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Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
i have a couple of steps to deal with this:
1: my planning workflow includes the addition of a "Claims Register" early in the plan. the clanker outlines the claims it made about the existing system while producing the plan, the evidence to support the claim, and what they did to verify it.
claims are like assumptions but stronger.
2: every plan has a phase 0 where the clanker writes unit tests to support its claims. some of these are short lived unit tests - they are testing a claim made by the plan which would become invalidated during execution because the plan will modify the behaviour. those that are not short-lived act as additional unit tests against known behaviour - effectively filling gaps in behavioural test coverage.
the plan-review sub-agent verifies the claim register as well as the rest of the plan.
phase 0 is executed before i am handed the plan for review.
since i introduced this the quality of outcome has noticeably improved. invalid/incorrect/incomplete claims are noticed before the plan is presented to me, rework has not only reduced, but it has also become more effective.
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
Hard for me to see someone who was a colleague at MIT relishing in my destruction. Particularly since they barely knew me and never bothered--as perhaps scientists should--to check if there was another version of events.
🚨 BOMBSHELL COURT EVIDENCE EXPOSES EXPLOSIVE PRIVATE MESSAGES REVEALING COORDINATION BETWEEN KRISTIN KNOUSE AND MIT PROFESSOR SANGEETA BHATIA IN THE DAVID M. SABATINI ORDEAL.
🔱 NEW REVELATION — Court evidence exposes how Knouse and Bhatia privately celebrated Sabatini’s removal, discussed the potential destruction of his professional career, and anticipated the revocation of his @MIT tenure.
An 80-message exchange between Kristin Knouse and MIT Professor Sangeeta Bhatia, dated August 20–21, 2021, reveals their private reactions immediately following Whitehead Institute and HHMI's severance of ties with Professor @DMSabatini.
The communications contain statements that deserve serious public examination.
🔴 1. “YOU DID IT” — “AND HE’S OUT.”
On August 20, 2021, Bhatia congratulated Knouse:
🔴 “YOU DID IT. You crossed the finish line. It's out in the open. And you're not out in the open. And you're on the faculty. And he's out.”
Knouse responded:
🔴 “You connecting me to Nancy [Hopkins]was the turning point. I will never forget that walk in Lexington.”
🔴 2. “THIS WAS THE OUTCOME I DREAMED OF.”
The following morning, as news coverage spread, Knouse discussed the possibility of Sabatini losing his MIT tenure:
🔴 “Hard to imagine MIT will be left with any choice other than to revoke tenure.”
Bhatia responded:
🔴 “You're right about tenure”
She subsequently wrote:
🔴 “This was the outcome I dreamed of but NEVER certain I would get it.”
Knouse also described her assessment of Whitehead's handling of the matter:
🔴 “And as skeptical as I was of Whitehead's end game, in the end I think the overall process was perfectly executed.”
Bhatia expressed her approval of Whitehead Institute Director Ruth Lehmann:
🔴 “I'm proud of Ruth [Lehmann]”
These exchanges occurred months before MIT's April 2022 tenure-revocation recommendation.
🔴 3. THE PROFESSIONAL CONSEQUENCES — BEYOND WHITEHEAD.
The participants also discussed Sabatini's corporate affiliations and prospects for future employment.
Knouse wrote:
🔴 “I know of one company already speaking with lawyers to remove him on grounds of morality clause.”
She subsequently stated:
🔴 “Hard to imagine how he can be gainfully employed anywhere after the past 24 hours ...”
These were not merely discussions about an institutional investigation. They extended to the potential consequences for Sabatini's career, tenure, corporate affiliations, and future livelihood.
🔴 4. THE DIVERSITY SURVEY AND PROTECTION FROM PUBLIC IDENTIFICATION.
In another particularly consequential exchange, Bhatia wrote:
🔴 “Also the dei survey and subsequent investigation really protects you, which I love. There is not even a scent of whistleblower in all the press.”
This statement takes on particular significance alongside the previously disclosed communications in which Knouse and Nora Kory discussed using Whitehead's diversity survey to conceal an investigation already under consideration (📑 see the original court evidence in the first comment below).
