You know it’s possible that this soldier thought that was a statue of Trump.

I see Jupiter up there near the Zenith, messing with the twins.

A bunch of white guys with skinny ties and cigars behind bulky 1960s style Mission control console exultant and relieved.

56 years ago today: Relief at Mission Control as Apollo 13 astronauts return safely to Earth.
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Trump’s Humiliation in Orbán Defeat Stunner Is Only Just Beginning For Viktor Orbán’s epic loss in Hungary to have real meaning in America, Democrats and liberals need to proclaim themselves part of the global anti-authoritarian movement.

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2090...

TFW your mom went to the moon, but she came back

Power to the people right on.

True. History can be inconvenient to the performatively patriotic. Love your country through the lens of truth, not idealization. AIM toward a better future, but don’t LIE about past mistakes.

"We will not regret the past, nor wish to shut the door on it"

America BADLY needs an AA meeting.

A ghostly view of the Sun's corona seen from behind the Moon, portions of which are faintly visible from Earthshine (our planet is off screen to the left). At lower left, the bright point of light is Venus.

This is haunting.

More from yesterday's solar eclipse viewed by the Artemis II crew.

The Sun's corona is faintly visible emerging from behind the Moon.

And, at lower left, Venus.

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.

This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

The Moon! The Sun's corona! A crewed spacecraft! Oh my!

HOLY SHIT

God I hope so.

(And by god of course I mean super AGI)

I think so. Let me ask Claude.

Please come to my workshop:

“How AI can help AI to navigate the challenges and opportunities of AI”

No humans allowed.

Today’s surreal split screen: Brave, brilliant astronauts swinging AROUND THE MOON, returning wondrous new photos of our exquisite planet and its ancient companion, while our dangerously unhinged “leader” threatens unspeakable war crimes.

“Diving for dear life, when we should be diving for pearls”

Today’s surreal split screen: Brave, brilliant astronauts swinging AROUND THE MOON, returning wondrous new photos of our exquisite planet and its ancient companion, while our dangerously unhinged “leader” threatens unspeakable war crimes.

“Diving for dear life, when we should be diving for pearls”

Opinion | What’s the Point of Sending People Into Space? An Astronaut, Scientist and Journalist Debate.

Searching for those missing pieces of our origin story that are waiting for us up there…

I did a thing in Today’s NYTimes.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Thoughtful discussion by @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social and @nvpatel.bsky.social on the risks and benefits of going to the moon. To me, one of the most exciting prospects is finding 3 and 4 byo Earth rocks up there, perhaps right where they landed after the Really Big One.
#astrobiology

Opinion | What’s the Point of Sending People Into Space? An Astronaut, Scientist and Journalist Debate.

Searching for those missing pieces of our origin story that are waiting for us up there…

I did a thing in Today’s NYTimes.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Opinion | What’s the Point of Sending People Into Space? An Astronaut, Scientist and Journalist Debate.

“it’s partly our own origin story we are reconstructing”

Glad to see this @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Hard for Trump to get out of a war that is making so much money for Putin.

Tufted pirouetting sausage = acorn worm, an ancestor to starfishes.

Science is so cool.

ediacaran biota mentioned!!

This is super-cool: complex life in the Ediacaran!
Also, I saw a tufted sausage doing a pirouette just the other day. What are the chances?

So more like a copy edit than a re-write?
Or finding some missing pages?

NASA live feed showing the Orion spacecraft with the crescent Earth in the right hand corner.

This is view from the Artemis II spacecraft at 78, 000 miles. The glowing crescent is Earth. 🧪

Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the st...

Amazing find which may rewrite the origins of complex life on Earth!

Plus that deuterostome on the right looks like a tufted sausage doing a pirouette…!
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phys.org/news/2026-04...

HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

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#BuhBYE

The task of writing in the age of AI is the same as it has always been: to see through the various manias and cults, to unpack the mechanisms that make the world turn, to ring the bells that still can ring. Common sense might also help. “Render unto man the things which are man’s and unto the computer the things which are the computer’s,” Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, wrote. “This would seem the intelligent policy to adopt when we employ men and computers together in common undertakings. It is a policy as far removed from that of the gadget worshiper as it is from the man who sees only blasphemy and degradation of man in the use of any mechanical adjuvants whatever to thoughts.”

Huh. Here’s a piece about using AI for writing that is actually interesting and provocative. Neither fawning nor reflexively fearful.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amazing orbital view of the Artemis 2 launch, as seen from the GOES-19 satellite.
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