_jeanleon
@jean-leon.bsky.social
friendly curious introvert with too many interests
aka _jeanleon on X | twitter
i block liberally, no hard feelings
aka _jeanleon on X | twitter
i block liberally, no hard feelings
possibly the most h.r. gigeresque nuclear reactor envisioned
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
possibly the most h.r. gigeresque nuclear reactor envisioned
this i assume is due to the strong influence of german medical science in japan at the time. iirc this also lead to delays of fixing scurvy in the japanese navy even after the british already found solutions, since german scientists had a different opinion.
Une petite information en ce qui concerne le japonais. Lorsque vous avez peut-être une fracture, pour vérifier, on ne prend pas une radio mais on prend une « rentogen » (レントゲンを撮る🩻), qui est la transcription de Röntgen, le nom de la personne ayant découvert les rayons X
November 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
this i assume is due to the strong influence of german medical science in japan at the time. iirc this also lead to delays of fixing scurvy in the japanese navy even after the british already found solutions, since german scientists had a different opinion.
crazy specs on this drone: battery with 16kw peak power, requiring water-cooling for electronics; so fast that if it passes too close to the controller doppler effect causes connection loss and crash
585 km/h (363 mph) drone speed record.
Incredible to think about how advances in 3D printing, batteries, motors, cameras, computational fluid dynamics, and VR displays come together to produce this achievement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iu6...
Incredible to think about how advances in 3D printing, batteries, motors, cameras, computational fluid dynamics, and VR displays come together to produce this achievement.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iu6...
World's Fastest Drone | Design & Aerodynamics
YouTube video by Mike Bell
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
crazy specs on this drone: battery with 16kw peak power, requiring water-cooling for electronics; so fast that if it passes too close to the controller doppler effect causes connection loss and crash
while researching personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, researchers discovered that the non-specific immune effects of mRNA vaccines are strong enough that they don't need to target cancers to benefit cancer therapy
www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/res...
www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/res...
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
while researching personalized mRNA cancer vaccines, researchers discovered that the non-specific immune effects of mRNA vaccines are strong enough that they don't need to target cancers to benefit cancer therapy
www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/res...
www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/res...
Reposted by _jeanleon
Space Force satellite catalog is now at object 65973, expected to pass the 66000 mark by tomorrow.
Object 00001 was the rocket upper stage from Sputnik 1.
Object 00001 was the rocket upper stage from Sputnik 1.
October 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Space Force satellite catalog is now at object 65973, expected to pass the 66000 mark by tomorrow.
Object 00001 was the rocket upper stage from Sputnik 1.
Object 00001 was the rocket upper stage from Sputnik 1.
now that reliable age-verification has been established by force of law, sam altman can finally build the endless AI-turboporn tape machine from the novel "don't build the endless AI-turboporn tape machine"
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
now that reliable age-verification has been established by force of law, sam altman can finally build the endless AI-turboporn tape machine from the novel "don't build the endless AI-turboporn tape machine"
Reposted by _jeanleon
gm fellow bizarro vibe calculators
What's worse, humans also probably perform addition via similarly cursed mechanisms.
I don't know exactly what's going on in my head when I do addition, but until I get to a number big enough where i have to crack out pen and paper, I'm pretty sure it's some bizarro vibe calc like this.
I don't know exactly what's going on in my head when I do addition, but until I get to a number big enough where i have to crack out pen and paper, I'm pretty sure it's some bizarro vibe calc like this.
October 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
gm fellow bizarro vibe calculators
"valuations? where we're going we don't need valuations"
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"valuations? where we're going we don't need valuations"
useful episode about several indicators for whether there is a bubble in AI (or elsewhere).
graph from www.exponentialview.co/p/is-ai-a-bu...,
checklist from www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ai-...,
transcript: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
graph from www.exponentialview.co/p/is-ai-a-bu...,
checklist from www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ai-...,
transcript: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
October 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
useful episode about several indicators for whether there is a bubble in AI (or elsewhere).
graph from www.exponentialview.co/p/is-ai-a-bu...,
checklist from www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ai-...,
transcript: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
graph from www.exponentialview.co/p/is-ai-a-bu...,
checklist from www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-ai-...,
transcript: www.latitudemedia.com/news/open-ci...
i don't remember how i found this account but it's perfect if you're learning or refreshing both your japanese and french
1/6 Nouveau mot japonais appris!
