Aristarchus crater has greenish hues, reports Jeremy Hansen from #ArtemisII. And there are a lot of brown hues visible in crater rays. It' amazing hearing the crew describe their impressions in real time. 🧪
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I am very concerned about the rising cost of groceries, which is why I voted for the guy currently using $4m dollar a piece missile interceptors to shoot down a bunch of bottle rockets in a middle eastern war that he started.
In which a former hegemon in relative decline decides to make itself just that little bit weaker (since everyone needs friends from time to time):
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You'd think us violating Irish neutrality in an apparent attempt to assassinate Zelensky by forcing his plane to crash would be bigger news.
For the Irish for a start.
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
Market continues to rise on reports US Government will remain shut down.
A Russian military reconnaissance aircraft was intercepted over the Baltic Sea today by the German Air Force.
Because of course. Our nothing response on Friday guaranteed they would do it again. Russia will not stop until we stop them.
Treasury markets, already under strain from persistent deficits and weak auction demand, now face prospect of absorbing the largest unplanned government financing operation in modern history.
Tempting to think this is madly over the top. It isn't. Putin's ambitions aren't limited to Ukraine. He has militarised Russian society & economy in a way that's difficult to reverse quickly. So, as Macron & Merz have recently recognised, once Ukraine is dealt with, another country will be next.
Autocratic populism produces poverty and decline
From a time when childhood vaccines were just a figment of imagination.
Row after row of baby headstones.
I will just enter this as exhibit a...
Hi from Kyiv metro bomb shelter. It’s 11:21 pm and Russia is attacking us with drones. They are reported in direction of Kyiv, region, Chornobyl, other areas. People around me rolling out the grey and green and violet kar mats and planning what games to play - show and tell, or
"What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?": James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass's Historic Speech
Snyder: "What happens next in the U.S.? Workers who are presented as "undocumented" will be taken to the camps. Perhaps they will work in the camps themselves, as slaves to government projects. But more likely they will be offered to [U.S.] companies on special terms"
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It's not hard to imagine a scenario where migrant workers in the US are detained in ICE raids, thrown into Trump's migrant camps, then are sent off to work at the same farms and orchards they were originally picked up from, with the state taking what would have been their wage.
🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face.
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Finally we can emotionally understand what it was like to live in an absolutist monarchy, where everyone had to constantly obsess over the emotional state of fundamentally flawed, narcissistic individuals, because they decided the fate of the world.
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
I know everyone is overwhelmed with multiple crises around the world right now, but please take 3 minutes to remind yourself of what may be the worst of them all - but probably gets the least international attention: #Sudan.
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NEW: Don't use AI for fact checking. @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/grok-c...
Ah… wasn’t Japan on the Allied side in WW1?
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
This exchange is so very telling.
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
Never forget that Nancy Wake:
- Has whakapapa to Tainui.
- Killed an SS sentry with HER BARE HANDS.
- Cycled 500 kilometres in 72 hours through occupied France to deliver codes to the resistance.
jd vance did what ???
