Brian Behm @behmcreative

Absolute banger

Mulan for Americans

TVP @Theveripost

4 days ago

TEXAS WOMAN ARRESTED FOR "DISGUISED AS A MAN' TO ENTER ALL-MALE BBQ COMPETITION, WON FIRST PLACE

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@rohanpaul_ai @CoffeeVectors Honestly, and I'm sure he's doing that better than I am, but that's what I'm starting to find with Codex as well. I've very quickly gotten ti where I can check in not quite so regularly.

USA. There is a white sauce here that the people pour upon everything, with the devotion of a sacred rite. I have become a believer. I noticed it slowly. A bowl of it beside the vegetables. A cup of it beside the bread. Beside the meat. Beside the other sauce. Children dipped fruit in it. A grown man beside me poured it onto a slice of pizza that already had a sauce of its own, closed his eyes, and sighed like a man coming home. I asked its name. They told me with a small reverence: ranch. For it is written that every great people anoints its food with one sacred thing — a drop of gold pressed from olives, a paste of beans aged in cedar. This nation has chosen a cool white elixir, and it anoints not one dish but all dishes, holding nothing back. For to leave a single food unblessed would be the deeper impiety. So I anointed. Everything. The vegetable, yes. But also the rice. The egg. The morning fish. I would not be the one barbarian who left his plate unblessed while a whole nation dipped in joy around me. And here my heart rose, and I declared the thing a calmer man would not: "I will pour this holy elixir upon every food beneath the heavens — the noble and the humble, the savory and the sweet — until I find the one dish it cannot improve. And on that day I will know I have reached the very edge of the world, for everything within it has been made better by ranch." The teenager refilling the dip station watched me anoint a bowl of rice. "...that's a lot of ranch, my guy." "It is the correct amount," I told him, "for a god." I have not yet found the dish it cannot improve. I have stopped looking. So I brought a great vat of it to the next gathering and set it at the center of the table, and the whole room descended upon it with cries of joy, and a woman I had never met looked at me and said, "okay — YOU get it." I have never felt more accepted. So tell me, America. You call it ranch. A condiment. A thing on the side. I call it the one sauce a whole nation agreed to love together — and I dip, with all of you, gladly.

I'll admit that if I were going to be a furry, I could ALMOST see this one. I've just never understood why more people wouldn't go more Rick Baker than mascot.

Poe Productions @P0Eproductions

6 days ago

Look up in the sky! It's a plane! It's a fursuit! IT'S A PLANE FURSUIT?!? ✈️ Strafe is one of the COOLEST suits we've ever made!💥 He's an F-14 Tomcat jet with glowing eyes, huge claws, muscle padding, big wings, tons of minky details, plush engines, AND detachable missiles!🤯

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Trying to crash for the night and realizing just how true what @pmarca mentioned on Rogan was about the late-night vampires. Too much interesting work to be done.

I was unfamiliar with Plowden's work, but MAN, what an eye.

Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci

a week ago

This week I came across the obituary of a photographer named David Plowden. I was unfamiliar with his work, but decided to browse his website after reading that he specialized in photos of trains and industry. I’m not much of an art guy, but these photos are astonishing. (1/4)

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David Deutsch Glitched Reality on Live TV... and a Parallel Reality Appeared There are infinite number of parallel realities that carry within them, infinite possibilities each with their own unique potential and outcome.

Second for second, @tylercowen packs more substance into a talk than anyone I'm aware of. This is a clear, non-hysterical, and somewhat soothing discussion of our AI future.

