Do you see the horse's head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion, but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the here-imaged molecular cloud complex is reflection nebula IC 4592. Reflection nebulas are made up of very fine dust that normally appears dark but can look quite blue when reflecting the visible light of energetic nearby stars. In this case, the source of much of the reflected light is a star at the eye of the horse. That star is part of Nu Scorpii, one of the brighter star systems toward the constellation of the Scorpion (Scorpius). A second reflection nebula dubbed IC 4601 is visible surrounding two stars just below the image center. The featured picture was taken from Sawda Natheel in Qatar.

IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Rabeea Alkuwari
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(April 6, 2026) – Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. Image Credit: NASA

(April 6, 2026) – Earthrise captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 7:22 p.m. ET during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon’s far side. Earth appears as a delicate crescent, with only its upper edge illuminated. The planet’s soft blue hue and scattered white cloud systems stand out against the blackness of space, while the lower portion fades into night. Taken with a 400 mm lens, the image, Earthrise, reveals a striking alignment of Earth and Moon, with the Moon in the top foreground and the Earth below. Along the lunar horizon, rugged terrain is silhouetted against the bright crescent Earth. Both bodies are oriented with their north poles to the left and south poles to the right, offering a unique perspective of our home planet from deep space. This photo was rotated 90 degrees clockwise for standard viewing orientation. Image Credit: NASA

(April 6, 2026) – The lunar surface fills the frame in sharp detail, as seen during the Artemis II lunar flyby, while a distant Earth sets in the background. This image was captured at 6:41 p.m. EDT, on April 6, 2026, just three minutes before the Orion spacecraft and its crew went behind the Moon and lost contact with Earth for 40 minutes before emerging on the other side. In this image, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while on its day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater shows terraced edges and a relatively flat floor marked by central peaks — formed when the surface rebounded upward during the impact that created the crater. Image Credit: NASA

(April 6, 2026) – Our planet draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby, about six minutes before Earthset. Earth is in a crescent phase, with sunlight coming from the right. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over muted blue in the Australia and Oceania region. The lines of small indentations on the Moon’s rugged surface are secondary crater chains. These structures are formed by material ejected during a violent primary impact. Image Credit: NASA

Queste foto bellissime servono anche a questo: a darci prospettiva, l'unica vera prospettiva che dovremmo considerare.
Siamo una cosa sola, siamo fragili, siamo preziosi.

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This is an excellent piece that’s worth your time and answers some questions I had.

"I'm so autistic, I love to find complex systems I know nothing about and just destroy them without thinking about the possible consequences!"

Certainly quite different to *my* experience with autism.

the company altman runs has sunk a large amount of money into doing research on “alignment”, with the idea that it would prevent AI from developing the tendencies he exhibits daily

AI companies really think they can solve the alignment problem when we still haven't aligned the technology of like, knives

alignment shifts that advantage Russia and China.

Domestic strength: cuts to science, research, universities, and health systems; reduced access to healthcare, food, and education; setbacks in AI and clean energy competitiveness; attacks on vaccines and public health; and broader 4/

In profile, you'd be forgiven for thinking this was just another AK variant, perhaps one with strange looking furniture or built a little differently but for the most part it just looks like an AK.

The real oddity of it can be seen best, externally at least, from down below, where the magazine is essentially rotated 15 degrees and comes out from the bottom-side of the gun rather than the actual bottom itself. This is because the gun essentially has two actions stuffed into one AK, and the double shooting option needs to be able to function with the ammo on the left side of the magazine stack as well as the right.

In theory, the magazines could be pressed into the shooter's left wrist, which would add some stabilization. In reality, to horribly mis-quote the summary of the field trial you can find online, your left wrist naturally torques a bit left when holding the gun underneath anyway and getting that position to work wouldn't be worth the retraining effort required for troops already trained to shoot AK's. That said, if that doctrine can be instilled from new (i.e. this platform used for an entire new unit or given to another country) some value could be had by training from square like that.

The rifle, shown here being shot by a former KGB and a former FBI agent at a raid for a news article for FirearmsNews.com, was originally intended to end up being a full scale replacement for the AK-74, but when they began tooling up to fully replace the production lines they realized the immense complexity and tight tolerances of the new system were not going to be feasible at scale. They did, however, see a fair amount of "special purpose" use, in particular with the KGB kremlin security teams ... who were PHOTOGRAPHED with them a lot, leading to the impression of more existing.

Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules: guns fuck, or they suck.

This week, we have the Avtomat Nikonova AN-94, a 1980 attempt to replace the AK-74 designed to fire two bullets fast enough that the second left the barrel before the recoil hit the shooter.

this is again why rainbow capitalism was a good thing

not that it was actually sincere (it obviously was not) but as a sign of a healthy shame environment in which companies knew they would catch shit for being loudly bigoted

In his blog post, Altman wrote, without apparent irony, that the prospect of controlling artificial general intelligence was like the “ring of power” from “The Lord of the Rings”: it “makes people do crazy things.”

My brother in Christ, keep reading. Boromir is not the protagonist of this story, please, the books are very entertaining and contain a special message for people just like you 🙏🙏🙏

Enforced mental health break

I'm pro-Second Amendment and pro-gun safety. I genuinely don't think those are in conflict.

Close the gun show and boyfriend loopholes. Make red flag laws actually work. Invest in mental health and PTSD programs.

