Chile Storm Recovery Update: 5 August 2026 Restoration efforts continue at NSF NOIRLab's Chilean facilities, which include NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, following July’s historic winter storm. Our staff is safe, and the telescope is secured. 🧵
Stacy McGaugh
@dudedarkmatter.bsky.social
Astronomer & Astrophysicist working on galaxies, cosmology, dark matter and modified gravity. Academic home page: https://astroweb.case.edu/ssm Blog: https://tritonstation.com/ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9762-0980
Of course Ohio has to lead in being awful. 10 GW of new fossil fuel power generation entirely for an insanely large AI data center. 1 GW is huge for a power plant. 10 GW just for AI babble is absurd. Let’s just take a blowtorch to the already overheated climate. qz.com/nvidia-opena...
Nvidia in talks to back OpenAI Ohio data center with $250 billion
The chipmaker's backing would help OpenAI lease a 10-gigawatt project in southern Ohio being developed by SoftBank's energy subsidiary
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The mods on the PSLF and Student Loan Reddit pages have been doing the lord's work for a few years gathering lots of info and answering the same qs every day. One of them runs a free student loan advice NP called TISLA. Most misinfo is weeded out and explained clearly! several Pinned threads, etc.
Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.
Pre-1990: they said we were crazy to suggest that there could be low surface brightness material all over the sky.
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory@vrubinobs.bsky.social · 2w agoTalk about a cosmic glow-up✨📸 This progression of images of galaxy group RSCG 55 shows the evolution of ground-based sky surveys spanning more than three decades🤯, ending with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view. 🔭🧪
I’m just back from Europe where I saw an awful lot of super yachts floating around, driving up prices in newly found (to zillionaires) tourist spots.
Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2w ago“I think I’m spot on” Elon saying he’s right about Europe being a hellscape
They say travel is broadening, but did it have to be as literal as +5 lbs?
If this passes, 90%+ of American archeologists, including my daughter, will lose their jobs. Another archeologist (📸 #1) explains the devastation to come. 👇🏽😳 ACHP - Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Sources: culturalheritagepartners.com/war-room-for... share.google/1BkIaB7nFGi7...
I ran a week long workshop for 40 scientists for $40K.
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd@llassabe.bsky.social · 3w agoPsst those intellectual diversity centers are just one more rightwing grift TIL Rufo’s speaking fee is $50k
Doesn’t necessarily help your career, either.
Christophe 🔬 Leterrier@christlet.bsky.social · 3w ago"Our findings likewise suggest that scientific impact does not translate into happiness. This gap reflects a deeper misalignment: the external recognition conferred by citations may not satisfy researchers’ intrinsic psychological needs" doi.org/10.1093/rese...
We need to make J6 a national holiday to mark it every year. I suggest doing so by giving Trump the Guy Fawkes treatment.
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 4w agoThe NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers
Had a twenty minute call with Lindsey Graham, but he couldn’t say if he predeceased Mitch McConnell or vice-versa.
Mark Shapiro@mhshapiro2.bsky.social · 4w ago
I was awakened by an urgent call from an unknown number, but it was just 20 minutes of dead air.
After T is removed from office, his bribe plane should be confiscated and its broken hull set on display over the rubble of the east wing of the White House as a reminder to future presidents of the constitutional clause against accepting foreign emoluments.
Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4w agoThis is precisely what I was talking about yesterday (and when this retrofit started). There’s simply no way to turn a regular plane into a mobile command center for a nuclear-armed nation in 10 months. Even allowing Trump to fly on the Qatari plane is a security risk.
Spent some of the morning patching gaps in the neighbors’ fences in what is no doubt a vain effort to save our garden from the deer. I don’t think I’d last long in a zombie movie. Those things are gonna get in so why bother boarding up the windows? Let’s just get the brain-devouring over with.
After 105+ scoreless minutes, the Colombian fans are dancing. What is this joy of life?
My feed is all Is Mitch McConnell dead? Graham Platner’s political career should be dead. USMNT is well and truly dead.
