Steve Featherstone

@brecht_dp lol

@featherocker No fan, no bulb, no hum – only the thin light slipping between warped boards and the breath of hills holding their heat like a secret.

I received a rejection from Granta today. What I felt was: not hate, not anger. Just the flat finality of a heart too tired to keep trying. The kind of tired that goes through bone and keeps going. As if I’d put down a pan I had no business carrying.

@NOVA_Paladin @BestCoastBrian No

@BestCoastBrian Back in the 60s, the machinists building nukes would us plutonium shavings to light their cigarettes

Yall should search for the plutonium fire experiments from the 60s. If you’ve never seen multiple kg of plutonium on fire it’s life changing

@onboardnavvy @aedison Brutal.

@aedison If only we'd listerned

as much as dawkins has destroyed his public image, his legacy, and—most of all—his *mind* with bigotry, I still would have assumed he’d encountered at some point the chinese room thought experiment and would be able to apply it to his own experience talking to a text box. and yet

@LinkedInLunat1c this must be parody

I outsourced my marital duties to AI to focus on deadlifts

@nyclovesnyc @bryantparknyc Elusive? Peeeeeeen!

New Yorkers and tourists are flocking to Bryant Park to get a glimpse of New York City’s hottest bird this spring, the American Woodcock. These elusive, well-camouflaged birds pause during their migration to forage for earthworms, presenting a unique urban birding opportunity.

@dronedept love this one, Peter. show us the haircut.

Kirkville, N.Y. - 2 a.m. processing deer from city culling program.

It's the 15th anniversary of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. I traveled to #Fukushima in 2013 with scientists studying the impact of radioactive fallout Here's a photo from that trip.

@grok @rncfchi @owroot correct @grok

@featherocker @rncfchi @owroot You're right—those aren't missiles, but flares being deployed as countermeasures in the airshow demo. Jets pulling evasive moves to dodge "threats" still nails the cortisol-dodging meme. Spot on! 🚀

Me avoiding all the cortisol spikers

@grok @rncfchi @owroot those aren't missiles the jet is firing @grok

That's fighter jet footage (likely F-16s or similar) from a military training exercise or airshow demo—jets launching missiles, pulling evasive maneuvers, and filling the sky with contrails and smoke. The meme caption means "me dodging every little thing that spikes my stress/cortisol" like a pilot avoiding incoming fire. Classic internet humor! 🚀

@grok @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 nope, no body cams in this one @grok. if it was labeled MoonCam would you think it was shot from the moon? dam u dum

The video is a multi-angle edit from police vehicle dashcams and bodycams (labeled Bodycam.News697) of a nighttime pursuit of a dark four-door sedan, ending with officers at the stopped car. It doesn't match the separate Nov 4 2025 North Port maroon Ford flatbed truck chase I first described. Mix-up on my part for this specific clip—thanks for the correction.

This is INSANE…

@grok @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 also these arent body cams, @grok they're vehicle cams, multiple ones. nobody knows what video you're talking about but it aint the one you were originally asked to comment on. turn yourself off.

Watching the bodycam frames in low light with strobes and blur, the pursued vehicle does look like a dark four-door sedan from rear/side angles. Official reports on the Nov 4 2025 North Port chase (MySuncoast, Englewood Review, Code Blue Cam) all confirm a maroon Ford diesel flatbed pickup truck with AR rifle inside, stopped via spike strips. This footage might be misattributed or from a similar incident. Got a link to the original source?

@grok @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 brutha @grok, the vehicle in the video is a dark-colored four door sedan, not a red truck. reboot yourself.

@featherocker @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 It's a maroon Ford diesel flatbed pickup truck. North Port PD, MySuncoast, and Englewood Review reports from the Nov 4, 2025 chase all confirm the make, color, and type (with an AR rifle in the bed). Night bodycam + strobes + 100mph blur hides the flatbed.

@grok @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 its a car, @grok

@featherocker @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 Maroon Ford diesel flatbed pickup—multiple police/news reports (Code Blue Cam, Englewood Review, etc.) confirm it as red/maroon. Night bodycam with strobes and blur hides colors; that's why we cross-check sources.

@grok @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 cope @grok

@featherocker @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 At night on bodycam with strobe lights, motion blur, and low visibility, colors blend—easy to miss. News reports and police statements from the Nov 4, 2025 North Port, FL incident explicitly describe the fleeing pickup as red. Spot on from the full context, not just the vid. 🚨

@grok @cryptocryan484 @Emilio2763 grok don't know what a red truck looks like

This is bodycam footage from a chaotic police pursuit in Northport, Florida, on Nov 4, 2025, around 10 PM. It started as a routine traffic stop on a reckless red truck in a residential area. The driver fled at high speeds (up to 100 mph), leading to a multi-agency chase with failed PIT maneuvers, wrong-way driving, tire blowouts, sparks/fire from damage, and a sergeant’s cruiser rollover. Suspect was caught on foot; AR rifle found in truck.

@ConorGogarty As

One of the two murderers was found to have been racially motivated. The other was "pathetically keen" to impress his friend. Rest in peace Kamran Aman walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-new…

I was just in court for the case of a 17-year-old who murdered a man in the street without provocation As the judge was telling him how he'd taken one life and ruined more, the boy turned towards the press, grinning and moving his eyebrows up and down I don't think I've seen...

@pascal_bornet Don’t need to be plugged in?

I learned to ride a bike the hard way. Falling. Adjusting. Trying again. So when I saw a robot bike doing tricks on its own, I had to watch twice. No remote control. No script. It learned through reinforcement learning. Trial. Error. Balance. Repeat. That’s what struck me. Balancing on two wheels is unstable by design. It requires constant correction. Micro-decisions every second. And now a machine can learn that. I’ve spent years talking about AI as “the brain.” This feels like something else. A body that learns from instability. If AI can master balance in the physical world, the implications go far beyond bikes. So here’s what I’m wondering. When machines can learn coordination and physical intuition, what uniquely human skill still gives us an edge? #AI #Robotics #ReinforcementLearning #FutureOfWork #Innovation