Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

If you trust her *and all her friends* [1] to talk to an adult if anything that makes their creep radar go off at all, in the slightest, including: anyone trying to chat with them out of the blue, anyone trying to solicit pictures of them, anyone trying to get them to turn on their webcam,

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

OK, so. Below a certain size, the atmosphere takes care of the problem--objects below 10 meters in size, say, are going to give a great showy fireball but not do any damage on the ground unless you're really personally unlucky, like the teenager who owned this car. meteoritecar.com

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

🔭 Welcome to the world, brand new Moon crater! Impact caught yesterday morning in the video below ⬇️ Such a cool event to have captured! 🤩

Solar mamas and sisters play a key role in promoting rural electricity access. "Real men" love to build huge power plants that fail to reach the most vulnerable. Case Tanzania: eepafrica.org/portfolio/14... Case Myanmar: www.niras.com/media/qszk5y...

Paxton points out there are 5 stages of fascism. It is not the kind of thing that either "fully is or isn't." The stages are: 1) Creation of movements: A movement emerges from a society disillusioned with the existing political order, often driven by nationalism and a sense of decline. /6

We took professional sports - a job that is, by its very nature, one of the most high-stress, unhealthy things you can do for a living - and then added the ability for the most unsavory, unhinged freaks on Earth to tie their life savings to you, and threaten your family, without leaving their couch

when you understand that patriarchy views children as sexual property it all makes sense. there's no hypocrisy. exposure to queerness & transness threatens to "corrupt" the father's property, to "lead them astray" into self-determination, to taint their future sexual value. CSA is permissible as >

Blue Origin sends satellites to Mars in historic launch. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Für das Maximum der Geminiden diesen Dezember gibt es einen Aufruf, am Morgen des 14. die 'dunkle' Seite des Mondes stundenlang zu filmen: www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.... - dann ist nämlich die Chance besonders hoch, einen oder mehrere Einschläge von Geminiden-Teilchen als Blitze aufzuzeichnen.

Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

virtue signalling is good actually

HELLO BELGIUM!!!!!!! Thank you @bruegel.org for introducing #TheDoubleTax to the EU airwaves. One thing that BAFFLES me is that so many EU countries don't collect data on race so literal stories about Black people are absent from the numbers. We dig into that in this episode: #blacksky

Polls haven't even closed and Mamdani is already delivering.

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

$698 Billion. That’s how much more wealth the 10 wealthiest Americans have just this year, as SNAP funds remain frozen. #unconscionable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

Deeply unexpected that one of the best exhibits of extraterrestrial gems and minerals is in the terminal of the Portland, Maine airport??

We've lost another #StarTrek legend. The great #RIPRalphSenensky, the director of 7 great TOS eps like "The Paradise Syndrome" & "Metamorphosis", wrongly fired form "Tholian Web," and then lived long to blog and share it all, was 102. Blessed to have talked/hosted him for us all.

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Via the Minor Planet Mailing List: "The flash occurred at 20:33 and lasted 13.4 seconds on October 30, 2025" groups.io/g/mpml/topic...

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

I gave a presentation at @sacnas.bsky.social on "archival astrophysics" in a session "Astronomy on the Cheap", showing tips on pursuing research using only archival data. Here are my slides, which include examples of different public archives & how to use them! 🔭 drive.google.com/file/d/1mw42...

Hey there astronomy community! If anyone has any information or new footage of that impact flash on the Moon, please let me know—I’d love to see it/hear about it. 📸: @dfuji1.bsky.social

Ladies and gentlemen, I captured Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)! *just signed up to 2025 comet group

Good morning. Today I learned about the "trans women" vs "transwomen" distinction in usage. Sorry about that! Here's the fixed version, which I also changed on the main site.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

To expand on why this is a ridiculous claim: the Netherlands uses all paper ballots marked with a red pencil. Voting and counting are decentralized and conducted by volunteers; anyone who wants to can come watch. Among the most trustworthy elections in the world. www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/...

The beautiful Comet LEMMON's tail The comet is going out with a bang. The tail was as bright as ever last night. Captured with Celestron RASA telescope, ZWO ASI533MC color camera, and an Antlia L-Filter. 📸 Chuck's Astrophotography (Chuck Ayoub) x.com/chucksastrop...

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

This week I've been e-chatting with photographer Lynn Gilbert who took this stunning portrait of Grace Hopper (1906-1992) legend & pioneer of language-based computer programming. 🧪👩‍🔬 You can read Hopper's own words about her experience in Lynn's wonderful interview: www.lynn-gilbert.com/free-chapters

I absolutely did not know the history here. In particular, I had no idea that Christian Identity (a white supremacist cult) and NAR Christian Nationalism shared common and KKK-linked theological history. BUT IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE

This might actually be THE point where Christian Nationalism starts either splintering...or the NAR literally just joins with Christian Identity and REALLY returns to its roots (I'd have thought the SBC/NAR widening split would have been the fissure, but a neo-Nazi/NAR split has been growing) 1/x

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

"If everyone has to cobble together their own constellation of individual creators $5 at a time? That’s not a media ecosystem. It’s a privatized patchwork of tip jars. Counting on people who pay you directly isn’t the same as not having a boss. You have 100 and can’t afford to piss off any of them."

This weird thing in German political discourse where the Govt argues that if they just deport enough people, the crime in urban areas will stop. It’s racist and dishonest, and when you call it out they say it’s neither. Just spend the money on jobs, housing and healthcare, you clowns.

Double rainbow over The Hague just now. Quick shot with phone.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

for those unfamiliar with the nazi bar:

What comet #Lemmon looks like from the #ISS right now - a picture by the Japanese #astronaut Kimiya Yui from x.com/Astro_Kimiya... with more timesteps. And see also x.com/Astro_Kimiya... and x.com/Astro_Kimiya... and the animation x.com/Astro_Kimiya...

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works (15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

As president and founder of @blackinastro.bsky.social , AJ an amazing force within space law, an outspoken advocate for the people, and dear friend. I also agree with @ohdearz.bsky.social that this too makes me question my presence and the presence of @blackinastro.bsky.social on this site.

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

In the literature, we call rallies like this "image events" because they help **focus media attention** on a major strain of ideological resistance that is big enough for lots of people to feel comfortable. They create IMAGES that FOCUS our ATTENTION and AFFECT to mobilize frequently.