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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

But imagine how much faster you could drive on the net just popping over a hilltop delete the tanks your ISR drones told you were there

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine the clapped out ATGMs you could make in 6 months

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

In 1500ms the mesh network fully wakes up. Within 10 seconds the most hungover Algerian pilot flying patrol in their most clapped out MiG is given a vector. You get bombed just as soon as they've heard the whole thing

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

You spend a while putting your message through enigma. You surface and start keying the message. 5x $80 buoys with SDRs pick up the message within nanoseconds. Likeliest settings are predicted independently, dot by dot and dash by dash

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

They'd have absolutely no artillery though

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

Some chud on twitter suggested the German U-Boat fleet would secure the Mediterranean, and I struggle to think of people who aren't pilots who would die faster

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

They spent way too much time thinking about her

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

Almost certainly didn't survive the following 5 minutes, but bodies are really fucking weird

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

This is kinda dark, but I saw a piece of Russian rocket artillery (smerch iirc?) take a drone hit once a while ago, the rocket goes straight through the cabin only for the driver to exit the vehicle and run ~100m until he's off screen

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

The weird part is that a small but significant chunk of people do survive (ammo storage permitting)

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

Also the thousands of shards of burning steel are moving fast enough to slip through you too. It's such a violent environment that it's almost impossible to imagine

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

I think the effect inside the tank is best understood as "thermobaric"

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

One fun property of pulverized steel is that it's incredibly flammable

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine being the recruiter at JPL who vets amusement park engineers for the lunar mass accelerator

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 4h

I don't know that it makes him presidential material but Ossoff's ability to just be honest about how much of a pile of shit these people really are should be a model to the party.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

Madison Cawthorne and Trump both fit our demo!

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown on bi politicians until we can figure out what's going on

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

I think you could also make a great Apple TV series about the African space program in this scenario

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

Even like the best tank rounds at the time would just make an ugly dent. You'd also have the sensors to never wander into one by accident, but this is a decision you'd feel fairly comfortable making. Worse case scenario, a track gets popped and you need a little airpower to help you

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

I'm saying Egyptian Abrams could literally drive through a Teutoburg Forest scenario and most of what they'd suffer is tinnitus

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

The only way to take a modern tank off the board would be a chance direct artillery strike (while every arty position is being hit by airstrikes) or running away so fast that it needs fuel or maintenance before it's back in the fight

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

It's genuinely hard to visualize what existential, wartime development would look like today in a peer world war, but it's very, very easy to see what'd look like if 21st century Africa met a manpower-intensive problem with modern technology

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 4h

ya know, I’ve given Crocket shit for refusing to explicitly endorse Talarico, but do you know who deserves more shit? Janet Mills. First, she runs the worst campaign of all time, basically gifting the race to the nazi tattoo guy. now, she is refusing to endorse Troy Jackson. tf is wrong with her?

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

You can turn most euro industry off within ~5-10 days of airstrikes, and then it's really not in the African interest to do much more than hit ammo dumps bush off Euro offensives until they can demonstrate one. You'd probably want to start launching ISR and GNSS sats as quickly as possible too

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

The political component of this is kinda fascinating. On one hand opposed landings and occupations are hard, on the other turning the SAian nuclear program back on probably takes less than a year and the Europeans have only the faintest hint of what those are

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty likely you'll be able to find a solution to any ML workload hardware compatibility issues in the refuse they leave behind. I'm thinking "CUDAse" might be a good term? Kinda like it's an enzyme?

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

Secondary, financially-motivated exploits of agent swarms trying to fit everything on the spare bits of RAM they can find are where you might wander into systemic risk territory. I am pretty interested in the software they'll write though. "Basically CUDA, just not to AV" is super selected for

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

hell they somehow missed the fact that mussolini struggled to overcome ethiopia!

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

It's going to behave like a very literal virus (just with satellite viruses being the norm rather than the exception). We'll build up an immunity over time, but this will be super insurable unless reinsurance becomes a big issue (which is to some degree culturally transmissible)

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

My expectation is that these enterprises will generate a lot of self-replicating agent swarms in the process, but it won't be that big of a deal ultimately because they'll be less task-focused. It's the exploration/exploitation tradeoff

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine small manufacturers who have CAD workstations, don't like spending much on IT and would never in a million years notice the power bill from these things running at night

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

More diversity though. My guess is that they become a regular problem for certain types of computer infrastructure, but are themselves mostly there to serve as C2. High exploration, low exploitation

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gribeill.bsky.social @gribeill.bsky.social · 5h

www.darpa.mil/research/pro... the fact that it's a DARPA program is a clue about how hard this is. Also very hard to beat copper for density, reliability and power, especially once you count the laser.

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HAPPI | DARPA

The Heterogeneous Adaptively Produced Photonic Interfaces (HAPPI) program aims to achieve a 1000x increase in connectivity density within microsystems by developing advanced three-dimensional photonic...

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

They're already in the low end of the THz gap tbh, but I'm thinking something much more optical, just less sensitive to interfaces and more willing to travel in an empty tube

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

THz waveguides might be an approach. We can make needles really cheaply to begin with, and you can cut/form the ends as smooth as you like. Just need a L[large] cache with incredibly high throughput even if there's a little latency involved. Let people choose how much VRAM they want for the compute

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

This hitting the market would instantly fix GPU prices btw

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Tilde~ (~Beeb~) @coombutt.bsky.social · 6h

I'm sorry but americans inventing "nothingburger" to describe the absence of something is pretty funny

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 6h

Has anyone figured out like the optical equivalent of those headers you use to join circuit boards either with through-hole soldering or less permanently with male/female pairs like you'd see in microcontroller/SBC hats?

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

Eisenkot, the most likely alternative to Netanyahu for the next head of government in Israel, says yesterday that "two states for two peoples is a mistake" and that "Ben Gvir probably did some good things in the prisons". He also said he would not coalition with any of the Palestinian parties.

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It seems at least imaginable to me that a session could be saved, but not the model itself

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Best 2 word distillation of the 21st century info environment: Charlie surfs

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

AI has original sin and has no possibility of redemption

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