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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Epstein Files, everybody!
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Almost a year! I'm doing pretty good
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Almost a year! I'm doing pretty good
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🚨Three Chinese astronauts couldn’t return to Earth after space junk hit their spacecraft. Scientists warn this could be just the first of more accidents caused by orbital debris.
The situation is concerning. “There are a lot of people up there,” one source told me.
My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
The situation is concerning. “There are a lot of people up there,” one source told me.
My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
A Piece of Space Junk Hit Their Ride Home. What Does This Mean for Space Exploration?
Three Chinese astronauts will likely return safely to Earth after a reported space-junk strike. But the incident highlights the growing risk of orbital debris
www.scientificamerican.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🚨Three Chinese astronauts couldn’t return to Earth after space junk hit their spacecraft. Scientists warn this could be just the first of more accidents caused by orbital debris.
The situation is concerning. “There are a lot of people up there,” one source told me.
My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
The situation is concerning. “There are a lot of people up there,” one source told me.
My story @sciam.bsky.social 🧪
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Reposted by Ray Yamamoto Hilton
The Australian Space Agency released a cool video on the collaboration between JAXA and ASA, featuring all the favourite things we've dropped on Australia from Hayabusa to the (LAUNCHING-IN-ONE-YEAR 😱) MMX mission 🛰️. BUT KEY QUESTION: can you spot me in the video?
Bringing Hayabusa2 home
YouTube video by Australian Space Agency
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The Australian Space Agency released a cool video on the collaboration between JAXA and ASA, featuring all the favourite things we've dropped on Australia from Hayabusa to the (LAUNCHING-IN-ONE-YEAR 😱) MMX mission 🛰️. BUT KEY QUESTION: can you spot me in the video?
“few would classify the United States as a robust democracy. It is either a democracy in crisis that is barely clinging onto the label, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism”
Brian Klaas: “The United States is now a competitive authoritarian system” - EUROPP
Is the United States still a democracy? It is either a democracy in crisis, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
“few would classify the United States as a robust democracy. It is either a democracy in crisis that is barely clinging onto the label, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism”
Kmart found to have broken privacy laws through indiscriminate use of face recognition
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition technology, commissioner finds
The Privacy Commissioner has found Kmart broke the Privacy Act with its use of facial recognition technology, ordering the retail giant not to repeat the practice.
www.abc.net.au
September 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Kmart found to have broken privacy laws through indiscriminate use of face recognition
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Dems should support MTG’s weather changing bill but generalise the language to include fossil fuel pollution
September 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Dems should support MTG’s weather changing bill but generalise the language to include fossil fuel pollution
I want to discover more cooperatives for essential cultural things that shouldn’t be controlled by the few e.g subvert.fm and resonate.coop
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subvert.fm
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I want to discover more cooperatives for essential cultural things that shouldn’t be controlled by the few e.g subvert.fm and resonate.coop
Deleted Threads, Twitter, Facebook but allowing myself Instagram and BlueSky as a kind of methadone
September 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Deleted Threads, Twitter, Facebook but allowing myself Instagram and BlueSky as a kind of methadone
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Holyyyyyy....I am a tired exhausted puddle on the floor. What a day for @vrubinobs.bsky.social! This observatory is incredible.
Highly, HIGHLY recommend joyscolling around Rubin's Skyviewer. I quite like this galaxy - which is your favorite? 🔭🧪
skyviewer.app
Highly, HIGHLY recommend joyscolling around Rubin's Skyviewer. I quite like this galaxy - which is your favorite? 🔭🧪
skyviewer.app
June 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Holyyyyyy....I am a tired exhausted puddle on the floor. What a day for @vrubinobs.bsky.social! This observatory is incredible.
