Jack Vaughan - USA

Dust-driven Vortex Cascades Originating At Water Snow Region: A Pathway To Planetesimal Formation - Astrobiology The origin of observed planetary systems, including our solar system, as well as their diversity is still an open question.

Dust-driven Vortex Cascades Originating At Water Snow Region: A Pathway To Planetesimal Formation astrobiology.com/2025/04/dust...

Peter Yarrow’s Manhattan Duplex Is Listed at $4.44 Million The estate of the singer, one of the three in Peter, Paul and Mary, is selling his Upper West Side apartment, “a hub of music and art and culture and activism.”

This land is your land this land is my land from the Redwood Forest to the Gulfstream Waters! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/r...

285K views · 1.7K comments | Welcome to LlamaCon 2025 - Opening Session! | Join us as we dive into the world of AI at LlamaCon 2025. This session features a keynote presentation with Chief Product Off... Join us as we dive into the world of AI at LlamaCon 2025. This session features a keynote presentation with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, VP of Llama...

www.facebook.com/MetaforDevel... Good stuff!

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Perplexity is on iOS, but problems remain for AI search firm | TechTarget The AI-powered search vendor now has an app on iOS, but users might later gravitate toward Siri with Apple Intelligence.

www.techtarget.com/searchenterp... Trying to get to consumers .. it ain't easy ..

Trump Aggressively Attacks 1st Amendment, Elon Musk Wants Out of DOGE & MAGA Minions Do Dumb Stuff YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

Elon can't spend all his time in Washington he has a company to also un into the ground! youtu.be/igYHXGpbam4?...

AIxDemocracy: What are the politics of AI? - Ethan Zuckerman Ethan Zuckerman on the politics of the public sphere, and how embedding past behaviors in AI may give a conservative bias to an AI age

A recent talk from UMass's excellent AI x Democracy conference - my thoughts on how media has shaped the democratic public sphere and what the politics of a public sphere mediated by AI might be: ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/24/a...

Derby, Preakness winner Smarty Jones inducted to National Racing Hall of Fame SARATOGA SPRINGS — Of 16 finalists in the contemporary category, only Smarty Jones was voted for induction to the National Racing Hall of Fame's Class of 2025, the hall of

Derby, Preakness winner Smarty Jones inducted to National Racing Hall of Fame

@dgazette.bsky.social @nmrhof #HorseRacing #AtTheTrack #SaratogaRaceCourse

www.dailygazette.com/sports/derby...

From an engineering perspective, this is a pretty interesting article. What also is interesting to me is the view it gives on the future. Things look more like Capt.Nemo-Like Masters of the Universe will continue appear through the rest of time. DC and Marvel were right.

Starlink Is Doomed Every bit of Musk’s empire is crumbling.

Will Lockett really hates El*n M*sk. So take with grain of salt. That said. He is dedicated in his research. "Starlink is doomed" [which is linked to below] touches on the Reverse Midas touch that seems to touch everything El*n M*sk touches. wlockett.medium.com/starlink-is-...

The Only 7 Signs of AI Writing You Need to Remove in Your Text Never be accused of using AI again.

Author: AI can assist — but it should never replace you. medium.com/write10x/the...

MORNING NEWS: Dow Nears the Worst April Since 1932 | AFTERNOON PRESS CONF: Trump says he has no intention of firing Fed Chair Powell

The March of Analogies meets limits as AI edges forward With AI today, mind the real gap between living-breathing biology and math models of the brain.

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Tales from the Classic Con Crypt: Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Blame Powell for Any Downturn

"We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law.”

#WeekendRead -my new essay on HUAC, how it operated over its 30 year history, & how industries, academia, & individual targets eventually fought back.

Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday’s Lecture on Censorship How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.

Day has returned: Joe McCarty's a'drooling and a'smiling in his grave... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

So broad was the impact of Galvani’s work – and along with it the idea of electrical animation – it made its way into the mind of English writer Mary Shelley, forming part of the inspiration for her novel Frankenstein. - Lindsay, Grace. Models of the Mind

Huge rabbit rescued from kill farm is now therapy bunny, drives mini truck

Trump will unpave the road to the Hall of Fame unless Pete Rose is named a Saint.

Column | The uncanny Bob Dylan song that inaugurated an era of dread Dylan is the Picasso of popular music. His ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’ speaks more powerfully to what it feels like to be alive in 2025 than anything I can think of.

data, like conspiracy thinking, creates only the illusion of control. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Rubio Says Trump to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Talks if No Progress Soon “If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris.

Before taking office, Mr. Trump said he would end the war within “24 hours.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

NASA to Launch Quantum Gravity Sensor for Earth Observation NASA is preparing to launch the first quantum sensor to measure gravity from space. The mission aims to transform how scientists observe the invisible forces that shape Earth's surface and subsurface.

www.iotworldtoday.com/quantum/nasa...
The project is a collaboration between NASA and several quantum-focused startups, including AOSense, Infleqtion and Vector Atomic.

A man in tactical gear and a baseball hat is taking an axe to a car window. He looks like he’s smiling.

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days.

It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man.

An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/
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Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

www.propublica.org/article/trum... Another day, another boondoggle.

❗We are sounding the alarm—DOGE seems to believe they have the authority to investigate any nonprofit organization with federal funding.

Intel to sell controlling stake in Altera chip business to Silver Lake | TechCrunch Intel on Monday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51% of its Altera semiconductor business to Silver Lake, a private equity firm.

Intel to sell controlling stake in Altera chip business to Silver Lake techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/i... via @techcrunch

Google’s bold step toward hybrid AI integration It’s about collaboration, not control, recognizing that enterprises need solutions that work across platforms and unique business situations.

Hybrid cloud - Can AI get this truck rolling? www.infoworld.com/article/3961...

Nvidia to Make AI Supercomputers Entirely in U.S. Nvidia said it would start producing AI supercomputers that will be manufactured entirely in the U.S.

Mr. History - Supercomputers appeared a vital massive market ... in the 1980s. What happened with that? What's different now? www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-... via @WSJ

When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems Not all AI scaling strategies are equal. Longer reasoning chains are not sign of higher intelligence. More compute isn't always the answer.

When AI reasoning goes wrong: Microsoft Research shows more tokens can mean more problems venturebeat.com/ai/when-ai-r... via @VentureBeat

Nvidia to take up to $5.5 billion sales hit as US regulates sales of H20 chip in China Nvidia on Tuesday said it would take $5.5 billion in charges after the U.S. government said it would require licenses for exports to China of its H20 microchip, which has been one of its most popular chips.

Nvidia faces $5.5 billion charge as US restricts chip sales to China www.reuters.com/technology/n...