Kyle Webb

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Kyle Webb

Kyle Webb

@hartreefox

Just a furry geek who fixes lab equipment. Mastodon link below. Else, I'll still be here warming my paws over the ashes of twitter till they reach heat death.

Katılım Mart 2009
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Kyle Webb
Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
"Will you still need me? Will you still feed me?"
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Peter Hague
Peter Hague@peterrhague·
The general public probably doesn’t realise how much of professional astronomy is having a more intellectual version of this discussion, as if the fate of the universe depends on it. (The fate of the universe may in fact depend on it)
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@FreightAlley I think there are a lot of small players and independents who don't yet understand what this is going to do to them.
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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
@MastersRex 12 volt DC powered pump. 2 lengths of hose, one can type fuel pump and a couple wires with big alligator clips on the end.
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Rex Masters@MastersRex·
Someday I really need to pull the fuel tank out and put a drain in it. This way to drain the tank is kinda hard on the old back. 😳
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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
@AdamKinzinger Obviously, it was Biden and Obama sneaking into the secured meetings and then making the trades before the announcement.
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Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦@AdamKinzinger·
DEVELOPING: DOJ is investigating $2.6B in suspiciously timed oil trades made right before Trump's Iran decisions. The corruption is finally catching up to them. Please like and share to get the word out!
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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
@stewartbrand The passage made more sense to me when I realized Dicorotron was what I would call a corona. (Worked on various copiers, but not Xerox).
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Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand@stewartbrand·
What's going on at Hacker News? Suddenly there are 650 people swarming to a prepublication section of my MAINTENANCE book about the technicians who serviced Xerox copy machines in the 1980s. books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenan… Most of them came straight from Hacker News.
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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
@johnkonrad No, the older NESTOR system didn't get phased out that fast. The KY-38 was still in heavy use in 83-84 both in Korea and in many units stateside. The KY-57 (VINSON) was being tried out in Korea when I was there but not yet fully fielded.
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Malcontent News
Malcontent News@MalcontentmentT·
Now we are going to learn how badly damaged the Ford is after the fire. They won't be able to hide the maintenance contracts or how long she's down. Entire frames need to be removed and replaced due to fire damage.
GeoInsider@InsiderGeo

NEW | The USS Gerald R. Ford is leaving the Middle East after 311 days at sea, a post-Vietnam record for a US carrier. Heading back to Norfolk, arrival mid-May. On feeds it's being framed as "the US is retreating." That's not what's happening. The USS George H.W. Bush arrived in the region on April 23, having left Norfolk on March 31. She took the long route around Africa (Cape Agulhas, Mozambique Channel) on purpose to get there. She was sent to replace the Ford, not to add to it. All planned weeks ago. The Ford was exhausted. 311 days at sea, ten months that included operations in the Caribbean, the capture of Maduro, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea. In March a fire in the laundry damaged seven compartments, displaced 600 sailors, forced the ship to stop at Souda Bay and Split for repairs. There was no putting it off any longer.

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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
@OriflammeTech @Aviation_Intel Those are gain of function experiments and are a whole argument in and of themselves. Just figure, when it's something living. It's complicated. No, more complicated than what you just thought. That's why it takes years and very clever labs to do these things.
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Tyler Rogoway
Tyler Rogoway@Aviation_Intel·
One of many MANY alarming examples of what’s to come. Why isn’t there work on regulation or even attempt at some sort of control regime, domestic and international, on what is likely to be the most powerful and unpredictable weapon ever created? Just oh well no stopping it?
Guri Singh@heygurisingh

A team at Stanford and Arc Institute fed a language model a DNA sequence and asked it to write a new virus. It wrote hundreds of them. 16 worked. One of them used a DNA packaging protein that doesn't exist in any known organism on Earth.

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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
@Aviation_Intel The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's followers tried it with a known agent, salmonella. They were fairly successful, but again this is due to how effective a natural agent is. One made from scratch probably won't be very good without a massive amount of development.
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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
@Aviation_Intel - and failed. That was with some at least somewhat trained people and some money to back it. Biological warfare is hard to get right. AI is just one tool that can be used to try it. It's not likely a game changer given that things like smallpox, Marburg, Ebola, etc exist.
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Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)
Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth)@adamscochran·
For the first time ever, they moved the perimeter zone. They only had metal detectors outside the ballroom. Unlike other years where the Secret Service also had an outside perimeter as they’ve done for nearly the entire history of this event…
Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch

If someone really got a gun past the metal detectors, that’s a really big deal. There are very few spaces in DC that the secret service has protected for more years and more thoroughly than this ballroom. But I’m not buying anything we hear for now.

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Kyle Webb@hartreefox·
Attempted murder/murder in fact is not the way to deal with an electoral problem. To hell with those who try it. Thankfully, at this point it seems no one was killed or even seriously injured.
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