Heard someone refer to a (large) datacenter as an "ohio-class datacenter" and now I only want to hear datacenter sizes referred to by reference to submarine classes

Democracy dies in oligarchness

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

Tonight in Kyiv, it’s −13°C. Some parts of the city have been without electricity for more than 60 hours after russian attacks.

Crazy Northern Lights tonight!

I want to ask you stop what you’re doing for a second and read this : ALL power stations in major Ukraine’s region , Dnipropetrovsk region, STOPPED WORKING today . Russia bombed them. None is working. No info when it could be fixed. This might sound like I’m being too dramatic but I really am not.

Evening

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

A reminder of the stunning rate of scientific progress: it’s only been 101 years that we’ve known the Universe is larger than the Milky Way. Now we know that it’s at least *1 million* times larger in linear size than the Milky Way (and probably 50 or more times larger than that, even).

Bulgaria joins the eurozone as its 21st country after formally adopting the euro.

Fun ⚛️-factlet: the New York New years ball is a recollection of Time Balls, which were used to give accurate time to ships for navigation! Since the speed of light is a million times faster than sound, there is much less time-delay than using a gun salute en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_ball

RIP 2025 2025-2025

Fragments of non-local iron pyrite and heat-fractured stone tools were recently discovered at a 400,000 year old site in England suggesting that Neanderthals were making fire much earlier than previously thought! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

This spectacular image of the planetary alignment of Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter above the Sydney Opera House was taken in the early morning around April 21, 2022, and featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 26, 2022

Hamlet: and I, Hamlet, vow to honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and ... Ghost: wait ... did you say Hamlet? Hamlet: yes? Ghost: not Scrooge? Hamlet: ... no? Ghost (scrolling increasingly desperately through Google calendar) oh shiii..

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

cant believe ive been bullied into having to learn what a gpu is

Finally, an administration willing to rank fonts by wokeness

Turns out it didn't have legs

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.

EU fines X over DSA violations ↘️ www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

🌲 Welcome to bluesky unwrapped 🌲 Congratulations! You made it through another year. Let's see how you did This year: 8264 people tried to explain one of your own posts to you Your posting age is 38

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

Io beauty shot. Taken by the Juno spacecraft on 3 February 2024. The right-hand hemisphere is illuminated by the Sun. On the left, the night side isn't totally dark because of Jupitershine. Image credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS

Space photographer Andrew James McCarthy @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social has captured many epic images of celestial bodies, but this may be his greatest: a perfectly timed photo of a skydiving friend with the sun behind him (shot w/ equipment revealing great solar detail). Behold "The Fall of Icarus."

It is 1992 and BBC Newsround over in the UK is worried about the scourge of something scary called a "computer virus". #hacker #hacking #history

US peace plan: What could Ukraine compromise on? We look at issues where differences will be extremely difficult to bridge and others where compromise may prove less hard to find. www.ft.com/content/c24e... via @FT

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

I really want to know the full story behind this epic hack, and yet I also hope it is never solved.

Today is Holodomor Memorial Day

Read my scoop overnight from Kyiv, where US army secretary Dan Driscoll’s brief meeting (he was running late after calls with Vance) with European ambassadors at the US ambassador’s residence in Podil left one feeling “nauseated” and others “shocked.” W/ @henryjfoy.ft.com on.ft.com/43GWpxI

The “peace plan” for Ukraine is just a framework for Russia & the US to take assets away from Ukrainian recovery, and to ensure Russia evades accountability for war crimes Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine A point by point analysis of the shambles: www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...

Across all the planets in the milky way the average number of trees per planet is at least 30

Watching this is good for your eyeballs. It keeps them healthy and happy. Send more auroras please!

What a terrible day to know how to read

One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.

Also important to remember that everyone involved in the coverup -- whether formally or informally -- is part of the exact same conspiracy against the victims and against the nation.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

In a better society, all the men in those Epstein emails were taken out to the middle of the ocean and given a fair opportunity to swim home

Seeing some beautiful photos of aurorae tonight, so here's a reminder that other planets get them, too! This is Saturn, with aurorae visible at both poles in this UV image from Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, taken in October 1997 when the planet was 1.3 billion km away.

No words. I’m a block from home.

I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name. Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.

The Aurora made it to Texas. A quick shot. #astrophotography

Reno, Nevada 6:31 PDT 39.4° N, 119.8° W #Aurora