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Zach Frey
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Zach Frey
@znfrey
Eclectic Amateur; Polymath Professional
Michigan, USA Katılım Aralık 2012
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Zach Frey retweetledi
REINDUSTRIALIZE 3.0 SESSION TRACKS
We're proud to announce this year's session tracks. See you June 16–17 in Detroit:
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Veo que aprender español será bueno para mi salud.
Nayib Bukele@nayibbukele
We’re building the best healthcare system in the world.
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“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
cdrsalamander@cdrsalamander
This is bravery.
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Really important point here: defense tech has a linguistic barrier to entry.
For example, “color of money.”
You won’t get very far if you don’t learn the lingo, as disappointing as that sounds. So, we do a quick lesson.
Here’s what it means:
MacCallister Higgins@macjshiggins
my biggest gripe with the defense industry is the fucking performative vocab. warfighter, the customer, fires, kinetics, color of money. feels like your college roommate getting you to say “unhoused”
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“Evan Smith, chief executive of Altana, a New York-based supply chain mapping company, said China’s global network of ports and port-management software gave Chinese officials detailed insight into multinationals’ supply chains, allowing them to detect when companies shift to suppliers elsewhere.”
Fascinating.
Michael Pettis@michaelxpettis
1/2 NYT: "As China’s mammoth trade surplus stokes global tensions, Beijing has enacted sweeping new regulations to investigate and punish foreign companies that stop using Chinese suppliers in response to political pressure at home." nytimes.com/2026/04/14/bus…
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A haiku for American pulled pork.
We live in an age of wonders!
ありがとうございます！
みねるば@minerva_owl1
パワーとフレンドリーシップ、私はブリスケットとプルドポークという旅路を通じて、2つの良きアメリカの精神に触れた気がする。 どうもありがとう！ 望む人がいたので、お礼に俳句を贈りたい。 ほろほろと 豚肉溶けて 腹は春 (ho-ro-ho-ro-to,bu-ta-ni-ku-to-ke-te,ha-ra-wa-ha-ru)
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@JoshuaSteinman @cdrsalamander It’s confusing to people who don’t know how to look at maps
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☑️ Panama Canal
☑️ Strait of Hormuz
☑️ Straits of Malacca
But go on and tell me there’s “no strategy”
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
JUST IN - U.S. announces a defense partnership with Indonesia.
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The cyberpunk future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
ElBuni@therealbuni
En polonia, unos jabalies se colaron en un barrio y se fueron perseguidos por un robot
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Zach Frey retweetledi
Japanese Byzantine Twitter was something I didn't know I needed.
Byzaboos from around the world.
ルキウス@Lucius330511
#GlobalHistoryFollowFest2026Spring ルキウスと言います。 ビザンツ帝国の地図を作っています。 英語版、日本語版ともいろんな年代の地図40枚を作りました！ 固定投稿のリンク先から見られます。 現在、さらにブラッシュアップ作業を進めています！！
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Speaking as an engineer who is also a mystic and occasional mage myself, I'm going to disagree with you slightly on this one, Devon. There is a principled difference between magic and engineering. The difference is this: engineering doesn't care about the state of your consciousness when you push the button. Magic very much does.
In fact, the realm of magic could be defined rather precisely as "those parts of natural law that you can't access or manipulate without putting your mind in a significantly altered state of consciousness first".
Note that I said nothing about the "supernatural". That's because one of the first things you have to learn in order to do magic in the *very* limited way that is possible in the real world is that there ain't no supernatural anything. In this sense the epistemological monism you ascribe to ancient sorcerers is correct, but their understanding of causality was so poor that being philosophically correct didn't do them much good.
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The distinction between engineering and magic is entirely a modern linguistic conceit.
To the ancients, a wizard, a magus, a sorceror, was not a man who commanded forces outside the laws of nature. He was a man who commanded the forces of nature, by manipulating them through his understanding of natural law.
But the modern word for a man who commands the universe by understanding its laws is "engineer".
Yes, the ancient sorceror would try to commune with the spirits of the dead, or read the destiny of kings in the stars, or perform fertility rites to make the crops grow, but this wasn't some special supernatural discipline to him.
This was simply his model of how the natural world worked.
He would not have made a distinction between understanding heat and phase changes, and thereby distilling alcohol, and cutting out the intestines of a bird to predict the fortunes of a business venture.
Both, to him, were philosophy and natural law.
But as our understanding of the laws of physics grew more sophisticated, we gradually exiled the term "magic" to that which had not been proven to work, and to that which had been proven not to work.
Were we given the opportunity to take an ancient Egyptian king on a tour of modern society, riding in an electric car, he would remark that we are a rich people, because we have many powerful magicians.
Some of us might hasten to correct him, telling him that there is no magic used here.
But he would not, in fact, be wrong.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Engineering is real magic
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Zach Frey retweetledi
@beardwax2 "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by eliminating all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
--Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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@DeeperThrill There’s an illustrated children’s book about the development of the clock that allowed calculation of longitude and it’s wonderful.
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Exquisite prose.
For those who are curious:
You can use the stars and constellations to find latitude because that’s how far up or down the spinning axis you are. The stars circle around it.
Whereas longitude asks how many hours away noon is from your location to GMT.
So it required the engineering to built very precise clocks.
Longitude has to do with the Earth spinning around its axis at a certain speed and not the stars, whereas latitude simply requires studying the stars.
@grok please confirm if I’m correct scientifically.
John Carter@martianwyrdlord
We're not going to cross the Atlantic ocean. 1. No one has any idea how far away the nearest land is. It could be thousands of miles! 2. Surely we can just build faster caravels? The problem is that wind can only push you so fast. 3. There are no landmarks out on the ocean. Sure you can use the stars to determine your latitude, but with no way of knowing your longitude you'll just get hopelessly lost. 4. The storms are ferociously powerful. The waves are huge. Ships would sink long before they reached the other side of the ocean. 5. There's no fresh water. You'd need to carry it all with you, along with all your food. The more stores you carry, the less capable wind is of propelling you, and the slower you go. There's no way you'd be able to carry enough to avoid death by thirst or starvation long before you reached land. The Sail Equation prevents it.
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@adamscrabble @shelley_curious Almost done with the Athens and Sparta background lectures. Hopefully getting into the start of the war soon. Can already see this will help when I get back to Thucydides. And making me want to reread Xenophon.
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Great advice. Given to me as well by @adamscrabble scrabble years ago. Grateful. Throw in Machiavelli as well.
🙏
Zach Frey@znfrey
"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus & Thucydides, for Newton & Euclid; & I find myself much the happier." -- Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, January 12, 1812
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@Jordan_W_Taylor She’s insisting that both spouses must keep the entire project context in their heads at all times.
Seems… inefficient to me.
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I love the endless "mental load" discussions on gender-Twitter, because I'm a project manager: Mental load is basically half of the job.
And that's why the good lord invented lists. Problem solved.
BlackSword@Blacksword011
What men don’t understand about the mental load
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Your good news reindustrialization story of the day.
Firehawk@FirehawkAero
Lawton, Oklahoma - we're proud to join your community and build the Great Plains Arsenal here.
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Zach Frey retweetledi
The Japanese have discovered Mackinac Island!
吉田@roikfbuwgc254
ここ観光地なのか 全く知らないかったな かなり甘そうだけど美味そう ファッジ？
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@LogoSimian Ahem. Michigan would like a word…
“Ypsilanti… that’s Y P S…” 🙄
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Like most unintuitive English spellings, the French did it.
Thiago ✱@thiagovscoelho
“Arkansas” is probably the worst spelling in the English language
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