The new telescope is headed to a location called L2, about a million miles away from us, where the gravitational pulls from the sun and Earth cancel out. It will take about 100 days for Roman to reach L2 and begin science observations, which will last for at least five years […]

Journalist: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to [Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent] about another type of intervention? Is that something he will be doing? Trump: We have many types of intervention. That’s one. The ultimate intervention is our military, and if we have to […]

@bulwarkonline On the #Bulwark Next Level podcast, #AndrewEgger says "It's amazing the stuff we subject ourselves to by continuing to live on #Elon's website and the way he's tweaked the algorithm." I don't understand why anyone continues to support #Twitter.

Eurasia Group is quoted as saying the Treasury's shift to short-term debt is "norm-breaking," but this same thing happened in the 90s. I think a bigger issue is that the deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio are higher now, regardless of how the debt is structured […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116936619463355033 "Nokia’s predicament had precedent—Kodak, dominant in film photography, had actually invented the digital camera in 1975 but failed to commercialize it before digital imaging made its core business obsolete."

Apparently, in electro-optical engineering, there are a lot of gotchas, some of them insidious, others nefarious. This is from the index of Building Electro-Optical Systems: Making It All Work by Philip C.D. Hobbs

[Aug 14, 2/26 NYT Wordle] If the #Worldle had been #chode, I would have gotten it on my third attempt.

I love #AI and #Fidelity, but I cannot imagine wanting more exposure to large-cap #tech. I can't imagine reading this from Fidelity and thinking, "yeah I want more tech exposure than I can get from an S&P500 fund." https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/trading-investing/tech-stock-ideas

As a libertarian-leaning person, it's really sad that one hope for a freer #Venezuela is for their authoritarian president to become the client of a US authoritarian president, whose political interests happen to partially coincide with freedom a little more than Maduro's did […]

This #WI gubernatorial primary is insanely close. #Crowley #FrancescaHong

I like #Claude, but it makes me nervous how intermittently flaky it is. I'm getting an error when I try to view the Claude Dashboard even though the status page says all systems are go. 😕

"Escaping federal dysfunction and avoiding real hostilities over the long term will require some kind of radical shift. Perhaps states and regions could become much more independent." […]

This article in @ieeespectrum is about #USC work on robots for kids with #autism. https://spectrum.ieee.org/socially-assistive-robotics I feel like the lack of "static" of all the features of a human face is relaxing. I wonder if the goal is eventually to teach them to ignore the extra […]

"This is Nolan’s finest trick: to make one of our oldest moral rules sound new again. To turn the best of Judeo-Christianity into the law of Zeus, so we can see why it might matter and what it might still have to say to us." […]

If I were #POTUS and trying to resolve the #war with #Iran , I would start by looking at the capacitance seen by the war's input. If that's low, I would try adding some feedback capacitance. I would also look for impedance discontinuity at the war's output. 😆 Seriously, look at the scope traces […]

I've been listening to the #SkepticsGuide to the Universe since the beginning in 2005. I was so happy when they came to #Madison to record a live show. It just dropped on their podcast feed. #SGU #skepticism https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-1098

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I always thought #RealEstate assessments of land value and improvements didn't matter; just the sum mattered. Ben Noffke explains how taxing improvements and overstating the value of improvements, discourages development. #Madison is trying to correct overstated improvement values, and Noffke […]

[Links to Phishing and Malware] Earlier today I got a phishing email going to this spoofed site. https://review.briefingriver.com/ The button downloads malware from GitHub https://github.com/wealthhis51-cmd I reported it to the domain registrar, #CloudFlare and to #GitHub a few hours ago […]

This describes simulating a processor running code as a new concept in the early 90s. I think I remember doing it in the mid 90s in school. I wonder if that was a new practice or if what Dr. Panetta did was different. "Her idea became the basis for the digital twin simulator. It used behavioral […]

“A healthier planet means healthier people,” Mr. Frist said. “The science shows it. Our experience shows it. Nobody can really argue against that.” “Our national leadership too often, and I was probably a part of that at the time, has failed to connect those dots [between climate change and […]

I thought of #Manchester code as ancient when I in school because it was from the 50s, but to young engineers today, it's like something from the 80s. https://spectrum.ieee.org/manchester-code-ieee-milestone

Manchester Code Made Bits Behave

Embedded signal timing scheme recognized as an IEEE Milestone

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US's climate.gov site, taken down by Trump, relaunched by nonprofit - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/uss-climate-gov-site-taken-down-by-trump-relaunched-by-nonprofit/

Downtown #Toronto is going crazy. - Block after block of people singing #Ghana anthems, horns honking, cheering

It’s a common refrain: The middle class is hollowing out. The “hollowing out” message requires a curious definition of progress: By its logic, if everyone’s income doubles, the same number of families fail to reach the middle class as in the past […]

New details of how that period unfolded show how Mr. Patel’s drive to target critics of the president set off cascading crises with U.S. attorneys’ offices, derailed distinguished careers and undercut the Justice Department’s credibility with judges […]

Today's #Wordle did not seem like a likely solution "based on what I've learned playing Wordle." I had never heard of it before.

This #NYT article about how snake experts grade Health Secretary #RFK's #snake wrangling technique makes me feel like I'm in a weird dream. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/rfk-jr-snakes-video-safety.html

I like #Claude, but the lowest-cost model, #Haiku, is mostly worthless. I was talking about power supplies for a product, and it told me I get get more *power* out of a North American outlet because 20A breakers are common here, whereas in Europe and Asia 16A […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Sounds of #gunfire heard near #WhiteHouse https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/23/politics/white-house-area-gunshots

This is Spam email I got aimed at people considering retiring in #Florida. 🙄