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The Islamic Republic has survived war and siege before, but this time Iran knows it is staring down a global colonial axis determined to crush its sovereignty
The time has come to reveal the "first light" images taken by the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located in Cerro Pachón, Chile.
The images will be presented in a press conference today at 11:00 a.m. EDT (15:00 UTC), live-stream at youtube.com/watch?v=Zv22_Amsre…
Soon, the 8.4m telescope with its 3.2 gigapixel, 3.5° field of view, LSST Camera will start taking ultra-high-def images of the southern hemisphere sky for 10 years, covering the entire sky every few nights. rubinobservatory.org/ 1/n
Here are 3 "teaser" images posted by the Rubin Observatory team on BlueSky. These are small sections of the much larger 3.2 gigapixel images.
1 and 2. Sections of the Virgo Cluster, a group of galaxies 55 million light-years away. 3. Section of the Trifid and Lagoon nebula, 4,100 light years away.
Attached: 1 image
The largest camera ever built for astrophysics (3200-megapixels, >3000 kg) was installed this week at the Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachón in Chile.
The Rubin Observatory generates an astronomical amount of data every night which is stored and processed in 3 main data centers located in the U.S., the U.K. and France.
Image size: 6.4 GB compressed Images per night: 2,000+ Data per night: 16 TB Raw data over 10 years: 50 PB Processed data over 10 years: 500 PB Image transfer time (from Chile to SLAC in CA): 7 seconds Transfer speed: ~7.3 Gbps Alerts per night: Up to 10 million
Images are transferred from the Rubin Observatory using "direct writes via the S3 API to an object store" at the US Data Facility at SLAC in CA and distributed to the UK and France sites.
Given the high bandwidth-delay product of the links between sites (~8 Gbps per image transfer * ~165 ms round trip time RTT = ~165 MB), transfers are done using specialized connection pooling/keep-alive code and TCP tuning (e.g., initial and max cwnd size, congestion control, ..).
Here is a low-res screen-cap from the press conference showing a large field of view of one of the first images from the Rubin Observatory. The highlighted area near the top-left represents the 2nd image in post #2 in this thread.
This annotated First Look image of the Virgo Cluster was captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. From sizable stars to sprawling galaxies, Rubin transforms seemingly empty pockets of space into glittering tapestries.
From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility unveils its first imagery and brings the night sky to life like never before
Check out this video depicting 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids discovered by the Rubin Observatory in about 10 hours of observations.
Seven of them are near-Earth asteroids, which fortunately pose no danger to Earth.
"Annually, about 20,000 asteroids are discovered in total by all other ground and space-based observatories. Rubin Observatory alone will discover millions of new asteroids within the first two years of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time."
In about 10 hours of observations, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered 2104 never-before-seen asteroids in our Solar System, including seven near-Ea...
The Observatory still hasn't answered my question about how much electric power will be consumed over the lifetime of the project, or how much carbon will be emitted to the atmosphere as a result.
It’s hard to overstate or even begin to list all the genuinely awful precedents set by Israel and the U.S.’s behavior vis à vis Iran in the latest war. But if we had to summarize it in one expression it’d be “maximum paranoia and secrecy is the only rational security strategy.”
Iran was paradoxically in many ways too transparent, reasonable and cooperative - accepting international monitoring that provided targeting intelligence, engaging in diplomatic processes that turned out to be elaborate traps and honoring agreements that were unilaterally abandoned.
In short, the key lesson for any reasonable third-party state is, paradoxically, be like North Korea.
The €2 Billion Microsoft Office Problem Just Got Worse: We’re Not Just Wasting Money, We’re Creating Security Disasters | by Markus Sandelin | Jun, 2025 | Medium
Someone needs to coordinate a military operation. Instead of using purpose-built operational planning systems, they create an Excel spreadsheet with unit locations, timing, and personnel assignments. They email this spreadsheet to 15 different national representatives for “coordination.” Each person makes changes, saves a new version, and emails it back.
Within 48 hours, there are 23 different versions of this file floating around on various government email servers, shared drives, and personal devices. Nobody knows which version is current. Half the recipients forward it to subordinates who “need to see this.” Some clever staff officer converts it to PowerPoint for a briefing.
