Luke Weston
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Luke Weston
@lukeweston
Electronic engineering, physics, biomedical engineering, plasmonics, using nanotechnology to manipulate light. He/him. Favourite programming language is solder.
Melbourne, Australia Katılım Nisan 2009
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@JordanEVGuy Just like solar panels, just because they CAN be recycled doesn't mean they ARE being recycled.
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Wind turbines are recycled, it’s not 2014 anymore.
One of the internet’s favourite anti-renewable myths is “you can’t recycle wind turbines.”
That argument is years out of date, yet the loons still try and use it as some sort of “got ya” to make themselves feel better.
Modern wind turbines are largely recyclable already.
Steel, copper, aluminium and concrete from turbines are routinely recovered and reused.
Even the blades, which used to be the difficult part, are now being recycled into cement, construction materials, playground equipment and industrial products.
Companies are also developing fully recyclable blades, with newer designs already entering the market.
Meanwhile, fossil fuels are burned once and gone forever. Oil spills, air pollution and billions of tonnes of CO2 don’t exactly get “recycled.”
No energy source is impact free, but pretending wind turbines just get dumped in landfill forever simply isn’t true anymore.
Technology moves on.
The myths just haven’t caught up.
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This thing has completely deterministic behaviour, no tokens, no subscriptions and does exactly what it’s programmed (hardwired) to do. It’s beautiful.
Kenneth Cassel@KennethCassel
this is what the inside of an LLM looks like btw
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It’s like people - and especially corpos - just do not know how to use computer to do computer any more, without paying for yet another SaaS cloud service thing.
DerrickGott007💎@derrickgott007
Absolutely insane for a server YOU HOST and YOU OWN, in YOUR HOUSE, filled with YOUR MEDIA. They host nothing, they just handle the software side that authenticates the ok to transfer media between devices over YOUR INTERNET that YOU PAY FOR.
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The first Emu War was fought with the Lewis machine gun.
The Second Emu War will be fought with fractional orbital bombardment systems, hypersonic telephone poles made of tungsten from orbit.
delian@zebulgar
At Varda, we remain committed to the long-term goal of hitting a kangaroo from orbit. Four capsules into the Australian outback, zero confirmed kills. Onto W-7.
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> “founder of a QR code menu ordering startup”
Pub-shittification SaaS QR code hustlers, my natural enemy
marrowing@marrowing
Jim chalmers shaking crying and freaking out because the founder of a QR code menu ordering startup said he didn’t like the CGT changes is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen
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Used to culture primary neurons, started having really bad yeast contamination. Supervisor checked my sterile technique (repeatedly 😭), we scoured the hood, replaced ingredients etc.
The problem: I had begun baking bread at home. Cleared when I stopped. 😐
Biology is hard
alex rubinsteyn@iskander
...once you're actually trying to build something new in bio, clinging desperately to the manifold of known causal models in the vast darkness of "anything can happen when you mix invisibly small substances"... Every little anchor point of prior knowledge is a blessing.
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The eventual consequence of cloud / SaaS enshittification is people realising that you can install free software on your computer that you own.
Rafael Izbicki@rizbicki
A student recently told me: "Apparently, you can now use LaTeX locally on your computer. We don't need Overleaf anymore." The old becomes new again, helped along by Overleaf becoming really slow.
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@CalebChamberla6 @OSHCutInc McMaster is almost impossible to deal with internationally though. They refuse international customers, citing the burden of export control compliance, even for trivial non-controlled hardware, when other great US companies like DK can manage it fine.
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When I design, I use two constraints:
1. Use metal parts from @OSHCutInc
2. Use components available on McMaster-Carr
The pair is like industrial legos. You can build incredible things, incredibly fast this way. Example:
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techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…
Microsoft has an opportunity, perhaps the best opportunity they’ve ever had, to bring aggressive anti-shitness anti-slop measures into the Bing team and get the product into a position that could become the search engine people actually want to use.
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First discovering this controversy existed from “Back to the Future”.
Daniel Bogdanoff@DanielBogdanoff
“…tell them they’re wrong (even if they aren’t), and watch the Smith Charts fly.” Is “giga” the “gif” of microwave engineering?
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マテリアル/材料２年の「フロンティア工学実習」の１テーマでは、貴重なレアアース(RE)を使って超伝導体REBa2Cu3O7-δの多結晶を合成します。
動画は、数100℃に熱した多結晶ペレットを液体窒素（−196℃）で瞬間冷却する作業で、高温での酸素欠損量δを保持することで超伝導特性を調整できます。[OKD]
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It is always “payment processors” who seem to have unlimited power over just about everything and a determination to kill off anything remotely sex-positive online.
Red Umbrella Club@redumbrellaclub
Kickstarter just killed its new mature content rules Last week, The Verge noted Kickstarter’s new content guidelines, which had some pretty weird new additions, including a prohibition on “sexual wellness products that are not designed for insertion or penetration and are not marketed primarily for sexual gratification.” Those rules have now been eliminated and the company has restored an earlier version of its guidelines. In an apology letter issued today from COO Sean Leow, Kickstarter confirmed that the new rules were influenced by the payment processor Stripe: "The updates to the rules were primarily driven by requirements from our payments processor, Stripe. Stripe operates under its own legal and compliance requirements separate from Kickstarter’s own rules. And even Stripe’s rules are dictated by a larger system shaped by financial institutions that govern how money moves globally." Kickstarter says that it’s seen “a growing number of campaigns” that it approved but then got “suspended by Stripe mid-funding.” The company also says it’s “advocated for those creators directly with Stripe,” because “we believe in the work and because creators deserve to see their campaigns through.” Read more: archive.is/tocbA
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If you’re that desperate you should be able to split the amide linkage in Vyvanse in vitro to turn it into dex. But honestly surely you can just take the Vyvanse orally, or modafinil or whatever.
Grace@gracecamille_
when i told my college therapist that we were snorting vyvanse in the library staircases and staying up for 3 days to study and expected him to be horrified and a bit impressed but instead he started laughing and told me that vyvanse can’t be metabolized nasally
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I've left Twitter, but I'm still writing a daily blog.
You can read today's post ("There's no such thing as "age verification"")
at pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/she…
It's also available on Mastodon at:
@pluralistic/116600228482721479" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1…
And on Bluesky at:
bsky.app/profile/did:we…
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This is going to be long.
Last semester I suspected I had a major issue with use of AI in my survey courses, so I inserted what is known as a trojan horse (not the virus kind) into the directions of a paper assignment. As it turned out, I did in fact have a major problem, and a post on Threads about it accidentally went quasi-viral and ultimately became a Huffington Post article and an NPR interview. (Links at the end)
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