🌑 ☀️ After hearing how astounded the Artemis II crew was by the total solar eclipse they experienced near the moon last night, we can finally get a hint of what they saw. Read more: www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Whoa 🤯

The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Thankful to Brian and his team for doing this important work, then giving clear and actionable advice:
www.cell.com/hgg-advances...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sapiens book

I couldn't stand Sapiens, but I'll read Holly Dunsworth's critique.

freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

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i feel like this is the first time i've seen this pic without the edited eyebrow

ngl learning California has higher air quality standards than the federal gov scares me cuz i was sneezing up and down the 3 days i was in LA some years ago

WOAH

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Welp. The internet had a nice run.

Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.

"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

Why Language Models Hallucinate Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations" per...

Users would leave overnight. So a fix exists, but it would kill the product.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.04664

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure.

Their own math shows that this would mean roughly 30-40% of your would questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I can't respond."

Why Language Models Hallucinate. A paper released by OpenAI in September of 2025.

Back in September, OpenAI released a paper showing that ChatGPT will always make things up.

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. It's how the system fundamentally works. Which means there is no "fix."

Steep Decline in Visas Issued to Students in India India has been the engine of the post-pandemic international-enrollment rebound. But visa issuances to students in India in May through August 2025 nosedived by 61 percent compared to the same time period in 2024. from https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-drop-in-international-students-last-year-was-worse-than-we-thought

this is a remarkable chart

Been trying to tell people to get off proton mail since it turned out the guy in charge was a right-wing dipshit

the name of the event being coffee-centric but they only had black or decaf omfggggg get me OUT OF THE MIDWESTTTT

i went to a coffehouse night event yesterday and i'm still in disbelief the live music was country and guests were seated instead of some chill jazz where chatter was encouraged

Spectacle website in 1996

Urban Diary website in 1997

Conscience Records website in 1998

p2 output website in 1998

Grunge Web Design Style in the 1990s

– Spectacle in 1996
– Urban Diary in 1997
– Conscience Records in 1998
– p2 output in 1998

#WebDesignHistory

thank u !!!! being a first gen american/college student was a diff type of challenge !!! i'm so thankful the ability to defer exists altogether i kinda jumped in forgetting grad plus loans got wiped...

same to you ❤️

yes !! ill see what i can do 🥰🫂

frfr im taking the time to learn at my own pace this year (no one is gonna talk down to me i swear it) and gonna try to seek out external funding too

THIS IS AN INSANE THING TO SAY ILYYYY thank you so dearly 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

is it a solid white glare i could try n edit it for u if the rest of ur face is somewhat visible behind them! i did this w my l/i headshot too lol

❤️ this - for embodied creatures with curious minds, some materials offer sensually-exciting experiences.
*Sorting* of diff pebbles by rock type (even if just one) v. interesting.
And yet... at Abri des Merveilles, #Neanderthals treated their crystal tools the same as other rocks.
#Technaesthetics 🏺

(ill be deferring unfortunately but im very glad to get an academic break knowing what my next steps are For Sure)

btw it totally was a sign 😁 I GOT INTO MY REACH PROGRAM !!!!!!

i would have been a menace to society if i had been a fan for longer i knowww i would’ve booked a flight and hotel stay for new york

and then it was another 3 or 4 years until they came back to the US LMAOOO