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Let this radicalize you

A stunning view of Earth from Artemis 2 after the TLI burn. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Hello, World - NASA

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection

nasa.gov

Putting vape pens on the blockchain feels very 2017, tbh.

Your Vape Wants to Know How Old You Are

Companies hope that biometric age-verification tech in cartridges could put flavored vapes back in business. But it's unlikely to solve the real problems.

wired.com

But if Lou’s doin’ Bowie and Bowie’s doin’ Lou, Lou’s still doin’ Lou.

I've started writing in a new place. It began with a walk along Waller Creek and a conversation about the three things that change the world. open.substack.com/pub/classwor...

They have Tuk Tuks, we have Turk Turks

Boing Boing@boingboing.net · 7mo ago

Those "autonomous" Waymo cars cruising San Francisco? They're being driven by humans sitting in other countries. https://boingboing.net/2026/02/12/those-waymo-robotaxis-humans-in-other-countries-drive-them.html

Yes, nowadays we have little Eichwomenn too.

Become unrulable

"Grandpa, what was it like to live through the Great Regression...?"

An initial futures wheel for potential outcomes of a US seizure of Greenland.

it just dawned on me that dude thinks having a Peace Prize will prove to god that he deserves to go to heaven.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Austin folks: please join us Tuesday night at Alienated Majesty Books for the paperback release of A Natural History of Empty Lots (and a month-long celebration of this amazing bookstore's second birthday): alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

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A great homily by Pope Leo’s pick for the new bishop of Austin, TX, Bishop Daniel Garcia, condemning racism & the harsh treatment of migrants & saying God will judge people for their actions on this & for their inactions. www.ncronline.org/news/world-h...

World is 'hungry for justice, mercy,' Austin's new bishop says in installation homily

Bishop Daniel Garcia, Central Texas born and raised, delivered an emotional homily condemning racism and the harsh treatment of migrants as he was installed as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Austi...

ncronline.org

The evil that men do lives after them

Blur my foreground

I was thinking the same thing. I have lots of non-Trump terror muscles. I guess it’s leg day.

Jamais Cascio@cascio.bsky.social · last yr.

Oh, joy. At least it gives us a chance to have existential terror about something non-Trump, right?

Putting aside debates about macroeconomics for a moment In a way, everything you need to know about why tariffs and why not is right here in this trading chart from this afternoon.

Could be true?

New plant species discovered in Big Bend National Park!!! 🤗 🌱 www.mrt.com/news/article...

New plant species 'wooly devil' discovered in a national park

A new plant species, dubbed the "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park by park staff and confirmed by the California Academy of Science.

mrt.com

Anyone want to go in on a purchase of a federal building?

Trump was running the Bonasera scene in his mind during the Zelenskyy meeting. He kept demanding Z kiss his hand and beg for justice. Z did not and Trump couldn’t remain jn his fantasy.

Jake Dunagan@dunagan23.bsky.social · 2y ago

“The Godfather” is the movie T is always cosplaying in his mind. And so “keep you friends close, but your enemies closer” is prob a foreign policy “doctrine” for him. Except he’s keeping his enemies closer not by bringing them in, but by pushing friends further away.

every generation thinks it is living in the end times. and yet we persist. there's some comfort in that. On the other hand, at some point, one of those generations is going to be right.

Philanthropy should never be a substitute for public services, but this is where we are. Kudos to the Macarthur Foundation for this move. The rest of philanthropy needs to step up. Now. As @nonprofitaf.bsky.social says, "Dear funders: your endowments will be worthless in a fascist state."

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Every single philanthropic institution needs to do this rather than retracting right now. abcnews-go-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/abcnews....

Survey for futures folks: which LLM will be more impactful on the next 10 years, Large Language Models, or Large Luigi Movement?

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