Seriously, y'all should watch this; it's amazing.

Space stuff is cool.

We should do somewhat less war stuff and somewhat more space stuff.

Artemis II is $4bn per launch, roughly the cost of 2-4 days of War in Iran.

What if we did not do War in Iran, but instead did cool space stuff?

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.

And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.

And then the DEI office was killed.

And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

good

Project Hail Mary represents a sort of genuine optimism in movies that is almost non-existent in most modern films.

Every movie these days is about a guy who sucks getting revenge for his dead parakeet or whatever.

Project Hail Mary asks "what if humans could overcome certain disaster" instead.

Black text on white background “This Sunday, I had the privilege of joining Chasdei Lev to help distribute food to working families and educators ahead of Passover. As New Yorkers prepare for Pesach, organizations like Chasdei Lev remind us what community care looks like in action—making sure every family can celebrate with dignity. In a city as wealthy as ours, no one should have to worry about putting food on the table for the holidays. Grateful to stand alongside those doing the work every day.”

US strikes reportedly kill, wound 30 PMF fighters in Iraq | The Jerusalem Post Up to 30 fighters from Iran-backed PMF were reportedly killed or wounded in US airstrikes on their base in Anbar province, Iraq, including operations commander Saad Dawai.

I regret to inform you that that idiot appears to have restarted the Iraq war.

“Falling on hard times” is not good enough of a reason to go join ICE. Go sell some fish plates ho.

Bring back rent parties! Our ancestors showed us the way!

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Sora

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Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides The jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in penalties.

Huge result here and the CA jury still deliberating. The idea that social platforms are defective products is going to pick up a lot of steam: www.theverge.com/policy/89991...

Top comment on r/technology lol
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Re: my last reposts

“Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

They were trying and failing to get people to subscribe at $20/mo and each 60 second video was costing the company $15-18 in costs to make.

That’s it, everybody, right there. That’s the Economics of AI. Visionary stuff.

Trump Votes by Mail But He Doesn’t Want You to Be Able To President Trump keeps casting ballots by mail in order to vote in...

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“We know that if you want to show solidarity, there is only one way to do it: you got to do it with your feet. You’ve got to walk on the picket line with your colleagues.”

—Zach Samalin, New York University AAUP

AAUP stands with Contract Faculty United - UAW on strike at NYU!

So you know what's wild about potential three hour waits at the airport?

Most airlines at DIA won't let you check a bag more than four hours before your flight, specifically to avoid people coming super early and crowding out airport facilities.

If the wait gets up to four hours... what then?

Predicting we're about to learn something heinous about how this app is being used and you can probably guess what it is. Kind of sudden action you take when you're trying to get ahead of a pending PR crisis

Did Abused Girl Once Almost Bite Donald Trump's Dick Off? Maybe, Could Be, Sounds Like It, Yeah. If we had to read it, so do the rest of you.

Did Abused Girl Once Almost Bite Donald Trump's Dick Off? Maybe, Could Be, Sounds Like It, Yeah.
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By Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social

Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office The first set of files related to Peter Mandelson's appointment as the UK's ambassador to the US will be published in early March, it has been announced in the House of Commons.

Breaking Sky News:

Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

He was led out of his London home by police officers this afternoon.

Mandelson has faced allegations that he leaked market-sensitive information from Downing Street to Jeffrey Epstein.

It's so frustrating that Biden spent 4 years saying the office of the president was powerless to do anything about basically anything and now we have a president just pulling the levers of power as fast as he can going "whee!" and there doesn't seem to be anything stopping him?

He really could have dismissed all the student debt, erased all the records and been a legend.

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In a normal administration, this would be a big deal, but its not even the biggest Labor Department scandal from the DeRemer family. The Secretary is already accused of having an affair with an employee, pushing grants to donors to boost her career, and visits to strip clubs on work trips.

A banner featuring Donald Trump's photo featuring the phrase "Make America Great Again" is hung on the side of the headquarters of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

As @brendannyhan.bsky.social says on repeat, what would you say if you saw it happening in another country?

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We're getting numb to impeachable offenses, but this is an *artisan* impeachable offense. It's the good stuff. Top shelf. Fine, Corinthian constitutional crisis.