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The hexayurt, she calls to me.https://t.co/D8zqBG20u3 https://t.co/2HuUzUE6MP https://t.co/l9PJXvy93w
You are being watched. Says this ted talk.https://t.co/s42AeeBn8N
I dream of demons. I know their names.https://t.co/a94Gx6KrDN
"When he found how greatly his knowledge was admired by all other rational creatures and how easy it was to influence them, his pride became boundless."https://t.co/VRQBG3IeHqNerds, naming things after books embedded with politicshttps://t.co/plH33cUsz4
"The US military is interested in using DNA to identify enemies but is also concerned about reciprocity – and explicitly worried about potential inaccuracies in health information."https://t.co/sERNFTtxpv
"Roughly half of Americans (48%) say it is acceptable for DNA testing companies to share customers’ genetic data with law enforcement agencies to help solve crimes, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. "https://t.co/YTZ6NftcMn
One of the things I wanted was a DNA test so I could fix my health. I tried and tried to find another way to get my genes tested. I entered into medical trials, emailed researchers about it. https://t.co/lkEBN0eyIr
Heck I even tried to figure out how to do my own.https://t.co/hXuyqo87pzhttps://t.co/3Jm6rRSPun
Entire societies restructure around centralized (re)production norms. Genetic material bought+sold on markets like we do with modern cow semen. Bodies become unable to gestate internally.Illegal markets of DIY incubators & pirated nutrient brine formulas are rife among poor.
I know a lot about the idea of using smart dust to track people.https://t.co/74PHrKmcrRBecause one of my professors was working on similar idea; code level security primitives systems for swarms of them to fight forest fires (& one day live in blood).His wife had cancer.
His ideas and influence made it's way into secure code systems for a cubesat.Reliable software that can not be manipulated by a foreign adversary hell bent on hurting you(r friends and family).https://t.co/FDvWVoZ3vP
I don't want demons in my blood.Fictional, Bacterial, Or Artificial.https://t.co/wc1fXTwlUY
"demon virus is transmitted via exchanging blood, but the sulfur does not manifest in the blood until four hours after infection. [...] Croatoan is the name of a demon associated with plague and pestilence, and calls what's going on "demonic germ warfare""https://t.co/I7kGZbnxiW
One of the people I liked on here got dox'd. It it scared the shit out of me.I knew who @browserdotsys was at one point because I as talking to him about his IRL research into automated security systems.https://t.co/DkOuylTM2n
I worry about so much. My ideas literally span from survielece tech the size of an individual cell to interconnected networks that span entire planet in a heartbeat.https://t.co/FvvMUejSzw
@ve3hw @davidmanheim @SturnioloSimone @SamoBurja @SpaceXStarlink Latency is indeed still a problem if you want real-time communications. With Low-earth-orbit satelites (<2000km vs geosationary's 36,000km), you can get sub 300ms round trip afaict. At least given OneWeb's results. https://t.co/JxfXNhTtfN
If you ever find a hexayurt in the middle of nowhere, look for the cave system dug underneith. There you will find me.https://t.co/UdvhaivLTq
Are satellites alive, in some abstract statistical sense?https://t.co/EAcVhY80bH
What is a Von Neumann Machine anyway?https://t.co/jRY4cWSQMB
We are the Paperclip Maximizer, 🖇️And we are the Von Neumann machines,Wandering by lone star-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams;World-makers and world-breakers,Of whom the red Mars redeems:Yet we are the movers and shakersOf the earth for ever, it seems?