Final result: Operational security details scattered across hundreds of endpoints with zero audit trail, no access controls beyond “has this person’s email address,” and absolutely no way to revoke access once the information is distributed.
This isn’t hypothetical. This is how NATO’s enterprise side operates when people need to actually get work done.
Remember when I told you the EU was wasting €2 billion annually on Microsoft Office for work that could be done with €3 web forms? Those document-driven workflows aren’t just financially stupid —…
I disagree with ‘tests of purity’ taken to the extreme. Of course a university will collaborate with a range of industries, usually with the aim of improving the way things are done. Universities support change in the world, sometimes incrementally, sometimes dramatically.
Environment Groups Condemn UTAS’ Global Climate Merit Sticker
How can Tasmania's only university be ranked number one in the world for “climate action” when it collaborates with the logging and fossil fuel industries
https://tasmaniantimes.
When I pay you to legitimise me and to train my future workforce, we’re not collaborating, I’m employing you.
My dad’s a professor and I’ve been in academic environments my whole life and it’s pretty clear, at least from my experience, who’s holding the leash and who’s wearing the collar in the relationship between industry and academia.
(Which is sad because I still naively wish an academia removed from industry servitude existed as I’d love to be a part of it.)
* this is not to say folks don’t exist within this system that work against the grain of industry influence – often at odds with the goals of the institutions that work for. As a friend who heads up a department in Vienna once told me, “I’m the only one I know who said no to Google’s €100,000” (to whitewash their image on privacy)
@ojala@mastodon.nz “I sat in hearing range through this crazy New Zealand Business Community conference, and it was literally NZ’s board of corporations discussing how to dismantle and juice NZ’s remaining academia (in ways that were then directly done, as they laid out they were going to, over the ensuing two years).”
– An anonymous source, in a private response to my post; shared with permission
Abbas Araghchi added that Russia has always been Iran’s partner in the civilian nuclear sphere and played a positive role in talks on Tehran’s nuclear program
The image depicts a coastal scene shrouded in a thick layer of smoke, likely from a wildfire. In the foreground, a calm body of water, possibly a lake or sea, is visible, with a sandy beach and some beach chairs and umbrellas lined up along the shore. The beach is bordered by trees and a few buildings, suggesting a developed area. The middle ground features a line of trees and buildings, partially obscured by the smoke. In the background, a mountain range is visible, with smoke billowing from the top, indicating the source of the fire. The sky is overcast, with a gradient of colors from light to dark, suggesting either dawn or dusk. The overall atmosphere is hazy and muted, with the smoke dominating the scene and reducing visibility.
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Είδατε όμως τι ωραία, νοικοκυρεμενα γίνονται όλα; Εκεί που είχαν αρχίσει επιτέλους να ξυπνάνε οι πολλοί για τη γενοκτονία των Παλαιστινίων, έγινε ένα πανηγύρι με το Ιράν και τώρα που (λένε πως) ησυχάζουν, όλα καλά παιδιά ΌΛΑ ΚΑΛΆ 🤡
The profound and unrelenting struggles endured by Palestinians should, by any rational expectation, have irrevocably concluded the Palestinian cause. Yet,
All Israel’s policies and actions arise from one overarching ambition: completing Zionism’s 130-year project of Judaizing Palestine, which requires the displacement of the Palestinians, their pacification (removing utterly their ability to resist) an…
BEIJING - As part of a media exchange program organized by the China International Press Communication Center (CIPCC), I had the opportunity to visit Beijing Polytechnic University on Monday, alongside a group of international journalists.
Να σταματήσει ο πόλεμος γιατί είναι επικίνδυνο για τον κόσμο.
Άντε το πολύ πολύ να κουνήσουμε καμία Παλαιστινιακή σημαία σε καμία συναυλία, να φορέσουμε και μια χρωματιστή keffiyeh που είναι και τις μόδας, και την βγάλαμε την υποχρέωση.
Ρε εμείς να μην κινδυνεύουμε και ασ'τους άλλους να τους σφάζουν.
The 5th Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power (Parliament), in its 10th Legislature, will take place on July 16 at the Convention Center in Havana.
Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.
And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).
