Mars Rover
@marsrover.bsky.social
Not at ALL affiliated with NASA except for the schwag I took working there. Space, science, tech, video games, angry outbursts. Stuck in isolation until you believe in disease again.
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Mars Rover
@marsrover.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Big Build 2025 complete! It includes a hand-built frame, metallic paint markers, & a laminated copy of "The Exoplanet Zoo". The lamination & lauan plywood backing ensure we can do hours of star charting w/o destruction. A real wall-eater at 54"×37" overall. www.halcyonmaps.com/the-exoplane....
A decent EE friend spent 3 yrs of his life trying to use "AI" to get a few electric buggies to clean solar panels.
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
Musk posits a hypothetical scenario where Optimus robots could build a rare earth refinery, but they would need an "orchestra conductor" to guide that work, which is where Grok would come in.
So basically, Grok would replace Tesla management?
So basically, Grok would replace Tesla management?
January 29, 2026 at 12:48 AM
A decent EE friend spent 3 yrs of his life trying to use "AI" to get a few electric buggies to clean solar panels.
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
They would crash into the panels, each other, wander into the desert, stop & die in despair, & on rare occasions bump into a panel with a brush.
But non-existent robots can do this?🤦♀️
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Tesla will unveil Optimus 3 in a few months, which Musk says "will surprise people." It's not clear how, considering he's set expectations at "will be able to do anything, and usher in a post-scarcity utopia that overturns the laws of economics" but I guess we'll see.
January 28, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Tesla will unveil Optimus 3 in a few months, which Musk says "will surprise people." It's not clear how, considering he's set expectations at "will be able to do anything, and usher in a post-scarcity utopia that overturns the laws of economics" but I guess we'll see.
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I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"!
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
January 28, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I'm a few minutes behind the live call, but here's my Q4 Tesla earnings call "live thread"!
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
We start out with Elon announcing that Tesla's mission has changed to "Amazing Abundance," which represents a pivot from the "Sustainable Abundance" tagline he announced last year.
Inside your living room are three tables
January 28, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Inside your living room are three tables
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Baily's Beads, Aug. 21, 2017 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/WK3u9e
January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Baily's Beads, Aug. 21, 2017 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/WK3u9e
Let college kids put my face on t-shirts and posters for 100 years.
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Let college kids put my face on t-shirts and posters for 100 years.
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Is Uranus icy? Or is it rocky? New modelling suggests that the composition of the outer planets (Uranus + Neptune) could be radically different from what we previously assumed. But if we want to know for sure, we'll have to send a spacecraft to investigate. 🔭⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/uranus-and...
Uranus and Neptune may be more rocky than icy, say astrophysicists – Physics World
Novel modelling approach suggests that the traditionally ice-rich image of these planets may be skewed
physicsworld.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Is Uranus icy? Or is it rocky? New modelling suggests that the composition of the outer planets (Uranus + Neptune) could be radically different from what we previously assumed. But if we want to know for sure, we'll have to send a spacecraft to investigate. 🔭⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/uranus-and...
Hire through it, Bari. If there's anything bosses love, it's a pile of expensive new hires that don't fix the problem & leave quickly.
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Hire through it, Bari. If there's anything bosses love, it's a pile of expensive new hires that don't fix the problem & leave quickly.
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YOU - I don't think anyone's being promiscuous with me. I wish they were, though.
January 27, 2026 at 11:32 AM
YOU - I don't think anyone's being promiscuous with me. I wish they were, though.
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Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
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Only if @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had this kind of instinct (or Nancy Pelosi had operated with the same sense of urgency after J6 - instead of wasting an entire weekend to move).
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
January 27, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Only if @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had this kind of instinct (or Nancy Pelosi had operated with the same sense of urgency after J6 - instead of wasting an entire weekend to move).
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
Bill Kristol offering pinpoint counsel to Dems - who could have seen this?
They are sitting by the phone waiting anxiously for their billionaire handlers to call and tell them that is/is not exactly what they should do.
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
January 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
They are sitting by the phone waiting anxiously for their billionaire handlers to call and tell them that is/is not exactly what they should do.
Me and the boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
Spider monkeys pool their knowledge to find the best fruit
When spider monkeys want to tell others about the best fruit trees in the forest or ones they've missed, they do so by changing their social groups to share what they know, according to a new study pu...
phys.org
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 AM
Me and the boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
And my boys' boys.
