Computer scientist, mathematician, cattle rancher, robot builder, photographer, Jeeper.
Mabank, TX
Joined April 2009
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Just wanted to remind people on X that my real focus is on astrophotography.
lazytoad.com/astronomy/index…
Michael Mauldin retweeted
JD Vance said Texas is not becoming California, and the men at the Alamo did not die so Texas could become Sacramento.
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Too many people on both sides are out there worried about the cost of gas and not enough worried about the cost of freedom.
That’s what we need to work on.
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Unbelievable. Even the New York Times is reporting this.
Mary Peltola's team combed Alaska's voter rolls for every man named Dan Sullivan, then recruited one to run to confuse voters. Senior Democratic Senate campaign officials in Washington were in on it.
Two terms in Congress. Zero bills signed into law. But she found time to hunt down every Dan Sullivan in Alaska.
Control of the Senate goes through Alaska. Let's elect the REAL Dan Sullivan.
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My thoughts of late have returned to this amazing scene by @WilliamShatner, made decades ago.
As a young person, I found it tremendously inspiring. A code to live by.
But it didn’t play out quite like we expected.
The “fantastically advanced” life that we actually ended up encountering is right here, on Earth. All around us now.
The key issue of our time is becoming this:
Not everyone signed up for this mission, or the risk. And what we do about that, ultimately, is where the debate about AI will end up.
"Cowgirl Pumpjack"
This pump hasn't moved in years, but I bet it was a sight to see her riding it back in the day.
Canon 5d4, full spectrum mod.
EF 70-200mm f/2.8L at f/11.
West Texas, past the Pecos river.
Michael Mauldin retweeted
When California used the U.S. Postal Service to deliver ballots this past week, it gave to the USPS a complete database of every registered voter since California, by law, sends a ballot in the mail to every registered voter.
Did Calif think USPS would not look?
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POV: you are my IRS auditor asking about the tank I purchased under a section 179 agricultural exemption.
My nostalgia shelf.
Old reference cards, books, patches, a 9-track tape.
That floppy from April 1995 with an early copy of Lycos...
The blue folder on the right is my E6B.
Michael Mauldin retweeted
Europe: we don’t have air conditioning 🥵
America: our flying cars have air conditioning 🫵😹
