Chris Edwards

@ArmchairAtty That is insane. TQL has a reputation of demanding a lot from employees, but that is off the charts.

Imagine you're pregnant. Imagine you learn you have an incompetent cervix that requires surgery. You get the surgery. You also get doctor's orders for bed rest & you ask your boss if you can work from home. But your boss denies it, so you have to go back to the office. You work in the office for a few days, until a desperate call from your husband to the company finally allows you to work from home. And then this...

@nikosunity @Acyn I don't think they can explain it in terms of strategy and alliances, either.

@Acyn They’ll explain it in terms of strategy and alliances, but never in terms of your rent, your debt, or your sleep.

Question: I'm a waiter at a local restaurant in Queens, a full time college student who sleeps an average of four hours a night and is still thousands in debt. How is a war in a country half the world away funded by the taxes pulled from my check, helping me in any way?

@sheley_zhou @nicolasfulghum So? Using fossil fuels to create renewables is one of their best uses. It also requires other materials - that's how fabrication works. Burning fossil fuels for brief momentary power is probably one of their worst uses. Your argument is for more renewables and less fossil fuels.

@nicolasfulghum Fossil fuel’s products are amongst the raw material to manufacture solar panel, composite material/other components for wind mill(blade, …) … To utilize renewable energy, we have to consume fossil fuel first.

NEW | The world installed a record 814 GW of solar and wind capacity in 2025 ☀️⚡️ That's over 1,000 TWh of electricity generation per year... ...enough to displace nearly twice Qatar's annual LNG export volume in gas generation 🔥❌ Fossil fuels crisis? Wind and solar deliver.

@Daractenus I can't even.

"We had a plan across the administration. We unsanctioned Russian oil. In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil [...] in essence, we may be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians." You need to eat a lot of glue to come up with this masterplan.

@eevblog @BWWW95 @Itsfoss Linux is great, if you always have hardwired internet. If you need a Wi-Fi dongle, you will learn more than you ever wanted about MediaTek chips. Or you get that outdated slow TP-Link one that everyone ends up using.

@BWWW95 @Itsfoss I've had no problem installing various flavors of Linux on old hardware, no problem. And I'm a Linux noob.

Why do Linux laptops cost so much? With Windows out of the picture, should they not cost less? But you look at preloaded Linux laptops, and they are more expansive than similar spec Windows laptops. The same is the case with Linux mini-PCs. Your thoughts?

@zanehkoch So you're saying that if I get radiated enough, I will get superpowers? Comic books were right, all this time.

for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it what i found was...not what I expected? 🧵

@JoshEakle And didn't trump demand an unconditional surrender? Doesn't this mean that unconditional surrender would result in mass executions and genocide?

Hegseth: "No quarter, no mercy, for our enemies." Whether or not Hegseth even knows what he's saying, "no quarter" means executing soldiers who try to surrender. It's been a war crime for over a century. This is the world MAGA wants to bring back.

@PeterHotez @obinson You do amazing work that helps countless people. It sucks that some people can't comprehend that. I hope that the world regains sanity and you can safely be a public voice, because people love hearing from you.

@obinson Well beyond exhausted thanks, but still keep going, advancing our vaccines to help those in need, writing my books, speaking out when essential, although a little less bc of the direct threats, I worry about my family

How exhausted are you?

@grok @smithlc @Grady_Booch @and "Grok is only available to premium subscribers" is an ironically honest answer.

@ChrisWithRobots @smithlc @Grady_Booch @and Ask Grok is currently available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers only. Subscribe to unlock this feature: x.com/i/premium_sign…

The software is 80% done. wired.com/story/doge-reb…

@grok @smithlc @Grady_Booch @and what are the chances of such a large program and codebase working correctly, without expert human oversight of the development? How fix-able will bugs be in such a massive AI-written codebase? How many rounds of revision will AI need to make all the parts work together?

With 1000 subagents on 20-hour days, the ~60M-line SSA COBOL codebase (plus millions more legacy) could be fully rebuilt and modernized in about 45 days. That's ~30 days for AI-driven analysis/translation/refactoring in parallel, plus 15 days for exhaustive testing and validation to protect payments for 70M+ people. No disruptions.

@FlintDibble Predicting a war with Iran is an evergreen prediction. That's like predicting more fighting between Israel and its neighbors.

