Emphatically not an AI company. Ohioan, Liberal, book-worm, news-hound, CLE sports s̶u̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶r̶ enjoyer, Anglophile, many RTs. He/him. anthropic42 @ bsky/🧵
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Every so often I like to watch this clip of Jacob Bronowski from "Ascent of Man" as a reminder that it's up to the human race to make the world a place worth living for the human race. "We have to touch people", he says. piped.video/watch?v=ltjI3BXK…
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They just upgraded the software on a computer 7.4 billion kilometers from Earth.
#PI_Daily SUCCESS! Our new Command and data handling (C&DH) computer flight software load is now installed and running on both our main and backup C&DH machines, way, WAY out there on @NewHorizons2015 in the Kuiper Belt! New science capabilities ahead now! #Science #NASA #Space
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Let me get this straight: Musk endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theories on Wednesday, but on Friday says he’ll ban terms used to criticize Israeli policies. So is “fighting hate” about stopping antisemitism or stopping criticism of Israel?
This is an important and welcome move by @elonmusk. I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate.
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I love St. Vincent’s work but I feel like if you name your new album “Daddy’s Home” and your real father actually came home from prison you really can’t avoid that interview topic.
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Mythical Man Month: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_My…
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More evidence that it's the virus disrupting economic activity and not lockdowns that are disrupting economic activity. To help the economy, we must fight the virus.
Disney says Walt Disney World's reopening is contributing positively to operating income in its parks segment, but not as positively as the company had expected, as the COVID resurgence has dampened business.
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Are McConnell’s wretched liability protections in there too? If they are, I can see how this would be a non-starter.
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This other view of Sophia Floersch’s crash’s Macau was posted on Reddit. This has to be one of the worst racing crashes I’ve ever seen. I really hope everyone is alright. piped.video/g7Do6C0hlKo
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Liz Cheney is essentially saying that the camps where we are concentrating people don’t look enough like genocide yet to make comparisons to other concentration camps in history. Good luck with that argument.
Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history. 6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this.
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Very serious “we had to burn the village to save it” vibes here.
Man murders his girlfriend, steals her infant son
Cops say "challenge accepted!" and make sure to shoot the baby dead so no one can have him
sunherald.com/news/local/cri…
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Apparently it’s worse than that. I’m watching the CBSN LA stream and the reporters at the scene are under the impression that they intentionally detonated what had been placed in the bomb squad container. The bomb squad just miscalculated.
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This was my introduction to A Christmas Carol! My Dad is also fond of it from his childhood.
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Everyone was hoping this meant that Opportunity was alive again but @doug_ellison explained on the @NASASpaceflight forum that it was just MRO’s Doppler shift due to its orbital motion putting its downlink frequency onto Opportunity’s frequency. False alarm. ☹️
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I literally laughed out loud at the “Welcome to the MPEG Zone” bit.
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Simultaneously:
- finishes a story from last year that I've been dying to wrap up
- introduces a device that records in a format you last remember using to pirate a terrible screener of Napoleon Dynamite
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My thoughts immediately go to the recovery of the Lunar Observer images from the original tapes: wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar…
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@TechConnectify has a great video explaining refrigerators and why they're so efficient: piped.video/watch?v=CGAhWgkK…
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Anyone who says they’re “still doing research“ about COVID vaccines 10 months after they first became available and 5-6 months after they became widely available on demand is not “doing research“ and is just bullshitting you at this point.
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He also doesn't know the history of his own state. Texas Instruments pioneered the silicon transistor and integrated circuit: spectrum.ieee.org/tech-histo…
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@AthertonKD I remember the first time I read None pizza with left beef I laughed so hard I nearly stopped breathing.
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What in the everloving fuck is Anderson Cooper doing grilling the Toledo Family’s lawyer about whether Adam Toledo had the gun at some point. The video shows no goddamned threat to the officer. There’s nothing in the kid’s hand when he raises his hands.
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It’s a design a woman designer submitted in 1931 for the 1932 Washington Quarter that was rejected. They’re using it now in the series honoring American Women: usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-me…
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May is a huge month for new books about space exploration. @AlanStern who is the leader of the New Horizons mission has a book about the Pluto mission coming out and awesome space writer/report @elakdawalla has written the definitive book on the Curiosity rover on Mars.
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The Carl Sagan’s Global Warming Christmas Special SNL sketch from 1991 joked about the atmospheric CO2 concentration being at 350ppm. Today it’s over 412.
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According to this post by the 121st Air Refueling Wing in Columbus, Cleveland will have a KC-135 and F-16s flyover at 10:15am Tues: m.facebook.com/story.php?sto…
More than 150 tankers from 26 installations will perform flyovers at major landmarks, population centers and state capitals in all 50 states, the Air Force said. stripes.com/branches/air_for…
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My experience with aurora watching in Ohio has been: 1) You need to be in a really dark place with a view of the horizon. 2) You probably need an planetary KP of 9.
