@ECSM_Research @AshtonForbes Ashton has explained they’re self-sustaining due to beta=1 magnetic fields
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ANAL XEX
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For a plasma orb to stay shaped for any length of time, it needs confinement. That usually means some kind of magnetic structure, pressure balance, or continuous energy input. A free plasma does not just sit there as a neat long-lived ball. It radiates, diffuses, cools, recombines and loses structure. So if someone claims a stable long lived plasma orb, I ask where is the confinement energy coming from?..
Either it is very short lived, or there is some internal/external mechanism sustaining it.. Even if someone invokes zero point energy, that still does not remove the engineering problem. A stable plasma orb needs confinement and a usable energy supply. If energy is being extracted from anywhere, there still has to be a coupling device, conversion pathway, losses, heat rejection and measurable power balance. That would make it an energy conversion device, not simply a fusion reactor.
So the question remains the same.. what is confining the plasma, what is powering the confinement, and where is the energy budget?
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This is what they use to make the plasma orbs. I'm sure now it's a fusion reactor.
There can be a device inside because they figured out low temperature fusion.
The hastelloy screens can handle plasma and are setup to cause spin and act as a magnetic mirror.
And the guy who sent me this disappeared.
I'm either gonna disappear or I'm gonna expose this.
Ashton Forbes@AshtonForbes
This is a fusion reactor schematic @TMBSPACESHIPS hand drew, for me. "Ion Pumpy thing for Ashton!"
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@MinuteofZombie You can blame Ashton Forbes for that, btw.
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This brain rot is how I knew this wasn’t Neil MacCasland.
Missileman@MinuteofZombie
This is probably a wicked coincidence but the day Jack Parsons died in a mysterious accidental explosion in his garage in Pasadena, CA 20 minutes away on the exact same day June 17, 1952 — ONR researcher Willoughby M. Cady, a prestigious physicist for North American Aviation apparently moonlighting as a consultant for Office of Naval Research — was at the Bendix Aviation Corp plant in SoCal debunking the work of Townsend Brown. ONR sent a researcher to the Brown Foundation to investigate after MAJ GEN V.E. Bertrandias and LT GEN H.A. Craig became aware of and alarmed by Brown’s privately funded work, where Cady collaborated with Brown in executing a gravitator experiment with several unnamed assistants. Willoughby M. Cady presented a pretty damn convincing technical report (that I’ve just read) alleging that Brown’s result could be analytically and experimentally best explained as the result of ionic wind. Several things about this don’t add up, not least of which is that by this time Brown had been maturing his work for 25 years on private funding and yet from June - Sept 1952, Cady was apparently able to deduce just where the misunderstanding was in Brown’s interpretation of the experimentally observed effects and developed the analytical proof that it was electric wind. I’d like to know if Brown had a counter paper. Cady’s takedown is on its face extremely convincing, but when you’ve only got one side there’s no way to know if information is being colored. Willoughby would go on to die less than a year later at the age of 46, in June 1953. Cause of death is not publicly available. He died at the same hospital as Jack Parsons. I have no idea if any of this means anything it’s just real fucking weird. #physics #uap
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@Astew_412 @swichski If you found the wreckage please notify the search teams that were happening in 2024!
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I’m simulating a Dy₂Ti₂O₇ pyrochlore spin-ice lattice, which means the stoichiometric base is dysprosium titanate: 2 Dy, 2 Ti, and 7 O per formula unit, with the magnetic action coming from the dysprosium moments sitting inside a frustrated pyrochlore geometry. The visual spine is a 3D network of corner-sharing tetrahedral order, rendered here through a diamond/FCC computational proxy with 13,824 active lattice points. The rule underneath is the spin-ice constraint: every tetrahedral unit wants 2 spins pointing in and 2 spins pointing out, so the local magnetic charge cancels. When that balance is broken, the simulation marks the defect as an emergent magnetic-monopole-like excitation, not a fundamental particle, but a condensed-matter quasiparticle created by violated local spin balance.