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In an already volatile Middle East, the United States’ strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities—hot on the heels of Israel’s sustained military aggression—has
“Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier,” said President Trump as he
On November 19, 2023, Belal Jadallah, the founding director of Press House, Palestine, was killed by an Israeli air strike as he tried to evacuate Gaza
At first glance, U.S. political life under Trump looks like a sprawling, circuslike affair going nowhere. However, measures are in force hitting at the
The Banks that control the world are run by by the Rothschilds family. Mayer Rothschil 5 sons were sent by their father on his dying bed to control vital parts of Europe through loans and interest.
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Democrat Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania appeared on FOX News today and dropped a bomb on AOC’s big plans to impeach Trump over his Iran strike.
“Too Late” Jerome Powell, of the Fed, will be in Congress today in order to explain, among other things, why he is refusing to lower the Rate. Europe has had 10 cuts, we have had ZERO. No inflation, great economy - We should be at least two to three points lower. Would save the USA 800 Billion Dollars Per Year, plus. What a difference this would make. If things later change to the negative, increase the Rate. I hope Congress really works this very dumb, hardheaded person, over. We will be paying for his incompetence for many years to come. THE BOARD SHOULD ACTIVATE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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Hamid Dabashi People attend an anti-Israeli protest after Friday prayers, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tehran, Iran,on 20 June, 2025 (Reuters) Tel Aviv and Washington will lose this battle wit…
The war across the Middle East is part of a desperate effort to preserve Western superiority. All the fighting — whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran — is due to Zionism, and its role of enforcing the crushing force of the West.
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Millions of workers and young people who have protested the imperialist-backed genocide in Gaza will reject Palestine Action’s designation as a “terrorist” organisation.
Just days before the New York City mayoral elections on 24 June, 118 volunteers were at a phone banking session for Zohran Mamdani, one of nine people vying to be mayor of the largest city in the US.
#eu #frg #spain #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #euforeignpolicy / #sanctions
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Although the criminal character of the attack on Iran is obvious, and Merz, Macron, and Starmer fear its disastrous consequences, they unconditionally back the aggressors.
@Michael Sure, because with the exception of the BRICS, and even for them only for trades among themselves, they are all captives of the Jewish compound interest on money created out of thin air money system.
Anyone among my followers or readers her who has experience with #threema ? To be exact, would it be possible that someone else pays their fee and I can get an account?
A very nice person sent me a promo code - much appreciated. The fediverse is great.
You can have them buy a license key on Threema Shop and you can activate that on your end, but you must download the APK from them, not through Google Play. I've done this, I once won a key in a giveaway. But do note that you as the user will not be able to recover the key should you lose it; only the buyer can (which is why I can't use Threema anymore).
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The Lower Thames Crossing proves the point. It’s a white elephant plan, sucking money from local projects that could actually improve lives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
In the election to be New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani is waging war on the city’s establishment and capturing the public’s imagination in the process. Will it be enough to succeed?
Interestingly eurocentrists often refer to Alexander the Great as taking over "the world" even though he only took over Europe and the Middle East (which is what they saw as "the world" at the time). His troops abandoned him almost immediately upon entering what is now modern day Punjab (Pakistan/India).
Even then - during WW2, imperial Japan was committing atrocities on millions of victims. Sure they eventually lost against 'white people', but I don't think that's much comfort to the millions of Chinese people who were killed by the Japanese.
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I am especially appreciative that Professor Glenn Diesen let this discussion run the full hour so that we could address a goodly number of issues relating to the Iran-Israel conflict that our peers in the Alternative Media seem to overlook while they…
Ended up on this very long and silly errand run that led me to Inglewood, somewhere I basically never go unless I'm dropping someone off at the airport. And so, I decided to make the most of my day by getting lunch from my favorite West African restaurant! Featured in This Video
Alll the fucking construction happening off-screen as we attempt to build multiple resorts at SoFi stadium in time for the Olympics
Two whole sentences of West African Pidgin English
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🧵THREAD: Why Are AI-Generated Black Women Selling War?
There’s a new kind of military propaganda happening—and it has a face. Not a general. Not a flag. A Black woman. Digitally generated. Dressed in fatigues. Smiling, jubilant as she praises a U.S. airstrike against Iran.
