(we are not on the brink of a total internet collapse)

So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about. I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant

NGL there is something genuinely just very funny about telling the pope to read up on Catholic theory

Add a laugh track at the end and this an absurdist SNL sketch intro from any time before 2015

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

Bought the Artemis II Lego set ”for my kid.” This thing is stunning.

I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.

The Moon is tidally locked so one side always faces us. From that side, Earth is a permanent fixture in the sky 13 times larger and 43 times brighter than the Moon appears from Earth. Four humans photographed this. Every crater in this frame is older than any life on land. Artemis II

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Actually, there are four planets in this image (a fifth, Venus, is just outside of view)

Idk maybe dial back the "but what if nukes" stuff because (a) he won't and (b) tomorrow when he didn't I don't want to hear anyone say "well on the plus side he didn't use nukes"

oh my god oh my god oh my god www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Roughly, left of the dark area is part of the far side of the Moon, not seen from Earth. The big round feature is the Orientale impact basin, the Moons youngest. That area was in darkness for all the Apollo flights so the Integrity crew are the first humans to see it with their own eyes

Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th). flic.kr/p/2s5Z9yc

No real problem with ordinary folks asking about the 25th, but every time a congressman asks for the cabinet to remove a president you should read that as them abdicating their own duty to pursue impeachment through congress

Nope, not how this works www.wsj.com/world/middle...

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

Artemis II will also perform large numbers of science experiments en route to the moon. Among other things, scientists hope to conclusively prove one way or the other whether the moon is haunted

NASA is honestly one of the greatest things humans have ever created, the stuff of math and dreams

Moon launch Livestream for anyone who wants to watch along www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

While there are vast numbers of people (including self taught teenagers) who know how to hack into websites or even write malware, the global total number of people who can independently build the tools to remotely hack into a patched modern smartphone is in the order of a few dozen, at most

DC standing strong!

The FCC today updated its list of products that can't be sold in the U.S. to include *all* consumer routers made in foreign countries. It's a big but potentially disruptive move to limit supply-chain security risks to U.S. networks. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

I'm very pleased to share the 2026 CASIS essay contest for best work in security and intelligence. Full details are at the link; we offer $2500 for the best graduate essay and $1000 for the best undergraduate essay, plus a chance to present at our annual symposium!

Turns out it didn't have legs

Would you stand in a dark field for 4 hours to create this? Is it weird that it makes me happier than almost anything else?

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