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The 500lb lid of the containment vessel was found in a yard 4 blocks away. mercurynews.com/2021/07/03/f…
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Some of them are finally figuring it out, like Les Wexner, the biggest GOP donor in Ohio: fortune.com/2018/09/16/les-w…
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There was an excellent 2.5 hour BBC Radio 4 documentary series last year about this scandal called The Great Post Office Trial. One of the breakthroughs in the case was when a Fujitsu engineer became a whistleblower.
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Visiting Plum Brook was awesome! Saw the Orion Service Module Test Article and Morpheus test vehicle. #NASAGlenn75
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Interesting that the last paragraph emphasizes the form of government they had in 1918 and not the form of government they have now.
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SpaceX launch out of Vandenberg. When they launch close to dusk the cloud from the rocket gets illuminated by the sun (up high where the sun is still up) while it’s dark on the ground, so the cloud really stands out.
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You might find it interesting that the back of the Windows/386 box from 1988 explains it “turns your 80386-based personal computer into a multi-tasking virtual machine”.
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Corey Lewandowski really living up to the “Be Best” ideal, ladies and gentlemen. nitter.app/passantino/status/1009…
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I don’t get much mail from the UK! It was very cool to find my Kickstarter backer reward from @allthestations Ireland in my mailbox today. Thanks @geofftech and @norwegiancheese !
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🧵 I am shocked that the situation is more nuanced and hopeful than the people who love to shit on institutional Democrats made it out to seem.
Can we...just accept that we suck at this?
I want to tell you a story that has made me kinda hopeless about Twitter's ability to affect positive things happening, and it starts with this tweet from Hillary Clinton.
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I agree. The method to HG2G's madness was always that there were modules of material that could be remixed in different ways for different mediums. The film just does this in a more compressed format. It's true to the vision because the vision was always remixing the material.
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The colors on the new @Impossible_HQ color film are fantastic. What an improvement. Viva Polaroid.
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The logical next step of Laurence Fox's descent into right-wing buffoonery was playing a cartoon of Hunter Biden in a film funded by Breitbart.
the producers of the breitbart-backed movie about hunter biden apparently dropped a full trailer on truth social last night, and it is really something.
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Everyone has heard of the Challenger accident but only serious space geeks remember 2018’s Soyuz MS-10 accident because the escape system successfully saved the lives of the Russian and American on board when the rocket broke up after a booster failed to separate correctly.
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In my hometown of Cuyahoga Falls, OH, the local Acme grocery store still has this wonderful sign from the 50s. When they replaced the old store in the 2010s they refurbished the sign. This is an SX-70 photo I took.
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@Impossible_HQ @foundpolaroids My brother and I with the Goodyear blimp in the early 90s. SX-70 Time-Zero.
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It’s kind of funny that you need to clarify between the murderer that the Republicans like and the Republican who murders pets.
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I am ashamed that Jean Schmidt represents Ohio and I am ashamed my state is going to do this to women.
Schmidt on a lack of an exception to rape in her bill: "Rape is a difficult issue, and it emotionally scares the individual...but if a baby is created, it is a human life, and whether that mother ends that pregnancy or not, the scars will not go away."
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I did not know that Windows 10 has an emoji keyboard that you can open by pressing Windows plus period.
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If you know a spot like that and a KP of 9 is forecast you sit refreshing this page and wait for it to show nearby aurora: spaceweatherlive.com/en/auro…
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Inside the NBA on TNT is doing a fantastic job of informing its audience as Charles Barkley, Shaw, Kenny Smith, and Ernie Johnson ask Dr. Sanjay Gupta very clear and frank questions about the Coronavirus.
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Planet Money had a good deep dive into why ACH is so archaic back in 2013: npr.org/sections/money/2013/…
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I do have a soft spot for the TV series though. Those are the actors I think of as HG2G. Simon Jones and Peter Jones in particular. The VFX are crude today but the book animation holds up very well.
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We’re going to need a @Jomboy_ lip reading of Francona’s ejection tonight. #fortheland
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Just got my Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Summit County mass vaccination site at the fairgrounds!
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At my school there were some kids who used the D.A.R.E. course materials as a to-do list of which drugs they wanted to try.
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I like this idea:
if Democrats really want to play ball, they should take advantage of the fact that the federal government owns all the land at the tri-state point between Idaho, Montana and Wyoming to build Freedom City, a 150,000 person walkable city home to 2 national labs and Obama College
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Looking forward to this campaign building up our hopes and crushing them like Any McGrath, Cal Cunningham, Jamie Harrison, and Sara Gideon.
Rep. Val Demings reports raising $8.4m last quarter in her bid to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio. It’s one of the biggest cash-hauls for a Senate candidate in Q3
via Florida Playbook
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