Keith Sa 🇹🇼

@Lynn_Henning Lord, I hope so

You can see 2028 absolutely taking shape: Marco Rubio will get the GOP call because he will be its populist nominee (no chance for Vance). He will lose, by a whopping margin, probably to Buttigieg, with AOC as runner-up candidate. She ultimately will be the Dem nominee in a later cycle. And she will win. But it will be Rubio losing to Buttigieg in 2028. That a candidate loves a man won't keep a purportedly mature nation from making an overdue mature decision.

@deesnider Metal ain’t limited to N America/Europe. It’s huge across Asia. Check @uniteasia site! India, Indonesia, Japan, more Taiwan’s @chthonictw only getting better & better! From 2025: youtu.be/xVIXCEyPrm8?si…

I know. But so many "old school" metal fans say there is no good "new" metal. 20 years is new compared to me, metallica and the rest of us from the 80's.

Microplastics have been found in human brains, blood, placentas, and testes across 1,300 species. An 18-year-old in Virginia just built a filter in her garage that removes 95.5% of them. The physics of how it works is worth understanding. Traditional water filters use solid membranes. Water passes through, particles get caught. The problem: microplastics range from 5mm down to 1 micrometer. Filters fine enough to catch the smallest particles clog constantly and need replacing. The maintenance cost makes them impractical for household use. Mia Heller built exactly this, over and over, after water tests in Warrenton, Virginia showed PFAS and microplastic contamination. Government agencies said no public funds were coming. Residents were on their own. Heller took a completely different approach. Her system uses ferrofluid, a liquid containing magnetic nanoparticles suspended in oil. The key insight is polarity. Microplastics and water have different polarities. Microplastics are more attracted to the oily ferrofluid than they are to water. So when ferrofluid enters contaminated water, the microplastics migrate toward it on their own. Then you apply a magnetic field. The ferrofluid is magnetic. The magnet pulls the ferrofluid out of the water, and all the attached microplastics come with it. The ferrofluid is recovered and reused at an 87.15% recycling rate. No membrane. No clogging. No constant filter replacements. She went through five prototypes before getting it working. The system filters about a liter at a time and fits under a kitchen sink. She also built her own turbidity sensor to verify the removal rate, rather than relying on visual inspection. Municipal drinking water plants achieve 70 to 97% microplastic removal depending on technology. Her garage prototype hits 95.52%. She won a $500 prize at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair for it. The constraint she already sees: ferrofluid is expensive to produce at scale. She designed the system for individual households, not treatment plants. But the mechanism, polarity and magnetism replacing physical filtration, is the kind of first-principles reasoning that makes the best engineering. Five prototypes. One garage. $500.

@deesnider 3/15 here in Asia, time to wish @deesnider another happy birthday! all the best to you and your family. Thank you, as always, the inspiration & for being you! \m/

@uniteasia Hero

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@deesnider Such a great band & album!

RIP Bernie Torme and Clive Burr. :(

MBS being welcomed at White House is par for course these days, but no less disgusting and revolting. The least I can do is say so publicly, in honor of Jamal Khashoggi and journalists everywhere. Shame.

@Super70sSports pearl jam

Name a band or musician that does nothing for you no matter how much other people seem to love it. I’ll start:

Me to 11yr old daughter: What happens to the economy when the farm workers are deported? Her: He’s going to destroy America Half a second to realize what half the electorate still hasn’t I’m glad she’s smart; dismayed others aren’t. Smart or not, let’s take care of each other.

@holmeschan_ @melissakchan @XinqiSu @BeiJia_B 😢

Hong Kong jailed 45 pro-democracy figures today. Our full coverage: 1⃣Wrap: bit.ly/3ADRout 2⃣Profile: yhoo.it/4eCqukx 3⃣Reportage: bit.ly/3Zh3eD9 4⃣Profile: bit.ly/4hYfII3 5⃣Bios: bit.ly/4hUZ9Ne (with @XinqiSu and @BeiJia_B)

There was a time around 20 years ago when 1/3 of every elderly resident of Taipei wore a Suicidal Tendencies trucker cap This was before cell phone cameras were prevalent. So it became urban myth. Well, today I saw this old guy: I have proof! Family hierloom? @OFFICIALSTIG

Edit: *20 years ago..

@EddieTrunk are you on bluesky?

@uniteasia See u there!

Yo...if we're all jumping ship... hit me up on Blue Sky: bsky.app/profile/unitea…

@terrelljstarr Done!

I am trying to get most of my followers over to the other site. Please migrate over there.

Clarity and decency are always worth a click

@deesnider always appreciate your level-headedness and candor, @deesnider Thanks for sharing.

If you DON'T want to know what I think about the election, state of the world & the future, DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK! (If you can't help yourself & don't like it ,it's on you! Don't give me that "stay in your lane" shit!) If you DO want to know... delfi.lt/en/politics/us…

Won’t be so quiet if we help share this info: Trump allies, private sector quietly prepare for mass detention of immigrants. cnn.com/2024/11/07/pol…

Southern White Man Talks About Trump’s Victory

Great speech. He’s so good at this.