🌙 🌟 Over the next few hours the crescent Moon will appear close to the planet Venus, with closest approach at 3h UT on May 19th. The beautiful scene is visible worldwide and is best viewed about an hour after sunset. Simply look up! 🔭 skymaps.com/skycalendar/

May 17, 2026 Randazzo gave birth on the courtroom bench in full view of law enforcement, prosecutors and court staff. The coalition alleges that some of those present 'laughed and joked' throughout the delivery.

He caught tiny Mother Teresa slowly negotiating stairs; the Dalai Lama taking a screwdriver to his TV; Indira Gandhi contorting her face with her hands. We remember photojournalist Raghu Rai

Bill Cassidy stuck us with RFK Jr for literally nothing

Britain’s secretary of state for war, Arnold Foster, advanced the proposal by formally requesting Canada to send 40 officers and 1,000 soldiers to India. scroll.in/magazine/109... Ajay Kamalakaran writes once news of the proposal reached the press, many Canadian newspapers strongly criticised it.

Decision-aware machine learning for essential medicines: a Nature article showing how ML can support scarce-resource allocation in low- and middle-income settings. deployment in Sierra Leone; 19% increase in consumption of allocated products in treated districts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All newborns lack vitamin K. No matter how much vitamin K a mother consumes, it doesn’t sufficiently pass through the placenta and breast milk doesn’t contain enough of it — meaning babies are at risk of uncontrollable bleeding without a vitamin K shot.

Universities Suspend Final Exams After Canvas Hack The breach of the learning management system used by two out of every five North American higher ed institutions continues to reverberate. https://bit.ly/4tqq347 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

WHY do journalists ask “are you aware of,” instead of, “X happened, what do you think of it?”?!??

Gas station prices for petrol in Seattle area

Claude seems to be down for me 🤔👾 #AI #LLMS

The State Department has finalized a plan to put a picture of Donald Trump in passports. A portrait of an actual president has never been featured in a passport before, let alone a living one in office. This is dictator stuff.

Pasta olio e aglio

Happiest Place on Earth 70th Anniversary Disneyland

thingsyoudontknow1 Trump cut $1.1 billion in public media funding. Connie Ballmer just wrote NPR an $80 million check — the largest donation from a living donor in the network's history.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran. Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.

Did not hear this news. This is the book I studied from in OR

Started playing while #Claude #DESIGN i got access to couple days ago. #Llm has more features than I expected for a new release #AI #PPTX

They have clean bathrooms.. Sandwich & Tea halt At #Poombarai

This is the classic #**AbileneParadox**!! We all go where no one individually wants to go.

Every time his name bubbles up on Socials there's always something remarkable. The Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan died far too young in Cambridge at 32 in 1920, suffered abject poverty in Madras (now Chennai), before coming to England in around 1913. www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ra...

On NBC Nightly News tonight: cases of autoimmune diseases are rising in the US (3-12% each year), but there's a huge dearth of rheumatologists to treat them; 72% of US counties have none. I'll try to post the segment (& the study mentioned in passing) when it's up.

Bottoms on Top? Hmmm...

Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground, a small, wooded cemetery in North Cambridge known as "the cleverest cemetery in Britain" because it contains the remains of three Nobel Prize winners and dozens of world-class academics.

Oh and I just finished building a skill to format my qmd as word docx for journals!!

"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

Starting in December 2026, the U.S. government will automatically register young men for the Selective Service System using federal databases. No form to fill out. No reminder card. No choice. You exist, therefore you’re on the list. 

#Gas is now $6.00 in #Seattle

DOJ Lawyer Face-Plants on Native Americans and Birthright Citizenship | The New Republic "... implications of the executive order Trump signed repealing birthright citizenship. can’t explain whether Native Americans would be U.S. citizens is certainly unsettling." newrepublic.com/post/208485/...

🚨WATER WAR BEGINS Iranian strikes hit Kuwait’s Doha West desalination plant, killing an Indian worker. This follows the "water for water" logic after Coalition strikes on Iran’s Haftkel reservoir. With Kuwait depending on desalination for 90% of its survival. #OperationEpicFury #Kuwait #IranWar

Baby brother back in the day tossed the house keys down the Indian Style toilet just as the family was headed out to a movie. Took a while to figure out where it was.

in chennai

In #Chennai airport lounge waiting for flight to Singapore and then to Seattle

Seattle #Orcas mascot

In NYC!!?! One of the wealthiest places in one of the wealthiest time in human history and teachers have to scrounge for supplies?! It is very difficult to comprehend this comment, as I write this from near a fishing hamlet in the remote out skirts of India.

Cost of war. Price of cup of tea. In #Chennai has risen by 33% for the common person.

Alaska airlines can fuck right off. There is availability 7 hours before my scheduled flight but they want $75 per ticket to switch flights. That’s criminal . S it looks like I’m stuck herewith my child for 13+ hours #alaskair #boo #customerservice #seattle #alaska

www.mybirthcert.org Help with #BirthCertificate

I saw my first $6 gal gas yesterday, in Seattle 😶

"... killer interview question, as reported by The Register previously: ask them something like "How fat is Kim Jong Un?" and if they are a North Korean, they will terminate the call instantly." #JobInterview

Water Crisis 2026: 8 Cities Running Out of Water Mexico City, Chennai, São Paulo, Bangalore, Cairo, Jakarta, Istanbul, and Corpus Christi face Day Zero. The water crisis is accelerating … https://theboard.world/articles/science/water-crisis-2026-cities-running-out-of-water #geopolitics #worldnews

Which #AI the lack of specificity leads to speculations that the author, and many similar others, are merely posturing. This entire platform on which we are discussing this is using AI for optimisation of various aspects. if you mean LLMs, please say so.

Shiromani Mrs T. R. Lakshmi, wife of former Law Secretary (late) Mr P.B.Venkatasubramanian passed off her mortal coils for the last time peacefully. A bulwark of strength and a matriarch to the countless she helped. On Saturday March 14, 2026 (1935 - 2026).

Funniest donation in politics I ever read "worst donation of all time was the $10 bill I gave to Michele #Bachmann at the state fair when I was 17".

"Since Trump was not interested in nation-building, his counter-terrorism goals were clear. These operations continued in the backdrop of the overall strategy of supporting the Afghan government and the ANDSF." scroll.in/article/1091... An excerpt by Anju Gupta. Simon & Schuster #bookexcerpt

For those that sleep. It’s been quite the night. A look at WTI as word on coordinated action by the G-7 to release a portion-25%-of its strategic petroleum reserves. This will not negate demand destruction that has started. #Econ #EconSky

Daylight Saving Time in 2026 begins at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 8. Our clocks are set to "spring forward" one hour. #USA #EduSky

Horsey, Seattle Times.