For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.
i heard windows 12 is gonna have a load bearing picture of steve ballmers bald head in your documents folder and if you delete it it automatically calls the cops on you
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.
Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.
More info:
The Sony Hit-Bit 101 is the most beautiful computer ever made.
13 years later and the story of Aaron Swartz still fills me with anger and sadness
Image of an orange and silver vessel, floating in the artic.
Image of an orange and silver vessel, floating in the artic.
Image of an orange and silver vessel, floating in the artic.
Image of an orange and silver vessel, floating in the artic.
Appreciation post for the French Tara Polar Station
(@fondationtaraocean.bsky.social), a drifting scientific base designed for long-term Artic missions to study biodiversity and the effects of climate change.
More info: fondationtaraocean.org/en/schooner/...
Ditto
I'm not ready to go back to work tomorrow
You know that thing where people tell you, don't talk about what you're working on or new workout plans, because it'll feel the same as actually doing it?
Vibecoding gives a sense of productivity indistinguishable to you from actually *being* productive.
I donated monthly for years but I stopped when Firefox went hard on AI. Why donate when you're going to spend it on features that are so unpopular you have to proudly announce how easy you made it to turn them off.
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Podcast alert! 🚨
We're buckling down for another blizzard over here, so cozy on up with @vegettoex.bsky.social, @drabazdoug.bsky.social, and @jlunaars.bsky.social for a report on this weekend's New Jersey edition of the Dragon Ball POP-UP TOUR USA 2026!
👂🎙️📻👇 www.kanzenshuu.com/2026/02/22/p...
I've watched four or five people play through Outer Wilds for exactly that reason! The memories are fading enough that I hope to replay it later this year
getting really sick of my friends telling me the cursed blade is warping my mind. it's LITERALLY fine. i can stop fucking using it whenever i want. i think they're just jealous. like they know it'd corrupt them but i'm clearly stronger than its influence. in fact, i'm stronger than all of them...
if you're in a separate orbit from your own spacecraft you're having a bad day
An image of Mars taken by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shows the Mars Perseverance rover on its descent to the surface, its parachute spread out above it, with the surface of Mars in the background. An inset image shows an zoomed-in view of the rover Entry-Descent-Landing stage.
Five years ago today! We imaged Perseverance on its descent to Mars, under fairly challenging conditions but we did it because we have a kickass team.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_068281_9...
If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
who is that?
love me some Kaleido Star
if your hobby is touched in any way by electronic components needed by the hyperscalars, AI is coming for it, gaming most of all
shortages everywhere as far as the eye can see
n the mundane course of modern life, you might occasionally find yourself glimpsing the dark abyss - that is, catching a few seconds of a stranger's phone screen. A peek over a shoulder, through a car window at a dash-mounted phone, or perhaps, pointedly, at the hands of a distracted person whose eyes you're trying to raise, will likely reveal a version of the same thing: not, in 2026, a wall of text, a feed, or even a slideshow of stories, but an endless scroll of tall videos.
Taken together, the videos sometimes tell a simple story in algorithmic silhouette, with one bikini video after another, a cascade of talking sports heads, an unbroken flow of clothes to buy, or influencers talking over the News with a particular political orientation. Just as often, though, a stolen screen glance reveals a dismal anti-story, in which an AI model has guessed, in a whole bunch of different directions, what the user is "most likely to be interested in or engage with." It has done so by following, to borrow Meta's language, a series of steps: "Gather inventory," "leverage signals," "make predictions," and "rank reels by score." To the intended viewer, the resulting mix of videos is incoherent but probably also intuitive, at least on an individual basis. To you, the screen peeper, the spectacle is profoundly uncomfortable, not just because you're eavesdropping the output of an intimate machine-learning profile gleaned from private and often passive "signals" provided by someone you don't know, but because you know, deep down, that your chained-together clips — and the chains of people you know, love, and respect — would be exactly as alien, and alienating, to anyone outside of your narrow algorithmic cone. You're seeing yourself. You're really just sitting there, recreationally A/B testing content for hours in order to help Meta and TikTok find videos — any videos, about anything — that are a little bit harder for us not to watch.
once you start looking for it, you see evidence and consequences of online desocialization everywhere nymag.com/intelligence...
Hey @wired.com (and Wired journos) - why is the masked email I gave you on some spammer's list?
Time to cancel my subscription if you're going to sell my data to god knows who.
An adorable raccoon.
He's apparently required by law to. bsky.app/profile/park...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free.
...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...
This digital painting/render shows the NEAR spacecraft as it reached the surface, with attitude control jets spraying dust about. The spacecraft is a digital model I made from references, the asteroid surface foreground is based on the last photographs of the surface obtained on the way down. The rest of the scenery is painted based on more distant views. This was used on the cover of the mission final report.
This view shows the context of the final photos in relation to the landed attitude of the NEAR spacecraft. The surface relief is guesswork, with the final descent photographs draped over a hand painted Digital Elevation map of the rocks etc. That surface model became the basis of the foreground of the other portrayal.
25 years ago today the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker spacecraft touched down on the Asteroid Eros, after orbiting it and making a map of the elongated 34 km long asteroid. It gently landed on the surface with its cameras obtaining views during the final descent. Digital art. #SCIART
HEY YOU! YES YOU! TAKE THIS SHIT OUT OF LINKS! A screenshot of a link with a question mark followed by a seemingly random string of characters. These are source identifiers. Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site. Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to. Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity. When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected. And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers. Whenever you select "share" or "copy link" on a social app or website, it creates a link like this. If you give even the smallest shit about online privacy, it's important to remove them. Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue, especially sections starting with "si=" or "utm_source="
This thing 🫴
This is fun. You should go draw horsies instead of whatever it is you're meant to be getting on with*.
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*That's a lie. If you have important things to do don't listen to me. But this is cute.
Screenshot of the capsule from the Machine in the 1997 film Contact.
Everything we own should not be hackable and subscription based. This is a nightmare