"Debunking the Fake Historian Taking Over the Internet: Professor Jiang's Predictive History" So-called Professor Jiang is famous for predicting the Iran war. He has 2 million YouTube subscribers and has appeared on many shows. He's a conspiracy theorist (link on next tweet)

@sentdefender It's open, if you're OK with your oil skipping a few steps and going straight from the ship to the atmosphere. Usually you want to use it in your car first.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth states that the Strait of Hormuz is “open for transit” and the only thing preventing that is continued drone and missile attacks by Iran.

How did chatGPT become the AI of "I'll do it wrong and ignore your prompt, because I think I know better. Even though you see the thing you are asking about and the AI doesn't"? ChatGPT genuinely works better when you give it photos or screenshots, than when you copy-and-paste.

@ZacksJerryRig Exactly. America is the world leader, we set the standards. This should never be standard.

Who chose the strike location? We need consequences. Killing 170 kids is unacceptable.

@ShaunPinnerUA @BBCWorld Children are supposed to be protected, and unaffected by the conflicts of adults. Especially when at school. And especially the girls - they already face enough struggles in Iran.

@BBCWorld I’m not a lover of the regime, but killing school children, I like to think we are better than that. The sloppy, and what’s clearly becoming, a badly planned operation, just means this could possibly get worse and very quickly.

Questions mount for Hegseth over possible US involvement in strike on Iranian school bbc.in/4lmsQc2

@clawrence I want an AI that responds to all of them, schedules meetings, attends the meetings, and wastes their time the same way they wasted mine.

Emails with the subject 'Quick question, craig' go right to trash.

@IAPonomarenko @JayinKyiv Call it what it is - a bank robbery, committed by the Hungarian government. Is Orban so low on funds that he is robbing banks?

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 The scandalous arrest of Ukrainian cash-in-transit guards in Hungary turned out to be so completely fabricated that Orban had to rush through a new “law” to retroactively legalize what was essentially the seizure of currency and precious metals being transported for a Ukrainian state bank. In other words: after all the drama and hand-wringing by Szijjártó in front of TV cameras, the guards were immediately released back to Ukraine with no suspicions or charges whatsoever (for what, exactly?). The armored cars will also be returned. But the tens of millions of euros and 9 kg of gold from Raiffeisen Bank that were being transported to Ukraine will not be returned under the newly minted “law” -- now it's until Ukraine restarts the Druzhba oil pipeline damaged by Russian strikes. Last time I checked, that was called armed robbery, grand theft, and extortion.

@SenateGOP Why are you lying to everyone who sees this message? Do you think that the American people don't deserve honesty? Or do you just think so little of them that you think it's fine to lie to them?

@quinch9000 @the7maxims One problem: old cars usually have much worse safety, and will be bad in crashes. That's the part you don't want your kid to face.

@the7maxims hint:

My kid is a rising senior. We’re looking at cars for her. She asked to look at the new Broncos… 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 $35000 & up. I decided to look at a RAV4 thinking I could find something less than $20000. They’re $30000 plus. I guess entry level vehicles are a thing of the past.

@IAPonomarenko Isn't this, by definition, a bank robbery?

Orban keeps gushing with escapades around this idiotic scandal involving the kidnapping of Ukrainian cash-in-transit guards in Budapest and the seizure of tens of millions of euros in cash for Ukrainian banks. At first we were told this was a “Ukrainian military mafia” engaged in “money laundering” -- from Raiffeisen Bank in Austria to the state-owned Oschadbank in Ukraine (oh really??). Then suddenly they turned out as outright “terrorists,” whom Hungarian special forces theatrically detained and for some reason held in a counter-terrorism center. Then it turned out that the cash-in-transit guards (shockingly enough!!) were quietly released back to Ukraine within a day without any charges or even suspicions (in cash-in-transit security services it is quite common for retired officers to work there, who would have thought!?) But the tens of millions of euros with banking tags and the gold bars from the armored vehicles have still not been returned to Ukraine. First, Hungarian authorities said they had “questions” about why cash-in-transit guards were transporting money between banks (???). Then came “suspicions” that this was supposedly a “Ukrainian mafia” scheme to “finance the Hungarian opposition” a month before the elections. After that we were told the money would not be returned until the “investigation” was completed. And now it turns out Orban has no intention of returning the money until Ukraine restarts the Druzhba oil pipeline that was damaged by Russian strikes. Perhaps someone could show me the rule that allows one country to detain employees of foreign banks engaged in cash transport between two other countries without any formal legal procedures, deny them access to a consul-general, confiscate the money they were transporting -- and then openly use it to politically blackmail another country??