El Tunas
@eltunas.bsky.social
CPP Engineering student by day 🐎💾💻
̶S̶o̶c̶c̶e̶r̶ Guitar player by night 🎸🎶
Ensenada, BC Mexico 🇲🇽
̶S̶o̶c̶c̶e̶r̶ Guitar player by night 🎸🎶
Ensenada, BC Mexico 🇲🇽
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the first pitcher in MLB history to win 3 games ON THE ROAD in a single World Series.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the first pitcher to win 3 games in a single World Series since Randy Johnson in 2001. Johnson won Game 2 and Game 6 as a starter and Game 7 as a reliever. Yamamoto did the same.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the first pitcher in MLB history to win 3 games ON THE ROAD in a single World Series.
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..."
Yeah this is real. Mike Johnson said Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case.
September 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command..."
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Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
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BYD supposedly wants to build more than 4,000 new ultra-fast charging stations across China, with flash-chargers that can provide a full charge in just 5 to 8 minutes.
Now for the US... that's looking grim.
Now for the US... that's looking grim.
Everything You Wanted to Know About China’s Auto Industry Takeover
Does Tesla have a future? Where are the cheap US electric vehicles? How rapidly are Chinese EVs taking over the globe? Here's what we know.
www.wired.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
BYD supposedly wants to build more than 4,000 new ultra-fast charging stations across China, with flash-chargers that can provide a full charge in just 5 to 8 minutes.
Now for the US... that's looking grim.
Now for the US... that's looking grim.
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
It's increasingly more probable that my next car will be a Chinese ev that I bought in Mexico
After government support and poaching top Western talent, China’s car industry is about to dominate globally. In the US, the affordable car is about to go extinct.
Join @jeremywired.bsky.social for an AMA on Thurs., July 17 at 11 AM ET on the future of cars here: www.reddit.com/r/technology...
Join @jeremywired.bsky.social for an AMA on Thurs., July 17 at 11 AM ET on the future of cars here: www.reddit.com/r/technology...
July 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It's increasingly more probable that my next car will be a Chinese ev that I bought in Mexico
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cringe and disturbing the degree to which american politics is currently influenced by grown ass adults who are still resentful about their SAT scores or something
July 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
cringe and disturbing the degree to which american politics is currently influenced by grown ass adults who are still resentful about their SAT scores or something
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11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
June 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls
The US will have a Sputnik moment but from China
May 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The US will have a Sputnik moment but from China
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Honestly someone should make an Authoritarian Tropes website
April 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Honestly someone should make an Authoritarian Tropes website
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A 74-year old man attempted to use an AI-generated avatar as part of his oral argument in a New York courtroom.
April 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A 74-year old man attempted to use an AI-generated avatar as part of his oral argument in a New York courtroom.
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A recent trend at international academic conferences is that some American participants use burner phones or minimalist laptops. Their devices often run only browsers and basic software. This resembles the security measures travelers took 15 years ago when visiting China.
rb.gy/erdz48
rb.gy/erdz48
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary
rb.gy
March 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
A recent trend at international academic conferences is that some American participants use burner phones or minimalist laptops. Their devices often run only browsers and basic software. This resembles the security measures travelers took 15 years ago when visiting China.
rb.gy/erdz48
rb.gy/erdz48
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From a colleague: The unstaffed USGS booth at the world’s largest mining and exploration conference, the 2025 PDAC in Toronto.
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March 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
From a colleague: The unstaffed USGS booth at the world’s largest mining and exploration conference, the 2025 PDAC in Toronto.
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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
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Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Every ten minutes here is like:
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
- Trump doubles student debt
- Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs
- Three planes just crashed
- Trump signs EO making women illegal
- Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA
- Meteor not arriving fast enough
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Life was easier when we were all just keyboard warriors time.com/6263906/tali...
![Government work has come with pressures and responsibilities the men did not prepare for– or particularly want. “In the time of jihad, life was very simple. All we had to deal with was making plans for ta’aruz [attacks] against the enemy and for retreating,” said Huzaifa. “People didn’t expect much from us, and we had little responsibility towards them, whereas now if someone is hungry, he deems us directly responsible for that.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x56l2n7i7babgdzqul4bd433/bafkreidxgpknyhsydsv5e5uivdsllkdpif2bf46h2tfi43rcdz2nbz6kx4@jpeg)
December 27, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Life was easier when we were all just keyboard warriors time.com/6263906/tali...
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If Bezos had real balls he’d explicitly list the estimated tariff markup on every item in the store with a number to call your member of Congress next to it, like Uber did with taxi regulations
December 1, 2024 at 8:00 PM
If Bezos had real balls he’d explicitly list the estimated tariff markup on every item in the store with a number to call your member of Congress next to it, like Uber did with taxi regulations