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Engineer is credit to team. An engineer who cycles, enjoys cycling, building robots, and doing fun things. Environmentalist, enjoyer of plants, tinkering, 3D printing, welding, machining, and building cool stuff.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hi everyone,

I’m back on here after a hiatus. I’m an engineer who likes to cycle, tinker, work on robotics, machining, make things, and solve problems. I also like to talk about cutting edge science.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 9h

If democrats ever get the majority again they should absolutely get ride of the filibuster, make DC and Puerto Rico states, pack the Supreme Court day one, overturn dobbs, overturn citizens united, abolish the DHS, codify agency independence, fire every fascist hire, hire back everyone else.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

Or end up paying more and losing out on tax advantages. All because the American healthcare system is run by predatory companies instead of publicly funded.

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

The no surprise medical bills act was supposed to make costs transparent. But it’s still a fucking pachinko machine when it comes to what you’re actually going to be billed. Which would be ok if you could actually adjust HSAs mid year. But no, it’s just guess either sink capital in illiquid accounts

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 1d

You know the American healthcare system is broken when you spend hours on the phone checking the costs & coverage of treatment you get, only for the customer service to completely fuck it up the estimate by a factor of 14x, meanwhile the billion office also doesn’t know why they fucked up.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

Chat, is it morally ok to eat Sebastian and the lower have of king triton?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

95% code accuracy is highly unlikely to be achievable by any slop fountain.

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Piss has been sent to the ISS by CBS due to a perceived lack of piss takes in space.

“everything must have piss takes in it from now on. Even space must have piss takes.” Bari Piss

ISS Piss Tracker @iss-piss-tracker.bsky.social · 2d

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The verdict? "... the stability of these four tipping elements has declined in recent decades, suggesting that they have moved towards their critical thresholds, which may be crossed within the range of unmitigated anthropogenic warming."

Cool. Cool cool cool.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Just your latest reminder that, although everyone has decided to stop talking about climate change, it is still very much happening -- worse and faster than predicted.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

But that’s me thinking about the nimbys and car brains who would love nothing more than to limit mobility via bike.

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

Also, starting the “let’s require licenses for bikes” slippery slope isn’t something that’s good long term.

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

I disagree, the entire point of having different classes is to enable people to buy bikes that meet standards for their use case. If anything, there should be more standards in these classes for battery life on hill climbs, etc.

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

They got rid of floppy discs in 2019

Update Complete: U.S. Nuclear Weapons No Longer Need Floppy Disks (Published 2019)

www.nytimes.com

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

Try working on something from the 1940s. Old ass machines. Mostly run on actual relay logic and hydraulics.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 2d

Asking artists for use permission would kill Limewire

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

this is not a bug, it is a feature

all of these companies have a fucking platform. that's because they are trying to replace direct human-human relationships with mediated human-platform-human transactions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

It would be a lot better to just make them fast without teeing them up to be cut next budget shortfall.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

Tylenol Team 6 would be a great band name. You just have the goblin plague pushing man looking like he’s melting as he always does on the album cover

RFK jr wearing a tinfoil hat looking like the demented heroin addled goblin man he is

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Thomas [redacted] DO @tom.medsky.social · 2d

The United States gives approximately 6.6 million doses of MMR per year. Each single dose vial contains 1.76 grams of glass, rubber, and aluminum. Add another 3 grams each for the syringe and needle.

This one change will add 62.8 metric tons of SHARPS BIOHAZARD WASTE per year.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise.

Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

So the pikmin are invisible to humans?
Are they really going to put humans in pikmin? The whole continuity could get fucked. They should just add on to what pikmin 3 was doing instead of retconning it like in pikmin 4.

Either way, maybe more pikmin? Hopefully with actual online coop this time.

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Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 2d

Johnson is a pedophile protector that shares his corn history with his son. Truly one of the most disgusting house speakers in history.

Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

Engineer who cycles @bikeengineer.bsky.social · 3d

The completely false comparison to the dot com bubble by the scammers themselves is based on their hope to continue the scam after it loses investors a ton of money because it only burns money. There is no actually profitable and productive use case. It’s just garbage.