Modern Engineer

@FreddyLA7 @Clay4MainStreet @SpecEnvTourism @RepClayFuller @ThomasMHern "Sir, Freddy's in town."

Ending the trip in the nations capital🇺🇸

@OpenAI @huggingface Huggingface: Oh I think we got hacked, wonder who did it. OpenAI:

We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident. Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation. Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks: openai.com/index/hugging-…

Fun fact: The park was built on the remains of Pier 54, the exact spot where the RMS Carpathia brought Titanic survivors ashore in April 1912. Pier 54 was also the departure point for the RMS Lusitania in 1915 (before it was sunk in WWI). The old steel archway from the original pier still stands near the entrance.

Why did nobody ever tell me about Little Island? This thing is beautiful especially at night

@zeroxjackson @XMoney X money.

Very touching to see all the support from those enjoying @XMoney 🙏

@Tesla I've been waiting on this since I noticed the patent in December. 👏

Starlink V5 directly integrated in Cybercab

@FreddyLA7 Frugal Freddy.

Now that the trip is almost over, I want to answer one of the questions we’ve been asked the most: “How are you guys able to afford a trip like this?” The answer is actually pretty simple. We saved up for this trip over the past year, and it wasn’t nearly as expensive as most people probably assume. We stayed mostly in budget hotels, and always split the cost between the three of us. Our flight to the US was also only 255€ for example. The biggest expenses were the rental cars and World Cup tickets. In total the 6 weeks here with everything combined probably cost around 6-7k (It‘s probably 6k but since we also saved money thanks to invitations like the hotel stay in Houston, let‘s say it would’ve been around 7k). I know that’s still a lot of money, but it’s nowhere near what some people seemed to think we were spending. We met other World Cup tourists who told us their trips cost more than $40,000. If you‘re ok with not living in luxury than travelling doesn‘t need to be this expensive. I’ll calculate the exact total once I’m back home.

@elonmusk @afshineemrani @lsanger We might solve the population collapse issue. If we can get along long enough to get there. 🙏

@afshineemrani @lsanger Wow x.com/i/grok/share/9…

I'm a cardiologist. Everyone is sharing this study as a skin story. They're burying the part that matters. Scientists took the aorta of a 75-year-old donor, applied a single engineered enzyme, and stripped away more than 70% of the molecular damage — bringing it down to the levels you'd see in a 30-year-old artery. Published five days ago in Nature Communications. Revel Pharmaceuticals, with Calico and the University of Colorado. Here's what they erased. Sugar reacts with proteins in your body the same way heat browns bread — slowly, over a lifetime. It leaves behind a residue called CML, the most abundant advanced glycation end product in aging tissue. It welds itself onto collagen and elastin in your skin, your eye lens, and your arterial walls. Two things follow. Your arteries stiffen. And CML latches onto a receptor called RAGE, which drives chronic inflammation — the exact fire I've been writing about for months as the engine of heart disease. Since the 1980s this damage was considered permanent. Your body has no enzyme to remove it. Every existing approach only slows new damage from forming. Nothing touched what was already there. So they built an enzyme that doesn't exist in nature. They screened 45,000 protein structures, then ran five rounds of directed evolution across more than 500 million variants until they had CMLase — a molecular lawnmower that oxidizes the CML off the protein and restores the original, healthy lysine underneath. Not patched. Reversed. Over 70% cleared from elderly arterial tissue. Over 55% from elderly skin — below the levels found in 31-year-old skin. 45-78% in lens proteins. The CEO said they expected 20% and were floored. Arterial stiffness drives systolic hypertension, heart failure, and stroke, and I have no drug that reverses it. I can slow the process. I cannot undo it. This paper says undoing it may be possible. The caveats are real and I won't skip them. This was done on donated tissue in a dish, not in a living person. No functional data yet — we don't know if that artery got measurably more elastic. Delivering a large enzyme deep into human tissue is a hard, unsolved problem. Clinical trials are years away. But something considered permanent for forty years just came off human tissue. We spent a century learning to slow aging. Someone finally figured out how to erase it. Thank you @theallinpod @friedberg @chamath @pesottas

@AndrewCurran_ That's interesting. Where did the story originate?

Elon says the $52 billion GB300 order is not real, so I deleted the thread.

@SawyerMerritt This feels intentionally worded to cause a specific person distress. @farzyness

Cybercabs with no steering wheels have started arriving in California.

@FreddyLA7 One of the best moments from the World Cup. The crowd singing Country Roads. 🇺🇸

WE ARE IN WEST VIRGINIA!!!! This is the last new state of our trip, and brings our total to 25 states visited. Now we just need to find somewhere to watch the World Cup final.

@tszzl We saw how that turned out.

Distillation was made illegal by the Volstead Act of 1919.

@timmerenginerd @FreddyLA7 Good question. According to research, the nitrates appear to have been carried into the cave primarily by groundwater rather than coming directly from bat guano, though guano may have contributed. Link to the journal: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

@Modernengineer @FreddyLA7 Bat guano?

Currently inside Mamooth Cave in Kentucky. It‘s the longest known cave system in the world (more than 430 miles). That’s more than 1.5× longer than the second-longest cave system.🤯

@FreddyLA7 @blacktypetb American Pharoah completed horse racing’s first *modern* Grand Slam at Keeneland in 2015, winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic after sweeping the Triple Crown.

Our second stop in Kentucky. We were told that Kentucky is all about horse racing, so we went to Keeneland Racecourse and visited some of the horses. They sell for insane prices. It’s a sport we didn’t know anything about, but after talking to the people who showed us around and hearing how crazy it gets on race days, we decided we have to come back for a race here.🐎

@fiago7 @FreddyLA7 This is awesome.

Nice little German link up in Nashville with @FreddyLA7 and his boys. So now you all know NO we are not the same person and yes, they’re a great group of lads 👏🏼🇩🇪🇺🇸

@AJamesMcCarthy @BigImpactHumans The face I make when I see Starship launch. 🚀

@BigImpactHumans Is this about me and Gregory

No matter who you are, you can’t make someone love you. You can’t force someone to feel something that simply isn’t there

@claudeai Coders who have been frustrated by this whole experience...

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@tetsuoai 👏

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@elonmusk @SciGuySpace It really was remarkable engineering. Automatically detecting that the rockets failed to ignite and shutting down the engines to save the vehicle was incredibly impressive.

@SciGuySpace Indeed (sigh)

I don't invest in space stocks because I cover space companies, or pretend to understand irrational market moves. But the idea that a space company stock would fall after an abort, which actually saved the rocket shows the company's procedures work as intended, is pretty dumb.

@FreddyLA7 @NolensvilleVFL @NashvilleSC @NashvilleSC getting the news. 😂

@NolensvilleVFL @NashvilleSC Of course, that‘s the reason we decided to stay for another day haha

We spent our afternoon in Nashville visiting the Country Music Hall of Fame. As new fans of the genre, it was amazing to learn about the history and all the incredible stories behind it. Before today, we only knew about ten country artists. Now it feels like we know them all.