Dan Veditz

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

The thing is there's about ten thousand of this guy. It's all rubber bands and hope. Life itself is just rubber bands and hope.

This applies to everything: "The most precious resources of our profession are students and ideas" -- mathandai.org

3. If some random presents me with anything in the hope of collaborating with me, I AM NOT TAKING THAT SHIT. I'm not even looking at it. It's an open invitation for that random to attempt to sue me later for "stealing their idea" or whatever. Also, fuck you, random, for putting me in that position.

I read that about half a million children go missing in the US every year. I haven't read any Flock press reports of its cameras finding any of them. One would think that putting cameras on every corner and hooking them up to face-recognizing AI would turn up at least a few of these missing kids.

Transphobes are uniformly trash and we don't need to pretend otherwise. It isn't complicated.

the entirety of U.S. telecom history involves dems taking 20 years to implement basic consumer protections only for them to be immediately destroyed by a broad coalition of Republicans, telecom monopolies, and "free market" libertarian think tank guys telling you how wonderful this will all be

“China is going to beat us on AI and that’s a national security problem” and “we gotta stop letting foreign students study in the United States” are two beliefs that some people are capable of holding simultaneously, isn’t that incredible?

The government has a formula that decides whether safety rules are worth passing. And that formula was rewritten to put a new price on your life: zero dollars. #PublicHealth #EPA #News #Trump #climatechange

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

every damn time

One company paid $500,000,000 for AI in one month.

I've got to say that I'm really disappointed in the recent discourse surrounding the RCP8.5 scenario. The lack of context and understanding is something I expected from the usual suspects, but it's frustrating to see such bad takes from people and outlets who should know better.

1) DHS has in custody, for once, for real, an alleged violent criminal alien. 2) They manipulate a judge into releasing him so they can attack the judge for doing so.

A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

Just saw an ad for samsung appliances touting "bespoke AI" integrations. So now not only is your IoT connected device spying on you, it's doing so in the service of an LLM enabled ecosystem of bullshit. Don't buy any new samsung shit is i guess what I'm saying.

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Balcony #solar in the #USA! #EnergyTransition

Stephen Miller complaining about the UK finally eliminating heredity nobility from their legislature is a perfect encapsulation of how perverse it is to have these people in charge during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

It’s too late for Micah, but for others let this be a warning - go buy a hot dog first.

chickenshits www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would force social media platforms to filter and suppress content that the Trump admin is willing to argue makes kids "depressed" or "anxious." Videos of ICE murdering people make me pretty depressed and anxious, and I'm a grown ass adult. See where this is going?

And when she was just on the cusp of understanding this, I said, now imagine they sold that information about you to anyone who wanted it, so that there would be people out there able to manipulate you whom you've never even met. And now you're not the trainer, you're the dog. Now she gets it.

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

React Developers: I need you to upgrade right now. I don't ring the alarm bell often, but this time I am. It's similar to Log4j, but not yet exploited in the wild. This is quite serious, please upgrade now.

This has been an extraordinary set of data to process: 1.3B unique passwords, 2B unique email addresses (including mine 😭) and almost 3M of our @haveibeenpwned.com subscribers in there. It’s been weeks of processing to get this loaded, and finally, it’s done www.troyhunt.com/2-billion-em...

In NYC watching as Liz Story is back in a recording studio for the first time in 15 or more years. It sounds glorious!

there is NOTHING in the science to justify this. fuck this

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

I feel this should be obvious but we do understand the reason for the focus on gender affirming care for incarcerated people, right? The goal is to get people to admit that they think gender affirming care is *not medically necessary*.

WBEZ/Sun-Times are crowd-sourcing a map of ICE raids. Put aside what they’re doing and to whom and why. The fact that the people of an American city, including the mayor and governor, have to guess where Federal agents are operating, is itself insane. interactive.wbez.org/uploader/en/