astronauts on the moon. affordable college for everybody. building a ton of housing for families. vaccines to end cancers. we can have all this cool stuff if you just vote for the people that want to do it. we can do so much great stuff. put down your anger. great things are right there.

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Eating muffins in bed with my boo whilst we use a calculator and read my favorite book, "The Cotton". We love to fight over the one glass of orange juice whilst sitting on top of the covers

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

Brutal.

Fuck yeah Boise. Joyful malicious compliance is the most rewarding kind of malicious compliance

90s business was all about being ready to pop a finger-snap at a moment's notice

"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc. Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.

I wrote about it www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Every individual fly has to figure out what the heck glass is, from first principles.

One of the most genuinely engaging and fascinating things I've read in a while, about a topic I've never really even thought about www.wired.com/snake-bros-a...

I’ve been thinking about this more and I honestly salute everyone whose job is “math that saves other people’s lives”. It’s an astoundingly heavy, hidden responsibility and the nature of the work means it’s only noticed if something fails.

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

I've been playing with at-home inference again (because I'm curious what an AI can do if it reads my email, just so long as that AI is fully under my control). And along the way I was playing with dispatch architectures and using crab-fishing crews as a metaphor - captain, deck boss, deckhand 1/4

One of the small privileges of living in urban environments: hearing other people’s music but only for, like, 15 seconds. I missed it, anyway.

Not sure how this drivel ended up open in my browser, but the description of the British as a people who "remain at ease with themselves" made me spit-take so hard, water hit the fence 8 feet away. www.thetimes.com/article/c8b4...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

It doesn't matter what other powers they nominally have on paper, including lawmaking. A legislature that doesn't control the checkbook is impotent, and an executive who does is a tyrant.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I am probably going to have to write in some depth, eventually, about the experience of moving back to the Bay Area after ten years in suburban Florida, because I'm on day 2 and it is A MOTHERFUCKING TRIP MY FRIENDS. Just one thing for tonight: local news. 1/10

It’s good we’re doing moon things again because humans tend to do their best work when trying to force themselves into a ludicrously hostile niche. But the particular moon things we’re doing are a bit sad and pointless. I struggle to take Artemis seriously when its eventual goal is so nonsensical.

All-capsing “YOLO BABY” into a Prompt-ssh-tmux claude session as the JetBlue wifi shuts down for landing

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

A perfect, “ship in a bottle” model of how enshittification functions is the decline of April 1st online from some genuinely cute/amusing ideas, to today’s blanket “put out an unfunny lie in a press release” tedium.

An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. n.pr/40THi23

Still one of the greatest troll-jobs in history.

"can a phone design cook too hard?" asked and answered

Human attention is becoming a luxury good. By which I mean... you can have your tracks crudely smashed together by Apple/Spotify's bad algorithm and have a perfectly fun dance party. But a human DJ'll make it a better experience. Repeat for customer service, software... everything.

We need to get better as a society at understanding that stifling innovation is an essential function in *beneficial* progress -- the ideas with enough value will generally emerge improved by the friction; the bad ones die before they're widespread. Here's to the innovation-stiflers!

Curiosity: 4844th day of the mission Image captured 6 hours ago. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS #Mars 🧪🔭

I hate to see Hochul revert to her historical mean on this, of all issues. High energy prices show that fossil fuels remain inherently unreliable, leaving people at the mercy of sudden supply shocks. They’re a reason to charge ahead on renewables, not back off.

the most efficient approach is gonna be to put the grave site beneath a 6-inch outlet pipe that collects all the waste from a 50-stall toilet block

I think people need to understand that when you're quibbling over Graham Platner, coming up with hypothetical scenarios where voting for him is a lesser evil, or worse, defending him outright, you're literally asking what level of Nazism is OK in American politics. The only answer is none.

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

It seems almost guaranteed that some poor kidney-compromised protein-goon is going to kill their dog by storing this carelessly, because it is literally chocolate-flavored dog kibble.

My take is that the Greens’ coalition will look remarkably like the Lib Dems in the mid-to-late 90s (but perhaps larger?). Sickened by neolib Labour, baffled by fascist nonsense, you pick the third party that at least appears to care about something. At least, that’s why I voted Lib Dem in 1997

LMFAO *Kid Rock* finally got leopard-faced? Trump really is gonna have no supporters left by June, except for Stephen Miller

Wow this is especially 🤮 But also, I continue to be astonished that people still use Google for search when duckduckgo.com is RIGHT THERE, folks!

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Thank you for sharing! This is Tina Bell, the Black Godmother of Grunge. Before Nirvana, Kurt Cobain was a roadie for Tina's band Bam Bam. Bam Bam's bassist Scott Ledgerwood & drummer Matt Cameron, went on to find fame w/ bands Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. allthatsinteresting.com/tina-bell

One of the most spectacular, bone-headed and utterly foreseeable business fuck-ups of all time. If we organized our economy properly, Zuckerberg would be lifetime-banned from running so much as a bake sale in future. www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

"A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather." uh, yeah, I mean "every year, forever, unless we significantly reverse anthropogenic atmospheric change" is certainly a long stretch www.wired.com/story/get-re...

Love how RIVN is the stock market's biggest gainer this morning. I'm sure all the Republicans in oil company leadership positions are *super stoked* and very very happy with President Business and not at all beginning to make threatening impeachment-related noises towards their pet senators.

Perfect

failing is hot girl behaviour 🫵🏻💥