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Michel Floyd

@michelfloyd

Husband, father, engineer, entrepreneur, Hertz Fellow, MIT SB, SM, ScD. Fractional CTO M-F and ski instructor on weekends. Sequential multi-tasker.

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I guarantee you some of these morons are advocating we simply nuke Tehran

12.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

p(pardon) = 1

11.03.2026 01:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just wait til you use Conductor! (Which uses Claude code under the hood)

09.03.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn't one of those doge child prodigies vibe code a solution in like 10 minutes?

06.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@crockett.house.gov thank you for running such a strong senate campaign even if it was not ultimately successful. I look forward to witnessing your outsized impact on the political discourse in our country.

04.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's pretty clear that in the aftermath of the GWOT there's a strong national popular bias *against* intervening in middle eastern affairs (excepting the Epstein class).

02.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How long did it take the board of peace to start its first war?

02.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Without a declaration of war by congress!"

Pretty sure FDR was over 7 at times, especially in '44.

01.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ironically, that statement could just as easily apply to all 3 branches of the US government

01.03.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If Grok and OpenAI were objectively better than Claude then DoD wouldn't be pushing Anthropic so hard.

01.03.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Eliza (elizabot.js) A natural language conversation bot in JavaScript after a program described by Joseph Weizenbaum in January 1966.

Of course an AI without guardrails at DoD is bad but I have to think that any AI could do a better job than Hegseth, even Eliza!

www.masswerk.at/elizabot/

28.02.2026 17:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No. 1 - Mr Kushner est un criminel, No. 2 - Il est aussi un con

24.02.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's no way Grok is DISA IL6 compliant

24.02.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Hanford Site finally turns nuclear waste into glass.
Millions of liters of radioactive waste from plutonium production at the historic site await vitrification.
Hands wearing thick safety gloves hold metal tongs holding a container with a molten substance pouring out onto a tray on a counter.

Hanford Site finally turns nuclear waste into glass. Millions of liters of radioactive waste from plutonium production at the historic site await vitrification. Hands wearing thick safety gloves hold metal tongs holding a container with a molten substance pouring out onto a tray on a counter.

More than 200 million liters of radioactive waste are stored in decades-old tanks at the Hanford Site in Washington State. The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started operating in 2025. cen.acs.org/physical-che...

#chemsky πŸ§ͺ

23.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

How is that even a thing he can do? Are we moving towards Soviet style central planning and control of factories now or what?

19.02.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect OCR artifacts

18.02.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Podcast concept: "How and why do billionaires become dicks?" - stories of the rich and infamous.

Will be hard to get interviews I'm sure.

Can highlight a billionaire who's not a dick from time-to-time to show that generalizations can be false.

16.02.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
two news story images, one headlined "Google sent personal and financial information of student journalists to ICE" and the other "Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info"

two news story images, one headlined "Google sent personal and financial information of student journalists to ICE" and the other "Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info"

Oh the irony of these two stories being juxtaposed in my newsfeed… Maybe when google "removes" your personal info they just send it to ICE?

10.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a car with a picture of a woman on the windshield says hilariousgifs.com Alt: car with a nearly opaque windscreen

Let's say you (hypothetically) felt motivated to throw something at the windshield of a car being driven by masked terrorists…

Wouldn't you want to throw something that reacts chemically with the primary ingredient in windshield washer fluid (methanol).

Say polystyrene pellets suspended in water?

10.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why does a law need to repeat something from the constitution? I’ll never get that.

10.02.2026 06:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How retro is Office 365? I typed "2026" in a document and the grammar/spell-checker suggested "2016"

04.02.2026 23:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So cute how you think you can write some words down on paper and β€œreform”

…the American gestapo

04.02.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's something weird about many of the Epstein docs - it looks like emails were printed, then scanned, then OCR'ed. Lots of little OCR artifacts. Where are the electronic originals?

01.02.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Because it's such a small and truly random world TIL that one of my mother's life-long friends is Mark Carney's MIL

01.02.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

31.01.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 3588 πŸ” 1042 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 44

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social - very disappointed that you don't want to see ICE abolished. I can agree that "Immigration" and "customs" are still important government functions but by hiring and promoting fascists, racists, white nationalists, and sociopaths, the current org seems unsalvageable.

30.01.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Rick Moranis?

29.01.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I see 4 domestic terrorists in these pictures but none of their faces

28.01.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys β€” and getting better at avoiding detection A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of social science is now under threat.

AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science #surveys – and getting better at avoiding detection. A researcher created a #chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of #socialscience is now under threat: doi.org/10.1038/d415...

28.01.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

…and someone who moderates/runs a meeting "animates" it which kind of presumes the meeting would be dead otherwise.

"Il a animΓ© une rΓ©union de vulgarisateurs scientifique"

27.01.2026 22:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0