🔴 5. “WE DRANK CHAMPAGNE” — CELEBRATING AS THE NEWS SPREAD.
Perhaps the most striking exchange appears on KK011419.
On August 21, 2021, Knouse declared:
🔴 “I KNOW! Young people took down a relatively young king. Progress, progress, progress.”
Knouse also wrote:
🔴 “Two other women who came forward and I drank champagne while watching the Tweets and articles roll in last night. It felt like campaign headquarters after an election victory. Really special.”
Bhatia responded:
🔴 “That's awesome.”
These exchanges reinforce the serious concerns about coordination and conflicts of interest raised by our previous disclosures. Their significance must be assessed alongside the full documentary record and the subsequent jury verdict.
The scientific community deserves full accountability for any misconduct established by the evidence, including the roles of individuals who participated in or improperly influenced the institutional processes that subjected Professor Sabatini to a devastating ordeal and profoundly damaged his career.
📑 REVIEW THE ORIGINAL COURT EVIDENCE BELOW.
🔱 ScienceGuardians™ Legal and Investigative Team
MORE COURT EVIDENCE. MORE REVELATIONS. STAY TUNED. ⚠️
@SciGuardians 🔱
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
So the whole "illegal immigrants are actually net contributors to the economy" thing was just WILDLY false huh
Every day its another "Santa isn't real you IDIOT" moment for my remaining left wing views lol
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
Reese's Pieces have no chocolate in them. The peanuts had their oil pressed out and a cheaper fat put back in.
Sugar is first, then partially defatted peanuts, then hydrogenated palm kernel and soybean oil, then corn syrup solids. Everything after that is 2% or less, and it's the dyes, the glaze, some vanillin and a little milk. There's no cocoa anywhere.
Partially defatted just means the peanuts went through a press. The peanut oil comes out one side and gets sold as peanut oil. What's left is a dry peanut flour, and that's what the center is made from, because flour holds a shape in a panning drum and doesn't go rancid. Then they put fat back in, and the fat they picked is hydrogenated palm kernel oil, which is solid at room temperature and costs less than peanut oil. You can see the swap on the panel. 38 pieces have 6 g of fat and all 6 are saturated. Peanut oil is mostly unsaturated, so that number isn't the peanut.
The shell is sugar with 4 dyes and a coat of shellac.
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
If replacing steam was possible, someone would have done it. Epic spent billions trying. GOG tried. Amazon tried. Ubisoft tried. EA tried. Blizzard tried. Microsoft tried. Everyone tried. You cant do it. Nobody else can get enough competent people in a room together anymore.
It's really sad that the games industry is drained by a 30% tax on gross revenue.
You could vibe code a Steam alternative in a week. Cloudflare egress is basically free.
The industry is in desperate need of a distribution platform that allows developers to keep their revenue.
Networks effects and the fanatic obsession with "muh Steam library" will make this very difficul.
But if devs could actually keep their earnings, we'd have a greater selection of better games and far more financial success stories.
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
What could they possibly be doing with even one tenth of a workforce this size?
BREAKING: DocuSign says it may lay off up to 162,000 employees.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
As of Docusign's most recent 10-K filing, Docusign had 7,044 employees as of 1/31/2026, making it impossible to lay off 162,000 employees.
sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
The 26 year old is a "youth", but the 22 year old woman is not.
This is because the rapist is a migrant.
🔴#ÚLTIMAHORA Detenido un joven de 26 años por agresión sexual a una mujer de 22 en la acampada de la Puerta del Sol
abc.es/espana/madrid/detenid…
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
A BILLION dollars+ over budget, years behind schedule, contractor suing Karen Bass for delays, and now the LAX people mover, which has yet to move any people, is now arcing and catching on fire.
Forget the 3rd World...Karen Bass has turned LA into a 4th World country.
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
He has 40k on youtube by the way, but almost none here. Probably the cleanest robotics work you will find
ROAR 🦖
My overengineered attempt to design something complicated in CAD and combine all my weird gearboxes in one robotic forearm.
Full build: youtube.com/watch?v=qJvvW9VO…
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
The drug class we are developing, Claromers, kill nearly all known germs (bacteria, viruses, fungi, and biofilms) with one simple devastating mechanism that has avoided microbial resistance for over 200 million years.
