Willem Wyndham

I thought perhaps it was trying to transcribe Spanish but I think it’s made up its own language.

This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings.

Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.

Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.

Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.

Good morning !

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts.

From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

So that companies can more efficiently not have to do recalls! And get to fire their own safety inspectors! Yay stockholders here comes more "value"!

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Your aperiodic reminder that Mercury has a weirdly HUGE core for reasons we do not yet understand.

It's less a planet and more a molten ball bearing wrapped in a thin blanket of rock.

I also advocate for due process for Abrego Garcia.

After 58 days on strike, Alamo Drafthouse workers in NYC have won big.

The strike began when management suddenly fired 70 workers, and now every single laid off worker will get their job back thanks to the union power of @nycalamounited.bsky.social.

Strikes work.

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)

A stick held up in a sunny spring forest with a family of splitgill mushrooms exploded out of it like fireworks. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

NONE of this is normal

Digital billboard in Boston's subway station that reads: "Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof."

Finally, social media that's billionaire-proof. ⚡

Bluesky's first IRL ads spotted in @boston.gov @mbta.com.

No question the withdrawal from the WHO was the wrong decision and will hurt and kill innocent people around the world and in the United States.

Efficiency is clearly not the goal.

This reminds me of the distinction between judging and learner questions. “Why do you believe that?” Vs “what reasoning/life experiences lead you to believe that?”. And asking yourself learner questions opens you to changing your mind.

Its biggest issue is suffering from garbage in, garbage out. The more specific and useful the context it has the better the results. In terms of code generation tools closing the edit-compile-test loop combined with the context of a whole repo and direct dependencies will be huge.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

The talk around changing the accreditation system scares me. Also it’s them that want to do the censoring.

How many marbles does he have in his mouth?

How many marbles does he have in his mouth?