This is going to be a big deal, but easy to get the wrong end of the stick on it. So I think it's worth breaking down what actually happened, why, and what it actually means, based on the public information reported here, because it's a bit complicated for folks who don't follow this stuff closely 🧵

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

the pain for Spain is mainly on the wane

Once again, this is not an important question, nor does answering it tell you anything about any useful moral question

Whoa. ATRC is one of those super esoteric things in natsec law that gets mentioned once in class as a "btw we also have this; this is how it's structured; it has never been used even once since it was established in 1996. But it's still technically there" things

Happy calendar-emoji day, the one day a year where the calendar emoji shows the right date 📅

This is an unalloyed great thing, and all the naysayers are wrong

If you've ever wondered what the galaxy tastes like, fear not: science has finally worked out the answer: it's delicious www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

apart from anything else, that video demonstrates yet again he was the wrong candidate

That Lupita Nyong’o’s looks have made some of the most powerful men go completely insane and fight over her inclusion in this movie only goes to prove that Nolan casting her was absolutely correct bsky.app/profile/dail...

it can still be 0-0 if infantino has the courage

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!

Extremely impressive

Well now here's something pretty spiffy. New out today from the New York Vocal Collective, a choral arrangement of Paul McCartney's "Blackbird." The first two and a half minutes are fine, but then it becomes…something else entirely. (You know the THX sound effect?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot...

When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real

the business is called what a what now sorry

Said it for a while now, but Microsoft is a platforms company whose various platforms are money-printing machines, and it increasingly just does not pay attention to them, to the point that it barely understands why they were successful, and stewards them badly. This is another example of it

If you remember how the world reacted to the Notre Dame catching on fire in Paris - the Lavra site is not only older, but also more significant in Ukrainian (and regional) Orthodoxy. The Lavra is an example of Ukrainian Baroque style.

John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Tarps

My. Rainier Showing off for golden hour tonight 🫢😮‍💨

Are you a privacy lawyer who wants to work with me? www.mozilla.org/en-US/career...

I made a Firefox add-on that lets you find the federal court opinion/docket mentioned in a news story in one click. Using @free.law's CourtListener and RECAP of course. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... (this is a personal project)

Jupiter and Venus

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

the hungry observatory