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A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.
— one rainy spring day a couple years ago, a few dozen Gold Finches showed up in our yard hunting for worms. It was such a colorful sight, so many bright yellow birds darting here and there, especially on a gray dreary day! 😍
yes the drip drop I care not days are great for just taking a muddy hike and listening to the to the birds who don’t give a whoot, or chirp less about the light rain.
(2) tim anderson on X: "Israeli dissident Miko Peled: "why are we not talking about liberating the concentration camp" of Gaza? https://t.co/mQUG2WES5b" / X
August 6, 1945 is a day that served as a marker in human history. At 8:15 AM, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the world's first atomic bomb to be used in combat on the city of Hiroshima. There are thousands of stories that could be told of that day but one woman who survived described it best when she said that she emerged from her shelter into "a city of death."
August 6, 1945 is a day that served as a marker in human history. At 8:15 AM, the B-29 Enola Gay dropped the world's first atomic bomb to be used in combat o...
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A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Now, Hubble's observations from space are allowing astronomers to more accurately estimate the size of the comet’s solid icy nucleus. The upper limit on the diameter of the nucleus is 5.6 km, but it could be as small as 320 m across, researchers report.
Though the Hubble images put tighter constraints on the nucleus size compared to previous ground-based estimates, the solid heart of the comet presently cannot be directly seen, even by Hubble. Further observations, including by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, will help refine our knowledge about the comet, including its chemical makeup.
Hubble also captured a dust plume ejected from the Sun-warmed side of the comet, and the hint of a dust tail streaming away from the nucleus. Hubble’s data show that the comet is losing dust in a similar manner to that from previously seen Sun-bound comets originating within our Solar System.
The big difference is that this interstellar visitor originated in some other stellar systems, elsewhere in our Milky Way galaxy.
3I/ATLAS is traveling through our Solar System at roughly 210 000 km per hour, the highest speed ever recorded for a Solar System visitor. This breathtaking sprint is evidence that the comet has been drifting through interstellar space for many billions of years. The gravitational slingshot effect from innumerable stars and nebulae the comet passed added momentum, ratcheting up its speed. The longer 3I/ATLAS was out in space, the higher its speed grew.
This comet was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 1 July 2025 at a distance of 675 million km from the Sun. 3I/ATLAS should remain visible to ground-based telescopes until September, after which it will pass too close to the Sun to observe. It is expected to reappear on the other side of the Sun by early December.
Icy wanderers such as 3I/ATLAS offer a rare, tangible connection to the broader galaxy. To actually visit one would connect humankind with the Universe on a far greater scale. To this end, ESA is preparing the Comet Interceptor mission. The spacecraft will be launched in 2029 into a parking orbit, lying in wait for a suitable target – a pristine comet from the distant Oort Cloud that surrounds our Solar System, or, unlikely but highly appealing, an interstellar object.
While it is improbable that we will discover an interstellar object that is reachable for Comet Interceptor, as a first demonstration of a rapid response mission that waits in space for its target, it will be a pathfinder for possible future missions to intercept these mysterious visitors.
The research paper based on Hubble observations will be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
We present high angular resolution observations of the third known interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, from the Hubble Space Telescope. The object is clearly active at 3.
I do see a move away from any RealSecurity™ and a move towards check-mark compliance potentially even accelerated by all the regulatory compliance requirements - While said requirements COULD have been used to improve security posture they are effectively starving effective measures (and thereby current best practices) further increasing security poverty.
"Compliance-sizing: the act of replacing highly skilled and educated cyber security professionals with auditors.
…Or just overwhelming said professionals with sheer amounts of useless “controls” developed by people with no real understanding of how Threat Actors operate"
By September 30, the White House plans to reclassify 50,000 federal workers and assign allies to key roles. This widespread expansion of Trump’s de facto political army will have brutal effects on the crackdown against Palestine in higher education.
Assigning friendlies to key posts is what politicians do @mondoweiss
You need to try harder. Your analysis is skewed to a single politician. Iow, you sound like Democrats desperately trying to dis THE PERFECT REPRESENTATIVE of Merica. You know? Psychopathic creeps.
Being a child in John Brown, the famous abolitionist's household was a dangerous thing. They named highways and schools after the guy - objectively over half of his children didn't survive childhood.