Highly, HIGHLY recommend joyscolling around Rubin's Skyviewer. I quite like this galaxy - which is your favorite? 🔭🧪
skyviewer.app
Highly, HIGHLY recommend joyscolling around Rubin's Skyviewer. I quite like this galaxy - which is your favorite? 🔭🧪
skyviewer.app
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Welcome to a new era in astronomy and astrophysics ✨🔭🧪
Get ready to join us virtually for the reveal of Rubin's first images! #RubinFirstLook
🗓️ June 23, 2025
⌚️ 11am US EDT
🔗 ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Get ready to join us virtually for the reveal of Rubin's first images! #RubinFirstLook
🗓️ June 23, 2025
⌚️ 11am US EDT
🔗 ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
ls.st
June 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Welcome to a new era in astronomy and astrophysics ✨🔭🧪
Get ready to join us virtually for the reveal of Rubin's first images! #RubinFirstLook
🗓️ June 23, 2025
⌚️ 11am US EDT
🔗 ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Get ready to join us virtually for the reveal of Rubin's first images! #RubinFirstLook
🗓️ June 23, 2025
⌚️ 11am US EDT
🔗 ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Threads really is speed running becoming unusable.
June 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Threads really is speed running becoming unusable.
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AI infrastructure may exacerbate past harms that previous fossil fuel industries have imposed upon communities of color, excusing its extractive and harmful impacts in the name of progress and innovation, writes Kapor Foundation tech policy associate Cecilia Marrinan.
Data Center Boom Risks Health of Already Vulnerable Communities | TechPolicy.Press
We must examine data center locations in tandem with cumulative historical and societal contexts, writes the Kapor Foundation's Cecilia Marrinan.
www.techpolicy.press
June 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
AI infrastructure may exacerbate past harms that previous fossil fuel industries have imposed upon communities of color, excusing its extractive and harmful impacts in the name of progress and innovation, writes Kapor Foundation tech policy associate Cecilia Marrinan.
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AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
AI bot scrapers are hitting every site on the web in search of training data. This report is the first good attempt to evaluate the impact of these AI scrapers, especially on smaller institutions that are trying to make their collections open to the public www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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I dunno, maybe:-
- Heavily regulate and tax water usage by AI datacenters
- Renationalise the water companies in the UK
- Reinvest back in our water infrastructure
- Heavily regulate and tax water usage by AI datacenters
- Renationalise the water companies in the UK
- Reinvest back in our water infrastructure
June 17, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I dunno, maybe:-
- Heavily regulate and tax water usage by AI datacenters
- Renationalise the water companies in the UK
- Reinvest back in our water infrastructure
- Heavily regulate and tax water usage by AI datacenters
- Renationalise the water companies in the UK
- Reinvest back in our water infrastructure
Detecting satellite and debris streaks in wide-field optical astronomy survey data from @noirlabastro.bsky.social #DECam using #YOLOv11 instance segmentation.
June 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Detecting satellite and debris streaks in wide-field optical astronomy survey data from @noirlabastro.bsky.social #DECam using #YOLOv11 instance segmentation.
Help name my space junk detection model: StreakyBlinders vs ClusterFlux
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Help name my space junk detection model: StreakyBlinders vs ClusterFlux
Looking for a lightweight and serverless framework to manage transforms between OLAP assets in S3.
Currently looking at pandas/duckdb in lambda using step functions - which works, but there is a lot of boilerplate and plumbing. Surely, this is a semi-solved problem?
Currently looking at pandas/duckdb in lambda using step functions - which works, but there is a lot of boilerplate and plumbing. Surely, this is a semi-solved problem?
March 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Looking for a lightweight and serverless framework to manage transforms between OLAP assets in S3.
Currently looking at pandas/duckdb in lambda using step functions - which works, but there is a lot of boilerplate and plumbing. Surely, this is a semi-solved problem?
Currently looking at pandas/duckdb in lambda using step functions - which works, but there is a lot of boilerplate and plumbing. Surely, this is a semi-solved problem?
New data stack: Iceberg + Duckdb + Polars + Rust
March 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
New data stack: Iceberg + Duckdb + Polars + Rust
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The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…
arstechnica.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com/science/2025...