Claromers mimic a natural defense peptide in the human body called LL-37. Each Claromer molecule is very small, only dozens of atoms big - about 1/3 the size of the natural peptide. It is like a spear - a destructive end and a holding shaft or tail end. The shaft side is hydrophobic, which means it is water-avoiding and does not like to touch water. The other side - the pathogen destroyer - is highly positively charged (called “cationic” in science literature), like a powerful magnet that pulls toward anything negatively charged (called “anionic” in science).
Stanford bioengineering Assoc Prof Barron and colleagues wrote in a recent study of Claromers: “These amphipathic peptoids self-assembled in different ways, as determined by small-angle X-ray scattering; some adopt helical bundles, while others form core−shell ellipsoidal or worm-like micelles.” That means the groups form either short twisted bundles, like worms, or small oval shapes like a football. 🏈
The self-assembly into these nano structures I. the watery fluids of the body because the water-avoiding shaft-tails point inward toward each other , away from the water. The positive pathogen-killer ends stick outward like sharpened spears. The molecules stick together on their own into tight groups.
These groups attack like a three-dimensional Greek phalanx, a tight formation of soldiers. Like a football made of spears. The spears face out. Because each molecule is so tiny its mass is almost zero. When the positive killer ends feel the pull of the germ’s outer covering they accelerate from standing still to nearly the speed of light with almost no friction, like lightning bolt ⚡️ leaping towards the pathogen. The killer-football formation hits all at once the with huge kinetic energy and blows apart the outer membrane of the pathogen.
The germ cannot survive. It is destroyed in a microsecond.
Barron and colleagues also wrote: “While self-assembly correlated overall with antibacterial efficacy... Certain self-assembled morphologies seem better-suited for antibacterial activity.” The football 🏈 hits harder.
We choose the super effective oval shapes that mass the spears for the strongest hit.
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
I explained the relationship between compassion and justice to @60Minutes
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
eMudhra has been blocking curl/wget/python urllib User-Agent headers from accessing CRLs
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
🚨🚨🚨 MICROSOFT LEAK
“Employees are questioning why MSFT isn’t pro-actively downsizing by removing H1B employees before American workers.”
🚨EXCLUSIVE MICROSOFT LEAK:
Employees are questioning if Microsoft is abusing H-1B and PERM programs.
A Senior Director at MSFT (good friend of mine) just sent me internal messages between MSFT & some of its employees.
Today, Microsoft just asked THOUSANDS of its employees to voluntarily resign, despite just reporting $133.7B in net income for FY26, up 31%.
Employees are questioning why MSFT isn’t pro-actively downsizing by removing H1B employees before American workers.
Other employees are asking why any employee cuts are being made when profits are so high.
Fair question if ya ask me.
See below to see all of the orgs being asked to voluntarily resign.
This is absolutely going to impact Washington States workers.
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
"sorry but my AI that solved Navier Stokes needs help so it can write English or explain itself, after seeing the whole Web 10x over"
This makes AI much closer to a chess engine than to a human.
They can navigate high dimensional spaces & occasionally find interesting patterns.
my post is precisely a result of seeing the conversations about that
(1) part of it is: if a tool can solve millennium prize problems and be this dumb on 1000 other things, that reshapes my understanding of the territory more than it reshapes my judgment of the vehicle
it's becoming clear that, well, compute-vs-humans are mutually jagged
(2) and part of it is: the brute force vs. generalization ratio in the current paradigm has hugely missed my (rather low) expectations, e.g. "sorry but my AI that solved Navier Stokes needs help so it can write English or explain itself, after seeing the whole Web 10x over"
(3) and part of it is about a different philosophy of value/work: [a] whatever AI makes cheap (down to and including em dashes) reliably gets displaced in value by other stuff, [b] there's no short reward function that re-creates all value or information, most of it is inherently distributed and can't be pre-loaded
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
So much of the climate hysteria is just aimless guilt roaming the earth in search of futile acts of atonement.
Bob Widlar's Middle Finger retweeted
its still so wild to me that norm was one of the greatest comedians that ever lived, but also would come on twitter and grace us with these stunningly beautiful pieces of wisdom