"I don't know if you've heard but Donald Trump is staging an unscheduled midair disassembly of the international free trade order..." Had to laugh so hard, merci @pluralistic 🥰
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Turkey: Revolutionary Prisoner Turns Hunger Strike into Fast until Death
On July 31, Serkan Onur Yilmaz announced that he was transforming his hunger strike that began on November 10, 2024 into a fast until death while his health condition is critical. Started 270 days ago, this struggle aims to denounce the “well” type prisons in Turkey which are infamous for their particularly inhumane conditions of detention and their very strict solitary confinement regime. Alongside him, eight other revolutionary prisoners went on hunger strike with the same demands: Mithat Öztürk, Ali Aracı, Ayberk Demirdöğen, Fikret Akar, Ümit Çobanoğlu, Fırat Kaya, Tahsin Sağaltıcı and Gürkan Türkoğlu.
Le 31 juillet dernier, Serkan Onur Yilmaz a annoncé transformer sa grève de la faim débutée le 10 novembre 2024 en jeûne jusqu’à la mort alors que son état de santé est critique.
I think I know how modern counter-propaganda works. Propaganda is so sophisticated it doesn't even boil the frog. It just keeps it warm enough to make the frog uncomfortable. So counter-propaganda just needs to tip the balance in this highly fragile state.
I often notice when the West says X as propaganda, the Chinese just say 2X. They don't try to debunk X. So if the west suddenly says it hates goblins, the Chinese say we hate goblins twice as much as the West.
i was with him, until the genocide denial and party line and evasive deflecting about it. ... struggled on listening to him for only another 20 minutes or so.
who knows, maybe llm being used deceptively.
... like has been seen in other JRE episodes. (... disbelieve? check out the christmas episode with duncan trussell, see how sick you get from its uncanny valley.)
Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package – is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 202…
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ANTI-TRUMP PROTEST: An article with photos in the Cape May County Herald about the "Rage Against The Regime" protest on 2 August 2025 in Cape May Courthouse, New Jersey, USA. My husband, daughter, son-in-law and I participated.
COURT HOUSE – The crowd was smaller than the one at the recent No Kings Day rally, but an unofficially estimated 75 to 100 people gathered for several hours on Saturday, Aug.
In July 2025, a meme accurately claimed that, since U.S. President Ronald Reagan, the deficit deepened under every Republican president while it decreased under Democratic presidents.
Chinese scientists have developed a new high-strength cryogenic steel, CHSN01, to solve a major challenge in nuclear fusion: finding a material that can withstand both extreme cold (near absolute zero) and immense magnetic forces. After a decade of research, this new steel has been deployed in the construction of the world's first fusion power reactor, positioning China as a leader in materials science for fusion technology.
As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supported study has found. Reporting in […]
A new report out of Taiwan has revealed that the current US administration is tying the reduction on trade of trade tariffs on Taiwan to significant TSMC investment in the US. This investment includes a 49% stake in Intel.
did you see fatass Pritzker was on Colbert, and Colbert actually asked about it. The response was (paraphrasing), “yeah we totally gerrymandered things to our advantage, but we did the right way, on the 10 year cycle after the census. Texas is doing it mid-decade, which is unprecedented.”
Except it isn’t, since NY and WI just redistricted.
The Ministry of Interior in Gaza announced on Wednesday that airdrops of aid to the Strip have resulted in civilian deaths and injuries, as well as the destruction of tents and the property of displaced people.The ministry accused Israel of exploiti
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DHS and ICE are not law enforcement. They do not respect or obey binding legal directives.
DHS and ICE are criminal cartels. It is inaccurate to refer to DHS/ ICE as law enforcement. If they wanted to enforce the law, the best thing for them to do would be start following it.
it's called "false arrest and imprisonment" people collect $100,000 per instance depending upon the degree of abuse and time detained. where are all the "ambulance chasers"? 🚑 🚨
Stand 4. August hat #Israel mindestens 18.430 #Kinder in #Gaza getötet.
Die Reaktion der #EU, insbesondere der @EUCommission ist: NULL.
NICHTS. Keine Sanktionen, nichts außer den immer gleichen, billigen Phrasen, man sei ach so "besorgt" – ohne jedwede Konsequenz.
Die Lieferungen von Waffen und Material aus der EU an Israel gehen weiter. Die Förderung israelischer Forschung an "dual-use" Technik, wie Drohnen, geht weiter.
Following 22 months of hostilities, UN agencies urge immediate action to flood Gaza with aid and commercial cargo to address catastrophic humanitarian conditions, including starvation and deaths from malnutrition.
TIL there's a concept in partlcle physics called "Electromagnetic Penguin". On an unrelated note, I have my new character for the funny animal superhero TTRPG I'm playing.
