The Artemis II crew will get to experience a total solar eclipse from the far side of the moon!!!

there are tortillas in space. I am crying again.

Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

This is what social media is meant to be about.

In the late 90s I remember there used to be some high number cable channel that would just play loops of satellite video going over the earth. It made great late night background content when hanging out with friends.

Really helps put things into perspective

First surprise: labelling an article as written by ChatGPT vs. a human made no difference. People were equally misled. The standard ChatGPT disclaimer ("I can make mistakes") also had zero effect on how much people relied on the misinformation. Zero. 7/10

AI-driven manipulation comes in three forms, each tested in our research: • Deepfake videos • AI-generated misinformation articles • Personality-targeted political ads We ran multiple preregistered experiments to see if warnings protect people. Spoiler: They largely don't. 2/10

The Artemis II astronauts are on their way to seeing the far side of the Moon! Just 24 people in the history of the human race have seen it with their own eyes.👀 This is what the Moon's far side looks like! It is dominated by Lunar highlands; there are fewer dark areas (maria) due to thicker crust.

Astronaut Victor Glover is set to become the first person of color in human history to leave low Earth orbit and embark upon a lunar mission. #ArtemisII

Reminder to next dem government: take all of SpaceX’s federal contracts and give the money back to NASA.

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Did he fall asleep?

Literally in their mandate, which is pretty dang neat.

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

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I got to see STS 134, the last full shuttle mission go up in person from the Kennedy Space Center, it was super cool. Excited for the launch.

The opening paragraphs of the chapter on standards in How to Hide an Empire is some of the funniest and cleverest text I've read in a while. Hat's off to you sir! Encourage everyone to read it. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

T MINUS ONE HOUR www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

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CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

This is the thread you should be following today on the Supreme Court hearing, @elienyc.bsky.social is always incredible. (Also, read his books).

This is going to be an awesome event. If you are anywhere in the Northeast US, you should consider joining us!

Oh look at NY power bills. Notice that big hot spot in the middle? That's Central Hudson. There is current legislation by @sarahana.bsky.social to make that a public utility. Maybe we should do that? Source: @heatmap.news electricity price map - electricity.heatmap.news?utm_campaign...

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

This short ad from NYPIRG is spot on. Oil & gas industry has spent millions over past several years in push to gut our NY climate law. They really want NY to fail. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzj...

One of the great things about spring is the return of the chirping insects and tree frogs. With all the trees around our house, it's a chorus through the night.

Begging the question whether Trump, 79, is in full control of his mental faculties.

He's also not funding the libraries at the rates he promised. If you think it's purity testing to hold people to what they say, I think you're a dumbass.

Trump order defunding PBS & NPR was unconstitutional - www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... It was viewpoint discrimination and a 1A violation, a judge ruled....

Can someone tell me where the “oh, they’re looking for an off-ramp” vibe is coming from? Because I don’t get it.

Wanted: a service that auto unsubscribes me from Dem fundraisers for candidates I didn't donate to

XKCD is American, right? It tracks. xkcd.com/3226/

The problem with waiting for the courts to push back on Trump is that the damage has often been done before any resolution.

Y2K problem but for gas stations when the price cracks $10/gal and the signs don’t have enough numbers

"Republicans too radical, Democrats too woke" is the ideology of the owners of most major news outlets and many of the senior editors and reporters they have hired/promoted. This is Rahm's platform. So of course they amplifying his message. It is their message too.

Hello.

@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social something to keep a note of

They already cut nearly $1 trillion. They’re so opposed to any accountability for ICE that they’d rather take away your health care than negotiate on basic ICE reforms.

And no one believes Trump and Hegseth are making the world safer.

What Trump has been doing to Cuba is unconscionable. He's singlehandedly forced the island into a humanitarian crisis over recent weeks. An American president can’t be given carte blanche to threaten hostile takeovers of other nations and sow mass chaos around the world. (1/2)

I think a LOT of you are behind on your Underground Transgender Mafia dues. If you had paid on time the leadership would not have had to resort to crimes. Think about what you have done.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Global events are *screaming at the top of their lungs* that it's a terrible idea for your country to be addicted to fossil fuels. The lesson could not be more blunt & obvious. But of course incumbent interests have a lock on the information sphere, so only a little squeak is actually getting thru.

I don't know if social media is addictive (not my lane) but if your only framework for addiction is chemical addiction maybe sit this one out. It is incredible to live through the draftking era and ignore that gambling addiction is real and completely devastating. Behavioral addictions exist

Maine is taking another crack at an onshore wind buildout — and this time, it’s got its neighbors onboard.

I didn't think that Duke loss could possibly get any sweeter and then I realized Stephen Miller probably had a sad viewing party in the White House and, ah, yeah, that did it

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

Most data-driven prediction and decision software works very differently from large language models (ChatGPT etc) and requires orders of magnitude less compute.