Your phone can take a wide-angle shot of the sky, but it won't see deep space. NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory combines a wide-angle view with a whopping 3200-megapixel camera. This allows it to capture an area 45 times the size of the full moon in a single shot! 🌕 🔭🧪

Every time data centers are brought up, I'm reminded of a recent meeting I had with a person working in that sector who mentioned how important power demand modeling was, because they projected if the grid were to go down in Phoenix during peak summer, 30,000 people would die in the first 24 hours

This is a very helpful comment thread about the actual process for the OMB’s proposed changes in federal grant administration. The upshot is that the process is open for comment for 45 days, and then OMB decides. Comments are on record for any future litigation.

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

Emergency Frod habitat construction. This buddy was in the rain barrel, somehow? A Ranger's work is never done. #gardening #frogs

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

A weird thing happened during the indie romance boom in the mid-2010s: a bunch of women who did not have high earning potential on paper could abruptly start making $20k-100k a month self-pubbing romance. We watched so many marriages implode over it, y'all, when their husbands COULD NOT COPE.

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

I'm not saying I expected a different end result, but I'm still sad the O's managed to lose in the span last night between convincing fam who don't care about baseball to get dinner at the neighborhood pub so I could watch it and when we walked in the door.

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Shout it to the Minneapolis waste disposal communications team because I did in fact use this technique to remember if I could recycle some plastic packaging earlier today 🫡 🤟

For the 40 years I've been gardening around this city, Beltane has been last frost and so for planting most things. Samhain for last frost, last harvest. Annuals left in raised beds Nov 1 are for animals and spirits. Witchy in a nice tidy way. The real weather has changed so much though. What now.

New house rule, the person with genetic and hormonal hyperosmia (who has detected multiple pilot light outages and gas leaks!) is not the person who sprays the flower garden down with soap-garlic-cinnamon-peppermint oil critter deterrent after it rains. Ohno.

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

Between Flower Mart and the Kinetic Sculpture Race, this has truly been the best Baltimore weekend🥳💐✨

The time honored tradition of putting a costume together the night before an event planned for months, out of things you and your family already had in the back of a closet.

Baltimore PSA: this Saturday (tomorrow) is both Flower Mart AND the Kinetic Sculpture Race. There will be road closures and traffic/transit disruptions. But also cool things going on! Sculpture Race map: 4abc9bc9-1370-4a06-bd96-4e6a7e695ff1.filesusr.com/ugd/078c15_1...

I wish I had time during our data surveillance class today to explain how real-time bidding for digital ads works, bc once you know how complex that infrastructure is, you will never again believe people who say we can’t solve, like, free school lunches stateofsurveillance.org/news/how-ad-...

I absolutely love what Peabody Heights does in partnership with the Baltimore community. And you're not going to find a better community heartbeat than the Baltimore Beat!

OPPORTUNITY: The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD, is searching for a hands‑on Senior Database Engineer with deep expertise in PostgreSQL to help design, build, and maintain performant databases: https://bit.ly/4ubvPYk

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

With this online interactive from NASA, users can type in a name and see it spelled out in Earth features found in Landsat images. We wanted to play along. 😁 Can you see STScI? Use the tool to spell your favorite space object and share it with us: https://go.nasa.gov/3QIxKF7

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

I legit think about this quote all the time. Happy birthday, John

Garden update: the pea and bran and lettuce seedlings survived the weird late frost! I survived bringing the lemon tree in overnight without getting stabbed!

I'd rather work in an abattoir. The kicker in the piece is the final sentence: "The company is also reportedly planning to start laying off up to 10 percent of its global workforce starting in May." I shall wager you one shiny penny that they'll use these metrics to determine who gets the axe.

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

omg, Christina Koch shared the video from aboard Integrity during Artemis II when the chorus from Pink Pony Club didn't play www.instagram.com/reel/DXSkG9_...

The road trip with your best friends vibes of Artemis 2 are perfection. Inject them straight into my veins.

New Old House Problems: just broke drill bits 2 and 3 in the joists and hardwood floors. Cheap starter tool sets are not meant for old growth materials. OK, house. I respect your game.

Belief in & support for vaccines is normal. “But that reality is not immune to the stories we tell about it… [Bad polls] change what clinicians say in the exam room, the decisions policymakers & leaders make, and ultimately become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Methods matter for talking points

Today's delight: www.instagram.com/reel/DTprgw0...

Good morning Bluesky! There is Massive Attack x Tom Waits this morning! It is exactly what is on the tin. It is also, of course, very, very good. youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...

For the First Time in the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas - Yale E360 share.google/MHqujR4WDrUK...

this is why the reddit BuyItForLife community exists, and also, it’s really annoying that I now have to do a ton of involved research to avoid buying crap whenever I need new boots or an appliance.

Artemis 2 was the furthest human voyage from Earth. Per the final JPL Horizons trajectory I estimate the max distance from the geocenter was 413145 km at 2304 UTC Apr 6 (about 4 km less and 1 min later than PAO's report at the time). (1 / n ).....

I'm not paying for NYT, can someone tell me if it mentions the flag has been flown the whole time, minus a brief delay to fetch bolt cutters for a lock on the fence?

My people.

New Spring resolution: Chaos Garden Erry Day

Y'all outside of Baltimore don't need us to tell you that despite what the union busting corp might say, that location is fine, right?

Coincidentally watching Artemis splashdown with old friends in Spanish on a Salvadorean restaurant TV, A+. This too is (still) America.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

In case you were wondering about the vibe in space science lately, experiencing both halves of a Star Trek evil mirror universe episode at the same time is physically nauseating.

Thank god we have this data

I think we could all do with some 400-year-old flowering ume (flowering Japanese sour plum-apricot) bonsai in our lives. This is the 75th anniversary Nagahama Bonbai (ume bonsai) Exhibition. And this incredible 400-year-old tree is Furo, meaning Eternal Youth. #JohnDoesJapan

#bloomscrolling #cherryblossoms

The furthest away that anyone has been and passed the Bechdel Test

In addition to sending folks to circle the Moon, NASA will be launching a telescope (the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope) later this year that has Hubble-quality images over a field of view that is ~100x bigger: 🧪 science.nasa.gov/mission/roma...