Kevin Peterson

@PeteHegseth @KidRock @USArmy A competent leader could quietly direct leadership to give them one night of confinement to barracks to maintain discipline.

Thank you @KidRock. @USArmy pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots. 🇺🇸

@KAErdmann What’s the math on depreciation? Any tax rule that people point at as a huge benefit makes me suspicious. Seems like it would discourage selling even when otherwise optimal

"to get housing back into the hands of the American people, the bill would end tax breaks and other housing benefits for Wall Street landlords and reinvest the savings to increase the supply of affordable housing...." 1/ coons.senate.gov/news/press-rel…

@jmhorp Salt Lake City? Looking for homogeneity.

Pop quiz: What US MSA has the highest 10th percentile wage, adjusted for cost-of-living using the BEA RPP?

@typesfast @grok explain the NBA battle of Nancy and Valois dukes reference.

Flexport France is hiring in Paris. Join us if you love global logistics and want to bring the world's most advanced supply chain technology to French businesses. And unlike the NBA, Flexport recognizes the Battle of Nancy and the legitimacy of the Valois Dukes.

@davidjoemax @_____Lightning @jasoncrawford As a human driver, you should not be following close enough that you couldn’t stop in such a situation.

@_____Lightning @jasoncrawford I guess the danger is if a human driver is behind an EV that stops so quick it’ll get rear ended and slide forwards.

Child steps into the street from behind an SUV, directly into the path of a Waymo going at 17mph. Waymo immediately brakes hard, but hits the child at 6mph. Child sustains minor injuries. Waymo calls 911 and remains on the scene until police arrive. Waymo employees also call NHTSA to report the same day. Waymo estimates that a human, even if not distracted, would have hit the child at 14mph: waymo.com/blog/2026/01/a…

@Mark_De44 @patrickc Smaug should clearly be a crypto wallet.

@patrickc Haha, exactly 😅 Naming startups feels like Tolkien vs. reality now. Eventually, we’ll be left with stuff like GollumGPT or Smaug Analytics. Creativity will have to go way beyond just the name.

It's going to be tough for startups when all the Lord of the Rings names are taken and the only thing left is something like Bombadil AI.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed…unless you approach law enforcement.”

@thogge Not to be a "well my predictions were accurate even though it seems they were completely wrong", but did the tariffs really take effect? It seems like they kept getting postponed and they were only chaos and uncertainty rather than real economic impact.

Earlier this year I was absolutely convinced the tariffs were going to cause a big recession. I tweeted about it a bunch. I was wrong.

@jmhorp Who's going to break it to him about the moon landing?

Henry Ford's father was an Irish immigrant. His mother's parents were also immigrants.

ChatGPT seems absolutely 100% convinced it can send me PDFs through the web interface. Every time this fails it offers to tweak the formatting or print it with cut marks for lamination etc.

We could save a lot of our national reputation this year if Congress attached a ban on anything named after anyone still living to the next budget.

The prosecution claimed it was assault with a deli weapon, but the jury deemed their case totally sub-standard.

"Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day!" cato.org/blog/happy-yel… via @CatoInstitute 36 years ago today, pudding pops defeated communism. Celebrate accordingly.

@sethbannon @alexisxrivas Child seats on planes is a good example of this. Removing lap infants will kill children, but they won’t be in planes when it happens.

It sounds strange, but some regulations make things too safe. Take commercial aviation: it’s 200x safer per mile than driving. A 500 mile flight every day for a year gives you a fatality risk of ~1 in 100,000 years of flying. Yet safety rules keep tightening. And that’s a problem. Why? Stricter regs → higher costs → fewer flights → more people driving → more deaths. So yes, regulations can make things too safe!

@DrPhiltill Not an academic, but three different approaches is way too broad. I’d buy a paper analyzing the agreement or disagreement from survey papers reviewing each of those approaches.

2/2 From Grok: Abstract
The landing of lunar spacecraft presents unique challenges due to the interaction between engine exhaust and the lunar regolith. This paper investigates the dynamics of lunar soil displacement caused by high-velocity exhaust plumes during soft landings. Through a combination of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, laboratory experiments using regolith simulants, and analysis of historical lunar landing data, we quantify the extent of soil erosion, crater formation, and particulate ejection under various engine thrust profiles and landing conditions. Our findings reveal that exhaust-induced soil blowing significantly alters the local surface topography, potentially compromising landing stability and contaminating nearby scientific instruments. We propose a novel exhaust diffuser design to mitigate regolith displacement, demonstrating a 40% reduction in ejected particulate mass in controlled tests. These results offer critical insights for the design of future lunar landers, ensuring safer landings and preserving the integrity of the lunar environment for scientific exploration. I aimed to craft an abstract that mirrors the style of a human-written technical paper—concise, precise, and grounded in realistic scientific language. The structure follows a typical abstract format: problem statement, methods, key findings, and implications. I included specific details like “40% reduction” and “CFD simulations” to enhance authenticity while avoiding overly complex jargon that might feel unnatural. Let me know if you can tell it’s AI-written or if you’d like me to tweak anything!

1/2 I tried it, asking AI to write an abstract in my field. I feel sure I could pick this out as AI-written because of the smarmy adjectives, excessively broad scope for realistic research project, and unrealistic technical solution. See what Grok wrote in part 2/2.

@thogge The irony is that I cannot seem to find anyone selling prints of this photo.

Many of you don’t know this story and it shows. Pass it along. Tell a friend. You could save a life.

For everyone younger than 30, reminder that your phone has a voice call mode which is a reasonable substitute for Google meet.

I can’t help but stand in awe of the presidents ability to flip flop with such conviction.

@XPlaneOfficial guys what’s up with the new ATC? It keeps trying to give me vectors while I’m doing touch and goes. Can you at least add an option to turn it off?

@TheFIREorg I am helping my HS student research colleges, and the required email address in front of your rankings makes me think he won't actually log in to use that site. Your work would have broader impact if it were more accessible.