I hadn't seen this edit before and it's making me cry laugh

Single Crystal CVD Diamond Have no doubt, you are at the dawn of an industrial revolution. There is a string of breakthroughs happening throughout upstream industries that all compound. Diamond manufacturing is now able to produce CPU size single crystals wafers. Currently these are marketed as heat spreaders because they have thermal conductivity of 2,200 W/mK which means they move heat incredibly effectively. However, that somewhat misses the wood for the trees… Diamond has physical and electrical properties that exceed traditional silicon, making it uniquely suited for high demand applications. Thermal Conductivity: Heat is the enemy of electronics. Diamond conducts heat better than almost any other known material, about 5 times better than copper and over 10 times better than silicon. A diamond chip can act as its own heat sink. Ultra Wide Bandgap: Diamond can handle massive amounts of voltage and operate at incredibly high temperatures without electrical breakdown. This makes it perfect for high power applications like electric vehicle inverters, power grids, and aerospace technologies. High Frequencies: Electrons move very quickly through diamond, allowing chips to operate at much higher frequencies, which is ideal for advanced telecommunications and radar. Radiation Hardness: Diamond is incredibly resilient to radiation, making diamond based chips ideal for satellites, space exploration, and nuclear facilities. To make a material act as a semiconductor, you have to "dope" it. To do this you inject impurities into the crystal lattice to create a positive (p-type) or negative (n-type) charge. Diamond's atomic structure is so tightly packed that forcing other elements into it is hard. While p-type doping (with boron) has been figured out, reliable n-type doping (with phosphorus) remains a massive hurdle. Theoretical ceilings Band gap Silicon wafer = 1.1 eV Diamond CVD wafer = 5.5eV Clock speed Silicon wafer = 5-6 GHz clock wall Diamond CVD wafer = 1-2 THz clock wall Max Running Temp Silicon wafer = 150°C Diamond CVD wafer = 1,000°C Whilst we etch silicon with photolithography and Extreme UV light, this doesn’t really work with chemically inert diamond. Diamond CVD is currently etched with oxygen plasma etching, but this lacks the precision of EUV. However, we can etch diamond to extreme precision with electron projection lithography. EPL was invented in the 90s by Bell Labs, IBM and Nikkon but abandoned as it was harder than EUV. Electrons repel each other so the beams blurrs too readily. What if we built a femto electron beam? What if we built it to extreme such that it was a ‘single electron’ pulse? What if we build a microscopic "bed of nails" containing millions of nanoscale tungsten or silicon tips (photocathodes). You shine a massive, highly complex femtosecond laser system across the entire array. Every time the laser pulses, millions of tiny tips each fire a single, perfectly straight electron at the exact same time. Turns out, research teams at likes of MIT and Stanford are currently experimenting with exactly this, laser driven nanotip electron emitters. Pair that tool with Diamond CVD substrate tech and we approach the material limits of both semiconductors and nanotechnology. Would require asynchronous logic to escape fatal clock skew and operate at full capability. But I think I will live to see it.

Stray cats were seen riding capybaras in Panama, after locals said the city had pushed them too far. For months, people near the river noticed something strange happening to the stray cats that used to roam the streets. They weren’t hanging around the alleys as much anymore. They were disappearing toward the river. At first, locals thought the cats had simply run away and decided to live closer to the water. But soon, photographers and researchers noticed the truth was stranger than anyone expected. The cats had found shelter with the capybaras. They weren’t just following them around. Kittens were seen sleeping beside the capybaras, older cats stayed close to the group, and some were even captured riding on their backs. The ironic part is that cats are known for hating water, but the capybaras seemed to let them climb on top while they crossed the river, carrying them from one side to the other like it was normal. Nobody knows exactly when it started, but many believe the cats found safety with the capybaras after being pushed away from the city.

@EvilMopacATX I joke in love. Though to paraphrase a KXAN article about drop shafts being built for I-35 construction, an engineer had this to say: “We’ll call it Texas size, right? That’s how we reference it here at TxDOT."

This is how Ludwig Göransson made the iconic The Mandalorian (2019) theme: a single improvised note on a bass recorder. Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni heard it and instantly said, “This is the sound.” Three Oscars. Black Panther. Oppenheimer. Sinners. The Odyssey is next.

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

I don't know why you need this information, but this is the aerodynamics of a beaver

A friend just revealed to me that the middle name of Benoit B. Mandelbrot is Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

In "The Odyssey" (2026), Odysseus speaks with a Boston accent, despite being from Ithaca, which is in New York.

Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.