actually feels like to be a Dad. This answer to ‘who are you jealous of?’ from Bob Odenkirk had me blaming dust & onions.

@iamgingertrash Can’t tell if this is terrible timing or insane knowledge of the targets of the then-imminent strikes

War may have just been averted

@SquattingWulrus @0x_Colt @justindeanlee I think Sam prizes morality extremely highly and for that reason he cannot give Trump a fair shake.

None of you provided any discernable examples of what you don't like. "He's an idiot" makes you sound like an idiot. I criticise him for his TDS. I'm not a huge Trumper but he has a hard time giving the man a fair shake. He's convinced trump is an existential threat to American democracy and his certainty on the issue shows his bias. That bias is typical for academic, low context communicators, who are so repulsed by Trump's aesthetics that they assume the worst in him at every chance.

The disappearance of Sam Harris from popular discourse is one of the most salubrious developments of the past couple of years.

@MatthewParrott @waitbutwhy @elonmusk No progress in 5 years? What did AI and robotics look like 5 years ago?

@waitbutwhy @elonmusk But the fact we've sorta been here for about five years now kinda implies that perhaps this perspective is paradigmatically flawed? I mean, a solar pocket calculator from the eighties is "smarter than Einstein," too, right?

This @waitbutwhy illustration is 👌

@Andercot Unreal Tournament predicted this

Perhaps the most surprising thing about this science fiction future thats coming is its being funded by venture capitalists and built by private companies. It seems every major sci-fi novel of the past with few exceptions assumed it would be national or supranational coalitions

@Andercot Ahhh, so this is why Trump Media bought into fusion.

I must say that the most hilarious twist of tech trajectories of 2025 was the fusion industry realizing they could *double* the economics of fusion reactors by using the neutron blanket to.... Transmute Mercury into Gold. Alchemy is so back

@KenKirtland17 @MatthewBec11750 @Orbital_Perigee Yeah I was amazed when I heard IPO even mentioned casually, he’s always said it has to stay private to be able to achieve the Mars goal. Hated being beholden to shareholders with Tesla too. It makes no sense.

@MatthewBec11750 @Orbital_Perigee In terms of money for SpaceX. we kinda do no how much longer it will be. It’s deploying Starlinks next year.

I’m not exaggerating. It’s not doom posting to say this is the official end. They are not serious about any part of Mars if this is done. There is no world where shareholders let you spend tens of billions with the express intent of no return. Which is what Mars settlement is. In fact it would literally be illegal for them to do so.

@JsonBasedman I think it would be a lot more concerning, from an entropy perspective, if it regressed infinitely but didn’t repeat.

The existence of infinite zoom cellular automata troubles me deeply. Many go about their lives without knowing about this.

@danielcincu @andrewmccalip @JeffBezos This will likely be in service of scaling up technologies like Blue Origin though

@andrewmccalip @JeffBezos I was hoping he stay focused on Blue Origin. I really don't think all of our talent should be chasing AI. There's enough as it is. Of course it's his time so, whatever. It's just that Blue has some momentum now, but still has a long way to go.

Super excited to see @JeffBezos getting back into the arena with a project like this. techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/jef…

@andrewmccalip Yeah I haven’t given it too much thought but I can’t wrap my head around this in terms of the cost to orbit and the inability to repair it. But it certainly sounds like the future! 😂

Some ideas sound so insane they trick you into thinking they must be brilliant. “Data centers in space” is one of those. While we have solely chemical propulsion, this is an economically terrible idea. This is the kind of techno-optimism that confuses spectacle with progress. If anyone has a physics based spreadsheet they want to share showing the contrary, I would love to see it.

@elonmusk Mars has never felt so close as when I was watching Starship 11 on Monday 🚀 #weareallastronauts

Starship will make life multiplanetary

@rich_everts @FedSoc I can’t wait to read this, especially if it is the blueprint on the rare metals strategy. Sterling work, sir.

"Today, we choose to pursue AI superiority and defend Western liberty, not because it is easy, but because it is necessary." This is straight from my award winning 2024 paper for @FedSoc on establishing US AI superiority. 🤖🇺🇸 bit.ly/3AacsrY

@dwarkesh_sp I have @Plinz to thank for finding you, as do my friends that now listen too. Amazing content, good sir.

16th in nation

@ashleevance @practiklyperfct @micmat02 That would be some serious return on the Substack subscription

@practiklyperfct @micmat02 Maybe I should start giving buy ratings at the end of my videos like Portnoy does with pizza

I am regretting being ethical enough not to buy Rocket Lab stock