Kitch’N Sync

Be a good ancestor Plant a seed Even if you won’t live to eat Fruit from that tree Help lay a foundation With a community Seed the plan And long after you’ve gone They’ll hear reverberation of Footfalls in giant stone halls Touched by the caring hands Of their good ancestors.

@siaxares survive to collect and protect the stories, one day to be read and history to be written. survive so the deaf will hear the voices that have been silenced. survive so life will prevail against the dark rot of fear and greed. survive to honor, to remember and to tell.

This is a stressful night for all Iranians. My family and I have huddled together, having spent all our money stocking up on non-spoiling necessities. We're now completely out of funds as people are not getting paid. Unsure what the next few hours will bring — but we are as ready as we’ll ever be. Whatever happens, as long as enough of Iran remains to save, we Iranians will rise up and topple this regime. If the electricity goes out, so does our internet. Even my Starlink won’t work then. If that happens, I want to thank @Starlink for being a most welcome light in our darkness. Every single piece of real information that has ever come out of Iran — whether directly or indirectly through VPNs like V2ray that first connect via Starlink — has only been possible because of Starlink. Everything else is just regime propaganda from agents with their special white SIM cards that have unrestricted access. The Islamic Republic worships death and kills its own citizens with impunity. I pray that president Trump delivers on his promise, and that the US and Israel level the playing field so we can finally deal with the regime — without destroying too much of Iran, so there’s still something left to save and rebuild. Trump's words are usually extreme, so I hope "end of a civilization" is just scare tactics. Soon, this nightmare of evil will end. I know it in my heart. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #IranMassacre‌

@IsabellaAn67 @TrentTelenko Taiwan is China’s Ukraine x.com/kitchinsync/st…

A China Coast Guard Ship was trying to intimidate Japanese fishermen, inside Japanese waters near the Senkaku Islands. Just in time, the Japan Coast Guard ships arrived & placed them;vessels between the China Coast Guard ships & the Japanese boats, forming a barrier

@tleilax___ I’m sure gulf can see bears directing the rabid dogs to push competitors off the chess board in the short term. long term dragon will sell their rebuilding services to extend their monopoly empire of control. meanwhile the military industrial economy is tested and replenished.

"From now on the amount of strikes on Saudi infrastructure will increase"

@War_Radar2 feigning shock or surprise since if Taiwan campaign is successful, China PRC will be targeting other Asian countries, primarily Japan and South Korea. it’s the obvious next move in the game of empire. less obvious will be their drive to move north motivated by climate changes.

BREAKING: 🇨🇳🇯🇵 Chinese authorities say they are “seriously concerned” about Japan’s changes to its lethal arms export regulations.

@johnkonrad when filling the bottom of the barrel start with the big rocks

I don’t know who should control the Strait of Hormuz if Iran falls but I’ve got a very firm list of who absolutely should not be allowed anywhere near it…. UN NGOs China World Bank NATO Marxists Any Nation in Europe except Poland CIA NSA Diplomats Any World Economic Forum member USAID Soros-funded anything Climate people Think tanks NGOS Ivy League graduates Former journalists Current journalists Future journalists Adam Kinzinger Election observers Democracy builders Any Marxist church Half the Catholic Church Any mosque or temples Techbros Technocrats Georgetown grads Navy Admirals MBAs CEOs Conflict-resolution negotiators Cheney family members Russians Ukrainians Palestinians Israelis Human-rights monitors Greta Thurnberg Any Activist Andrew Tate PR agencies Hollywood Neocons Somalia Democrats Globalists Keir Starmer Carbon-credit brokers Academics Influencers Hipsters Boomers IMF And most of all McKinsey consultants

hope my tax dollars go toward a more reliable interplanetary toilet.

@BrianRoemmele 80% of failures are stale caps, gritty pots, burned out tube lightbulbs and dried out rubber. it’s the remaining 20% that’s tricky.

1979 High Fidelity.

@vtchakarova often there is a calm in the not knowing. eventually we know that we will know. so appreciate the rare moments of ignorant peace before the inevitable burden of knowing.

That’s insider joke only for the followers of Maestro Taleb. Thank you! Or simply put, I’d rather know than not know.

a pareto paradoxical quandary: does the 20% of the time that I’m a genius make up for the 80% of the time that I’m an idiot?

@jack it’s not so much building the graph, like building a giant spreadsheet, but also how the graph is able to evolve. it’s dynamics. every debug someone else’s mega spreadsheet? thank goodness we now have higher dimensional brain assistants (ai)!

“norbert weiner” is also my all time favorite nerd name

fascinating to watch how people building ai agent harnesses and people building companies are converging in model space. welcome to cybernetics!

the mess and genius rube goldberg bullshit that is html+css is never more apparent than when trying to build a browser. kudos to @xiaonweb for their perseverance in building a browser that digests and renders the feedstock of html+css !

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

@JTAlexander_ tl;dr bartender: why the long face?

