Someone on Twitter tweets: "I noticed Gen Z people don't carry umbrellas. They just walk in the rain lol"

you don't need an umbrella when all your clothes are made from plastic

The photos of the far side of the Moon from Artemis will have the equivalent of roughly 2×–10× more pixels on a given lunar feature, plus better dynamic range, noise, and optics that will increase perceived sharpness, than ANY photo from Apollo. Or so I am told. By another nerd.

Today is Long COVID awareness day. What does the data show about Long COVID in 2026? How common is it, how bad is it, what does it consist in?

The Patient-Led Research Collaborative has put together a fact sheet based on the most recent data. Cannot recommend highly enough!

I’ve heard that Xofluza is even more effective than Tamiflu. Sorry you came down with it - feel better soon!

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

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I’m not sure. Sounds like a PG&E issue, but it keeps getting worse. I just screenshotted this map, now all red.

A PG&E power outage map showing much of the northwest and central areas of San Francisco without power

Time to curl up and read a book, SF!

Power out in much of the city. 🌧️

Subpar odd lots. You can skip it and listen to the most recent one on the US beef industry. Learned a lot!

In a failed trial for the British Army, the drone maker “Stark also gave some troops a special “challenge coin” as a souvenir from the trip… It featured the company logo over a black and white map of Europe — which was missing the British Isles.”
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Ladies and gentlemen — the weekend.

Israel’s Futile Air War Precision strikes will not destroy Iran’s nuclear program—or its government.

Robert Pape (Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (1996)) describes how air power alone is rarely effective unless it is supporting ground operations. In the recent article in Foreign Affairs: regime change with air power alone isn’t realistic either. www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/israels...

Check out Ergon Agora - they have yummy food! I live part of the year in Thessaloniki and
eat there weekly. Hope you enjoy your visit in Greece - you picked just the right time of the year. maps.app.goo.gl/ajRw1hMAqwZL...

The early reviews: no stars (out of 5).

Everything now depends on China. If China devalues the Yuan in response to today's large, additional US tariffs, that sets off a global risk-off that hits EMs first and then - if it persists - spills back to the US and the S&P 500. China has so far kept a very low profile. That may now end...

Interesting take.

Don’t respond in kind versus the U.S. (a lose-lose scenario)

Respond asymmetrically against U.S. oligarchs:
Musk, Bezos, Ellison, Zuckerberg.

“Clown Car Kleptocrats” 👏 💯

Dream car. But I’m not sure who would get the V6 as it’s slower (and I imagine heavier) than the turbocharged AMG 4 cylinder for the same price.

How busy is it there on a late Saturday night? Seems like a good time to beat the crowds.

It has to be their privacy focused customer protections preventing them from having the vast trove of data that these other AI companies are training LLMs with, right?

I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you rediscovered a lot of meaningful photos over the past week as you prepared for your mom’s service.

Her mother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution and emigrated in the 1980s, named her daughter "Lántiān" (蓝天), meaning "blue sky" in Mandarin Chinese, as a wish for her to have "boundless freedom". The similarity between Graber's given name and Bluesky is purely coincidental

Someone told me about BlueSky CEO Jay Graber's given name and I didn't believe it but it seems like it's true? That is wild.

Thank you! 🙏

Every time a career lawyer is pushed out, you can assume they were told to do something illegal.

Greeks hold mass protests demanding justice after Tempi train tragedy Fifty-seven people died in the disaster and protests are being held across Greece and beyond.

What a sad day.

Ukrainians seeking freedom and liberty lose their most powerful supporter.

Greeks denied justice for the children killed in the Tempi train disaster.

I’m losing patience while waiting for the the arc of the moral universe to bend towards justice.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Quite a day for helping the Reds

I’m sorry, but repeating this framing without skepticism is collaborating with your source to mislead your readers. They have been working on humiliating Zelensky and catering to Putin since long before the inauguration. Nothing about this is a response; it’s the plan of an abuser and a charlatan.

RFK really missed the simplest lesson of LBJ’s career, try not to get any kids killed if your name rhymes with “how many kids did you kill today”

NO KINGS NO NAZIS gets you like 80% approval and does a solid 60% of what we want to do