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To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space.
Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform.
Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut
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A water recycling plant Elon Musk promised to build in Memphis to offset the huge amount of local drinking water Grok's data centre devours has been postponed indefinitely.
Apparently, Musk considers drinking water for local people less of a priority than increasing computing power for Grok👇🏾
"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"
yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up
....overwhelmingly by urban areas) would objectively seem to benefit these same rural areas. Not that one could ever tell from the deranged, contemptuous whining that the more Hitlerite segments of rural America constantly aim at more diverse cities...
Ironically, for all the ways in which rural America likes to scream about being 'disenfranchised' by redistricting moves like this, Democratic elected officials' policy prescriptions for rural areas (like *actually adequately funding rural healthcare*, using the tax revenue generated...
No, it doesn't. Urban living is more sustainable and less resource Intensive than rural or suburban living across every metric by *miles.* Arguing otherwise is on par with global warming denialism
Do you realize that dense urban living is the most sustainable way for humans to exist?
Not living in a highly urbanized place *is* selfish and bad for the planet, and we should stop buying the romanticized bullshit about the supposed purity of unsustainable lifestyles.
Fran Lebowitz's stellar line one time, when discussing a race in one of the dakotas or the like, was "And, you know, there's more people in my building..."
Urban areas have subsidized rural areas for as long as I've been paying attention. No-one is suggesting urban areas will stop subdizing rural areas, and the principal drivers of the subsidies have been Dems dependent on urban votes, over GOP opposition. All of which makes the complaints a bit nuts.
"I should get to have more control over people in cities because I moved out of them" - something people actually think apparently
we are seeing the results of letting the rurals run everything and it’s Pretty Shit
I once had a guy look me in the face and say "One person, one vote is unfair, why should cities get more votes in a democracy?" It genuinely felt like I was having a stroke and the guy had no idea how stupid the shit that just fell out of his mouth was.
unpopular opinion guy
i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas
NASA unveiled the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and said the agency is ready to launch in early September, eight months ahead of schedule. NASA Administrator, Jared Isaacman said, "Roman will investigate dark matter, dark energy and the structure of the universe itself."
not just alaska bsky.app/profile/hora...
screencap from the 10k showing in the 3 monhts ended 31 march 2026, alaska spent 796m on fuel
for some comparison, in the quarter before, alaska spent $796m on fuel. they're expecting it to go to ~$1400m
Fuel remains the largest source of near‑term uncertainty. April fuel is expected to be approximately $4.75 per gallon, and we expect the quarter to average approximately $4.50 based on the forward curve today. This assumption adds approximately $600 million of expense to the second quarter, equivalent to an earnings per share headwind of $3.60. We expect to consume approximately 297 million gallons of fuel in the quarter based on our current capacity plan.
gork is this a lot news.alaskaair.com/company/alas...
The Japanese scientist who painstakingly reconstructed 1,200 years of data on peak cherry blossom blooms in Kyoto to show the effects of climate change has passed away; fortunately, another scientist has volunteered to continue his project.
"The errors are the latest example of a professional services firm grappling with the use of cutting-edge technology to speed up laborious research and cut down on staffing while also trying to maintain quality standards." - it's just greed. These firms have the money, they are just cutting corners.
Some inside baseball on the Curr Bio paper on Kea pecking orders, reported in the Times : the senior author of the research, cognitive scientist Alex Taylor, is in Barcelona rather than New Zealand because we failed to retain him
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the jury verdict and $14 million award against Denver, finding the city is liable for the police's use of “unconstitutional force” against 12 protesters during George Floyd demonstrations in 2020 // Story by @katielang.bsky.social
As Twitter became X, use frequency has become strongly correlated with dislike of Democrats.
The more you hate Democrats, the more you post and visit X.
Overall social media use is also declining.
Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all.
A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.
📉 Visiting and posting on X and Facebook has collapsed: nearly 50% drop!
On X, it is mostly Democrats who have become inactive.
Many still occasionally log on, but rarely and quietly.
In a nutshell, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking; engagement collapsing
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~70 POINTS to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
The Forest Service’s proposed closure of research facilities in Hawaiʻi, including the Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry and a biocontrol lab, threatens years of research on biocontrol agents and disease-resistant ʻōhiʻa strains, impacting efforts to protect Hawaiʻi’s forests and watersheds.
Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
Not only that, but CA was contingent on TX going first. The GOP could've stopped the whole thing, but chose to play with fire instead.
