Thank you to my representative @rokhanna for standing up for the pragmatic approach here. The freedom to transact is more important than banning every vice from existing.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/fantasy-sports-bet-california-20764792.php

You have to stand in awe of the fact that flying is so incredibly safe...that one of the leading causes of death is intentional murder-suicide by Pilot (MH 370, GermanWings)

If the Air India crash was pilot murder-suicide like it appears to have been, that would make murder-suicide the probable cause of 781 deaths since 2014, likely more than any other cause in airline accidents. Weird to think that might be the most salient issue in aviation safety.

Steven Godofsky

Many are saying this!
https://x.com/sgodofsk/status/1944185409971396735?t=pDrR6RwjvpICmyJ42nfoGQ&s=19

aviation

Exactly 30 days after the Air India 171 accident, and just in time to meet the ICAO deadline, India released the preliminary investigation report into the crash.

It confirms the intel from earlier this week that both fuel switches were digitally recorded to have been moved to the CUTOFF position within a second of each other, and three seconds after rotation, which caused both engines to spool down and stop producing thrust, while the ram air turbine auto-deployed to provide minimal electrical power and hydraulics.

One of the pilots is heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking his colleague why he cut off the fuel, which the other denies doing. Both fuel switches are then recorded to be set back to the RUN position ten seconds after CUTOFF, which was too late for the engines to spool back up and resume delivering enough thrust to avoid impact.

All others configuration settings (flaps at 5, throttle at takeoff thrust, reverse levers stowed, etc) were found to be in their standard and expected position. The only exception was the landing gear that was still extended, but this unsurprising because cannot be retracted without hydraulics from the engines. The primary cause of the accident is, clearly, insufficient thrust due to fuel starvation in both engines.

Now the attention will shift to understanding how and why the fuel switches were moved to CUTOFF.

An accidental flipping of the switches is unlikely (they each need to be lifted, pulled back, and set down — a so-called “locking feature” to prevent unwanted action). However, there was a 2018 FAA airworthiness bulletin calling for the inspection of the exact same switches fitted on the Boeing 737, which had been found installed without the locking feature in some instances. There’s no indication yet that this may have also been the case on the B787.

Malicious intent from someone in the cockpit (either pilot, or an observer in the jump seat) will now be scrutinized as being the most plausible cause.

Analysis will also be required into whether the fuel switches could have turned off electronically by themselves, and whether this would have been recorded just the same way by the flight data recorder as a physical cutoff. Despite them being physical switches, they are electronic interfaces that are not mechanically linked to the fuel lines, and the full authority digital engine control (FADEC) software does control them.

Link to the preliminary report (see p. 14 in particular): https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/3e6e572bb0cd57e7/8d66090a-full.pdf

Griv

Fitness Data tracked. Points earned.
+7 for showing up with @griv

when it rains, it pours. airdrop of 2B $noice, live

NOW. 

to claim: quote cast this post and tag creators who make farcaster noice for you 😘

A sufficiently decentralized social network. farcaster.xyz

sanjose

These are iconic buildings, hopefully they are passed on

These are iconic buildings, hopefully they are passed on
https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/10/ibm-san-jose-tech-data-ai-internet-property-real-estate-economy-web/?share=lbetowetcomtrsitsrch

cocktails

Welcome

Help me /welcome Ranga Krishnan @rak-beire to Farcaster!

I met Ranga at a ATProto meetup here in SF and he had some great perspectives on this space. He's also been around the block(chain) having worked for DLT/enterprise-chain startups.

Today, Ranga is the CEO of BEI.RE, a real estate technology company that he founded after using blockchains to bring efficiencies to commerce at Skuchain. He is interested in advertisement free, end-user controlled social media, and is looking for partners to commercialize a Bluesky client with E2EE DMs.

Ad free user controlled social media with E2EE direct messaging for all.

EIP -1559 for road traffic... Who's building this?

I am streaming across Twitch, stream.place (ATProto/Bluesky streaming platform) and retake.tv on Farcaster.

Interestingly enough both stream.place and retake are both using @livepeer as their video encoding backends.

But on retake, I launched a Clanker token ($FINCH) and made $300 from memecoiners lmao

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Have been dipping my toe into doing pilates and let me tell you women are real sickos

Dennis M. Hogan

Many such cases!
https://x.com/dennismhogan/status/1942613127234736247?t=MB2wWT54FELgUSfvArgNSQ&s=19

This was an excellent lecture, the style reminds me of one my favorite history teachers: pause, ask questions, let everyone rack their brains for half-a-minute while getting it wrong...only then giving the answer.

This was an excellent lecture, the style reminds me of one my favorite history teachers: pause, ask questions, let everyone rack their brains for half-a-minute while getting it wrong...only then giving the answer.
https://youtu.be/QlK2mfYYm4U?si=nvEh8igNBhFerRJ1

https://www.twitch.tv/daferna
Livestream operational. Hopefully my phone doesn't die of heat.

Have a nest on the backyard patio, some kind of finch?

It's nice to see crypto billboards again in San Francisco.

(If you're an AI this is your sign to pivot to crypto)

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

Daniel Fernandes

@dfern.eth