"Nureginu wo kiserareru"濡れ衣を着せられる"être habillé d'un vêtement mouillé".
Celà désigne en fait le fait d'"être accusé à tort". L'origine viendrait d'une histoire au 8e s de notre ère,quand Sano Chikayo fut nommé grouverneur de la province de Chikuzen (actuel Fukuoka)
"Nureginu wo kiserareru"濡れ衣を着せられる"être habillé d'un vêtement mouillé".
Celà désigne en fait le fait d'"être accusé à tort". L'origine viendrait d'une histoire au 8e s de notre ère,quand Sano Chikayo fut nommé grouverneur de la province de Chikuzen (actuel Fukuoka)
October 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
i don't remember how i found this account but it's perfect if you're learning or refreshing both your japanese and french
Reposted by _jeanleon
ancient chinese curse
may your autistic special interest never become geopolitically relevant
October 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
ancient chinese curse
Reposted by _jeanleon
> IDs from age verification leaked in breach
To the surprise of absolutely nobody.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody.
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs
An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.
www.theverge.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
> IDs from age verification leaked in breach
To the surprise of absolutely nobody.
To the surprise of absolutely nobody.
they don't tell you this but you can just replace the pineapples on a pineapple pizza with apples. since the start of this apple season i have eaten dozens of apple pizzas.
September 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
they don't tell you this but you can just replace the pineapples on a pineapple pizza with apples. since the start of this apple season i have eaten dozens of apple pizzas.
looking at "latest from follows": haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!!
looking at "popular with friends": well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
looking at "popular with friends": well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
July 30, 2025 at 4:12 AM
looking at "latest from follows": haha fuck yeah!!! yes!!!
looking at "popular with friends": well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
looking at "popular with friends": well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
enhanced rock weathering via calcium solution mining could get as cheap as $20 per ton of co2:
"The costs for solution mining calcium might be <$20/ton CO2 under the most optimistic scenarios with a fraction of the surface disturbance."
austinvernon.site/blog/rockwea...
"The costs for solution mining calcium might be <$20/ton CO2 under the most optimistic scenarios with a fraction of the surface disturbance."
austinvernon.site/blog/rockwea...
A Review of Massively Scalable Enhanced Rock Weathering - Austin Vernon's Blog
How cheap can it pull CO2 from the air? Thanks to Nina, Jenny, Fridrik, Nan, Dan, Judy, and Frauke for their help and teaching on this subject. Any mistakes are my own.
austinvernon.site
June 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
enhanced rock weathering via calcium solution mining could get as cheap as $20 per ton of co2:
"The costs for solution mining calcium might be <$20/ton CO2 under the most optimistic scenarios with a fraction of the surface disturbance."
austinvernon.site/blog/rockwea...
"The costs for solution mining calcium might be <$20/ton CO2 under the most optimistic scenarios with a fraction of the surface disturbance."
austinvernon.site/blog/rockwea...
china mars sample return is what NASA's MSR should have been. but its arguably unnecessarily complex mission led to slipping timelines & ballooning budgets, while introducing additional technical risks. it's been in danger of getting cancelled for a while. slim chance current admin be will helpful.
Tianwen-3 update: China's Mars sample return mission will launch in late 2028 and seek to return at least 500 grams of samples. Mission will also strictly adhere to planetary protection protocols. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
china mars sample return is what NASA's MSR should have been. but its arguably unnecessarily complex mission led to slipping timelines & ballooning budgets, while introducing additional technical risks. it's been in danger of getting cancelled for a while. slim chance current admin be will helpful.
wouldn't call it a disaster yet but the combination of worsening response rates to surveys and an admin that blindly cuts budgets and isn't big on data in any way will pave the way for a real one down the road. the spending needed to improve data collection methods won't materialize anytime soon.
