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I just remembered that a decade ago, a former coworker interviewed Reid Wiseman, now the commander of Artemis II! #nasa #moon #artemis #smugmug photofocus.com/photography/...

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

The fact that NASA still drops absolute bangers on Flickr while everyone's fighting about algorithms is somehow both nostalgic and profound. There's something beautifully analog about curated space photography that makes you wonder what we lose when everything's optimized for engagement.

Project page: ai-project-website.github.io/AI-assistanc... Arxiv page: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721 w @graceliu78.bsky.social, @brianchristian.bsky.social , Mira Dumbalska, and @mbakker.bsky.social

life as a nasa photographer is like

the sun comes up and the world still spins www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

hello world! #artemisII #integrity flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Flickr!: www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

On the cover of The Lancet: Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure” Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

What happens to bicycle maintenance deferred? Does it dry up like a rubber rim strip Baking thirty years Against an aluminum wall? Does it sit there Brittle and forgotten? Until some Velox cotton Puts it to rest

If you try to print with PCL filament (low-temp plastic that works in low-temp/kid-safe 3d pens like the ones from 3d doodler) that has been sitting around for five years, you're asking for a bad time. (Luckily the solution is easy! But it was odd that "buy new filament" wasn't in any of the docs)

If you use cmd-2/3/4 to select browser tabs and have found that Google Sheets has started to steal those keyboard commands to apply formatting changes to cells, here’s how to fix it: Turn off this setting: Help->Keyboard Shortcuts->“Enable compatible spreadsheet shortcuts”

Flickr is still around, and family-owned! A classic.

You are living in a "dual state." Acting morally begins with understanding that. My latest for @vox.com: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

just what we need in maine: one less nurse. to the ”they’re just deporting criminals” people: go fuck yourselves. you’re every bit the monster that ICE is. to my friends helping to protect the targeted populations: i am so very proud of you. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/28/s...

SF: City of predators

Christmas just dropped early for me Time to figure out how to maximize packing those ornaments into a box!

6 trains within a 20 minute window to make the 113 mile journey from Osaka to Nagoya in about 50 minutes (avg 130 mph). This is normal. On a holiday.

I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!

Does aws deliberately misspell “INASTLL” to keep it noticeably different from “UNINSTALL”, as shown here on the #graviton server (i8g, graviton4). As seen at #aws #reinvent

Over this Thanksgiving one of my friends discussed this with me and said, "how can you handle the fact that it costs nothing to regurgitate misinformation and costs you endless hours to review and refute it?" But to me it's not new, with AI, it's the same problems

Happy frozen #turkey day, robot overlords.

"We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis"" 🔥

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

The single most annoying part of owning a left-handed Canon dSLR is the price of canon L lenses to go with it.

Folks, the official 2025 Mehlinger Voting Guide is finally here! If you live in California, vote YES on 50, and if you live in Santa Clara County, vote Neysa Fligor for county assessor and YES on Measure A! medium.com/@rmehlinger/...

OH: "Why are all my industry incident-friends utterly destroyed today?"

It's live now! Help raise money for the best aquarium in the world, Swifties and non-Swifties. tiltify.com/monterey-bay...

comics to read in your comfy deck chair on the titanic www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

New blog post: The illegible nature of software development talent surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t...

I am biased and think you should consume all my work (😘), but this one really is important. This regulation is going to have vast ripple effects across our ecosystems. Please give the interview a listen and learn more about what's coming. redmonk.com/blog/2025/10...

“Linux, we had such a great relationship until a minute ago” — @bcantrill.bsky.social at #monktoberfest

Metrics are increasingly employed as trust deteriorates. Recommended reading ⬇️ #monktoberfest a.co/d/im8AStV

How do I get my jira board into this format #monktoberfest

It's remarkable how much bot attention anything referencing letter-after-G - number-after-zero letter-after-A gets. I wonder if the program would be more typical of government-operated visa programs (read--non-attention-gathering) if it were not so googleable? Naming matters today, more than ever.

I was watching the last 20 minutes of Shogun during the quake and assumed it was part of the show.

SmugMug quietly killing it for like 20+ years now

You knew this was coming.

They should sell couches like they sell cars, with performance stats. But instead of horsepower or MPG It’s just stats about how many loads of laundry waiting to be folded that it can comfortably hold.

Just when you thought you have seen every possible arrow key layout…

Tom Clancy's BFG

Tom Clancy's Docker Action

Appropriate use of vertical aspect ratio video! We need more footage.

When life gives you truffles, make truffle everything

Sometimes you think you're making progress educating the general public on what LLMs are and how they work and then you read something like this and realize you are nowhere, absolutely nowhere.

I could make an entire blog full of just my experiences with google's recent search failings but this one stuck out #whatthefig

Ultimate thirst trap for ops engineers: “ai dropped my prod db”