Before: Baltimore Sun 📷, Strobist 📸, X-Peditions 🇻🇳, The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto 📖. Now: Traveling, without an assignment. 🌏

Maryland, USA
Joined April 2008
Woody Harrelson has done an ad for Exxon. New Exxon El Nino Commercial Written by Adam McKay @mr.ghostpanther Voiced by Woody Harrelson @woodyharrelson Produced by Yellow Dot Studios Edited by Max Koepke of @lostplanetpost Stock Footage licensing by Stalkr Music licensing APM
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A 79 percent waxing gibbous moonrise as the sun sets on lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City, Wednesday evening #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #sunset #moon
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A pair of scissors cutting a single hair.
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The guy who invented Amazon Prime disappeared for six years. He came back this week with $250 million and a factory that turns lines of code into tiny working machines. Type different code, a different machine comes out the other end. That sounds fake. Here's why it took six years. A chip fab is the most precise factory humans have ever built, and it makes exactly one kind of thing. Flat silicon that processes information. The moment you want moving parts, multiple materials, or real 3D structure, you leave the fab for a world where getting one new device into production takes years and tens of millions of dollars. Engineers call it one product, one process. It's the reason micro-machines never got their Moore's Law. Holden's Matter Compiler kills the per-product process entirely. Features down to a few microns, no new tooling, and the system measures and corrects every step while it builds, then feeds what it learned into the next design. His first product is the tell on how sharp the strategy is. PrimeSwitch is a 150-amp relay for 800-volt power in AI data centers. It opens in roughly 50 microseconds, about 1,000x faster than a normal contactor. So the first thing to come out of a universal factory is aimed at the one market where demand is basically infinite and a faster switch means less fried hardware. Neal Stephenson wrote the Matter Compiler as fiction in 1995. Holden just shipped the first real product out of one, and it's a light switch for AI data centers.
After six years in stealth, Atomic Machines is out. Our mission: on-demand, universal command of matter. First beachhead: the Matter Compiler, an AI-native manufacturing system that builds working micro-machines from code alone. No per-product tooling. No process development. Different code, different machine.
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The Sharks swimming in the water is a magnificent detail. I can’t look away. #SJSharks
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Many of you have been tracking the Irkutsk lab situation over the last few days. I've been gathering facts and trying to understand what is happening before weighing in. Now that I have, I have to say — I'm concerned 🧵
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Link to the Moscow Times, and screen shots (in Russian) in the event Russian gov't takes down this article, or edits it. My suspicion is soon the Russian gov't will deny the outbreak is plague, and/or blame something, or someone, else — as they've done in the past including with the famous anthrax outbreak at Sverdlovsk, which was blamed on contaminated meat but was really a lab leak from a biological weapons facility called Garrison 19. shorturl.at/dnn69
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That photo by Vegas Review-Journal's Madeline Carter @fleetwood_mads of Fever's Myisha Hines-Allen's hand in Aces star A'ja Wilson's face is a lock for being one of the best photos of 2026 -- sports or non-sports.
the photographer, madeline carter, said the reaction to this iconic photo of a’ja has reinvigorated her and validated her craft. 🥺
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Inflation numbers came out today, and the official story is that inflation went down. What the headline number doesn't tell you is that the government changed how inflation is calculated in the same release. A month ago, they said July inflation was 3.7%. Today, they recalculated July with the new formula and it dropped to 3.36%. If you measure August the same way as the months before it, inflation comes out around 3.8%, which means it went up. They didn't bring inflation down, they just changed how they calculate it. Bessent did something similar with CPI last month. You only modify the way you calculate if they numbers are that bad. They genuinely thought we wouldn't notice...
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They are all just so relentlessly stupid.
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YouTube, Meta, TikTok, and (sigh) X have all reportedly rejected the ‘Musk’ trailer as a paid ad. Bleecker Street, the film’s distributor, is appealing. vulture.com/article/youtube-…
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Bessent buying back $6B of the $40 trillion U.S. debt visualized
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I asked Opus 5.5 to explain camera focus by building an interactive lens lab Here's what it came up with after 1 hour 26 minutes in one shot, $25.66 API cost lens.lab.sael.net Move the focus ring and you can see the glass elements shift the sharp plane through the scene
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You’re absolutely right, that runway wasn’t clear
FAA to Deploy A.I. Air Traffic System at DC-Area Airports Starting Monday
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Tropical Storm Dolly announced this morning. (These names are planned several months in advanced)
NHC will initiate advisories on Tropical Storm Dolly (formerly AL96) located in the central Tropical Atlantic, at 1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC).
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A message from the family of Dolly Parton.
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Trump is trying to boost the U.S. economy by making it harder for Americans to trade with the rest of the world. He is also promising to destroy Iran's economy by making it harder for Iranians to trade with the rest of the world.
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Mamdani is running NYC like how Chinese local governments do things lmao
NEW: New Yorkers have started a trend of tagging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to report problems around the city and the fixes are happening so quickly that the videos are going viral. A dangerous playground hazard was repaired after a resident wrote a letter. A pothole was filled the same day it was posted online. And ahead of this week’s heat wave, the city installed temporary water fountains in Prospect Park. The message from City Hall: no problem is too small to fix.
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🔴The Panama Canal will cut daily ship transits from 36 to 34 starting September 3–4, 2026, and to 32 from September 15, due to severe El Niño drought that has cut rainfall 34% and water inflows 44% below average. Further limits are possible. The waterway handles 5% of global maritime trade and about 40% of US container traffic. 🔴Costs have soared: auction slots for priority passage averaged $1.1 million in August (16 times higher year-on-year), with Neopanamax peaks at $2.5 million and individual bids reaching $4 million. Carriers added surcharges of $100–$500 per TEU. 🔴Draft restrictions force lighter loads, raising overall shipping expenses amid high demand from the Iran conflict.
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