Real fixes that protect people without punishing law-abiding owners.

Dear Algorithms,

Please stop showing me content about 'Clavicular,' the 'looksmaxxing' Zoomer influencer with an ugly soul and serious mental health issues. God is sad enough as it is. I don't need to know this shit.

Thanks,

God

He says that Black kids are routinely put on mental health drugs but the data doesn't support that. White kids are more likely to be put on psychotropic drugs. Which he would know if he read his own agency reports

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I want to say this again because internet.

I'm not a mental health professional. I'm not here to say that kids should have x,y,z treatment. I don't fucking know.

I'm saying RFK Jr. made up a data point and used that as a reason to separate Black kids from their families. That's racist.

Picard management tip: Know your audience. Display strength to Klingons, logic to Vulcans, and opportunity to Ferengi.

A four panel comic entitled When The Shit Hates The Fans. It's about fans who think you can't criticize someone like Stan Lee because he's more famous, successful and popular than you are. The idea that you have to be at a certain level to criticize someone's actions is ridiculous. Otherwise no one would be screaming at major sports team managers or politicians. Anyway, by their own logic, fans shouldn't be allowed to criticize me because I've made more comics than they have have and am more popular than they are. It's stupid fannish reasoning based on feelings rather than logic.

NERD INFERNO is out April 28th from @darkhorse.com.

Every day until then I will post something from the 648-page juggernaut. Today: Another four-panel Fun Strip, about a fairly typical angry fan argument. Apprécier!

Part 1/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. A man is kneeling in prayer in the sand of a beach by the water. He asks "God, if you're infinitely powerful and infinitely good, how come bad things happen to good people?" God then asks as His reply "is preventing suffering good?" The man answers yes. God follows up with "am I capable of causing infinite suffering?" to which the man also answers yes.

Part 2/2 of a 6-panel SMBC comic update. After the man replied yes to His two questions, God states "it follows that merely by doing nothing I do infinite good." The man is annoyingly stunned. He says "don't know if I love you going a logical end-run around the deepest question in theology." to which God replies "wait till you find out who invented logic!"

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(There’s sum stuff in the comments of the last post following same logic)
Hope that’s the size you were asking for anon about Viv lol she’s smaller here technically!
As for fat, I exaggerate stuff like their tiddies cause I think it’s cute but the realistic thing is usually a good sag/separated tit

WinCo plan for Seattle store hits roadblock The setback could delay the project by many months — or cause the discount grocery chain to abandon plans altogether for its first Seattle location.

Seattle's powerful hearing examiner just thwarted a needed grocery store because the city compared the potential environmental impact of a new Winco to the building's previous use as a store—rather than its current "use" as a vacant building. Perverse logic.

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I believe it's a cautionary tale. Hashtags aren't inherently positive, lol.

This is all such great stuff

ALIGNING INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE INTERESTS ~ Aligning the Dichotomy ~

How do we align the interests of the individual and the collective? We look at examples from history of leaders and thinkers that did just that in the 3rd episode of our series on The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About #Collectivism #Aristotle #Kendi #Mill #JohnStuartMill #JohnKey #Nixon

The Alignment Problem No One is Talking About—The SCALE of the Issue

Our 50th episode on the podcast! Part 4 of our alignment series "The SCALE of the Issue"

This episode looks at humanity's alignment problem at three different scales, the human, the political and an issue at the core of our microscopic biology

#biology #alignment #AI #GoalAlignment #Ethics #XRisk

FAIRNESS & PROGRESS Exploring the relationship between fairness and progress, emphasizing non-zero-sum games as a means to enhance human well-being and collective growth.

New audio for "WHY?—can we have both fairness & progress?". Check it out on the site or on the podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/6nK6...

POLYMATHS Explore the fascinating world of polymaths, their methodologies, and the significance of First Principles thinking in innovation and creativity today.

Innovators throughout the ages have found ways to apply knowledge in one area of expertise to another domain to create breakthroughs. This series makes a strong case for "reasoning by analogy".

See if this shift in perspective unlocks your inner genius.

#Polymaths #Genius #Innovation #Musk

View of a church chapel lit by large windows in which a large tomb chest with effigies can be seen alongside a children’s learning area with a circle of chairs and a small blackboard.

Where children learn and old lords rest deep in rural England. At St James’s, Somerton, Oxfordshire, village life seems timeless. Here, I was struck by how a transient moment of modern life was left as but a shadow by the tomb chest of Sir Thomas Fermor (d.1580) and his second wife Bridget Bradshaw.

The conservation ledger: What we lost and what we gained in 2025 2025 was a year shaped by both loss and persistence, marked by species formally declared extinct, hundreds of organisms newly described, and uneven conservation outcomes across forests, reefs, and the...

On New Year’s Day, take a moment to be present with those relatives we lost, those relatives we found, and those relatives that we’re learning how to better care for. This is worth a deep mindful breath, of grief and gratitude.

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A bunch of daddies hypnotized at school, burly bodies squeezed into small desks, eager to please the professor controlling them. "Yes, teacher!" they say eagerly like a chorus, deep voices contrasted their simple-minded childish tones. They're learning that silly daddies are meant to obey teacher

Sir: It seems the boy is learning very well. In a recent game of cum or air he found amazing focus. Deep breathing exercises while edged, cut off air wait for cum or fight. Wanting to please me he slowed his breath closed his eyes and shot an incredible load. Did he get air? 😈