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Planetary friends:
The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year.
If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.
The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year.
If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.
January 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Planetary friends:
The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year.
If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.
The LPSC 2026 abstract deadline is coming up this Tuesday. I will not attend because of LPI's shit anti-DEI policy, but I'm curious as to how many people *will* participate this year.
If you have submitted an abstract and are willing to share its submission number, please DM me.
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Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
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Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch.
Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
🧵 1/5
Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
🧵 1/5
Uni Bern: Professor in Planetary Sciences
The Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences of the Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for a full-time position as a Professor in Planetary Sciences.
ohws.prospective.ch
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Hi #planetaryScience folks, we have an open position for a *Professor in Planetary Sciences* at the Space Research & Planetary Sciences Division of the @unibe.ch.
Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
🧵 1/5
Application deadline: *Jan 31, 2026*
Full ad: ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
Reach out to me if you have any questions!
🧵 1/5
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The push to break up tech giants keeps running into one obstacle: By the time the government's cases reach trial, the market has changed. Yet the same companies remain on top.
We wrote about how Big Tech keeps beating the allegations — by getting even bigger. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
We wrote about how Big Tech keeps beating the allegations — by getting even bigger. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
The government failed to break up Meta. It’s becoming a pattern.
Silicon Valley’s ever-changing landscape is blunting the movement to rein in its power.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The push to break up tech giants keeps running into one obstacle: By the time the government's cases reach trial, the market has changed. Yet the same companies remain on top.
We wrote about how Big Tech keeps beating the allegations — by getting even bigger. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
We wrote about how Big Tech keeps beating the allegations — by getting even bigger. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.
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As another weekend of Barclay’s Premier League football gets underway, and a massacre is still unfolding in El Fasher, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the same people who are funding the slaughter in Sudan also own Manchester City Football Club.
It is a national disgrace.
It is a national disgrace.
November 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As another weekend of Barclay’s Premier League football gets underway, and a massacre is still unfolding in El Fasher, we cannot lose sight of the fact that the same people who are funding the slaughter in Sudan also own Manchester City Football Club.
It is a national disgrace.
It is a national disgrace.
![Comic. Every feature of the Earth’s surface that we have a hard time explaining. [Arrows point from title to assorted bumps on surface of sphere. Underneath, from the core more arrows point at dotted lines forming structures labeled Hypothesized Mantle Plumes. [caption] Standard Geophysical Model of the Mantle](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreie54uztzhuce7mdeurstlhuj46k36hbazrz5xqnsipx7qvda6llxe@jpeg)
September 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Excited to have Richard join our team and help train the next generation of European space system engineers! 🚀
After 25 years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Richard Kornfeld is returning to his alma mater. Starting in September, he will take over the operational management of ETH Zürich | Space, bringing extensive experience of space missions to his new role: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
Veteran NASA engineer Richard Kornfeld moves to ETH Zurich
After 25 years at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Richard Kornfeld is returning to his alma mater. Starting in September, he will take over the operational management of ETH Zurich Space, bringing...
ethz.ch
September 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Excited to have Richard join our team and help train the next generation of European space system engineers! 🚀
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I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
August 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
to hope for the best.
-“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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If you really want a Star Trek future, it’s not just going to space in cool machines.
It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient & otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness & reason.
Let’s build that and ride it to the stars.
It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient & otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness & reason.
Let’s build that and ride it to the stars.
November 17, 2024 at 11:40 PM
If you really want a Star Trek future, it’s not just going to space in cool machines.
It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient & otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness & reason.
Let’s build that and ride it to the stars.
It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient & otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness & reason.
Let’s build that and ride it to the stars.
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Report: Anti-Science Attitude Strongest Among Those Who Believe Turtle Has Little Apartment Inside Shell
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
March 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Report: Anti-Science Attitude Strongest Among Those Who Believe Turtle Has Little Apartment Inside Shell
theonion.com/report-...
theonion.com/report-...
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His boss is literally firing out executive orders trying to shut law firms that oppose him and saying critical journalism is illegal. The hypocrisy is just wild (and kind of the point).
"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it."
March 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
His boss is literally firing out executive orders trying to shut law firms that oppose him and saying critical journalism is illegal. The hypocrisy is just wild (and kind of the point).
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Especially to mark our Hera mission's moment of closest approach during its Mars flyby, at just 5000 km away at 13:51 CET (12:51 GMT) - here's one we made earlier! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
March 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Especially to mark our Hera mission's moment of closest approach during its Mars flyby, at just 5000 km away at 13:51 CET (12:51 GMT) - here's one we made earlier! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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🚀 In 2029, asteroid Apophis will make an incredibly close pass by Earth—closer than our geostationary satellites! 🌍☄️ #planetaryscience
March 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🚀 In 2029, asteroid Apophis will make an incredibly close pass by Earth—closer than our geostationary satellites! 🌍☄️ #planetaryscience
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Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
Moon Landing - Firefly Blue Ghost Makes History
YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace
youtu.be
March 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Watch Firefly land on the Moon! After identifying surface hazards and selecting a safe landing site, #BlueGhost landed directly over the target in Mare Crisium. A historic moment on March 2 we'll never forget. We have Moon dust on our boots! #BGM1
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg
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Der kleine Maulwurf hat sich die Scheiße jetzt lange genug angesehen.
March 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Der kleine Maulwurf hat sich die Scheiße jetzt lange genug angesehen.
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Nonsense, the Visigoths are destroying the aqueduct that I always thought was constructed poorly because, I assume, they are familiar with my critiques of it and will invite my feedback on how to replace it.
I keep seeing takes like this marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
1. I don't like the status quo on policy X
2. Trump is thoughtlessly blowing things up, including on policy X
3. It might turn out better after being blown up so 🤷
We're on the road to authoritarianism, not your preferred policy.
1. I don't like the status quo on policy X
2. Trump is thoughtlessly blowing things up, including on policy X
3. It might turn out better after being blown up so 🤷
We're on the road to authoritarianism, not your preferred policy.
February 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Nonsense, the Visigoths are destroying the aqueduct that I always thought was constructed poorly because, I assume, they are familiar with my critiques of it and will invite my feedback on how to replace it.
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February 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
February 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.
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you either die the bright eyed graduate student excitedly explaining a research idea and expecting a fully formed analysis plan in return, or live to see yourself become the person mumbling "yeah, you'd uhh use logit for that I guess" to them
December 6, 2024 at 4:11 PM
you either die the bright eyed graduate student excitedly explaining a research idea and expecting a fully formed analysis plan in return, or live to see yourself become the person mumbling "yeah, you'd uhh use logit for that I guess" to them