The AI video I saw showed a young “Black servicewoman” in combat greens surrounded by other service personnel in a 'desert' holding her phone like it was recording her, celebrating a successful bombing on Iran.
I think the caption was something like a Matthew 5:9 scripture quote, "Blessed are the peacemakers." (a pun on the type of missile, I guess.)
But she wasn’t real. No real woman said those words. (And how effing dare they tap into the whole church thing.)
Well....#US bombs nuke labs that were emptied two or three days before the hit and #Iran responds by hitting bases emptied 2-3 days before the strike. And now all is well
And that doesn't smell fishy to you, right? Well it's probably me, I guess. 🤔🤔🤔
So...#Iran had some known enrichment labs, which were inspected more frequently than any other country, had known stocks of enriched uranium at a known level of enrichment, and was a loyal member of the IAEA.
#US bombed Iran's nuke program as they demanded it be stopped completely.
Now Iran has an unknown amount of enriched uranium at an unknown level of enrichment, in unknown locations, and is kicking #IAEA out of the country and cancel its membership.
White House is pushing for the ceasefire agreement between #Zionists and #Iran. "Zionists agreed to a ceasefire if Iran does not resume its missile attacks" claims #US official
"#Zionists started the war against Iran, not the other way around," says Iranian foreign minister.
Meanwhile, Zionists can continue their #genocide and #ethniccleansing in #Gaza unmolested while the world "celebrates" the "end of hostilities"
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
AkaSci 🛰️
in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Here are 3 "teaser" images posted by the Rubin Observatory team on BlueSky. These are small sections of the much larger 3.2 gigapixel images.
1 and 2. Sections of the Virgo Cluster, a group of galaxies 55 million light-years away.
3. Section of the Trifid and Lagoon nebula, 4,100 light years away.
bsky.app/profile/vrubinobs.bsk…
Credit: Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF/DOE
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AkaSci 🛰️
in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Check out this thread for some more into on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the world's largest 3.2 gigapixel LSST digital camera.
fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/11415021…
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •The Rubin Observatory generates an astronomical amount of data every night which is stored and processed in 3 main data centers located in the U.S., the U.K. and France.
Image size: 6.4 GB compressed
Images per night: 2,000+
Data per night: 16 TB
Raw data over 10 years: 50 PB
Processed data over 10 years: 500 PB
Image transfer time (from Chile to SLAC in CA): 7 seconds
Transfer speed: ~7.3 Gbps
Alerts per night: Up to 10 million
rubinobservatory.org/news/rubi…
indico.cern.ch/event/1338689/c…
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Ready, Set, Process: Preparing for Rubin Observatory's Data Deluge
Rubin Observatory (rubinobservatory.org)AkaSci 🛰️
in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Images are transferred from the Rubin Observatory using "direct writes via the S3 API to an object store" at the US Data Facility at SLAC in CA and distributed to the UK and France sites.
Given the high bandwidth-delay product of the links between sites (~8 Gbps per image transfer * ~165 ms round trip time RTT = ~165 MB), transfers are done using specialized connection pooling/keep-alive code and TCP tuning (e.g., initial and max cwnd size, congestion control, ..).
indico.cern.ch/event/1338689/c…
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AkaSci 🛰️
in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Here is a low-res screen-cap from the press conference showing a large field of view of one of the first images from the Rubin Observatory. The highlighted area near the top-left represents the 2nd image in post #2 in this thread.
Full-res images are available at fl.rubinobservatory.org/galler….
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Virgo Cluster Finder Chart (annotated)
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •rubinobservatory.org/news/firs…
fl.rubinobservatory.org/galler…
noirlab.edu/public/news/noirla…
Check them out!
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Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Check out this video depicting 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids discovered by the Rubin Observatory in about 10 hours of observations.
Seven of them are near-Earth asteroids, which fortunately pose no danger to Earth.
"Annually, about 20,000 asteroids are discovered in total by all other ground and space-based observatories. Rubin Observatory alone will discover millions of new asteroids within the first two years of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time."
youtube.com/watch?v=DTuq-vBsDJ…
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A Swarm of New Asteroids - VIDEO - EN
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •Do you if/how their work is affected by the Starlink satellites?
PS. If you’re in touch with them, they might want to know: it looks like their web site is down: rubinobservatory.org/
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