Top: The GLEAM/GLEAM-X view of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: S. Mantovanini & the GLEAM-X team Bottom: The same area of the Milky Way in visible light. Credit: Axel Mellinger, milkywaysky.com
Here's a comparison between the sky that you can see with your human eyes & the sky seen through the radio eyes of the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia. 🧪🔭
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Happening this morning: A key hearing in the cases challenging the NIH grant terminations.
Plaintiffs, including multiple state AGs + researchers, are requesting an injunction to reverse the terminations.
Our reporting has tracked what's at stake: projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
Column by Daniel Wolfe | Clear-air turbulence has increased since the 1970s. Researchers agree that the likelihood of severe turbulence will only increase in a warming world, putting passengers and crew at risk.
See how different plane routes could experience more turbulence:
The results of a study in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science shows that ongoing and frequent rocket launches could delay ozone recovery. The authors call for action to ensure that future growth of the launch industry and ozone protection are mutually sustainable. 🧪
We know that training models on generated content causes model collapse (see autophagy).
So ironic: the more people populate the Internet with the results of these models put to their intended use, the less useful the internet becomes for training the next generation models.
SORRY, NERDS 5/4 1s DAVE BRUBECK DAY
#MusicSky #MayTheFourth
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
This is high art
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
a view down a slight hill houses in a row and a civil building with a spire at the end of the row, a city can be seen in the background
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania by Walker Evans
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending.
As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:
PINK REFLECTION
A roseate spoonbill shows her vibrant plumage. Their iconic rosy coloration comes from pigments in the crustaceans they consume.
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
The number of working satellites has soared in the past five years to around 11,000, mostly because of constellations of orbiters that provide Internet connectivity around the globe, but it comes with a series of problems. Nature explores the issues and how scientists are reacting. 🔭 🧪
two men the older, grey har bushy tash, is writing something. The other on the right is looking intently at the writing
Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1947
city light a display of electrical white goods., fridges and stoves
City Light display, Seattle, 1940
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Microsoft is under investigation from the French antitrust authority amid concerns the US tech giant is degrading the quality of results when smaller rivals pay to use Bing technology in their own search-engine products @bloomberg.com:
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The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia.
Instead, all notifications will be made on X.
We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
At a time where it feels like we're losing, we need to remember our victories that not only have happened in the past, but continue to exist today.
Thus I give you, California Condor 926 of the SoCal flock.
Great grandchild of Condor # 1.
We as humanity can still do good things.
#birds
A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.
Here's the first of probably periodic warnings to remind yourself that the "firehose of falsehoods" disinformation tactic is about to go into full swing. You do not need to watch the news to bear witness. You do not need to watch hideous videos of violence. They will be circulated to keep you upset
The Pogues performing the Irish folk song "Poor Paddy on the Railway" live in 1985. Song has also been performed by artists such as Ewan MacColl, The Weavers and Luke Kelly with The Dubliners. From The Pogues' debut album Red Roses for Me. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgW...
young man next to a large painting of houses
David Lynch with his first painting (Christmas, 1963).
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