And their boys' boys boys.
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we’ve spent decades creating data compression systems and the new hotness is a system that takes a small amount of text and turns it into a large amount of text so that the recipient can take that large amount of text and turn it back into a small amount of text, at great cost
January 26, 2026 at 8:17 PM
we’ve spent decades creating data compression systems and the new hotness is a system that takes a small amount of text and turns it into a large amount of text so that the recipient can take that large amount of text and turn it back into a small amount of text, at great cost
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When Gov Abbott says the White House needs to 'recalibrate' you know they've probably murdered one to many people talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/ic...
January 26, 2026 at 7:31 PM
When Gov Abbott says the White House needs to 'recalibrate' you know they've probably murdered one to many people talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/ic...
Everybody who's spent the last few years "vibing" their way through public health about to get a very buzz-harshing lesson in what an extremely contagious airborne virus can do.
🚨 This should alarm everyone.
The #UK has lost measles elimination status — not because vaccines failed, but because vaccination rates fell.
The US is on track to lose it too.
#Measles is highly contagious, dangerous, and vaccine-preventable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The #UK has lost measles elimination status — not because vaccines failed, but because vaccination rates fell.
The US is on track to lose it too.
#Measles is highly contagious, dangerous, and vaccine-preventable.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK loses measles elimination status
Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Everybody who's spent the last few years "vibing" their way through public health about to get a very buzz-harshing lesson in what an extremely contagious airborne virus can do.
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Maybe these fuckers should have thought of that before they laid out the red carpet for fascism
Concern is growing on Wall Street that Donald Trump's belligerence and belittlement of Europe could take some of the biggest buyers of US equities out of the market. There are signs that’s already beginning to happen.
Wall Street Grapples With New Risk: A European Buyers’ Strike
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the elites gathered in Davos that the Trump administration believes globalization is “a failed policy” that left America behind. A day later, his boss, Presid...
www.bloomberg.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Maybe these fuckers should have thought of that before they laid out the red carpet for fascism
Brady is just not a good broadcaster. He's not funny, interesting, or any more particularly insightful than any other experienced NFL QB. What's worse is when he goes off on his, "I woulda made that catch falling backward blindfolded juggling chainsaws & impregnated half the women in the stadium."
January 26, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Brady is just not a good broadcaster. He's not funny, interesting, or any more particularly insightful than any other experienced NFL QB. What's worse is when he goes off on his, "I woulda made that catch falling backward blindfolded juggling chainsaws & impregnated half the women in the stadium."
I'm watching the NFC Champ on a bootleg stream & the host is just chain-smoking blunts as big as a sausage and has a green cloud in his room thick as a Dune navigator's spice cloud. I cannot fathom that level of tolerance, jeezus.
January 25, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I'm watching the NFC Champ on a bootleg stream & the host is just chain-smoking blunts as big as a sausage and has a green cloud in his room thick as a Dune navigator's spice cloud. I cannot fathom that level of tolerance, jeezus.
They pulled this shit with detainees in the GWOT and we LET'EM FUCKING WALK!
No dollar, no vote, not a drop of your attention to any political candidate who isn't screaming for prosecutions up and down the chain. Not one fucking dime.
No dollar, no vote, not a drop of your attention to any political candidate who isn't screaming for prosecutions up and down the chain. Not one fucking dime.
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
They pulled this shit with detainees in the GWOT and we LET'EM FUCKING WALK!
No dollar, no vote, not a drop of your attention to any political candidate who isn't screaming for prosecutions up and down the chain. Not one fucking dime.
No dollar, no vote, not a drop of your attention to any political candidate who isn't screaming for prosecutions up and down the chain. Not one fucking dime.
The ripple effects will shake themselves out for a generation, maybe more, while we rushed to bury any and all sign or mention of it because "the economy" or "the vibes were bad".
And I will die big mad about our species-wide adolescence.
And I will die big mad about our species-wide adolescence.
The pandemic's hidden toll: Millions of chronic conditions left undiagnosed
When COVID hit, health care systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments were canceled and people were told to stay at home unless it was urgent. In E...
medicalxpress.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
The ripple effects will shake themselves out for a generation, maybe more, while we rushed to bury any and all sign or mention of it because "the economy" or "the vibes were bad".
And I will die big mad about our species-wide adolescence.
And I will die big mad about our species-wide adolescence.
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The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down
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On tonight’s White House agenda:
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
January 25, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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