Cursor AI does this for me. I'm often multi-windowing now with Gemini first, Claude second (which does generate e.g. ICS files which Gemini doesn't). I don't use OpenAI atm
for Cursor, in my standard ticket preamble I have that it should “apply changes precisely, accurately, and with best practices. Do not needlessly delete or refactor code you don’t need to”
❞ The Geneva Conventions weren’t written by soft-headed humanitarians. They were negotiated by generals, and they recognized, O.K., if we allow starvation as a tactic, we’re just going to be starving civilians, not the guys doing the fighting.
This all leads to one of the most extraordinary points, which is that the G.H.F. was supposed to minimize Hamas looting. Who is eating or selling the food that they are distributing? They can’t tell. The U.N. has a pretty good idea of who was eating its food. The G.H.F. has not got a fucking clue. ❝
China is utilizing humanoid robot swarms to perform complex tasks in car factories, a world-first in automation. These robots use "brainet" swarm intelligence and are developed by companies like UBTECH Robotics in partnership with car manufacturers. This trend is part of China's broader push to integrate embodied AI into its industries.
The #future of #robotics is unfolding in #Hubei, and the #world is taking notice. At the 3rd #China #International #SupplyChain #Expo (#CISCE) in #Beijing, the province cemented its role as a #powerhouse in #humanoid robotics, hosting a high-profile …
Aggressive promotional campaigns by Belarusian car dealerships fueled a 15.4% month-over-month sales increase in July, with 4,346 new passenger vehicles sold.
"Although totalitarian democracy is democratic in form, it requires an all-knowing elite to guide the masses toward their determined end, and that elite relies on whipping up mass enthusiasm to preserve its power and achieve its goals. Totalitarian democracy is almost always secular and materialistic, and its adherents tend to treat politics as a substitute for religion. Their sacred mission is to use the coercive power of the state to remake man and society according…
I made a thing! Linen t-shirt from the recycling center freebie room + embroidery threads I had lying around (probably thrifted) + a piece of fabric from an old t-shirt for facing.
“The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.”
~ William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) American Unitarian preacher
"The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.
Just seven months into his second term, President Donald Trump is already losing faith among even his biggest constituencies, according to multiple new polls.
<5 years after urging rioters to "kill" police at the Cap,🚨a former J6 defendant is working as a snr adviser for the #DOJ *dramatically remade under the 2md Trump admin.
The current admin official,🚨J Wise, berating officers & calling them "Nazi" & "Gestapo, "repeatedly yelled "kill 'em" as officers were being attacked & tried to explain his actions. Wise wasn't convicted of any crimes re J6.
Nearly 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated as a result of injuries sustained in Israeli attacks. The months-long blockade means medical equipment that could help amputees is running out. Alongside the devastated healthcare system, patients battle with deep psychological trauma. Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout spoke to young Palestinian amputees in Gaza City. youtube.com/watch?v=V6kNTq-n7b…
Nearly 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated as a result of injuries sustained in Israeli attacks.The months-long blockade means me...
JFC....So many fires and some SO damn hot. Should air drop a bunch of foul fuel CEOs, banksters and politicians into them so they can experience the fruits of their psychotic killing greed.
#USA #Rwanda #Genocide (1 of 3) The world learned 30 years ago nothing would be done to prevent #Genocide "The very people who can push the policy agenda were muted and self-censored, so that they don't want to put an editorial in that says the United States should go in and stop genocide " - Samantha Power pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/s…
She is the author of A Problem from Hell, a book on America's responses to the major genocides of the 20th century for which Power won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
(2 of 3) #USA decided 30 years ago not to prevent a #Genocide of more than 500,000 - but it was no the first or largest genocide the US wouyld protect: "Indeed, the story of Rwanda for the U.S. is that officials knew so much, but still decided against taking action or leading other nations to prevent or stop the genocide." nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAE…
(3 of 3) #Rwanda #Genocide The key incident is not discussed: "...the Hutu presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, and General Nsabimana, the Rwandan Army Chief of Staff, as well as several other dignitaries and a French flight crew were murdered when the plane they were on was shot down over Kigali airport by anti-aircraft missiles fired by members of the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front, or RPF" globalresearch.ca/top-secret-r… there's one addition note ->
The United States and its allies are experts at covering their crimes and finding scapegoats to take the blame for them. They are doing it now with their disinformation campaigns against Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and Syria.
By Misión Verdad – Aug 5, 2025Over the past year, Venezuela has been the scene of a coordinated offensive that transcends mere criminal activity, forming part of a broader political strategy aimed at destabilization.
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
~ Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker Reflections on the Revolution in France
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." ~ Edmund Burke
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