Never trade a stock on its earnings call day, "buy the hype, sell the news" this happens just about every time, regardless of the contents of the earnings

Anecdotal but I see Teslas every day on the road. I have rarely seen a robotaxi (Waymo much more widespread), and I have only seen an Optimus in short form video being teleoperated. I never use Grok and all the LLM power users I know use Claude. He will need a new hype layer (spaceX merger?)

Sean O’Kane@okane.fyi · yesterday

NEW: Elon Musk clearly hates talking about Tesla's stagnant car biz these days so @russellbrandom.bsky.social and I mapped out just how much it's taken a back seat on the company's earnings calls. Musk now spends half or more of his time talking about AI & robotics: techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/e...

is being wagged around by an animatronic arachnid sans helmet OSHA compliant?

The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 2d ago

Starship Troopers (1997): Arachnid Warrior Bug, animatronics testing by Amalgamated Dynamics

"Benjamin Lehmann improved upon the utility of this classic approximation by treating the spherical cow as simply the first term of a multipole expansion. This allowed him to resolve higher order effects that were previously impossible to explore."

Beyond the spherical cow

A quintessential approximation in physics gets a versatile upgrade.

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NASA GNSS receiver for Intuitive Machines Altus-1 Nav/Relay Sat www.nasa.gov/technology/s...

NASA Delivers Navigation System for Commercial Lunar Relay - NASA

NASA delivered the NavCube3-mini payload on July 13 to Intuitive Machines for integration into Altus-1, the

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There are problems with hosting internet from GEO, but there are also problems with mega-constellations in LEO, notably the externalized risk from conjunctions and the waste/pollution of burning up tons of metals in the atmosphere at a constant trickle. More broadly I think space internet is niche

SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hughes files for bankruptcy after GEO business loses ground to Starlink EchoStar’s Hughes geostationary satellite broadband business has filed for bankruptcy in the United States after years of mounting competition from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation....

I prefer PEBKAC because it connotes Russian origins and is thus mathematically robust

presenting my subscribers with yet another 15 post thread about how president Whitmore should have nuked Houston much harder in Independence Day

Agreed grace and rocky should have fucked at least once

Anise K. Strong@anisekstrong.bsky.social · 3d ago

Still lacking sex and tantalizing food, though!

The assumption here is that the brachiosaurus does not lower its head while retching, like we have all observed dogs and cats do. Also why would there be bones in the vomit of an herbivore? I appreciate the diagram but take issue with the underlying assumptions.

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 5d ago

this is my new favorite diagram

ME: b-but Reverend Mother, we mustn’t, what if Shai Hulud hears the rhythm of our prayer and comes here and devours me?? MY DOMINATRIX: …I’m sorry can you explain all this again please

A harkonnen agent is discovered inside the palace walls controlling a hunter seeker

Garfield and Friends Screens@garfieldscreens.bsky.social · 3d ago

Watched first two acts of Eddington on the plane then had to put my screen away and was left with cinematic blue balls

My 6yo was melting down about misplacing his lost tooth and thus not getting paid by the tooth fairy and I consoled him over the phone that the tooth fairy has a recovery team and calcium detector just for these occasions and he immediately relaxed. Incredible dad W

What's the most masculine way to carry a tote bag?

ATTN: haters We love you anyway

A solar eclipse. On Saturn. By Titan. Photographed from Earth. 📷: AJ Smadi (StardustAstro/Correct_Presence_936)

Boning up on Spanish by watching John wick in the hotel room (cuarto de hotel)

I watched 28 years later: the bone temple on the airplane and it is unreasonably good. Ralph Fiennes is an absolute treasure

This is the inverse of the F150 in the soapy bowl, to me

Third Wave Fremenist@oksettledown.bsky.social · last wk.

Lesser phenomena of the century of American humiliation

Lesser phenomena of the century of American humiliation

Going to a week long prana bindu retreat

years ago I did a podcast called the Movie Jam where we watch 30 minutes of a movie then attempt to extrapolate the rest of the plot. We watched that movie where Kevin Spacey is turned into a cat and recorded a whole episode then had to spike it bc news of his sex crimes became public.

They should make a small outfit that flies these things at airshows like blue angels or whatever instead of foisting this ancient POS into actual combat. Keep the memory alive without the risk. Call it the Brown Angels bc the gun sounds like violent diarrhea

The Aviationist@theaviationist.com · 2w ago

Bipartisan ‘BRRRRT Act’ Introduced in U.S. Congress to Keep the A-10 Warthog in Service A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at halting the retirement of the A-10 until a fully certified replacement is operational. Story: theaviationist.com/2026/07/23/b...

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

🚨PRAYER WARRIORS 🚨 I was just attacked by yellow jackets, got stung on both legs. Now I'm gonna go play soccer, maybe I'll develop a super power

This mf terrorized my colleages at NASA with his "write five bullets about what you do" email, then the "fork in the road" email, two rounds of deferred resignation offers, a close call with mass layoffs saved at the literal last minute. Redundant/known, but he can f choke.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

telling my kids this is peaky blinders

Paul@thentherespaul.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why the fuck don’t I have all of these shirts?

Got the capacitor on rush order, installed it, and the ac started up perfectly. Now to fight God,,,

Third Wave Fremenist@oksettledown.bsky.social · 2w ago

The air conditioner has stopped working and I'm pretty sure it's the capacitor which means I will fix it for $20 and feel more powerful than God after