Patrick Boles

@CollinRugg God bless this child.

9-month-old baby with Down syndrome says his first word ever. "This season has been hard and a bit isolating at times BUT it's so much more bright than the internet or doctors lead us to believe," the boy's mother said. "God doesn't waste a single step and he's building something new, I'm learning to rest in that and I'm SO grateful to have Hank as our proof. He is working and blessing us in unique ways." An estimated 67% - 85% of pregnancies in the United States with a Down syndrome diagnosis are aborted. While most people with Down syndrome experience cognitive delays, they go on to live fulfilling, productive, and happy lives. May God bless this child. Video: aestheticartist_angelina / ig.

@DryBulkETF PDPR

So I guess SOH transit is now SSHEX ( Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays Excluded)…

@ed_fin Why torpedo? Why not just board, seize, offload/sell cargo, and reflag to US? Kill two birds with one stone by solving US shipbuilding crisis at the same time. Bonus points if we offer US citizenship to all of the mariners onboard in exchange for 5 years of seafaring service.

Took them long enough. ✓

@ed_fin Love the smell of Freedom Barrels in the morning

MR cargo fixed PADD 3 → Africa. 3 more LR1 cargoes PADD 3 → East Asia. Everyone wants those Freedom Barrels™.

@ed_fin Thanks for the nightmare inspiration….good god this is creepy.

Another MR cargo from Sikka to PADD 5. Even with the Jones Act waiver, it’s cheaper for the West Coast of the US to source petroleum product from India than from Texas. 😳

@FreightAlley If true, we should see this in barge freight as well

The American Manufacturing Renaissance is happening. We are now getting confirmation from multiple freight and supply chain datasets that the industrial recovery is real and manufacturing is on course to enjoy one of the best markets in years. The domestic freight market strength is not just capacity - its an industrial renaissance bringing real volumes to the freight industry. Its not just trucking data - the railroads are seeing strong volumes, with shipments up 4.5% YoY. Rail volumes are more stable than trucking, so this level of increase in remarkable. Carloads, excluding coal, are at the strongest March since 2008, and chemical shipments are the highest levels ever measured. Other datasets, which track trucking but lag SONAR's high frequency data, are also reporting strength. Truckstop - "Highest load board postings since 2022." ATA Truck Tonnage index - "Highest levels in 3 years" BoA Shipper Survey - "18% increase YoY and highest since 2022" ISM Manufacturing PMI - "Highest levels in 3 years" Bottom line: Flatbed + rail strength confirm that the US is experiencing some of the strongest industrial signals in years.

@CraigTaylorViz Can you do one for US inland/coastal waterways?

#threejs continues to impress me - protoyping some rapid-response frameworks for visualising ais data that doensn't rely on overnight renders 😅! I'm always fascinated by the pattern of activity in busy shipping locations - good candidates to test the tool! #ais #dataviz

@johnkonrad @brentdsadler The most amazing part of this was when the reporter said it took “150 men and 8 months to build”

60 Minutes warned us about the London shipping cabal’s plans to undermine the US Maritime Industry 54 years ago: youtu.be/h7YaWZjnyZk?si…

@ctindale @DavidUllrich202 @grok what publicly traded companies stand to benefit from this new technology?

@DavidUllrich202 easier than you think, there is new technology coming through that will crush rock with with a extreme electrical charge, turns it into powder in one bang, its part green innovation in mining, its much cheaper energy and cost than traditional crushing.

Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tons of CO₂ Putting silicate rocks from mine waste on fields could improve crops and limit global warming, but some researchers question where all that rock is going to come from newscientist.com/article/251748… docs.google.com/document/d/1ZQ…

@AustinEGray @mercoglianos @johnkonrad understood that using this method for ships (not boats) is essentially a non-starter given sea state requirements, etc…but what about inland barges? Seems like pumping out hopper barges, and maybe even tank barges, in this fashion would make sense?

