The myth of chivalry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyEX...

I confess that, at times, I resist joy for fear of its loss, or because something bad is happening or is about to happen. "Don't be afraid of its plenty" calls me in the opposite direction. I'm grateful. #NationalPoetryMonth

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Visto en Mastodon: «Dicen que la gente blanca no tiene su propia cultura, pero me acaban de invitar a la fiesta de revelación de género de un perro y no veo forma de que nos hayamos apropiado algo así de otras personas.»

1. "Here's an extreme idea. We're platforming it, so that people can watch out." 2. "This idea is gaining traction. We're publishing an op-ed in favour, for balance." 3. "This idea is popular now. Why does the left refuse to consider it?"

One more time las amigas de los muchachos, @porqueshonda.bsky.social.

We're on our way to the Moon! 🌕🚀 At 01:49 CEST, our European Service Module's main engine fired roughly six minutes, sending Orion and its crew into deep space. Europe is driving ✨

jonny over on masto doing god's work: > anthropic [is running] an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Venga palante ✊

You can keep track of Artemis II's progress here: artemistracker.com

Everyone remember to hide when the astronauts comes back.

Stage separation, wow! #ArtemisII

Artemis II lifts off

GO #ARTEMISII GO!!!! 🚀 Godspeed, humans!

I am forever disinterested in the commercialization aspects of space flight. I dream of the stars because they are beautiful, not because it could make rockets more powerful or Instagram more predatory. I have to accept that in my lifetime all of astrophysics is a PR write-off for the military

Many of us don't want to hear this take, that we go to the Moon not because it is easy but because it is profitable and supports the war machine... but it is absolutely true, and every single person in the space industry needs to reckon with it

Es cómo ir al bosque pensando en cuánta pasta vas a ganar por hacer el paseo. Por eso está todo lleno de gente gris, triste y que sólo quieren emprender e innovar (wish they knew what they meant by that).

Está todo lleno de gente ADE coded, que buscan rentabilizar, que todo sea eficiente, que todo de beneficios... y my dears esto es ir al espacio. Es exploración y es ciencia. Literalmente sólo da pérdidas.

A pesar de haber currado en una misión científica espacial (ya jubilada) y de haber estado haciendo cienciaTM en la ESA he acabado rebotadísimo de todo esto. Y la razón, creo, es esa maldita parte de "economía".

A view of Earth from Artemis II. If you can see your region, then you might be able to spot Artemis II with a telescope or binoculars. #astro 🔭

Ha muerto Amelia Jara, una actriz con una ductilidad tan grande que se especializó en doblar niños. De hecho, si veis este vídeo, sentiréis un escalofrío: su voz es la voz de niño POR DEFECTO para varias generaciones. La que todos tenemos en la cabeza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9r...

It is worth mentioning also that the Trump administration has gutted NASA, including many of the people responsible for doing public outreach and making cool graphics. If it seems to you like there's less of that this time around, it's related. Meanwhile, there are fewer media orgs to cover.

What value this mission provides: -- PR for Lockheed Martin, whose weapons have been used for the genocide in Gaza -- Learning how to fly to the moon in this way -- Preparing for a future mission to land on the moon -- Advancing prep for commercialization and militarization of space -- PR for US 🔭

The Artemis II mission will be piloted by Victor Glover, who will fly further into space than any Black person has before. Christina Koch, a white woman, will be flying the furthest into space that a woman has ever flown before. The mission is a test run for a future moon landing trip.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

shoutout to this magnificent piece of public art

Again and again, guardrails are a scam

LRM sobre las subcontratas de moderación de contenido, del mismo artículo:

Las plataformas de contenido comerciales son una de las mayores amenazas para la salud mental, e incluso para la democracia. Y el infierno que viven las moderadoras de contenido es quizá el mejor reflejo de ello. He podido charlar con dos de ellas sobre su experiencia. ctxt.es/es/20260401/...

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

"...even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right."

Al final van a poner cuentas candado por la IA, qué cosas

Great graph. It reminds me of this classic by the Wall Street Journal's graphics team: graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish. Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa. #larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish

Uno de los movimientos 'argumentales' más asquerosos de los machistas que van de neutros es el de usar la situación de pobreza y las muertes de otros hombres para seguir reprimiendo a las mujeres. Eso es el patriarcado puro.

In case you didn't think the SAVE Act was about suppressing women's votes.

Hoy sí, hoy sí que Nace la primavera (vanesaduque.es/producto/cua...) y las Crassulas están en flor (vanesaduque.es/producto/cra...) Y si compráis ahora hago los envíos mañana porque en este momento voy a disfrutar del sol, ya que ha salido.

This. Would AlphaFold have happened if the PDB didn’t exist - say if you had to pay to license protein crystal structure databases, and derived data couldn’t be used without approval of the PDB. Not that I’m thinking of any other crystallography database…

My main gripe with the alphafold example is how it shows you need decades and decades of high quality data, well structured, open and accessible to train a model -- and yet they always gloss over it and pretend it's just AI and magic. No, we need to continuously invest in real data and FAIR data.

Elegir centrarse solo en los efectos ambientales de la IAgen/Chatbots, cuando en un problema multifactorial, es una posición política incompatible con la izquierda, y en esta colina moriré.

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Ahora necesito saber quiénes son esas 26 personas.

Creo que me está dando un ictus...

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

More than 100 Palestinian detainees have already died in Israeli custody since October 2023. Dozens are still disappeared. Over 9,300 Palestinians sit in Israeli detention right now, including 350 children. Hundreds could face execution under this law.

The bill was devised by Itamar Ben Gvir, who wore noose-shaped lapel pins in the run-up to the vote. Ben Gvir was convicted in 2007 of racist incitement against Arabs and support for the Kach group, a designated a terrorist organization by both Israel and the United States. He wrote the law.

They’re about to mass murder ~10,000 Palestinian hostages, many of them children. You cannot reform this evil. this racist, murderous system must be completely dismantled and these war criminals tried for their crimes! Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’.

Hoy, 31 de marzo, Día de la Visibilidad Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ Las personas trans enfrentan cada día violencia estructural: 25% sufrió agresiones en 2024, 43,7% discriminación en 2025. 7 de cada 10 tienen ideas suicidas, 38% lo ha intentado, depresión 16 veces más y 46,5% desempleo.

this is all I want and all I will accept going forward