I selectively ignore things that I can't do anything about. Sometimes I dream about them.I dreamt about that scene from batman where he was able to watch the whole city via cellular networks.https://t.co/8jwLTMA6cJ
@nosilverv I found papers on how generate 3d maps back before a certain company was even a thing - to give lawn mowing robots the ability to see the landscape. That company is now selling autonomous drones to the military."We knew the world would not be the same" https://t.co/4wY75L0iYy
I like robotic drones, they protect me from the robotic drones.... Wait. WTF?https://t.co/1rGFDKaXEY
Anyone doing this for fun?https://t.co/BI66J1s87Dhttps://t.co/h0Vrmok4ul
Digging deep underground and hibernating for a millennia to wait for the idiots to kill themselves and the planet to regenerate sounds pretty good right now.I don't think we'll get to mars on time.https://t.co/ehxOG7VwBZ
People in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.https://t.co/sOcSXq1RXy
@browserdotsys > Attacks might target defense systems, because there is such an incentive to compromise them. [...]> “attacks will become much more critical as deep learning is used to control real-world, even safety-critical systems like self-driving cars and drones."https://t.co/crMsiPbM3F
"Imagine if there was a way to mass produce tiny robots no bigger than a cell quickly, easily, and accurately [...] could eventually be used to monitor conditions inside an oil or gas pipeline or search out disease while floating through the bloodstream."https://t.co/LlejhRHwu1
"These are the legs of a tiny army of robots. So small, that they are dwarfed by a single-celled paramecium. [...] the new design, called a surface electrochemical actuator can be fabricated using similar processes to those used to produce microchips"https://t.co/odoGcNFfdD
"A 2014 study by researchers from Surrey Space Centre, Surrey Sattelites and ESA looked into using ant colony optimization algorithms for managing satellite swarms."https://t.co/7rRjZVANlNDOI: 10.2420/AF09.2014.57https://t.co/hDidoeUKzu
"Their creators foresee microfliers becoming part of "large, distributed collections of miniaturized, wireless electronic devices." In other words, they could look like a swarm."https://t.co/m8dLrsBbsu
The funny thing here is this imagery used to describe the microfliers shows a dandelion, whose method of flight is nothing like the method they've replicated with the spinney machines. https://t.co/1XKw9U5LNC
It's really fascinating to think you could manipulate static electricity to create a sort of air bubble to make a robot drone float up, and not just fall well.https://t.co/JnltR5GD4a
You have no idea the horrors that live inside my head.https://t.co/2J1l83qU1r
I'm inspired by nature.https://t.co/9PQJ1MJiDq
Electrostatics? What's that?https://t.co/pvnC07KFQj
"This was the simplest possible plane we could design that could prove the concept that an ion plane could fly, [...] It’s still some way away from an aircraft that could perform a useful mission." [2018]https://t.co/itXuBJhSgh
I hate how everything I care about is dual use.> Ray Kurzweil, 'The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence', 2000-01-01https://t.co/tZWrykWzH7
"Computerized health monitors built into watches, jewelry, and clothing which diagnose both acute and chronic health conditions are widely used. In addition to diagnosis, these monitors provide a range of remedial recommendations and interventions" — Ray KurzweilWe're behind.
You can turn a drone into a mosquito by sticking a literal moth antennae to it to act as a biosensor.https://t.co/mAeioqqZvr
I already know how they avoid obstacles.https://t.co/YGOvKqvHvv
"The team then outfitted a palm-size drone with a similar sensor and fitted it with lights that glow when the sensor detected a surface. The resulting “mosquito-copter” is able to detect surfaces all on its own, even in the dark."https://t.co/gOifhQrhmRhttps://t.co/BRQtglTAsH
Do you hear the drone?I repeat.https://t.co/lbsBoimVE9
Mosquitoes => Demonshttps://t.co/cTCf1Vh8Iw
I need to be stronger. I need to dig. https://t.co/RM4sHXMXIU
"Born underground, suckled from a teat of stoneRaised in the dark, the safety of our mountain homeSkin made of iron, steel in our bonesTo dig and dig makes us freeCome on brothers sing with me!" 🎶https://t.co/vaCsP6eddThttps://t.co/ZQfcbMyk1R
Why aren't you digging, my frens?https://t.co/4mUZ3rvVQV
The local library lets me borrow a shovel. I know how to dig holes safely. Gonna have some fun next month.https://t.co/8lWQQ0CBaQ
> "Today you might think that privacy means going to live off the grid in the middle of nowhere, [...] That’s just not realistic in today’s environment. Sensors are cheap. Everyobodys got one. There’s no such thing as living off the grid."https://t.co/h7vKZrAxRR
Track & Trace+ They be making weavrs."HAYSTAC will be run by the DNI’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). It’s kind of like DARPA, the Pentagon’s blue-sky research department, but with a focus on intelligence projects."https://t.co/HHVBXc6KGl https://t.co/YziJKSR8Pd
New orb just dropped, who this?https://t.co/gNSxtqqQEj https://t.co/0o1DCMfxE5
A high-end camera drone that is so capable of following a repeatable path that you can do shots that would have been impossible before.https://t.co/ckGTeRFKM0
That means you can set these fancy cameras to patrol.And they have docks just like the ones that @anduriltech spoke about. https://t.co/xbvGQ5Aph0
It's only a matter of time."Exploiting involuntarily shed genetic information for investigative aims risks putting all of us under perpetual genetic surveillance," https://t.co/ykAScvQ8Xf
Can you predict the future?In ~2013 I imagined surveillance billboards without the billboard because of wanting to work at a company that built rugged mini computers.https://t.co/qFNTD0kbp3
Less than $900 for a ruggedized solar power capable (12 or 24 battery voltage) with a cellular uplink. Combine with a decent camera + $70 VPU and you can even do edge detection of faces to upload to a remote system for offline processing (supports AWS greengrass). Having fun yet?
