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Ghost guns are old news. The battlefield of the future belongs to additive artillery.

Ghost guns are old news. The battlefield of the future belongs to additive artillery.

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I'm curious about the life of the people who work in Chinese factories: + Are they like 1950s Americans who dislike their job, but are satisfied with rapidly rising living standards? + Or is sitting in a chair, jetting paint on toys just clearly a step up from toiling in the fields? + Do they resemble the characters from "Roseanne" - salt of the earth types who lack the human capital to rise elsewhere in the culture? + Are there Norma Rae style agitators? From where are they drawing their ideas? + Or is it like pre-war America where you have introspective geniuses who spray paint by day and write poetry by night? We focus so much on the high-stakes geopolitics, but the human-level questions are rarely explored.

I'm curious about the life of the people who work in Chinese factories: + Are they like 1950s Americans who dislike their job, but are satisfied with rapidly rising living standards? + Or is sitting in a chair, jetting paint on toys just clearly a step up from toiling in the fields? + Do they resemble the characters from "Roseanne" - salt of the earth types who lack the human capital to rise elsewhere in the culture? + Are there Norma Rae style agitators? From where are they drawing their ideas? + Or is it like pre-war America where you have introspective geniuses who spray paint by day and write poetry by night? We focus so much on the high-stakes geopolitics, but the human-level questions are rarely explored.

1,675,712 Aufrufe • vor 9 Tagen

Middle-aged suburban moms are stealth, early tech adopters. They just care more about cutting cloth than conspicuous computation. E.g., this lady's sewing room has a spatially registered AR system projecting vector patterns onto fabric, plus a CNC sewing machine. L33T.

Middle-aged suburban moms are stealth, early tech adopters. They just care more about cutting cloth than conspicuous computation. E.g., this lady's sewing room has a spatially registered AR system projecting vector patterns onto fabric, plus a CNC sewing machine. L33T.

1,083,646 Aufrufe • vor 7 Tagen

Capitalism: still the only economic system capable of delivering a skeletonized titanium framing hammer with a modular rip-claw head, customized in a vaporwave colorway.

Capitalism: still the only economic system capable of delivering a skeletonized titanium framing hammer with a modular rip-claw head, customized in a vaporwave colorway.

1,407,066 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen

3D printers are cool, but we're in the midst of a wave of innovation with 2D plotters. There's a cottage industry of vibe-coded G-code generators giving artists new tools. What a fascinating modern age we live in.

3D printers are cool, but we're in the midst of a wave of innovation with 2D plotters. There's a cottage industry of vibe-coded G-code generators giving artists new tools. What a fascinating modern age we live in.

671,096 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen

This machine is a perfect representation of humanity’s current state. A million-dollar marvel coordinating a thousand individually actuated punch elements to turn flat steel into computationally optimized geometries, with the pin coordinates scrawled on the side in Sharpie.

This machine is a perfect representation of humanity’s current state. A million-dollar marvel coordinating a thousand individually actuated punch elements to turn flat steel into computationally optimized geometries, with the pin coordinates scrawled on the side in Sharpie.

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