Guys stop confusing a 12m boat print with a “shipyard”

@tobieapb @marnexii Thanks - Understood on the caveats. Was thinking multiple cameras from multiple positions should be able to get most of the tow identified, most of the time. I lead the maritime logistics group at Deloitte - working with carriers & bulk shippers on variety of tech initiatives.

Absolutely! With the normal caveats that apply. We can, as much as possible depending on visibility factors. If a human can’t see it the AI won’t either. The AI has a bit of an advantage, but there’s no cure to banged up markings, barges in the middle of the tow, tarps over markings, etc. Who do you work for? We are in talks to place a couple of our stations at choke points in the Olympia and Mississippi to gather more training data and to serve our first customers.

It's Valentine's Day and we're here counting barges at @marnexii 😂 The good news is that now one else, is paying attention to maritime in a way that materially advances the state of the art. It's up to us here to fuse AI with the fabric of the American economy. LFG!!! 🔥🔥🔥🚀

@mercoglianos @DOTMARAD @SecDuffy @SecWar @POTUS @MaritimeCollege Wow…knew it was bad, but not this bad!

@miyuselene How do you protect IP in this kind of environment?

Your hardware startup doesn't need another funding round. It needs a one-way ticket to Shenzhen The talent pool is vast and affordable, I watched two students build an entire automated tennis ball feeder prototype for the founders who started the company. Two students in a few month. The whole thing... Some areas in shenzhen offer almost no taxes for businesses and even free office space. There's an exchange center that connects foreign founders with manufacturers, partners, and lawyers for free. You don't even need initial capital to start production. Some manufacturers I connected with will produce without upfront costs and co-design with you to make the product successful. They'll drive an hour to pick you up, spend three hours taking you to factories, and dedicate an entire day getting everything set up. They're not just service providers, they’re investing in you. And the people are genuinely kind. I had issues with a power supply for my motor components, and even when they were busy, they stayed with me until it was resolved.  and they work until the task is perfectly done. 996 is pretty much the norm here, but they don't seem burnt out because there's each others support, working together like a group of friends on a project. If you're building hardware, Shenzhen isn't just an option. It's the obvious one

@DustinWalper Aussies are magical. Have one that looks just like this one.

The worst thing about dogs is that they don’t live as long as us. Lost this guy tragically in 2022 after only 3.5 years. Memories fade, but every once in a while I stumble onto old photos like this and remember the fun we had.

@powderski @grok where is this video from?

She's skiing on the top of Europe, 4806m ⛷️The ultimate day !!!

@HumanityChad Love this! Great job mom…

Mom doing daily affirmations with her 3 year old son who has Down Syndrome. ❤️

@DustinWalper @ValstadShip Seems like building tank barges in this manner would also make a lot of sense

Accelerating American shipbuilding requires us to think differently about how raw steel gets transformed into ships. We’re redesigning the process of building panels -> blocks -> hulls around autogenous laser welding at @ValstadShip. It’s obvious why it hasn’t been done yet: high-power lasers like the one we’re using are expensive, finicky (you should see the requirements list for the chiller unit), power-hungry and require enclosures and careful safety procedures. But if you start from a clean sheet of paper and design around the limitations, the benefits are huge. The combination of laser welding + robotic material handling & assembly will, we believe, unlock 3-5x higher throughput overall for the same floor space, and in some places (like small panel fabrication) up to 10x. It will absolutely be non-trivial to do at scale - like, really hardcore engineering work - but the early cycle time numbers we’re looking at are insanely promising.

@kyle_e_walker Very cool

Vignette: solving facility location problems with realistic travel-times. Use the r5 routing engine to generate a travel-time cost matrix from OSM data, then optimize facility locations with a lightning-fast Rust backend in spopt-r. Learn how: walker-data.com/spopt-r/articl…

@urbanarson @YIMBYLAND Maritime logistics

@YIMBYLAND It’s actually more like this but it will take you a couple of years to understand why. I’ve lived here my whole life. You’re thinking too small.

It’s becoming abundantly clear that America’s Shenzhen will be here.