turzaak
@turzaak.bsky.social
Mechanical Engineer who knows too much EE (and now CS) for their own good.
I build robots.*
*robots may or may not be apocalyptic in nature
I build robots.*
*robots may or may not be apocalyptic in nature
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This headline got me all exited that Elizabeth Warren was going to fight The Batman.
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This headline got me all exited that Elizabeth Warren was going to fight The Batman.
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This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
What are the decent Spotify alternatives these days?
December 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
What are the decent Spotify alternatives these days?
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The Massachusetts church in question here is Saint Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, and the "ICE was here" sign comes from their reverend, Rev. Stephen Josoma.
It's not enough for AltNPS to not cite a source. They can't even give the reverend himself the credit he deserves!
It's not enough for AltNPS to not cite a source. They can't even give the reverend himself the credit he deserves!
December 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Massachusetts church in question here is Saint Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, and the "ICE was here" sign comes from their reverend, Rev. Stephen Josoma.
It's not enough for AltNPS to not cite a source. They can't even give the reverend himself the credit he deserves!
It's not enough for AltNPS to not cite a source. They can't even give the reverend himself the credit he deserves!
So things like this have been on the runway for at least 2 years. It's just finally getting turned on.
But the industry has been planning on the AI lines for quite some time. Now they can just bring those online and take the current ones down for retooling without a drop in production.
But the industry has been planning on the AI lines for quite some time. Now they can just bring those online and take the current ones down for retooling without a drop in production.
This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers
The RAM crisis is just getting started.
www.pcgamer.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
So things like this have been on the runway for at least 2 years. It's just finally getting turned on.
But the industry has been planning on the AI lines for quite some time. Now they can just bring those online and take the current ones down for retooling without a drop in production.
But the industry has been planning on the AI lines for quite some time. Now they can just bring those online and take the current ones down for retooling without a drop in production.
This is reminding me of the time I got people mad at me for saying the luddites were a labor movement.
I don't know what kind of pilled those people were on, but the pill I needed was certainly Excedrin for that one.
I don't know what kind of pilled those people were on, but the pill I needed was certainly Excedrin for that one.
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is reminding me of the time I got people mad at me for saying the luddites were a labor movement.
I don't know what kind of pilled those people were on, but the pill I needed was certainly Excedrin for that one.
I don't know what kind of pilled those people were on, but the pill I needed was certainly Excedrin for that one.
My robot vacuum uses lidar.
Lidar stopped being prohibitively expensive 5 years ago but Elon kept lying about it because he made a bad decision and people refuse to stop repeating the lie.
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My robot vacuum uses lidar.
...why does the microwave have wifi?
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
...why does the microwave have wifi?
I need to stop reading articles (and comments, like a moron) on the DDR5 shortage because the amount of conspiracy-pilled capitalism-brainrot is making my head hurt.
No, they're not jacking up the prices just to target you specifically. It's because of how the semiconductor industry is structured.
No, they're not jacking up the prices just to target you specifically. It's because of how the semiconductor industry is structured.
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I need to stop reading articles (and comments, like a moron) on the DDR5 shortage because the amount of conspiracy-pilled capitalism-brainrot is making my head hurt.
No, they're not jacking up the prices just to target you specifically. It's because of how the semiconductor industry is structured.
No, they're not jacking up the prices just to target you specifically. It's because of how the semiconductor industry is structured.
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the lesson is ALWAYS play the long game :)
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
the lesson is ALWAYS play the long game :)
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
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The ENTIRE REASON I prefer podcasts is because they allow me to divert visual attention ANYWHERE ELSE.
I'm bad enough at consuming media with a heavy visual component let me have this for the love of the little green apples
I'm bad enough at consuming media with a heavy visual component let me have this for the love of the little green apples
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The ENTIRE REASON I prefer podcasts is because they allow me to divert visual attention ANYWHERE ELSE.
I'm bad enough at consuming media with a heavy visual component let me have this for the love of the little green apples
I'm bad enough at consuming media with a heavy visual component let me have this for the love of the little green apples
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Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
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we are we are we are we are we are the engineers
So nice to read about my alma mater every week - "MIT adds new wing onto Torment Nexus"
futurism.com/health-medic...
futurism.com/health-medic...
MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips
Researchers at MIT have invented "Circulatronics," a medical platform they say enables non-invasive treatment of neuroinflammation.
futurism.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
we are we are we are we are we are the engineers
Skynet, is that you?
New from 404 Media: Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
www.404media.co/power-compan...
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Skynet, is that you?
You misspelled the word "child" there.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You misspelled the word "child" there.
The only thing I've found I'm grateful to K-8 Catholic school education for, well into my adulthood, is how relentlessly they drilled phonics and grammar. "English" and "Reading" were two separate subjects into 8th grade.
Nearly crippled my math education, but by god could I read and write.
Nearly crippled my math education, but by god could I read and write.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The only thing I've found I'm grateful to K-8 Catholic school education for, well into my adulthood, is how relentlessly they drilled phonics and grammar. "English" and "Reading" were two separate subjects into 8th grade.
Nearly crippled my math education, but by god could I read and write.
Nearly crippled my math education, but by god could I read and write.
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The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Tales of Pope Leo, the Blues Brothers fan ‘on a mission from God’
Friends and family of the young Robert Prevost share tales of his Chicago antics before he became head of the Catholic church
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
The kids are alright
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The kids are alright
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Is this what a religious experience feels like?
Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World
www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Is this what a religious experience feels like?
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Excuse me, @theguardian.com, I'd like to report an error in your headline; this should read "James D Watson, who co-discovered Rosalind Franklin's notebook showing her discovery of DNA's twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Excuse me, @theguardian.com, I'd like to report an error in your headline; this should read "James D Watson, who co-discovered Rosalind Franklin's notebook showing her discovery of DNA's twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...