Elliot

Always wanted to travel back in time to try fighting a younger version of yourself? Software development is the career for you!

The first experimental evidence of recursive self-improvement (RSI). Autoresearching the autoresearch agent for eight days. The result beats the harness we hand-tuned for two years, on held-out benchmarks: 🧵(1/7)

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Ukrainian-Estonian company Farsight Vision has unveiled FSV Localizer, software that geolocates enemy UAVs by matching intercepted onboard video to real terrain. It can determine a drone’s route and approximate current position in seconds—without RF direction-finding equipment.

Last time we did this, we reversed it within a year because it turned out to be such a mess.

Director Christopher Nolan brought 60 Minutes to Fotokem in Burbank, California, to watch their artists assemble and color correct final release prints of “The Odyssey.” It's the only motion picture film lab in the world that still produces 70 millimeter prints. cbsn.ws/4fmX11q

Art for my TTRPG project I thought I would actually have time to finish this year lol

@FOXSports @FOXSoccer At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

@OwenBrakes This is why I lie down on the ground before looking at my phone

Rip every radio out of your phone. It will still leak your inputs. Capacitive touchscreens scan sequentially. Your finger touching the screen affects the local impedance and modulates the emissions. Able to extract keystrokes and pin inputs from 15cm away with ~90% accuracy.

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@JMRaasch FYI that I think those are coasters are sold at the White House staff Gift shop in the EEOB. I bought four myself when Obama was in office.

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U.S. President Donald J. Trump has signed an Executive Order drastically shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments in Utah, reimposing an order he made in 2017 during his first presidency that was later rescinded by President Joe Biden. The signing of the order was attended by Governor Spencer Cox and Utah’s federal delegation, made up of Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. John Curtis, Rep. Celeste Maloy, Rep. Blake Moore, Rep. Mike Kennedy, and Rep. Burgess Owens.

In 1964, a young Welshman named Brian Robson was living in Melbourne on a government‑sponsored work program. He hated the job, was desperately homesick, and couldn’t afford the £700 ( $1,960 USD in today’s money) airfare back to Wales, an impossible sum for him at the time. Determined to get home, he and two friends devised a wild plan: Brian would mail himself as cargo. They built a wooden crate measuring roughly 30×26×38 inches, packed him inside with a pillow, a flashlight, a suitcase, and a small bottle of water, then labeled the box for air shipment to London. The plan should have taken about 36 hours on a direct flight. But things went wrong immediately. Instead of being loaded onto a fast passenger plane, Brian’s crate was routed onto a slower cargo flight and then misdirected to Los Angeles. He spent a total of 92 hours trapped inside, often in complete darkness, unable to move, and at one point upside down for 22 hours, which caused excruciating pain and near‑loss of consciousness. His breathing was limited, his limbs went numb, and he feared he would die before anyone opened the box. When the crate finally arrived in the U.S., airport workers noticed it was upside down and heard faint noises inside. They pried it open and found Brian barely alive. Instead of being arrested, he was hospitalized and eventually returned home safely, this time with the Welsh government covering the cost. The incident became one of the most bizarre real‑life travel stories of the 20th century, a mix of desperation, luck, and sheer human endurance. One overlooked detail in Brian Robson’s ordeal is that the two friends who helped pack him into the crate were later approached by authorities but never charged, largely because Robson refused to identify them. He feared they’d face serious consequences for assisting what was technically an illegal international shipment of a human being. Decades later, he revealed that both men were actually terrified during the plan, begging him to reconsider, and only went through with it because they didn’t want to abandon him in what they saw as a desperate emotional state. Their quiet role adds a human layer to the story, not just a bizarre stunt, but a moment where friendship, fear, and loyalty collided in a wildly dangerous decision. #archaeohistories

The fortune cookie was invented by a landscape gardener, not a chef, and definitely not in China. Makoto Hagiwara arrived in San Francisco in 1878 and eventually took over the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. In 1901, an anti-Japanese city official had him removed from his own garden. When he was reinstated a few years later, Hagiwara began serving visitors a small folded cookie with a paper fortune tucked inside, adapted from a Japanese cracker called tsujiura senbei, as a quiet thank-you to the supporters who’d helped bring him back. He made the first ones by hand, pressed one at a time in an iron mold stamped with his own initials, M.H. Demand grew so fast he asked a local confectioner named Suyeichi Okamura to help mass-produce them, and Okamura’s team swapped the original savory miso flavor for vanilla and sugar to suit American taste. That’s the recipe still used today. Hagiwara never patented it. When Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps in 1942, his family’s bakery shut down along with nearly every other Japanese-owned business on the West Coast, and Chinese restaurants stepped in to fill the gap left behind. By the time the war ended, the cookie belonged to Chinese food in the public imagination instead. In 1983, a mock trial in San Francisco tried to settle who really invented it. The winning evidence was a single iron mold, pulled out of storage, stamped with two initials: M.H. © Eats History #archaeohistories

When you throw a paper airplane on Earth the wings create a lift that pulls it up, but gravity pulls it down; this mix makes it glide forward and down. In microgravity, the wings still create lift, but with nothing to pull the nose down, the lift force causes the plane to turn. If there were enough room, the airplane would fly in loops until it ran out of speed and drifted.

Fascinating insights from "Socrates", Head of Ukraine's legendary SBU Special Operations Center Alpha: Russia’s political leadership has succeeded in creating a wartime economic model in which the war has become financially beneficial for many segments of society. 1/11

never kill yourself. you belong to the universe. if you must die, let the universe kill you, fair and square, if it even can! haha

They did it!

I agree. In fact, I'm making a game about it: store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/Ca…

Apple beat Whisper, which by itself is a fun headline. But kudos to them for also publishing the transcript from EVERY one of the 5,559 clips. This should be the norm tbh, show your receipts.