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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧
@MPrinParr
Self-replicating spaceport cities for the West @RomullusInfra • Designed 50MW compute • Ran £165m RE Dev PnL • Author • Alum Futureal @Gensler @UniofNottingham
Oxford, London & Birmingham Katılım Mayıs 2016
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweetledi
tbh frontier robotics is just a data business.
except the data doesn't exist yet.
so you build it:
– robots + sensors are new senses. they turn dark corners of the world (infra, oceans, logistics, bodies) into data no one ever recorded
– models finally work. all that raw footage just sat there unused. models can now understand & reason across it at scale (alloy)
– every deployment emits more edge data. if you're clever, you find a way to get the customer to pay you and unlock negative collection cost.
– the hard part is the reward system. did the robot actually do the thing? get the verifier right and compound like crazy
– better models → faster, cheaper, harder deployments → more data. the loop tightens.
– and unlike the internet, none of this data is public. it's yours. and hopefully a moat?
over time the "robot logs" stop being telemetry and become the first written record of how the physical world actually works. and that trains the next models.
Rebecca Kaden@rebeccakaden
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Britain, like all civilizations, participated in the slave.
Then they had a change of heart, realised it’s an affront to God, stopped, and then didn’t rest until the practice was removed from the face of the Earth. 🇬🇧
Old England in Colour@englandincolour
Rescued East African slaves taken from a dhow aboard British naval ship HMS Daphne. They were freed from Arab slave traders in 1868.
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweetledi
A reminder of how far we've come.
This article from the Guardian highlighted how well Britain was doing in Tech in 2016 - we had 18 unicorns out Europe's total of 47.
Ten years later, there are over 600 unicorns in Europe, and almost 200 in the UK.
There's still a long way to go.
But fortunately we know we can get there, because we've already come such a long way.
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Incredible.
The tech we need for flying cars.
Ryan Oksenhorn@ryanzip
Ziplines act like little magnets, repelling each other when they need to cross paths (vid @ 2x)
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so much alpha in just rolling up your sleeves and showing courage
jack@jackbutcher
Almost everything is way less figured out than you think
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@ApoStructura Yeah. That’s what’s hard to see. Their bet is it’s negative until it’s not.
And peace of mind is price-less.
If the worst did happen, you’d wish you lived near people like this.
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@MPrinParr It’s always a question of odds, anything can happen, but it looks to me that the expected value of spending this much money and effort prepping for the apocalypse is very negative.
I get how it can be fun though
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The truth is societies just don’t collapse anymore.
There are exactly 0 developed countries that have collapsed in history. There have been crisis, but never a generalized sustained collapse like the one these guys prep for.
I get the appeal, but the expected value is bad.
Marauder@themarauderproj
There's middle ground in this dichotomy, of course. There's various uses for all sorts of gear. And urban guys can have a rural mindset. But preparedness isn't a COD fantasy. The rural preparedness mindset is all about utility and being a legitimate asset to your friends & family
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Agreed.
But you’re assuming you can leave. I think for Americans, especially rural ones, leaving isn’t practical.
Their wealth isn’t digital, and an airport isn’t just around the corner for them.
I think it’s rationale to think that if something can happen once it can happen again.
It’s more irrational to think that their nation, any nation, is immune to thy scale of collapse.
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@MPrinParr Yeah, the one where this kind of prepping would actually make the difference.
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@ApoStructura You mean apocalyptic collapse?
Ok.
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@MPrinParr Society didn’t collapse, it didn’t collapse in the way preppers are preparing for.
Same for South Africa, it’s a slow collapse, the best strategy is not to build a bunker it’s to make sure you can leave quickly
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1 per hour
24 hours a day
365 days a year
that’s how we win
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweetledi
Turns out nearly everyone depends on oil that comes from half a world away, and that it's almost trivial to send tankers to the bottom.
So either you make sure you're super good friends with *everyone* between your oil source and you (Texans don't worry, everyone else... start worrying) or figure out how to make oil in your own back yard.
If only someone had spent the last 5 years on this problem!
Jarl Finland@jalle51
A maritime drone campaign of unprecedented scale. Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, announced that drone operators targeted a staggering 90 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov between July 6 and July 12. The massive coordinated operation hit a wide range of logistics assets, including oil tankers, tugboats, ferries, and dry cargo ships. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, these specific vessels were actively backing Russian military logistics and moving petroleum products to bypass international sanctions. Ukraine has effectively turned the Sea of Azov into a no-go zone for Moscow's sanctioned supply fleet. #SeaOfAzov #DroneWarfare #Madyar #UnmannedSystems #UkraineWar #MilitaryLogistics #BreakingNews
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweetledi
We inflicted a 9/11 worth of deaths on ourselves because of an eco-Calvinist ideology that forbids people from cooling down their houses with technology over a century old.
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweetledi
The children yearn for noble men and honorable pursuits
Ocean Rasso@OceanRasso
Students ERUPT into chants of "Washington!" after watching "Young Washington" at Mount Vernon.
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Martin Prince-Parrott RIBA FRSA 🇬🇧 retweetledi
If CATL can make batteries that approach 12,000 Wh/kg tons of things become possible.
Coolest amongst them: power armors
Mark Z. Jacobson@mzjacobson
If successful, lithium-air batteries will kick jet fuel out of the sky and bunker fuel out of the ocean. "Mainstream lithium-ion batteries have an energy density of ~250-270 Wh/kg, while future solid-state alternatives are expected to achieve ~500 Wh/kg. Lithium-air configurations present a theoretical energy density limit of 12,000 Wh/kg, a ceiling that matches the energy capacity of conventional gasoline." CATL eyes 12,000 Wh/kg theoretical limit lithium-air EV battery to end range anxiety interestingengineering.com/energy/catl-12… Air Energy Closes Seed Round to Scale DOE-Validated Solid-State Lithium-Air Battery natlawreview.com/press-releases…
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“There will always be an England” chalked on the doorstep of a bomb-damaged house after a German air raid (10 July 1940)
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