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@MorlockP

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Cairo Smith@cairoasmith·
If anyone wants to give me $22k I will build you a fully-animated part-generative TV pilot and prove all the things we think are blockers (consistency, fidelity, text, emotion, cohesion) are already solved and just waiting for someone to use the tools right. Be a first mover.
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@octal do we care what normal Chinese people think? does it make us look bad, or does it make their regime - which spies on them too - look bad ?
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Ryan Lackey@octal·
@MorlockP The photo of items at aircraft plays badly within China among normal people and makes us look crazy/paranoid which is probably not ideal.
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Ryan Lackey@octal·
They should have collected all China gifts and other items using the fig leaf of a non-security reason, individually accounted for them, and shipped them back after imaging/quarantine, for a variety of reasons.
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Gary
Gary@plzbepatient·
“You wouldn’t ruin your life because a black schizophrenic mouthed off in DTLA?” No, I wouldn’t.
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i/o@avidseries·
Reading proficiency of black students in California in the year before Newsom took office: 32% In the most recent year: 32% So, a 66% increase in spending led to a 0% increase in reading proficiency.
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice

Student funding in California is now a RECORD HIGH! Since Governor Newsom took office, it’s increased 66%— reaching $28,282 per student as the state makes historic investments in public education.

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@octal There was a lot of ass-kissing. A mix of 95% honey and 5% vinegar - especially on a topic that's VERY important to us (spying) makes some sense to me. Good cop / bad cop.
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Ryan Lackey
Ryan Lackey@octal·
@MorlockP If so then why have a summit? Antagonizing China over non-issues seems dumb. We have like 50%+ non-rival areas to cooperate, 5-10% directly opposed strategic interests, and the rest are all open.
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Ryan Lackey@octal·
“It all has to go in a museum exhibit” might also have been the outcome, and also would have been acceptable to everyone, and less offensive than a trash bin at aircraft stairs.
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@ToughSf yep! It's a bunch of really hard problems. I'm just ALSO saying that sometimes when programs "disappear" despite being promising, there's a reason other than "we gave up"
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> next step was supposed to be a full-scale flying testbed with turbojet, ramjet and scramjet engines re "supposed to be" (and the implication "but then it went wrong"), realize that often deep R&D projects that succeed get rolled into deep black projects you never hear about
ToughSF@ToughSf

In 2004, NASA was flying the X-43A and broke the speed record for a jet aircraft by pushing its hydrogen-fuelled scramjet to Mach 9.6: youtu.be/25hqiWr8R-sThe next step was supposed to be a full-scale flying testbed with turbojet, ramjet and scramjet engines aboard.

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