Hubble took a long look at a nearby cloud of gas suspected to be hiding billions — BILLIONS — of times the Sun's mass worth of dark matter, and found out… yup. It's a dark-matter dominated cloud that failed to make a galaxy when the Universe was young. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/hubble-pee... 🔭 🧪

Most Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded after the recipient threatens to go to war with the committee. This is very common.

This, my friends, is bad ass.

How many Magi were there and were they descended from Seth? Check out this piece that draws on essential work by @brentlandau.bsky.social and @evandeneykel.bsky.social ial www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that “Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas” began as a symbol of inter-immigrant solidarity. www.tabletmag.com/sections/foo...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

Ah, I see someone has exhumed the desiccated revenant named Carville, and used a hand bellows to force air into its lungs, so as to allow it to wheeze out miasmic utterances before being lowered once more into its crypt

So, we don’t call him the richest man in the world anymore. He’s referred to as the greediest man in the world.

Said the phrase 'I'm over the moon!' to a Polish man and he was a little confused and asked what I meant so I explained and when I finished he just shook his head and said 'You're happy but you have no business in space.'

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

3I/ATLAS is the first interstellar object bright enough for amateurs to image: so fabulous to see the delight ☄️😍

This is one of the good applications of AI. I really wish our society would invest more into its useful applications instead of going all in on the grifting-and-plagiarism racket.

we really, really need a new template for what powerful and smart looks like

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

Yeah I got nothing.

Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire

why is it always "i created a new social media site to mine your data" or "here's a new AI bot we're training based on your work to put you out of a job" and never "we invented an affordable replicator from Star Trek so Preeti doesn't have to cook anymore"

Every so often I'll remember that we are all made of thinking meat and feel weird.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile #birds 🌿

See that small, moving splotch? That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter. A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS last Friday

Jane Goodall was actually the only one keeping the apes in control. Now there's a power vacuum

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Trump’s inability to pronounce “acetaminophen” raises new questions about Joe Biden’s mental state.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

I'm a little tired of octopuses making the rest of us look bad. www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

nazi guy: i'm pretty much a nazi lefty: wow. you suck, nazi centrist: the rule is NO AD HOMINEMS, lefty

Look you can’t tell me this thing is “intelligently designed” — it goes into a five-minute coughing fit if I breathe wrong. Sometimes it accidentally bites itself. It draws blood.

On the House floor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) speaks for a lot of us about the Big Beautiful Bill: “I say to my Republican colleagues, what’s wrong with you people?... Jesus Christ, what are you people thinking?”

Here he is, folks. The President of the United States selling his new men’s cologne for $199 and women’s perfume for $249.

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

AI is not useful.

shorter senate democrats: "when will the legion of doom stop doing crimes? how many times must wonder woman, superman and batman tell them crime is bad for them to stop being bad?"

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Just sitting here CACKLING.

How can Democrats go against this popular wartime president?

Playing in a bipartisan congressional baseball game with the party enabling the fascist assault on multiple Democratic led cities is quite a thing.

If only you were governor and could do something to stop this.

These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

Let’s not forget that earlier today, this day was known as “we cannot build bananas in America” day. That is, until everything went bananas

Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.

Excellent point. Democrats dithered replacing an old president with a younger candidate, but the press is holding the entire party accountable. Republicans staged a violent coup against our government, one in which multiple office holders were openly complicit, and the press just shrugged it off.

I think basically you have to assume based on this that the trump campaign involved a lot of secretly paying for endorsements bsky.app/profile/pale...