And wondered what would happen if they were pervasive. https://t.co/91yUMgk8Ky
You can also predict classified surveillance tech if you know enough about the underlying theory and capabilities of hardware.https://t.co/BUBqEFEkSf
"Aquiline could fly much closer to its targets, producing high resolution photographs and recording stronger electromagnetic signals. [...] could also secretly drop off payloads of specially developed sensors near sites the CIA wanted to closely monitor."https://t.co/7xnqS3vgN8
And they are pervasive now.https://t.co/GAdRlNIk9Q
Antennas. No one knows where they came from, shows up in a propaganda disseminating article."Elsewhere, engineers working on the GRIFFIN Project say they recently made a significant breakthrough in developing the world’s first true bird-like drones." https://t.co/I6mFyaIWBm
Do you ever try to predict what investors will invest in (or a company will patents) by creating a model of how technology can be made dual use if only it was more pervasive?Took one look at Lytro and predicted both.https://t.co/zRGU15gMKuhttps://t.co/u68iH0tMXg
We don't need NOAA weather data if we can just leverage multi-view reconstruction techniques like these from 11 years ago. https://t.co/RvSi3QKo5c https://t.co/wKPb9m7uCf but acting on survielence cameras that have a view of the atmosphere.Reconstruction like an insect's eye.
E.g. I reasoned that Light-field / multi-view reconstruction should already exist for a microscope. And by extension I figured out that is basically what "holographic" microscopes are effectively doing by using a dot grid as tiny pinhole cameras.https://t.co/nWHhyK2F41
"Compound eyes found in insects provide intriguing sources of biological inspiration for miniaturized imaging systems. Here, we report an ultrathin arrayed camera inspired by insect eye structures for high-contrast and super-resolution imaging." 👀https://t.co/XYsNN4YN88
Obvious extensions of old tech."having all those different individually-operating sensors means that the camera has “a nearly infinite depth of field. In other words, they can see almost all the way around them and everything"https://t.co/SksNadEydF https://t.co/xEer2zC1qm
Great for drones to avoid a costly step of un-distorting. "That hemispheric shape lets the camera take images from 160 degrees around it with no distortion at the edges, because every single little ommatidium works independently." [MAY 2013] https://t.co/xNKinGGUEJ https://t.co/wB5q2BAjg5
"The real shift that’s happening in the market is this transition to fully autonomous operations, where the drone lives in a dock, it’s connected to the internet and it flies itself on demand wherever it’s needed."https://t.co/AOo8u4r91Mhttps://t.co/VRemLidVXu https://t.co/I67RvzyTsk
It Is TiMe To BuIdL 🙃https://t.co/iNK3vt5axh
@nosilverv I found papers on how generate 3d maps back before a certain company was even a thing - to give lawn mowing robots the ability to see the landscape. That company is now selling autonomous drones to the military."We knew the world would not be the same" https://t.co/4wY75L0iYy
You need to be digging caves.DO NOT ASK FOR PERMISSION.DO NOT ASK FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.DO NOT ORGANIZE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.Go to the wilderness and build a cave like a troglodyte. Here's how:https://t.co/AyefOKuGHkhttps://t.co/l7dvRIRgCF https://t.co/XP33ucDPj8
"Raising these questions now can help ensure everyone is aware of the capabilities of eDNA and provide more time to develop protocols and regulations to ensure appropriate use of eDNA techniques and the ethical handling of human genetic bycatch."https://t.co/xduA3SdpPs
This is pretty bad. If they scraped the DNA relative system... Well I can see 61 pages of relatives an clicking on each profile will tell me their account ID, ancestry, a last login. For me that is 1525 potential people who could see my account back.https://t.co/VvS40E3PcU
