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Abraham Samma🔬🔭👨‍💻
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Doctor, researcher, data wrangler, coder, open source dev & knowledge tool enthusiast.

Current day job: working on healthcare software ⚕️

You can also find me over @ the fediverse: https://toolsforthought.social/@abesamma
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abesamma.bsky.social
Lawrence Krauss was so keen on using Jeffrey Epstein as a source of advice on how to deal with his SA scandal that Jeffrey got sick of him. 😶 the more you know... #epstein #science
February 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM
abesamma.bsky.social
The Epstein files just keep on giving.

https://youtu.be/ZoO9FZXUgv4
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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February 16, 2026 at 12:52 PM
abesamma.bsky.social
Here they are, and there they go!

Why most MCP servers won’t last and that’s okay - Frank DENIS random thoughts. https://share.google/RamUVkc2idn04oGTa

#mcp #ai #llm
Why most MCP servers won’t last and that’s okay
MCP servers are everywhere right now. If you browse the /r/mcp subreddit, you’ll see dozens of new servers pop up daily, usually vibe-coded, often short...
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February 16, 2026 at 9:16 AM
abesamma.bsky.social
I do remember once upon a time trying to add info about Lawrence Krauss' sexual misconduct story into Wikipedia, but because the source was restricted to just Buzzfeed I think, and maybe some of the editors could have been Krauss fanboys, it was removed, which I accepted,
February 16, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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fossillad123.bsky.social
oh ye happy #worldwhaleday

cetaceans are among my favorite animals ever

[ #paleoart | #sciart | #whales | #3Dart | #art ]
render of basilosaurus model render of livyatan model render of zygophyseter model render of orca models
February 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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andrealuck.bsky.social
Mars - Cloud over Promethei Terra

Full size 5k image and more info: flic.kr/p/2rWMYkb 🔭🧪
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

@esa.int Mars Express 2025-05-24
ID: HR000_0000 (ND+RED+GR+BL)
View of Mars from orbit, showing a curved horizon against the blackness of space. The dusty tan surface is marked by scattered impact craters and rugged ridges. Along the horizon, a thin pale bluish atmospheric layer creates a misty glow, and a single distinct white cloud is visible near the upper layers of the atmosphere.
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
abesamma.bsky.social
It's really funny how the Obamas seem to live rent free in Trump's pathetic little skull (I refuse to believe there's a brain inside, or a mind of any sort). #uspol
February 15, 2026 at 8:43 AM
abesamma.bsky.social
Salesforce's Benioff has an... interesting sense of humour. A person who was at the event said the room became deathly silent after the tasteless joke was uttered. He repeated it again later. What a tone deaf asshole. #corporate #america #tech
Screenshot of an Inc. magazine article excerpt describing Salesforce’s annual kickoff meeting, where Marc Benioff asked international employees to stand for recognition and then joked that ICE agents were in the back of the room, as reported by Gazetteer SF.
February 14, 2026 at 10:50 AM
abesamma.bsky.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116065871321544051

This is so incredibly unethical and racist I can't even. Who the fuck is enabling this study?? #medicine
Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image WHO slams US-funded newborn vaccine trial as "unethical" CDC awarded $1.6 million for study birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau. https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/who-slams-us-funded-newborn-vaccine-trial-as-unethical/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
mastodon.social
February 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
A nice Apollo 16 image of Earth that includes North America. The Western deserts stand out against the blue oceans. Baja California is prominent near the center, with the Gulf of California separating it from Mexico.
This portrait of Earth made by the Apollo 16 crew on their outbound journey to the Moon shows the quality of state of the art portable film cameras of the time, in this case the the Hasselblad 'medium format' camera which takes 6 X 6 cm (about 2 1/3 inch) square format photos. The high quality scans on the Arizona State University site, which show film grain, are over 10K pixels wide in the image area. Earth is wrapped in a comparatively thin layer of atmosphere, which lightens the color of the vast Pacific Ocean near the sunlit edge of Earth as our line of sight passes through more air. The lighter reddish tan deserts in the Western third of North America are marked by dark mountain ranges. The Great Plains farmlands darken the continent to the East, the actual darker greenish colors tending to be subdued by the atmospheric haze. The land masses surrounding the Gulf of Mexico are largely outlined by lighter coastal areas of the blue green tinted lands, and by coastal clouds. For many years these Apollo photos were the best images of Earth as a world in space. These were an attempt to capture what the Astronauts saw. Within a year hand held digital cameras will probably obtain similar views.
May 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas was a fantastic comet to see and photograph. On October 12, 2024 I photographed the comet at twilight, and the faint anti tail in the dawn sky. The comet was over 60 degrees in length, this digital portrayal combines hand painted details and my rendering of Earth that day.
This is a digital portrayal of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas as it may have appeared on October 12, 2024 from a favorable space vantage point. The comet spans over 60 degree in the sky, most of this the faint 'anti tail' which is the very flat but wide tail extending in our direction seen in perspective. The wide faint Zodiacal Light, with the hidden Sun at its center, shines behind Earth. Earth is shown as it was that day, with the clouds derived from a satellite map from that time. Moonlight partially illuminates the night hemisphere. We see city lights, current gas flaring and agricultural burning across the land masses. The reflection of the Moon can be seen at left, interrupted by the narrow land masses of Costa Rica and Panama. Earth and the sky were rendered from my painted Planetarium digital sky map and a render of a properly oriented Earth using a custom made texture map showing the clouds at that time. Lots of hand retouching was done, all the atmospheric 'rim glow' details are hand painted. All the comet was hand painted, based on my photography of the 'ends' of this display at that date, as well as a near Sun view from a Solar observation satellite showing the nearby portion of the anti tail. The 'missing portions were artistically extrapolated. The original digital art was done in fairly high resolution, 30 inches wide at 300 DPI, and this is a cropped version of the original which has more sky. #SciArt
June 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
The first hand held photograph made from the surface of the Moon. After seeing only the poor quality Television images, when the Hasselblad photographs were developed, copied and a selection released in the picture magazines like LIFE I remember how astonishingly clear the airless scenes appeared.
This photograph was the first one obtained on the surface of the Moon by a human being after having the camera passed along a clothsline like affair from the cabin hatch above Several later images from this roll of film would becoming iconic images of the 20th century. This photograph shows a leg of the descent stage of the Lunar Module spacecraft. A white 'Jettison bag' was taken from the cabin and tossed to the surface while Neil Armstrong was climbing down the ladder mounted on the front landing leg. The airless scene has a stark clarity to it that contrasts with Earthly landscapes wrapped in our luminous daytime atmosphere. The Moons surface is a landscape of eternity, changing only in detail over billions of years. With the Lunar expeditions we saw and sampled some of that eternity.
July 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
Here is a render previewing the kind of photography we should see during the upcoming Artemis II mission as the spacecraft loops around the far side of the Moon. Since it is meant to imitate photography no stars are shown.
This is a 3D render showing the Lunar far side as the Artemis II mission spacecraft will see it, subject to launch delays changing the phase etc. It is meant to imitate what the photos made out the window might look like, so no stars are shown. #sciart
February 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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ddavisspaceart.bsky.social
25 years ago today the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the Asteroid Eros, after orbiting it and making a map of the elongated 34 km long asteroid. It gently landed on the surface with its cameras obtaining views during the final descent. Digital art. #SCIART
This digital painting/render shows the NEAR spacecraft as it reached the surface, with attitude control jets spraying dust about. The spacecraft is a digital model I made from references, the asteroid surface foreground is based on the last photographs of the surface obtained on the way down. The rest of the scenery is painted based on more distant views. This was used on the cover of the mission final report. This view shows the context of the final photos in relation to the landed attitude of the NEAR spacecraft. The surface relief is guesswork, with the final descent photographs draped over a hand painted Digital Elevation map of the rocks etc. That surface model became the basis of the foreground of the other portrayal.
February 12, 2026 at 10:43 PM
abesamma.bsky.social
Web MCP is a thing now. Time to read up. #webdev #javascript