The cyan field is the low-energy spin-ice background. The hotter purple/red traces are the simulated Dirac-string tension: paths of recently flipped spins left behind as monopole defects move through the lattice. The geometry matters because frustration is not random disorder; it is caused by the tetrahedral connectivity itself. You cannot satisfy every local magnetic preference globally, so the lattice stores degeneracy as structure. The math layer is simple but strict: spin state is ±1, the local ice rule is sum Sᵢ = 0 on a tetrahedral unit, monopole defects appear when that local sum no longer cancels, and the Zeeman control term pushes alignment through H = −g μ_B J · B_ext. Temperature adds displacement noise, magnetic field suppresses defect injection, and the diagnostic overlay lets me switch between string tension, spin polarity, thermal motion, and depth.
So this is not just a pretty crystal. It is a controlled toy model of frustrated magnetism: stoichiometry gives the material identity, pyrochlore geometry gives the constraint, the spin rule gives the ground-state logic, and the moving defect trails show how magnetic charge can emerge as a lattice excitation. The important distinction is that this is not an ab-initio Dy₂Ti₂O₇ solver yet. It is a physically organized simulation grammar: a browser-safe Float32 engine showing how spin ice, local frustration, monopole defects, Dirac strings, external field alignment, and thermal agitation can be mapped into one interactive 3D diagnostic system
codepen.io/jlthermoelectr…
@Promptmethus
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@dyork55 @WriteArthur It’s almost like, the leading expert should have some hard evidence, you know like photos or videos of what they claim it actually looks like.
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@ashtonforbes The world’s leading civilian expert on Gorgon Stare @WriteArthur says no chance
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Intelligence insider Anthony Williams is asked about Gorgon Stare.
Says he can't say anything about it, but he does say this;
"I would say that Ashton is very good at his research."
Ashton Forbes@AshtonForbes
This is not going to go away until I get answers.
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The SU2 conditioning must be what’s classified. That’s what’s missing from the papers.
Turning a laser or plasma into a gravitational wave beam.
Counter rotating structures or helix formations seem to be the key.
Reminds me of sacred geometry.
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@ov3rwh3lm Exactly because where is the Mercy buff to her mobility?
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it gets harder and harder to believe that real human beings are behind the balance patches
Overwatch Cavalry@OWCavalry
New #Overwatch Balance Changes 🛠️ 🐽 Roadhog Chain Hook: → Cooldown reduced from 8 to 7 seconds. 👾 Sombra Stealth: → Movement speed bonus reduction while revealed by damage reduced from 50% to 33%. 🐺 Vendetta General: → Health increased from 175 to 200. (Total health increased from 250 to 275.) ⛓️ Mizuki Katashiro Return: → Enemies can no longer prevent Mizuki from recalling by standing on Katashiro Return's starting point. What do you think of the changes? 💭
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@GarethDennis You need to aggressively hit the books and read up on what Palantir is/does.
You express a basic & fundamental misunderstanding of what Palantir is and the technology they build/offer.
Spoiler: Palantir is not a data company. Nor are they “evil”.
palantir.com/palantir-is-st…
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I cannot express the extent to which this company needs to be aggressively dismantled, its assets seized and its data storage destroyed completely. It is a deeply evil organisation run by deeply evil people.
Yet they are still deepening their access in the NHS! Get them out.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@GarethDennis It’s interesting how people like you are unable to actually articulate counterpoints to any of this. You hear something complicated and just decide you have to smash it like a cave man
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@GarethDennis @luigi_warren "America is kinda cool actually and companies should contribute to the public good"
Leftist says this is the most evil vile hitler doodoohead thing of all time
What does he/him mean by this? 🤔
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@GarethDennis I cannot express how stupid you are.
Palantir does not mine, own, collect or sell data.
Palantir provides software. What the end user does with their data is of no concern to Palantir.
It’s viewpoints like yours that cost lives.
Tom Bartlett@tom_nhs
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we're still asking for hitboxes to be reduced in size
blizzard please
GreenPig 👾🐉@Greenpig117
All these would have hit in modern OW, it’s crazy to think about
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@_PDBLACK @Greenpig117 Guaranteed not one dev has touched a controller. Babies can hit headshots all day with their feet… saddest state of OW ever @aaronkellerOW we want skill back!
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@Greenpig117 Even worse in console. They've overtuned aim assist so much that the game is completely dominated by hitscan. My aim was never that good back in OW 1, and is still mid in Rivals, but I can pick up sojourn and run lobbies with barley any effort.
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All these would have hit in modern OW, it’s crazy to think about
🐱@LegHvmper
So many overwatch players complain about their teammates during drives but I'm the one that chokes
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@iambixbite @ZachCostello_ @I_Am_JohnCullen John was right about everything. He flew too close to the sun
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@ZachCostello_ Wait until you dive into @I_Am_JohnCullen … he was on the spy planes back in early October, all of his research needs to be revisited
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They didn't know we had investigators who were measuring people's shadows at certain times of day based on the location of the sun.
They didn't know we had investigators who tracked every US flight path.
They didn't know we had a Baron Coleman.
Baron Coleman@baroncoleman
Use the shadow-length calculator linked in this post (or one you prefer) and check how long the shadows of a 6-foot man should be in Orem at these times of day on Sept 10, 25? When I did it, I got wildly different answers from what these pictures show. dqydj.com/shadow-length-…
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@NicolettaMarie_ Literally my favorite map in the whole game. @aaronkellerOW where is Antarctic peninsula?
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@jgarzik Very unsettling. Academic blackouts are for Soviet Russia.
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"Google paper uses a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof to demonstrate the algorithm's existence without leaking actual optimisations. From now on, assume state-of-the-art algorithms will be censored. There may be self-censorship for moral or commercial reasons, or because of government pressure. A blackout in academic publications would be a tell-tale sign."
Justin Drake@drakefjustin
Today is a monumentous day for quantum computing and cryptography. Two breakthrough papers just landed (links in next tweet). Both papers improve Shor's algorithm, infamous for cracking RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. The two results compound, optimising separate layers of the quantum stack. The results are shocking. I expect a narrative shift and a further R&D boost toward post-quantum cryptography. The first paper is by Google Quantum AI. They tackle the (logical) Shor algorithm, tailoring it to crack Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures. The algorithm runs on ~1K logical qubits for the 256-bit elliptic curve secp256k1. Due to the low circuit depth, a fast superconducting computer would recover private keys in minutes. I'm grateful to have joined as a late paper co-author, in large part for the chance to interact with experts and the alpha gleaned from internal discussions. The second paper is by a stealthy startup called Oratomic, with ex-Google and prominent Caltech faculty. Their starting point is Google's improvements to the logical quantum circuit. They then apply improvements at the physical layer, with tricks specific to neutral atom quantum computers. The result estimates that 26,000 atomic qubits are sufficient to break 256-bit elliptic curve signatures. This would be roughly a 40x improvement in physical qubit count over previous state-of-the-art. On the flip side, a single Shor run would take ~10 days due to the relatively slow speed of neutral atoms. Below are my key takeaways. As a disclaimer, I am not a quantum expert. Time is needed for the results to be properly vetted. Based on my interactions with the team, I have faith the Google Quantum AI results are conservative. The Oratomic paper is much harder for me to assess, especially because of the use of more exotic qLDPC codes. I will take it with a grain of salt until the dust settles. → q-day: My confidence in q-day by 2032 has shot up significantly. IMO there's at least a 10% chance that by 2032 a quantum computer recovers a secp256k1 ECDSA private key from an exposed public key. While a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC) before 2030 still feels unlikely, now is undoubtedly the time to start preparing. → censorship: The Google paper uses