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@daltonbrewer Korean BBQ

X has apparently changed the algorithm so that mutuals can now see more of your posts… Hello, friends—tell me one of your favorite foods in the comments 👇

@Teknium I know a great one!

Open source harness you say

But I thought...

And in other news... x.com/i/status/18262…

@SawyerMerritt I'll just leave this here... x.com/i/status/18262…

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima. Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes. Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse. No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed. So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history. When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive. The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy. At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong. They convicted him anyway. For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy. Case closed. For fifty years. Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project. He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay. A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001. The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader. Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

One dose of a frog-gut bacterium completely eliminated colorectal tumors in every treated mouse. Not merely shrank them. Complete response. The bacterium, Ewingella americana, multiplied roughly 3,000-fold inside the tumors within 24 hours. It attacked cancer cells directly while recruiting T cells, B cells, and neutrophils. In the experiment, it outperformed four doses of anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy and liposomal doxorubicin. Then researchers rechallenged the cured mice with the tumor: 0/10 developed tumors. 10/10 untreated mice did. The bacterium disappeared from the bloodstream within 24 hours and wasn’t detected in healthy organs. It’s one small mouse study, not a human cancer cure. But the concept is remarkable: a living drug that finds the tumor, multiplies inside it, destroys it, and potentially teaches the immune system to remember. In the foreseeable future, we will cure all cancers.

I would give this the full Jurassic treatment.

@harveyspistols I can hear the John Williams theme music now!

No. Rascal did not meet the man. However, Rascal thought he was tops. One of the few truly good ones, if you will. I told him it might be in poor taste. Rascal said, he loved the man and everyone else could just get over it. 🤷‍♂️ So this week's giveaway is very much a celebration of and an homage to that good and beloved actor, passionate farmer, and kindly nature loving soul, Sam Neill. Rascal knows the SPAS12 is more in line but, alas, we do not have one. So, even though it is more @prattprattpratt than Sam we will be giving away a Marlin SBL 45-70 govt! To Enter: FOLLOW us as well as our long time sponsor @SummRidge , repost or quote post this post (I know y'all have some good gifs ready), and be sure to ALSO REPLY to this post. Good luck all and thank you for participating with us and helping spread the word! In honor of Sam, get outside this weekend and enjoy the beauty that is all around you, waiting for you. Good luck & Godspeed Mr. Neill.

So @CAgovernor has just enacted a rebate for EV’s <$50k. @LucidMotors & @Rivian get an exception with no max. Annual vehicles built in CA: Lucid: 0. Rivian: 0. Tesla: 600,000. Why is @GavinNewsomso against manufacturing in California and why did he drive out @elonmusk and @Tesla?

PALMER LUCKEY: “PATENTS ARE CHINESE INSTRUCTION MANUALS.” “STOP PATENTING EVERYTHING. THE FOUNDING FATHERS NEVER PREDICTED A WORLD WHERE THE ENTIRE PATENT OFFICE COULD BE DOWNLOADED EVERY MORNING, RIPPED OFF, AND USED TO FIGHT A WAR AGAINST YOU.” “WE NEED TO FUNDAMENTALLY REVISIT THE PATENT SYSTEM.” “I THINK WE NEED TO MASSIVELY EXPAND THE NATIONAL SECURITY PATENT PROCESS. YOU CAN OBTAIN A CLASSIFIED PATENT THAT YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISCLOSE TO ANYONE... WHILE STILL MAINTAINING EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS.” “WE NEED TO MASSIVELY EXPAND THAT PROGRAM.”

@Erling Don't wait 4 years to comeback you absolute legend. It was fun watching you work.

Goodbye 🇺🇸 It’s been emotional!

Well that's scary

It’s been quite a row, thank you for making it so special 🚣🏼🇳🇴❤️

So cool

@sama We start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves. After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow. What do you plan for an encore? That’s tough to beat.

@Teknium Ahhh that's a good tip

FYI you can make this your default message send mode (as opposed to interrupt or queue) in your config 👍👍

....idk if Jason knows the difference between any of those products or just thought "let me hit the algorithmic 8 way parlay this morning"

@it_unprofession Pics or it never happened

I submitted a requisition form for 3 49-inch curved ultrawide monitors. The total cost was $4K. Procurement rejected the request within 10 minutes. They sent a note saying standard protocol limits IT staff to 2 24-inch flat panels. I immediately drafted a 6-page manifesto on the dangers of peripheral tunnel vision. I emailed it to the entire C-suite. I explained that monitoring a dynamic cyber-threat landscape on flat screens causes severe visual fragmentation. I said when a hacker attempts a brute-force entry, the malicious code moves horizontally across the network topography. I told them that a 24-inch monitor physically clips the ends of the payload, making it invisible to the naked eye. I invented a term called "lateral data leakage." I claimed that without the parabolic curvature of an ultrawide display, our localized firewalls were essentially blind on the flanks. I included a heavily doctored heat map that showed our headquarters completely engulfed in red warning zones. The CFO walked into my office 10 minutes later looking terrified. He asked if we were currently experiencing lateral data leakage. I squinted at my tiny, inadequate flat screens and sighed. I told him I couldn't be sure because my field of vision was artificially constrained by legacy hardware limitations. I said I felt like a fighter pilot trying to fly through a thunderstorm while looking through a paper towel tube. He immediately bypassed procurement and authorized the purchase on the corporate card. The monitors arrived yesterday. I mounted them in a seamless 180-degree arc on my desk. It looks like the command deck of a spaceship. I'm not using them to monitor network topography. I'm using them to play Microsoft Flight Simulator in ultra-panoramic 4K resolution. I currently have the autopilot engaged somewhere over the Swiss Alps. I keep a spreadsheet open on the far-left edge just in case someone walks in. When people ask why the screens show a highly detailed 3D rendering of a mountain range, I tell them it's a topographical representation of our cloud storage density. They always nod in awe and slowly back out of the room. Never let corporate policy stand in the way of your immersive gaming experience.