Or that Deep Throat was actually a disgruntled job seeker running his program of illegal breakins and wiretaps as the FBI Deputy Director and was later pardoned by Ronald Reagan.

23 Major News Sites Have Blocked the Wayback Machine – Digital History In Danger Major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine, threatening your ability to verify claims and track editorial changes in digital journalism.

The @archive.org 's Wayback Machine, a digital time machine that has preserved over a trillion web pages over the past 3 decades, is facing systematic blocks from major media outlets.
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1) If they miss the touchdown target by a lot, it’s easier to bring the extraction to the capsule, than the capsule maybe hundreds of miles to the ship
2) I imagine they train and are prepared for contingencies where they have to get the crew out quickly or the capsule is very damaged.

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Ooooh... I wonder how stinky it's going to be when they open the hatch. The Apollo missions were rank enough that it knocked divers back.

The toilet MOSTLY worked while they were gone.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Somebody was talking about how all the single use plastics that we absolutely need for hospitals and medical settings are going to suffer from this petroleum crisis at some point, yet all i see in most publications is concern about gas prices.

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals.
🧪 #ArtemisII

I think they get the people who are randomly scrolling YouTube looking for something to watch, the current era’s version of channel surfing.

Also protected by copyright: APIs.

It ’s a sign of our degeneracy as a society that the “concerns” aren’t about turning life into one big casino or about betting on war, just that someone might have an unfair advantage.

My father’s company was the plumbing/heating/cooling contractor for the Javits Convention Center in NYC, and I can assure you that the foundation was dug well before the design was complete. They called it “fast track construction.” I can also assure you that the resultant law suits were amazing.

I’m only slightly embarrassed that I know this.

If memory serves, Fisher was from Merrick but shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa, so I guess it depends on what “giving the world” means.

Because of course it did.

‘We must not allow our history to be erased’: Tara Hong calls attention to film removed from Lowell National Historical Park LOWELL — The city of Lowell often celebrates the women and immigrants that helped shape the city as it developed into an industrial powerhouse in the 19th century, and for nearly 50 years the Lowell N...

A new front in Trump's war on history: documentary videos about historic cotton textile mills removed from Lowell National Historic Park.
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Joe Kent is a far-right extremist who cavorted with Proud Boys and helped Gabbard manufacture intelligence to paint Tren de Aragua as an invading military force.

@talkingpointsmemo.com remains a vital daily read for me.

Before and After the Trigger Press That Killed Renee Good Regardless of whether deadly force was legally justified, Renee Nicole Good’s death was preventable.

In light of Kristi Noem’s testimony, I’m re-upping this piece about the murder of Renee Good.

I proudly wore a badge for almost my entire adult life; I’m not someone unsympathetic to law enforcement, to say the least. Consider what it means, then, when I support this sentiment: Abolish ICE.

The ouster of at least a dozen staffers from a counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which operates out of the Washington Field Office, was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to four former officials familiar with the dismissals. The dismissals came just days before the start of Operation Epic Fury and, separately, a deadly mass shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas, by a man reportedly wearing a sweatshirt that said, “Property of Allah,” beneath which was a T-shirt that was “emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag,” CBS News reported Monday. CI-12 focuses on media leaks, global espionage, and international threats against America emanating from countries such as Cuba and Iran, former FBI officials tell the Sun. More broadly, CI squads are the lead domestic teams for investigating insider threats and foreign intelligence activity on American soil. In 2020, CI-12 assisted in monitoring potential retaliatory actions by Iranian-backed actors on American soil following a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps major general Qasem Soleimani, an operation ordered by Mr. Trump, former FBI officials tell the Sun.

Kash just fired some counter Iranian espionage agents.

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You *have* made the world a better place. Don’t let the terrible state of the world and our powerlessness blind you to your actual accomplishments.

I argue only with the future tense of that statement.

There *is* non-alcoholic beer.

Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities Vishal R. Patel, Christopher M. Worsham, Michael Liu & Anupam B. Jena X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 34866 DOI 10.3386/w34866 Issue Date February 2026 Modern smartphones present new threats to road safety beyond talking and texting, but the real-world effects are difficult to study. One way to causally assess the impact of smartphones on road safety is to identify arbitrarily timed events during which smartphone-related distraction may exogenously increase – i.e., a situation that relies not on plausibly random variation in who uses smartphones while driving, but when smartphones are used. We investigated the impact of smartphones on road safety by examining traffic fatalities on days when smartphone use likely surges: the release of major music albums. Using event study analysis, we show that music streaming – an indicator for smartphone use, where streaming most often occurs – sharply increases, by nearly 40%, on dates of major music album releases, while U.S. traffic fatalities increase by nearly 15% on those same days. Mobile device use while driving is a known safety issue, but today’s smartphones present new and greater opportunities for driver distraction. Our study indicates how features of these phones may have important impacts on distracted driving and traffic fatalities.

On days when major albums are released, people use music streaming services on their smartphone 40% more, and U.S. traffic fatalities increase by 15% www.nber.org/papers/w3486...

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

I don't know if people are following this story, but it's wild. Anthropic said they don't want their tech used for surveillance or weapons, and the DOD is threatening to cancel their contract and defacto blacklist them as a "supply chain risk" unless they jettison their ethical policies.

It looks like you’re living your best lives and I hope that’s true.

Well, they’ve effectively done the unplugging for you already, so there’s that.

Four heavily clothed workers in reflective garb digging out railroad switches in blizzard conditions

Kudos to the #MBTA workers clearing the switches outside the Reservoir Car Barn #Boston

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...