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NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Begins Rotorcraft Integration, Testing Stage - NASA Science NASA Dragonfly’s integration and testing – the activities involved in assembling the mission’s rotorcraft lander and testing it for the rigors of launch and

A long time coming…

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More on Claude's Inner Life In images and words

The latest edition of #DogShirtDaily hot off the press! www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/more-on-cl... #AI #ClaudeAI

Chesterton's Fence YouTube video by #DogShirtTV

On today’s #DogShirtTV, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social and the #GreekChorus discuss philosophical and policy approaches to understanding #AI.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s6F...

I think this guy might be a bullshitter.

> @cnn.com

You don't say, colour me shocked!

Marks never admit they were conned.

This time we profile one of the worst people in the world and explain how much of what we associate with Trump is really Miller’s sinister mission to remake America

Google what is hubris ?

Cave decor for Easter is very subtle.

I assume this is for teaching Plato, right?

DOJ’s Ed Martin accused of ethics violations for threatening Georgetown University Ultimately, he could be sanctioned or disbarred.

A legal oversight organization that polices attorney misconduct filed formal accusations against DOJ attorney Ed Martin after he sent threatening letters to Georgetown University Law School last year.

This filing initiates conduct proceedings that could result in sanctions or disbarment.

Once again the Trump administration will need its European allies who have multiple times the US Navy’s mine clearing capacity.

Turns out that for fighting wars in the Middle East, the US needs its European allies. No matter who sits in the White House.

The @overlookfilmfest.bsky.social Overlook festival is incredible - can’t wait to see this prime lineup of films and immersive experiences. I’ll be there from April 8-13th - I hope to see you there.

EGAN-JONES: “.. We hope that our analysis is wrong. However, if we are correct, the longer the combatants are engaged, the worse it will be for all.”

Somewhere in Washington DC, this guy is holding a pint of Keystone Light, leaning over a bar and telling a woman that he “works for the president”

You’re like a real life Indiana Jones.

Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com

Women Preferences Expands to 26 Cities Women Preferences, a feature that give women riders and drivers the option to match with women on trips, is expanding to 26 new cities in the US.

Just discovered I can order a car specifically driven by a woman, but only if I identify myself as a woman in the app.

Me, photographing a raven in the Grand Canyon

I think this looks like a museum diorama—up to and including the photographer.

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I have enormous respect for FIRE but I think this First Amendment argument for Anthropic is a mistake and a very dangerous position—we don't want everything an AI does to be covered by the First Amendment. www.fire.org/research-lea...

Woooow

Iran Can Turn the Persian Gulf Into a Minefield As war rages across the Middle East, every mariner’s eye is on the Strait of Hormuz. This narrow waterway, which connects the confines of the Persian Gulf with the open waters of the Indian Ocean, is ...

Former NATO chief says says Iran *can* close Strait of Hormuz -- and not much we can do:

-Iran has more than 5,000 mines
-they can be dropped by small boats, even civilian ones.
-U.S. only has handful of minesweepers
-clearing mines could take months.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Stressed out by politics? You’re not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame Political content on social media finds you even if you’re not looking for it, and it tends to do so through a sensationalized and emotionally charged lens.

The misery machines have us engaged and enraged: Stressed out by politics? You’re not imagining it, and research shows that social media is largely to blame theconversation.com/stressed-out...

"Subcreatures! Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, the Traveler has come! Choose and perish!"

“Where is our Alex Butterfield?” misunderstands Watergate. It was the *Senate* (yes, Democratic majority) that in early 1973 created the Ervin Committee. Sen. also got AG nom. Elliot Richardson to agree, condition of confirmation, to appt. a special prosecutor (Archibald Cox).
*Where is our Senate?*

Live updates: About 140 US troops wounded in Iran war, 8 severely, Pentagon says The Pentagon said Tuesday that about 140 U.S. service members have been wounded since the start of the war. It said the “vast majority” of the injuries were minor, with 108 service members having alre...

“Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told reporters Tuesday that he emerged from a classified briefing on the war in Iran ‘as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate.’” apnews.com/live/iran-wa...

Scotch Broth Recipe Rich broth filled with bite-sized pieces of root vegetable and tender lamb, this hearty soup is much more than the name 'broth' implies. The essential elements of a scotch broth are lamb, barley, and ...

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