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Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.
HiPOD: Rhythmic Layering in Arabia Terra These deposits are undergoing erosion, which has produced crenulations, pits, and jagged edges. Darker wind-blown ripples and debris has more recently covered and infilled portions of the layered deposit. https://uahirise.org/ESP_092890_1825
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
banteg (@banteg)
>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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obsessed with this US department of agriculture zine about snail farming from 1986 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...
SUPER cool graph from Stripe Economics. US productivity is up in the post-AI era, but Utilization-adjusted Total Factor Productivity (the measure closest to "tech added to productivity hooray") has been shrinking for over a year and was around zero last quarter!
Illustrations by Charles Robinson for “The Happy Prince,” in Oscar Wilde, THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES (Duckworth, 1913).
Who said range sliders need to be straight and boring?! Hey CSS, distort the line! 〰️ css-tip.com/wiggly-range... Another funny demo powered by border-shape, scroll-driven animations, and more The HTML code? Only an input element (no extra code is needed)
Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3mo agoHormuz vessel crossings: @bloomberg.com
Have a look at this. Disquieting. (As if you need more of it, I know. But still. You should) sinceyouarrived.world/taken
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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As promised, here's a quick write up of how my eink badge from @pimoroni.com that I wore at #AtmosphereConf worked.
Badger Badger Badger
A short write up about what Bailey had around his neck at #AtmosphereConf 2026
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If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.
I always like to tell this story but during WWII, a 23 year old PHD mathematician from Harvard was able to solve the 8th Air Force’s gunnery problem in like 2 months without spending a day in the military (turns out you have to lead your target)
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7mo agoHegseth to US military: if you get into MIT, we won't let you attend because of the risk that you will be exposed to ideas hostile to MAGA when you study there.
Shrimp hat of a shrimp wearing a shrimp hat. Is this anything.
the primary function of an army is logistics, they exist to move materiel closer to the enemy. they only get in fights in order to clear space for more supply lines
I know shit is all insane and everything is on fire but if all things go well, four astronauts will go to the moon in a few weeks. This mission will include many firsts: the first non-American astronaut, the first female astronaut, and the first person of color to travel to the moon.
DutchSpace@dutchspace.eurosky.social · 8mo agoAlthough difficult to see on the livestream, teams are loading hydrazine in the SRB TVC units at pad 39B currently #ArtemisII
'So through the darkness and the cold we flew' -William Wordsworth @signemaene.com welcomes you to an icy cold #BookWormSat. 🎨Edmund Dulac
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Struggling with the next editorial. Original idea just didn't pan out and time is running out. Open to suggestions or could just do a Q&A style editorial where the Q's come from here. Those can be fun sometimes. Suggest or ask away. :)
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
[wearily] the future belongs to whoever can stop hitting themselves first
Matt@tiredgenerally.bsky.social · last yr.china is staying the course on export growth economics/depressed domestic consumption while the eu is still gripped in austerity anti immigrant madness. seems like nobody is likely to benefit from the usa eating itself. were gonna get a thousand years of deflationary bloc darkness
If 25% of the population believed that a creature called ‘Glonzo’ caused high power prices by chewing through transmission lines, any competent politician would be negligent in not trying to find a way to exploit this. This doesn’t mean that these people wouldn’t be fucking morons.
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
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