a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof to demonstrate the algorithm's existence without leaking actual optimisations. From now on, assume state-of-the-art algorithms will be censored. There may be self-censorship for moral or commercial reasons, or because of government pressure. A blackout in academic publications would be a tell-tale sign. → cracking time: A superconducting quantum computer, the type Google is building, could crack keys in minutes. This is because the optimised quantum circuit is just 100M Toffoli gates, which is surprisingly shallow. (Toffoli gates are hard because they require production of so-called "magic states".) Toffoli gates would consume ~10 microseconds on a superconducting platform, totalling ~1,000 sec of Shor runtime. → latency optimisations: Two latency optimisations bring key cracking time to single-digit minutes. The first parallelises computation across quantum devices. The second involves feeding the pubkey to the quantum computer mid-flight, after a generic setup phase. → fast- and slow-clock: At first approximation there are two families of quantum computers. The fast-clock flavour, which includes superconducting and photonic architectures, runs at roughly 100 kHz. The slow-clock flavour, which includes trapped ion and neutral atom architectures, runs roughly 1,000x slower (~100 Hz, or ~1 week to crack a single key). → qubit count: The size-optimised variant of the algorithm runs on 1,200 logical qubits. On a superconducting computer with surface code error correction that's roughly 500K physical qubits, a 400:1 physical-to-logical ratio. The surface code is conservative, assuming only four-way nearest-neighbour grid connectivity. It was demonstrated last year by Google on a real quantum computer. → future gains: Low-hanging fruit is still being picked, with at least one of the Google optimisations resulting from a surprisingly simple observation. Interestingly, AI was not (yet!) tasked to find optimisations. This was also the first time authors such as Craig Gidney attacked elliptic curves (as opposed to RSA). Shor logical qubit count could plausibly go under 1K soonish. → error correction: The physical-to-logical ratio for superconducting computers could go under 100:1. For superconducting computers that would be mean ~100K physical qubits for a CRQC, two orders of magnitude away from state of the art. Neutral atoms quantum computers are amenable to error correcting codes other than the surface code. While much slower to run, they can bring down the physical to logical qubit ratio closer to 10:1. → Bitcoin PoW: Commercially-viable Bitcoin PoW via Grover's algorithm is not happening any time soon. We're talking decades, possibly centuries away. This observation should help focus the discussion on ECDSA and Schnorr. (Side note: as unofficial Bitcoin security researcher, I still believe Bitcoin PoW is cooked due to the dwindling security budget.) → team quality: The folks at Google Quantum AI are the real deal. Craig Gidney (@CraigGidney) is arguably the world's top quantum circuit optimisooor. Just last year he squeezed 10x out of Shor for RSA, bringing the physical qubit count down from 10M to 1M. Special thanks to the Google team for patiently answering all my newb questions with detailed, fact-based answers. I was expecting some hype, but found none.
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@Linkster1666 @Wxdude518 Jet engines don’t like chemicals and metals in the fuel. Jet engine failures would be skyrocketing.
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I literally could spend my entire day arguing about chemtrails and showing 24 years of examples of why nearly every Meteorologist is entirely and utterly wrong.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't move the needle and they'd dismiss the evidence I brought to the table. The anger parade will forever continue to spew my way no matter what. Why bother even communicating with other Meteorologists at this point. I clearly don't need them!
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It was an over the counter legal pill.
We obviously had no idea it was going to be that strong.
What the fuck was playing in the background??
My god I don’t remember any of this.
W stream.
clippedhub 📸@clippedhubb
Kick streamer Ac7ionMan relapsed on fentanyl with a random homeless man he met on the street after being clean for 15 years.
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@ShaneFrakes I’m also blocked. It was around the time I was commenting on some of Ashton’s posts
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If this guy blocks you, you're part of the handshake club; it's up to you to figure out what that club is. ⟨⌬◉⌬⟩
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Can the algo gods please fix the For You page? Every single recommendation is completely unrelated to any current thing that is happening. Whatever algo change has been made recently is the worst one yet.
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