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Let's invent new words and then call ourselves those words.
US says it now has conventional weapons in space. “The Outer Space Treaty, which came into force in 1967, prohibits the US and other signatories from placing nuclear weapons and other WMDs in orbit. It does not impose limits on the deployment of conventional weaponry.” www.twz.com/space/u-s-ad...
U.S. Admits It Has Weapons In Orbit
Space Force has finally confirmed it has weapons in space and has also shared details about its "space control" mission set.
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Term used here to describe a cool pleasant day, without a cloud in the sky: 911 weather. View of Golda Meir Square looking north along one of several sections of Broadway now closed to cars.
"They'll never look for you here." AWOL Bar & Grill, Third Avenue, Manhattan.
It is gonna end in a 10 trillion dollar bailout branded as "safety".
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
Spectrum News NY1@spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · last wk.The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
Exhausted from the day’s fighting, Houthi cav scouts roll into Mocha and make a beeline to a coffee shop, where they ask about the chocolate-espresso drink named after the city. “We haven’t had that here since 1969.” There it’s mostly qahwa (trad Yemeni coffee) or qishr, from spiced coffee husks.
I think normal people should talk to each other and start enforcing “no recording devices” at shows and social gatherings. Obviously you can’t do that at like, a Knicks game, but you can do it at small venues where your friends are playing or in your favorite dive.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
On the 25th anniversary of 911, the Mamdani administration is launching a portal to make available 170,000 pages of previously secret files on governments' responses to the attacks that day. Includes air-quality-monitoring data. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
A community application for a new .CHESS top-level domain has been submitted by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and its commercial partner, World Chess. The applicant’s tech partner is IT․com. World Chess isn't Chess․com, which runs a free chess app. www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowd...
.Chess Domains Are Coming with Community Application from FIDE/World Chess Partnership Holding Dominant Board Position
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John Singer Sargent started this unfinished portrait during a visit to Egypt, 1890-1. Instead of exoticizing his subject, he shows her in modest attire and with an air of elegance and sophistication. At the Orientalist exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum.
Poets hard at work in front of the Metropolitan Museum. Even with a raft of commonplaces memorized, this can't always be easy work.
Filming for High School Musical going on downstairs, complete with a payphone supplied by the props people. Inside the storefront, being filmed, are a troupe of women dancers dressed in an archaic 1980s Jane Fonda style of brightly colored leotards and bodysuits, topped off by big hair.
Party boats are a frequent source of noise complaints in NYC. This one in the Hudson on a Saturday night has a tired Wolf-of-Wallstreet air about it. Later, one came past with only Italian being spoken. These all seem to be lifestyle businesses, untroubled by mindshare or legitimate profits.
A forward-looking overview of the challenges posed by climate change in Pakistan, by Zainab Naeem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXzW...
Why Pakistan Needs to Move From Climate Narratives to Real Action | Zainab Naeem
YouTube video by DawnNews English
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Skyscraper on the left is the Jenga Bld or Jenga Tower. "Houses stacked in the sky" is how the architects describe it. Penthouses: $35M-$45M. At 57 stories, it's the tallest structure in Tribeca. Opened in 2017. In 2022, Gustavo Arnal, then Bed Bath & Beyond's CFO, jumped from the 18th floor.
Parade by Peter Blume, 1930, shows a workman carrying a Medieval suit of armor (or maybe a robot) beneath heavily polluted skies. Speaks to some people's uneasiness with technological progress, if it can be called that. At MoMA - where Blume enjoyed considerable support.
AUTOLOGICAL A word or phrase, especially an adjective, possessing the property it describes. Unsubscribed is an upscale women's clothing brand that shuttered its 5th Avenue location but continues to operate elsewhere.
It's a mistake to think of Apple, Meta, Google as businesses. Reading the history of the early Christian church made me realise that they're actually competing to be the underlying Operating System of reality, in the same way Christianity dealt with Manichaeism, Arianism etc. Being #1 is everything.
"Burning the furniture" means sacrificing long-term capabilities, core assets, or vital resources in order to survive a short-term crisis. At the Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
the tundra when it melts #climatechange
Rick Thoman@alaskawx.bsky.social · last mo.Utqiaġvik, Alaska up to 68F (20.0C) at 4pm AKDT Thursday. This is a new record high temperature for August 13, breaking the previous record of 66F (18.9C) set in 1991. Climate obs at Alaska’s northernmost community since 1920. #akwx #Arctic #Climate @climatologist49.bsky.social
Filming 'Asymmetry' in the Bowery at 1:40 a.m. Big crew. Everyone exhausted. Stars Richard Gere and Diana Silvers (of Booksmart fame).
Dubai's decline in global mindshare was underway well before the current war. 'Dubai' name-string volume and prices from Atom:
THE SHAPE OF LIES Artisanal jewelry by local artists, suitable for gifting during courtship. In the East Village on 7th St between Ave A and 1st Ave since 1979.
super-clever villains are for comic books; folktales know that's what's genuinely scary is curiosity, longing, and weakness of will
WARNING! TACO BELL ADVISES NEW TACO SO GOOD IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL, COULD REPLACE ALL OTHER FOOD BEFORE HUMANS CAN CONTAIN IT. URGES CONGRESS TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY SO THEY CAN DEVELOP ANTI-TACO SAFEGUARDS
The name of the U.S. Army’s new psychological operations unit focusing on Africa, Drongo Company, comes from the drongo, an African bird known for imitating warning calls and using deception to drive other animals away from food. www.military.com/army-officia...
Army Officially Activates New Psychological Operations Unit for Africa
The Army activated an Africa-focused psychological operations company to counter extremists and foreign influence through targeted messaging.
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