Presumably that means they could only access the raw DNA of people who they actually were able to credential stuff. Still quite alarming given how much ancestry data they could get with little effort. The 23andMe+ thing would have made it easier too. https://t.co/h9uUuD0Joa
If this was indeed scrape off the DNA Relatives systems, You can see if you might have been pwned indirectly by looking at your setting's page. https://t.co/j4EVniSOfT https://t.co/ARfI4B5UgG
The specific DNA Relatives section can be accessed directly from this link:https://t.co/iscFs5LMAPWhich includes detail on if you are sharing DNA segment % and ancestry with your 'family'. https://t.co/oTqnZZaWvU
Lol, we all got hunter2'd.https://t.co/OqdXzir6pX
Since it doesn't really matter anymore given there's a really good chance I'm already indirectly pwned... if anyone is curious about my ancestry report.This is the data you'd be able to see if you were one of those 1500 accounts.https://t.co/g3IzrSiGq4 https://t.co/A363mFDD8h
@ESYudkowsky @DemocratBased I predicted genetics I had related to longevity and IQ from that line that contributed to my autism diagnosis, because of my math skills.Cured a "genetic disorder" common among that lineage by fixing my gut bacteria, many of autist traits vanished.https://t.co/cnl2NDiwdq
I took a gamble here because knowing my SNPs in the "Raw Data" meant I could figure out how to cure my treatment resistant depression. It worked for me, but how many other people just thought it was fun to know ancestry?https://t.co/SSYtHJ9EVv
I'm not personally damaged here, it not like this is private information for me. I got my genes tested because someone donated me money. So I shared my raw SNPs up on keybase.But I resisted sharing my ancestry info b/c it reflects people I'm related to.https://t.co/5mLeHgBLWa
I am very interested in these genes myself. Given that both of my autoimmune conditions are perhaps related to the ones I inherited, the idea that I cured them via FMT pills is really funny to me.I could probably tell Einstein to eat shit.https://t.co/rcL0y80gCr
I, quite literally, share a lineage with Einstein's gene line. The ~3% of my genes that encode for Crohn's, IQ, and calcium metabolism associated longevity? They're from the same group he was from. I reasoned I should be able to do what he did. And I did.https://t.co/dBUZiFEWCj https://t.co/nRlesul9bV
Yep. I was 'pwned' exactly like I thought.I which ones of the 1500+ profiles that could see my DNA relatives profile was the culprit. https://t.co/DTsVHhLWM3
This seems like a genuine risk. If 23andMe sells, they might get bought by ancestry or another sketchy company.How to request to download + delete 23andMe data from there servers:https://t.co/nkpd4iUc0bhttps://t.co/WllWjMgwRj
If you don't have the SNPs/raw data, you may wanna wait before deletion."As an added security measure, we have temporarily disabled the ability to download your raw genetic data. We hope to re-enable this ability soon, and we appreciate your patience."https://t.co/GKKiBPG1FP
Anyone want a blockchain digital twin system that uses laser based transponders?"Sand-Size Microchips Take on Fake Foods and Drugs Tiny silicon motes tackle hard problems of fraud in Big Ag and Big Pharma" [SEP 2023]https://t.co/dibqyyJIL4https://t.co/HRWgjjb7JF
Damn, 23andMe is going to sell genetic data as part of bankruptcy. They're fucking assholes, and anyone that buys that is a fucking asshole.Highly recommend deleting your data from them ASAP.https://t.co/PpF79std2b
> "If you close your account and delete your data before your data download request has been processed, your data download request will be cancelled and you will not receive your raw genotyping data." https://t.co/NNZR6d5CmU