WebMCP https://share.google/K5ZXFdlDl1aCUW3Xk
February 13, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
Apollo lunar samples hinted at a strange flurry of major impacts that happened hundreds of millions of years after the solar system formed: the "late heavy bombardment."

Chang'e-6 samples suggest it was an illusion, addressing another major puzzle. 🧪🔭

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Artist's impression of the Moon during the Late Heavy Bombardment.
February 12, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
Over the years, there have been a lot of weird explanations for our two-faced Moon.

Samples from the far side suggest a simpler & more logical answer, linking the division to the asteroid impact that carved the Moon's South Pole–Aitken basin: Whacked out of balance. 🧪🔭

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Lunar elevation map and lunar samples. The full version: Lunar topographic map and the cross-sectional micro-CT images of four CE6 basalt samples. (A) The base map is a topographic product derived from Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) data (14). Locations of the 11 lunar sample-return missions are marked on the nearside and farside. (B) These lithic fragments were selected from lunar soil sample CE6C0200YJFM001.
February 12, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander may have solved one of the great Moon mysteries: Why does its far side look totally different than the side that faces us?

A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭

eos.org/articles/pri...
The near & far sides of the Moon, as seen by NASA's LRO spacecraft.
February 12, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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bloomberg.com
China’s government has been steadily trimming its US government bond holdings over the past decade. Now, Beijing has urged Chinese banks to scale back their private holdings. Here's what it all means.
Why China Is Retreating Further From US Treasuries
It’s the biggest pile of debt in the world — the $30 trillion US Treasuries market. It’s been built with the help of foreign central banks and investors, who have clamored to buy US government bonds through good times and bad. But what happens if their appetite wanes?
bloom.bg
February 13, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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mk.gg
This is a really nice new Cloudflare feature: on-the-fly markdown conversion. Tools like Claude Code send an "Accept: text/markdown" header when making web requests. If you enable this it, it will send these agents a markdown version of your page instead of the full HTML. Really good for docs.
Introducing Markdown for Agents
Cloudflare's network supports real-time content conversion to markdown at the source.
developers.cloudflare.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
abesamma.bsky.social
Racists & bigots have never needed to explain the foundations and details of their beliefs. That's why Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations nominee Jeremy Carl struggled in his Congressional grilling. He's never been put in this position, ever. 1/5 #uspol
February 13, 2026 at 6:38 AM
abesamma.bsky.social
Let's be clear, the entire Trump administration, from Pam Bondi to Patel is dedicated to protecting a pedophile in power. Oh America, how low have you fallen. #epstein
February 12, 2026 at 6:46 AM
abesamma.bsky.social
Is Pam Bondi even a lawyer? What kind of professional is she? What do you call the kind of behaviour she displayed at yesterday's congressional hearing? #epstein
February 12, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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stim3on.bsky.social
It still seems unreal to me that humans will soon be flying back to the moon! They will be returning to Earth at a speed of 40.000 km/h, the fastest ever reentry of a crewed spacecraft.

This remastered video shows a similar reentry from the #Artemis 1 mission back in 2022 at 9x speed. 🔭🧪
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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stim3on.bsky.social
This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth.

It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth.
The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM