The average joke about the median not being an average is not very good. Neither is the median.

Eejits

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Every single infrastructure computer should be airgapped from the Internet has been my opening position since 1995 and I've only gotten more "I TOLD YOU SO" about it.

I went and saw Project Hail Mary.
A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie.
Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that.
He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

The Edge of Two Worlds (art002e009285, April 6, 2026). Our planet draws closer to passing behind the Moon in this image captured by the Artemis II crew during the lunar flyby, about 6 minutes before Earthset. Earth is in a crescent phase, with sunlight coming from the right. The dark portion of the Earth is experience nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible in muted blue in the Australia and Oceania region. The lines of small indentations on the Moon’s rugged surface are secondary craters. These structures are formed by material from ejected during a violent primary impact. Image credit: NASA

This is just a surreally beautiful picture. We live on such a breathtakingly beautiful planet and I’m grateful for the brave humans who left the safety of our atmosphere to show us our world from a new perspective.

www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

medusaglare › Artemis I| 7h @ Threads i thought i stopped caring about space. turns out I was just sick of SpaceX, not NASA. • 18.3K Q145 G807ł → 143

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

This is obviously extremely cool and momentous and I'm also on the verge of a panic attack just looking at it

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

I highly recommend putting this NASA #Artemis II mission livestream on and just leaving it playing as you go about your weekend. Live views of the spacecraft, occasional visualizations of the current config, views of the control room, space-ground radio audio. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

Journey to the Moon - NASA Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, 2026, and will reach the lunar sphere of influence—when the Moon's gravity exerts more force on the Orion spacecraft than the Ear...

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.

Astronauts are trained for decades in some of the most physically and mentally grueling environments of any career. They’re some of the smartest people on the planet. And yet, once they get up there, fucking Outlook is borked. www.404media.co/artemis-2-as...

One of the greatest successes of Star Trek TNG was that it credited its audience as intelligent people capable of challenging established norms, exploring the space between law and morality, and evaluating new ideas with a critical mind.

I hope this ethos has not been irrevocably lost.
#StarTrek

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncov...

i am throwing my lot on "passenger-jet equilibrium", wherein large language models (in particular) equilibrate on a few "good-enough" use cases (like generating code), similar to how passenger jets don't go faster than they do because d(fuel) > d(time savings)

I just learned about something called recency bias.

It's my favorite thing ever.

banality of evil

Gary Kasparov: As I wrote, if you think a massive US Gulag is being built just for illegal immigrants, along with a federal paramilitary force as large as the Marines, you're a fool. Billions in unaccountable cash from Venezuelan oil, shock troops, and detention camps. This is not a drill.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

What I lost in Twitter, I found in Bluesky.

🎯🎯🎯 "When you start to treat an LLM with cruelty, the only thing you're really revealing is what you have in your heart, not whether the machine has one... Practicing this language - even toward AI - normalizes the social patterns that enable cruelty toward humans."

73% of EU citizens polled think that when it comes to defence, Europe "must now rely solely on itself, without counting on the support of the United States"

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

Autotranslate from Trumpese: WAKE UP EUROPE

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years.
we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this??

between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

Some thoughts on Guinness:

It’s the best looking beer by a mile and there isn’t a close second

It just tastes better in a Guinness pint glass (like how martinis get a premium from the glasses you drink them out of)

It’s shocking how low calorie a Guinness is. Basically like a Miller Light

First of three images showing the same view of Dublin, looking west from the mouth of the Liffey. The city is on either side of the river, reflecting into the still water, under a crisp blue sky.

Same view, after sunset. The red sky lingers above a dark river.

Same view at night. The lights of the buildings reflect into the water, against a black night sky.

Got the same view of Dublin three times today

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.

Dayum that was fast It was either do it immediately right now or literally never.

Know thyself.