The last supermoon of the year will shine soon in December skies. https://to.pbs.org/3XYQWPh

happy holidays @

The Sun and sunspots. 1140UT 3 December 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Let's dive into the dusty central region of the Milky Way! There, a swarm of stars orbits an invisible, supermassive #BlackHole. As we get closer to it, we see these stars, as observed by the VLT (in 2019) and VLTI (mid-2021). Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2119/ 🔭

Good Guardian reporting: How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Okta is experiencing a major outage. Are you having problems with Okta? #okta #oktadown

Yes, okta, you are a good infosec app for asking me to 2FA for the FOURTH time today. You're right! The person sitting at my desk for 7hrs ABSOLUTELY could have been hit with enough gamma radiation particles to have been changed fundamentally at the dna level to now be a NEW, UNAUTHORIZED PERSON🤔

Unintended competitors: Why L.A. preschools are closing as transitional kindergarten thrives

so many people never heard of the guy before >

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said it will be impossible for his country to decouple from Russian oil and gas by 2027, and described the EU's new political agreement on the phase-out an imposition. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/3k0k

as is a lasting peace ~

Join us at 6pm tonight at @amerikahaus.de for a talk with Prof. Alys Eve Weinbaum (U of Washington)! ➡️ Learn more & register: t1p.de/cpqfh The event is organized by the #BavarianAmericanAcademy in cooperation the University of Augsburg and @fau.de.

is someone running a tally on how many times he's gotten away with it ~

could always get worse =

remember Bidenomics ~

same with his fans =

golden =

Morning Minute: Bank of America Recommends up to 4% Crypto Portfolio Allocation decrypt.co/350756/mo...

Our "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" seminar is now available! Watch Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen break down their landmark research on AI's impact on employment: youtu.be/tqYo-dfL1go

Down under, AI-powered robots are installing solar panels. 2/11 interestingengineering.com/energy/robot...

Join us tomorrow for a @stanfordhai.bsky.social seminar with Google's CTO @blaiseaguera.bsky.social. He'll challenge the myth of AI as alien intelligence and reframe it as a social phenomenon born from language—the "DNA" of collective human intelligence. hai.stanford.edu/events/blais...

Submitting a benchmark to ICML? Check out our NeurIPS Spotlight paper BetterBench! We outline best practices for benchmark design, implementation & reporting to help shift community norms. Be part of the change! 🙌 + Add your benchmark to our database for visibility: betterbench.stanford.edu

The ride-hailing giant announced on Wednesday that users can now access self-driving vehicles developed by startup Avride.

Around the Circle by Vasily Kandinsky, 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137509

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

it would go home >

Apparently “rage bait” #marketing is, well, all the rage these days. Any publicity is good publicity in the #AttentionEconomy, right? Except: “Courting controversy doesn’t always pay off financially.” #surprise Via @charlesarthur.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

CEO to Prove How @siemens.com Leads the Industrial AI Revolution aimagazine.com/news/ceo-to-...

someone's got to >

Ah yes, the 250th anniversary celebration complete with a MMA fight on the White House lawn…

Ha, nice. Very leaf litter critter focused, which is how I want it to be.

also thinking about how many people this all is just fine with >

Not the Onion =

getting better @ losing ~

It is completely unnecessary to pay $17 million to OpenAI—and also, I think, unnecessary to get quite this doomy on the topic. I work at a school that is being proactive about AI without becoming dependent on a vendor. I think lots of schools will take that path.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes? That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.

Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep

Almost full😁 #moon #photogtaphy #farmlife

My sister and I visited San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the first time. We enjoyed the beaches, food, nightlife, and more, without breaking the bank.

Today's close race to replace retired GOP Rep. Mark Green’s seat in Tennessee’s deep-red 7th District has become a national test for both parties. The result will portend Dems’ odds of pulling off a blue wave next fall, whether their nominee wins or not.

The Know-Nothings never really go away. They just forget that their ancestors were foreigners too.

My follow-up question is: What culture? What specifically are you worried about losing?

Dozy Don

Arbeitsministerin Bas will gegen Arbeitsrechtsverstöße in der Lieferkette von Uber Eats, Wolt & Co. vorgehen. RBB-Reporter deckten kriminelle Strukturen auf. #Arbeitswelt

He really does look like a grandpa in a nursing home with everyone talking slowly in ultra cheerful tones

Do cabinet members get paid by the compliment, or the Biden bashing? Just curious.

Wherein I ask to be at the front of the line when the basilisk arrives Huge thanks to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for hosting this! techpolicy.press/what-happens...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"