Reminder: All the amazing high quality video you’re seeing from the Artemis II mission is being transmitted back to Earth using a laser communications system first tested with a video of a cat named Taters
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I do not think there are reassuring answers
'Absolutely spectacular': #Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of #Moon
#Nasa Artemis II mission crew described seeing far side of the Moon the first time.
Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen have entered third day of mission on #Orion #spacecraft:
Need help! The most cost effective sequencing service for ready libraries for single-cell ATAC-seq? Share your best tips! Have money, just not lots of it. #sequencing #singlecell #atacseq
A: A sustainable business model
Q: What does Google/Alphabet now have that OpenAI and Anthropic don’t?
The first of the active region is now currently appearing over the Sun's eastern limb! Are you ready?
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come…
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German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate
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Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.
You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable
You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month
Fifty miles off the Tuscan coast, in a sparkling blue expanse, ancient creatures are roosting beneath the waves. They spend their days feasting on an unlikely source of nourishment: methane, a potent greenhouse gas that leaks out of cracks in the seafloor. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...
To juvenile Western bluebirds. One is grabbing the tail of another in flight and the one that's having its tail grabbed looks like it's yelling. The one grabbing the tail looks like it's also stabbing the first one with its beak. The background is edited to create contrast on the image to highlight the scene
BIRD COMBAT SEASON: First time I've ever gotten a still of a bird grabbing another's tail merely to sit in a perch for 40 seconds. Woo! 🪶
I need more foodie friends around here. I want to make pickled cauliflower, and my recipe makes approximately one metric fuckton of pickles. In an ideal world, I’d swap a jar or two with someone else.
This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Full moon.
Tonight's Harvest Moon, above the Oakland Hills. Emeryville, California.
#moon #nature #eastcoastkin
It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...
Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
(Pub. Oct. 2024)
As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.
His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
(Published Feb. 2023)
‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live
We asked major AI chatbots to help craft a phishing scam. They did. From fake charities to urgent pleas, the bots delivered. This investigation shows how generative AI is fueling fraud — and why it’s so hard to stop. Read our findings here: reut.rs/3K400yU
The mother of a 10-year-old girl killed during a mass shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis remembered her Sunday as a fierce, curious and funny child who “didn’t water herself down.”
Read more: https://cnn.it/4ptwVNy