The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

"They had a decade to get it right and it's still garbage" feels like it should have been the headline here, rather than *checks notes* literally the final paragraph

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Some news about the MD-11 crash - DC-10s are also grounded for concerns over "unsafe condition" with the pylon structure.

*remembers the disasters that the Rings of Power and New World were* This guy is at about the same level of understanding culture as Musk, right?

Colleague just got an email that starts: "Here's a polished and respectful letter you can send to your professor"

can bad prose be sexually transmitted

people don't even notice how at the beginning of the last chapter of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo defunds the police

IRIDESCENT CLOUD ON MARS

Images showing the recovery of the New Glenn booster after landing, note the humans for scale in the second image.

WHAT

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

The thumbnail is clickbait, but the actual story is correct. Add to it chronic pilot training quality issues, and things are really not looking good.

the safety cell keeps You safe from Him

NASA's just-launched ESCAPADE mission is trying out a novel trajectory to Mars, one that's slower but allows much more flexible launch dates. The flight path also provides a bonus science session at the L2 equilibrium point near Earth. 🧪🔭 skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

Great article by Reuters that explains the Hurricane Hunters you all should read that I somehow missed earlier. www.reuters.com/graphics/STO...

lmfao at this old Berger twt

nothing but respect to the urban assault smart car

Fascinating how in the entire Eric Berger's book about F9 and Dragon development Steve Davis is mentioned only twice as the project lead on the latter for a short period of time and there's not a single word actually describing his leadership.

And they confirmed the Dream Chaser Tow Test video is coming Source: Sierra Space on the other site.

This paragraph, white over black background, should be the opening frame in a series about this. Followed a second later by: "No, really." Followed another second later by: "We Swear! This series is based on a true story!"

new meme

Hideaki Anno just wanted a gorgeous woman with big breasts who is be attracted to him and he made us suffer through multiple painfully autistic communication issues for it. Change my mind.

No words. I’m a block from home.

Hello from our Albuquerque balcony.

IT GOT BETTER 📍Central MN

Aurora just north of Urbana, IL. My phone enhanced the colors a bit, but they were very visible to the naked eye.

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Wishing you all a happy Carl Sagan Day (born this day in 1934). Fascinating to see his note summarizing the key topics he planned to discuss during his 1977 meeting with President Carter. ("Wonder"!) 🧪🔭 www.loc.gov/collections/...

Started / going Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social

your search box should not be so shit that I have to slap together a web scraper

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Musk: i reada da frankenstein Mary Shelley: motherfucker Shelley: you better not get this one wrong Shelley: i literally could not spell it out any more obviously Mus: itsa about how meddling in da domain ova god is good! Shelley: MOTHER Shelley: FUCKER

This curtain spoke to me on a primal cultural level! -We know what we're putting out sucks. Should we get ready to cover up its failure? -Блядь само-собой! -Should we try to make the cover-up look at least somewhat professional? -Чего блядь?!

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

Elon's "Rosebud" moment will be him dropping a kindle on the ground and muttering "I do read books"

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day! Don’t forget to smash your clocks!

Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy Stephano king King: oh criminy King: this again King: is there no one who will rid me of this vexing trillionaire Joyce Carol Oates:

The workspace in front of the Mars Curiosity Rover following its Sol 4709 drive last week. flic.kr/p/2rEqDEu

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Lets see... Source: Blue Origin

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here