I wrote about the murder of Renee Nicole Good and the deadly strategy, as Steve Bannon once called it, of flooding the zone with shit.
New Racket.
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There is a โtime lapseโ mode which should work for those purposes. You can also use NINA to get pretty good telescope control for such projects: youtu.be/Cu50eBfxTJc
Look into joining Exoplanet Watch. science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie...
ุงู ู ุฏุฏ- "Get out of the car," one agent says in the video, using an expletive as he approaches the vehicle and tries to open the driver's side door.
But it was Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis โ just days into his third term - who abandoned the measured cadences of elected office altogether. "To ICE," he said, "get out of Minneapolis," using an expletive. "We do not want you here." The self-defense narrative being
Dear NYT,
ICE just shot a mom. You can spell out the expletives.
Thanks.
No rest until justice.
I have been looking for work that explores exactly how these differences were (not) operationalized, but have yet to find a really good one that looks at pre-Enlightenment attempts. I suspect this is because the assumption that pre-scientific revolution people didnโt know better is so pervasive.
While I have thought this too, there is quite a bit of historical evidence for an assumed divergence between them going back to antiquity. Some in the Church, for example, made a distinction between them as a means to condemnation of divination even as the Baconian distinction was not formalized.
Will she discuss the nearly certain option that it was a myth not based on any actual astronomical observation, but instead was attempting to match and counter other similar myths from rival sects? Heavenly portents being important, communities claimed they occurred decades later when they didnโt.
We're primarying John Fetterman.
Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians.
We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.
Looking for a good antidote to Avi Loebโs ET advocacy? This excellent blogpost, in the spirit of Saganโs Baloney Detection, offers rebuttals to the most pervasive and pernicious arguments you might find swirling around this topic. tinieblasyestrellas.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
As someone who went to college with sweaty pete, I expect that his alcoholism and stimulant addiction may have resulted in certain limitations once they stopped spurring on his well-publicized dalliances.
Ok, these are just names of bars in the Tenderloin
The top 20 accounts blocked in the last 24 hours. They're almost entirely US government accounts. And they're catching block numbers that would easily put them in the all-time top blocked list, just in the first day.
lol. lmao, even.
I always thought Ecuadoran would make more sense than the usual โEcuadoreanโ. The country isnโt named โEcuadoreaโ after all.
Ecuador suffers a similar fate.
Agreed. In a past dream, I had wanted to follow in the research footsteps of Davis and Lineweaver, but I couldnโt convince any cosmology mentors that this was a worthy direction to pursue. I had to settle for sprinkling references to their work liberally through Wikipedia.
Tweet by David Sacks: "Wikipedia is hopelessly biased. An army of left-wing activists maintain the bios and fight reasonable corrections. Magnifying the problem, Wikipedia often appears first in Google search results, and now itโs a trusted source for AI model training. This is a huge problem."
Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia
Take the threats about banning or restricting mifepristone seriously. Itโs all based on junk science. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Screenshot: Sept 6, 2025 vaccine record indicating that I received the COVID booster in spite of the attempt by the health secretary to prevent me from getting it.
Suck it, RFK Jr!
I may have had to go to Connecticut, and I may have had to affirm having a condition that puts me at โhigh risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virusโ which, if anyone asks, is โbeing aliveโ. In spite of the attempts of the antivax establishment to stop me, they could not!
I think that inconsequential debates where the stakes are low are good for science comm. People are often surprised when I say that I will take either side of the โIs Pluto a planet?โ debateโฆ but that is mostly because the stakes are so low.
It was Peacockeโs diatribe that convinced me that the expanding space view was misleading in part. David Hogg also once gave a great popular science lecture that explained the expanding universe starting from the Doppler effect, and that went so well that it is the approach I now take in Astro 101.
He may not live long enough to get it.
For sure extravagance is the whole point for Dyson, but it sometimes has knock off effects that I find uncomfortable to the point of being nearly disconfirming. It was not for nothing that Dyson was a climate change denier. I do see these as being related peccadillos.
I suspect he was speaking with hand waving gestures to the concept of โsolar systemโ. Indeed โinner solar systemโ is the scale Dyson first envisioned in what *I*, for one, consider to be a hellish nightmare concept.
Book recommendation: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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But I think he is, sadly, acting out of the technoutopian hyperbole that did happen envision reprocessing stellar output at a 1 AU bubble.
For sure, the guy is riffing on subjects which he thought about for almost no time, and putting junk in space is likely the goal, but it is a *classic* goal and likely not out of place from Dysonโs imagination, sadly.
Yeah, enveloping a star is a waste and unstable (thus swarmsโฆ even more scary).
I blame the Star Trek TNG episode which snatched this obscure also-ran concept and brought it into the mainstreamโฆ I kinda wish it would stay in science fiction since, like many of Dysonโs proposals, it sits in my uncanny valley of the imagination to extravagance progression.
