Dan Van Wagenen

@smitchellmaps You should include little people more often. It doesn't take away from the geography and architecture and makes the graphic look more alive.

@dvwag I did 10+ locations cards for the game

That style looks very familiar... 😉

@thomasehendrix @ashwinl Bruh, I don't know you from Adam but am damn glad I stumbled on this tweet. Too many dipshits in Defense Tech who never squeezed a trigger downrange and it drives me bonkers.

Defense-tech VC: “I didn’t see you at Hill and Valley this week…” Me: “I didn’t see you in Baghdad ever.”

@RealMaxit God had other plans for you. ✝️ 🙏

I committed suicide in 2015. I drank a 5th of whiskey, a bottle of wine while downing 30 serequel pills and 20 clonopin pills. While I was waiting to pass out and never wake up, a voice told me "Michael. call 911" I was almost incoherent in my thoughts. The voice was insistent now "Michael, call 911". I never talked to myself in the 3rd person. It was weird. I looked at my hand. The phone was there. I was never a phone person. I don't know where it came from. I dialed 911. I explained to the person I had done the pills and drink. She asked if I could make it to the door. I said I could. I walked to the door and went outside. There was a police car driving up at that same moment. It was as if it was meant to happen. He asked for my ID. I gave it to him. Then I was gone. I remember a little about being transferred to an ambulance. I woke in a hospital bed 2 days later. I was happy. I could not understand it. I was happy. I felt good. I was telling jokes and having a good talk with the hospital staff as they were getting me ready to be transferred to a mental hospital. I finally understood how the Lord saved me. I have never been the same, since. I can't explain it. I was saved and saved. I am not worthy but I was spared hell. I got healthy. I went from 250lbs to 170. I read my bible. My non military PTSD was a thing I could deal with without pharma. I now take no meds. So, here I am, alone, no need for social appeasement. Only to gather the lay of the land and make dumb posts, sometimes. May you all be blessed as I have been. Thank you, Lord.

@heygurisingh Claude

Everyone is hyped about Claude... but barely anyone knows how to actually use it to 10x their output. I collected 1500+ custom prompts that turn ChatGPT into a full-blown work replacement. Comment "Claude" and I'll DM you everything.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

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learning the anthropic and claude now is like learning microsoft and excel in the 90's

Software was eaten by AI.

@NotebookLM Nested folders would be awesome, especially filing notebooks as Shelves within a PARA construct for easy access.

Ok ok ok. Let's talk about folders (gasp!) We are exploring several notebook-level organization options, but would love to know: Is there something specific about *folders* that you want? Or would an easy way to filter/search/tag/find your notebooks suffice? Help us, help you!

Fun fact: The first transatlantic internet cable is being pulled off the ocean floor right now. Almost no one knows it's happening. TAT-8 went live in 1988. First fiber-optic cable to connect Europe and the US. Isaac Asimov called it a "maiden voyage across the sea on a beam of light." The engineers behind it genuinely believed it might be the last transatlantic cable the world would ever need. The tech was so far ahead of copper they thought global bandwidth was solved. But it filled to capacity within 18 months. That forced the industry to immediately start laying more cables, a race between demand and infrastructure that still hasn't stopped. After developing a fault too expensive to fix, the cable was retired in 2002. It's been sitting on the seabed ever since. Now a small crew aboard this ship is dragging it back up. Meanwhile, Meta announced Project Waterworth last year, a 50,000 kilometer cable stretching across 5 continents, partly to feed the data demands of AI. ...The entire global internet runs on cables like this, built and maintained by a few thousand people working in places most of us will never see.

Ever wonder if a computer can simulate brain activity? Google Research just curated a new #NotebookLM notebook asking just this. It features sources on: ✅ Predicting neural activity with AI ✅ Nanoscale brain mapping ✅ Synapse-level reconstructions Start exploring the frontier of neuroscience today: notebooklm.google.com/notebook/74dc7…

Took the words right out of my mouth

Exactly. We saw this in Afghanistan with DCGS and Gorgon Stare. Spent billions on closed systems which failed bc they were built for a lab, not the mission. The danger now is that we’re replacing government bureaucracy with corporate gatekeeping. We need a legal framework that prioritizes the mission over the contract. The Anthropic general counsel is brilliant. Let this go to court.

@ashwinl @alexrkonrad @AnthropicAI @DeptofWar 100% agree with this. Having been a warfighter in the 3 meter zone, I dont want to have to worry about my troops being set up for failure by technology that is hard coded against us.

I sat down with @alexrkonrad this week and shared personal take on escalating tension between @AnthropicAI and @DeptofWar TLDR: regardless of political administration, the warfighter at tip of spear needs the best American technology. Now. The real debate isn't just about ethics. It’s about who sets the rules. We shouldn't rely on a CEO's conscience or a Secretary's tweet to protect civil liberties; we need a statutory framework that outlasts any single contract. Check out Alex’ full piece…

“If you’re going to do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood.” ~ Jeff Bezos

On CBS Evening News assessing the first night of US-Israeli combined attack. youtu.be/ZowqZfIkQ14