By a magnificent coincidence these two posts appeared together on my timeline:

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-t...

Fun fact: our local government loves nuclear power. They love it precisely because it takes decades to set up a new plant, even during optional conditions. By being extremely vocal in their nuclear support, they get a free pass on not investing in anything else, and can keep subsidizing fossil

Big tech clouds worden niet veiliger met stapels papier - Bert Hubert Je samenleving, overheid en maatschappij overlaten aan Amerikaanse servers komt met twee problemen: Alles werkt alleen zolang ze het in Amerika goed vinden. Met een enkel briefje op Whitehouse.gov lig...

Grote bergen papier & "governance" veranderen niks aan Amerikaanse wetgeving. Big tech clouds blijven een risico. Maar er is inmiddels een hele industrie om het zo ingewikkeld te maken dat het lijkt alsof het moet kunnen: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

"Yes, Minister" This may be premature but … it is beginning to look as if Olly Robbins and Antonia Romeo were both exhibiting classic Mandarin behaviour by attempting to please the Prime Minister whatever the consequ...

The Mandelson saga demonstrates, yet again, that 'Yes Minister' was more documentary than comedy:-
ukcivilservant.substack.com/p/yes-minister

Слава Україні, героям слава!

Bessent is in fact four fish in a suit

A month from now he's posting a dozen videos a day, all deleted within a few minutes, each one containing wildly fucked up AI slop, and no one in the administration mentions it.

No journalists go "hey what the fuck is going on here" either

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

a map showing slovakia and hungary with a flag on it ALT: a map showing slovakia and hungary with a flag on it

For the crucial Hungarian election, friends don’t let friends follow fake-experts. Follow these real experts instead:

@gabrielagreilinger.com
@danielhegedus.bsky.social
@veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social
@szabolcspanyi.bsky.social
@zecsaky.bsky.social
@rdanielkelemen.bsky.social
@eublogo.bsky.social

Good burn

ESA center in The Netherlands getting a shout out :)

(thats the Eagle room at ESTEC)

#ArtemisII

The #ArtemisII astronauts are almost home. Integrity will enter Earth's atmosphere in a little over four hours. Catch up on what to expect from the mission's heat shield, from @swapnakrishna.com

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

🧪🔭

I’ve been really appreciating all of @swapnakrishna.com’s insights on the #Artemis II mission — I definitely recommend following her and reading/watching all her coverage!

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson are in revolt at the recent threat to commit war crimes

Follow along with us at @nature.com as we bring you today’s #ArtemisII lunar flyby - straight from mission scientists at Mission Control in Houston. I’ll have live updates throughout the day on this historic Moon mission. 🧪🔭

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Before going to sleep on flight day 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the Moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft. Orion and the four humans aboard entered the lunar sphere of influence at 06:37 CEST on 6 April, at the tail end of the fifth day of their mission. That marked the point at which the Moon's gravity had a stronger pull on the spacecraft than Earth's. Artemis II's closest approach to the Moon will come on flight day 6, as they swing around the far side before beginning their journey back to Earth.

✅ #Artemis II update: the spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence this morning at 05:37 BST/06:37 CEST, 6 April, at about 51 000 km from the Moon (the region of space where the Moon’s gravitational pull is stronger than that of Earth’s).

www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

@exploration.esa.int

How Trump became tech’s regulator-in-chief His interventions in the sector exceed anything the EU has done

How Trump became tech’s regulator-in-chief ft.trib.al/EzS4F4B | opinion

I think Tuesday we get to find out whether the chairman of the joint chiefs, the CENTCOM commander and others are willing to carry out illegal orders.

Geen idee! Weet ook niet of het heel erg veel uitmaakt.

#Artemis II update: our European Service Module's main engine performed the translunar injection so precisely that flight controllers in Houston decided to cancel the first of three outbound trajectory correction burns on the way to the Moon 🥳

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

It's interesting that he has so thoroughly destroyed state capacity that the average person is barely aware Artemis is happening.

NASA had like zero budget to propagandize for it, he's not mentioning it, he doesn't give a fuck.

It's something tailor-made to hit boomer nostalgia, and they fumbled.

European Service Module - Wikipedia

I truly struggle to get excited by the #artemis2 mission, but it may be good to know that once in space, the European Service Module provides air, water & propulsion for the mission. So this is a European project as well. Not too many people have noticed this though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...

"farce majeure" obvs as well

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Ed speaks to Trump more often than I speak to my mum.

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

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