>be horse, 10,000 BC >thunder across the Eurasian steppes in massive herds >humans approach with spears >heart pounding >be cornered >they don't eat you >they offer grain and salt >be domesticated horse, 4000 BC >humans tie a cart to you and your friend >pull the cart around >every human that witnesses your work is amazed >your kind spreads across the world side by side with man >be warhorse, 2000 BC >you pull the chariots that decide empires >without your speed and power, no conquest, no trade routes >the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Mycenaeans >their glory rides on your legs >civilization is literally pulled forward under your power >be warhorse, 300BC >bigger and stronger than ever before >humans now ride on your back >be called Bucephalus >carry your master across the world >kingdoms fall under your hooves and your master's sword >hailed as the greatest of your kind to ever live >sire a legendary lineage that becomes the envy of the kingdoms of men >be warhorse, 44BC >so widespread and diverse that armies are made up of men and horses from thousands of miles apart >turn the tide of world-changing battles and maneuvers >roads your trod down will be used for millennia >history is carried forward on your back >be warhorse, 900 AD >armored head to hoof >steel in the field, genteel in the pasture >just like the master >you carry the men that bring news, help, honor, and leadership >you are the symbol and source of their status >civilization depends on you >be warhorse, 1683 AD >Islam lays siege to Vienna with all of Europe prostrate beyond >the city is desperate for relief >supplies are short and the underminers threaten the walls >3,000 men in winged armor ride on your back to the salvation of Christendom >Europe is literally saved by your turn of the tide >be standard horse, 1778 AD >15 years old >pretty unremarkable but notice loud noises don't bother you >be given away as a gift >owner already has another horse, but alright >he ends up liking you more because you don't care about noise >he starts riding you through a bunch of crowds making a ton of noise >become a famous symbol of the era and watch the British Empire surrender to your boss >America is literally born on your back >be workhorse, 1915 AD >drafted along with your master to fight for the king >pull ammunition carts from rail depots to guns >the machine-horses on tracks make your job easier because you don't have carry as much as far >eight million of your kind are killed to fight the war to end all wars >the war doesn't end war >the war ends your relationship with mankind >be horse, 1955 AD >nobody has use for you anymore >they've made smaller machine horses >they're cheaper to feed >they're easier to learn >they carry more weight >they take all of your jobs >be horse, 2026 AD >nobody cares about you anymore >you survive as a pet to young rich girls >sometimes she shows you off to an audience but you feel something is missing >your cousin runs races for gambling addicts >your brother sometimes pulls tourists around in New York >you heard of some horses that carry cops around but it sounds like folklore >there are more toys of your kind than actual horses

the goal of building a running system with AI is a system that doesn’t need AI to run.

@_chenglou one could argue this is an AI contribution to the overall artery health of web designers

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

@shanaka86 UAE and Saudi Arabia now experiencing what other countries and communities have had to deal with for decades. With drone technologies, the reach has cheaply expanded and more countries will enjoy the constant vigilance, need for bunkers and defense systems. what a human waste!

BREAKING: Almost every major central bank on Earth is now a prisoner of the Strait of Hormuz. And the Gulf states that sit on the strait’s western shore just took their first steps toward joining the war. The US Federal Reserve held rates at 3.5 to 3.75 percent and still projects one cut in 2026, but the oil shock has pushed market expectations to a 48 percent probability of zero cuts this year. PCE inflation was revised upward to 2.7 percent specifically because of Hormuz energy prices. The Fed cannot ease into a war-driven energy shock without reigniting the inflation it spent three years fighting. The rate cut that was supposed to arrive this year may never come. Goldman Sachs now expects the European Central Bank to HIKE rates twice, 25 basis points in April and 25 in June, bringing the deposit rate to 2.5 percent. This reverses their prior forecast of no hikes. The reason is the same: Hormuz oil and the Qatar Force Majeure are driving European energy inflation above target. The ECB was supposed to be easing. Instead it is tightening. Into a continent that just introduced fuel rationing in Slovenia and is being told to sign a $750 billion energy deal by Thursday or lose access to American LNG. The Bank of Japan held rates but Takata dissented for the second meeting demanding a hike to 1 percent. The 10-year yield hit 2.278 percent, highest since 1999. The 40-year is at 3.77 percent. Life insurers holding $5 trillion in foreign assets are repatriating, unwinding the carry trade that funds global leveraged positions. Three central banks. Three continents. One strait. The Fed cannot cut. The ECB is hiking. The BOJ is tightening. All three trace back to the same 21 miles of mined water. No interest rate can reopen a strait. No monetary policy framework was designed for a war that simultaneously spikes energy, collapses supply chains, and mines the chokepoint connecting all of them. And now the Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Arabia and the UAE have taken concrete steps toward joining the war against Iran. Saudi Arabia has granted US forces access to King Fahd Air Base. The UAE has imposed restrictions on Iranian-linked entities. These are not neutral acts. These are the first moves of Gulf states that were attacked by Iranian drones and missiles on Day 1 and have spent 24 days absorbing strikes on their refineries, ports, airports, and desalination plants while officially remaining non-combatants. The Gulf states that opposed this war now believe Iran’s military must be degraded before any ceasefire. Some are considering joining the offensive. If Saudi Arabia and the UAE enter the war, the energy market implications are beyond anything currently priced. Saudi production is already cut from 10 million to roughly 8 million barrels per day due to Yanbu disruptions and Hormuz closure. If Saudi becomes a co-belligerent, Iran’s remaining 140 launchers gain a new target set: every Saudi refinery, every Emirati desalination plant, every Bahraini power station. The electricity ledger that Iran read on live television, “strike electricity and we strike electricity,” acquires new addresses. The Gulf states that produce the energy the world needs to survive this crisis become targets in the war that created the crisis. Central banks cannot cut. Gulf states are joining the war. The EU is ratifying under duress. Japan’s bonds are cracking. Slovenia and Sri Lanka are rationing. The planting window is closing. And Saturday is coming. The molecules do not attend central bank meetings. The molecules wait. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@johnkonrad I ponder this sometimes - can two wrongs make a right? x.com/kitchinsync/st…

one way to judge countries is to ask who would risk everything to destroy an incoming Earth wrecking comet? Who would be satisfied in being martyrs or cowards? Who would hang back, huddled in their bunkers, awaiting to take advantage of the destruction that came afterward?