In troubled times Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC ... which is backfiring on him quite spectacularly... brings both hope and amusement newrepublic.com/post/216805/...

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WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT MMX??? japan is launching a spacecraft to explore the moons of mars, deploy a little rover onto phobos, AND bring samples from phobos back to earth. THIS IS SO COOL???

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I was accused of being sensationalist or exaggerating when our 2022 research paper predicted one in 15 visible points in the sky would be a moving satellite. I think maybe we were actually too conservative. I hate this so very very much.

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Getting pretty strong “it’s all right, just relax and let the game happen, Wesley” from Adobe’s increasingly insistent pop-ups to have its “AI Assistant” tell me what’s in my PDF documents

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Grim reading. It felt like the rationalists were so close to final victory around 2011-ish (well, maybe), but the counter-enlightenment since has been fierce.

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