June 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
wouldn't call it a disaster yet but the combination of worsening response rates to surveys and an admin that blindly cuts budgets and isn't big on data in any way will pave the way for a real one down the road. the spending needed to improve data collection methods won't materialize anytime soon.
"members of the groupchat noticed notifications going off and asked: "do you have a 'hot take' in your drafts?" obliquely referring to the discussion they were having moments earlier. "not anymore" replied [...]"
Captain Richard Meyer glanced out his cockpit window and saw black smoke rising from the desert. Controllers at Kirtland Air Force Base saw it too and radioed, “Do you have ‘hot cargo’ aboard?,” obliquely referring to the massive weapon it was carrying moments earlier. “Not anymore,” replied Meyer.
May 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"members of the groupchat noticed notifications going off and asked: "do you have a 'hot take' in your drafts?" obliquely referring to the discussion they were having moments earlier. "not anymore" replied [...]"
if you ever receive a letter from the FDA containing the word "filth" you're probably ngmi
"Because your drug products were prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions, whereby they may have become contaminated with filth [...]"
"Because your drug products were prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions, whereby they may have become contaminated with filth [...]"
"Numerous dead insects were inside the tubing used to transfer the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), [redacted], from storage drums to [redacted] tanks, as well as a [redacted] used for storing API transfer hoses and [redacted]."
can't really use the "extra protein" joke for API sadly
can't really use the "extra protein" joke for API sadly
May 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
if you ever receive a letter from the FDA containing the word "filth" you're probably ngmi
"Because your drug products were prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions, whereby they may have become contaminated with filth [...]"
"Because your drug products were prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions, whereby they may have become contaminated with filth [...]"
it's a silly idea but i feel a weird compulsion to create breakcore/drum&bass music videos using timelapses of the nuclear energy videos from @whatisnuclear.com . no idea who'd watch that. "breakcore mix to watch particle tracks to" "breakcore mix to install containment building domes to"
May 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
it's a silly idea but i feel a weird compulsion to create breakcore/drum&bass music videos using timelapses of the nuclear energy videos from @whatisnuclear.com . no idea who'd watch that. "breakcore mix to watch particle tracks to" "breakcore mix to install containment building domes to"
surely that gas bottle is for supplying nitrogen-free breathing air for maximum knurdness (westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/a...). the only downside is an aesthetic on the level of the golden EVA suit from the 2007 movie sunshine. or a plus if you want to be left alone...
May 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
surely that gas bottle is for supplying nitrogen-free breathing air for maximum knurdness (westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/a...). the only downside is an aesthetic on the level of the golden EVA suit from the 2007 movie sunshine. or a plus if you want to be left alone...
you may not be interested in AI slop, but AI slop is interested in you
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
you may not be interested in AI slop, but AI slop is interested in you
first H-bomb airdrop test result: targeting is harder than you'd think
Today in 1956 at Bikini Atoll, the US held its first H-bomb airdrop test. A crew member aboard the B-52 bomber mistook an observation facility on one island for the target on Namu Island, causing the experimental 3.8-Mt device to explode ~3.8 miles off target and the loss of nearly all effects data.
Redwing Cherokee - First deliverable H-Bomb
YouTube video by atomcentral
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
first H-bomb airdrop test result: targeting is harder than you'd think
funny how GPT-4o seems biased towards citing papers published just before the replication hit
May 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
funny how GPT-4o seems biased towards citing papers published just before the replication hit
pull method of inducing lactic acidosis nausea. the push method will become available later this year:
May 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
pull method of inducing lactic acidosis nausea. the push method will become available later this year: