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The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

He forgot to boast about zero-emissions high speed rail

La localisation du porte-avions français Charles de Gaulle rendue possible grâce à l'imprudence d'un marin utilisant l'application de running Strava, rapporte Le Monde. En faisant son footing sur le pont, il révélait la présence du navire.

California golden poppies as far as the eye can see

Any price is worth paying to ensure no one brings a bottle of water onto an airplane without first paying $12 for it

@BenjaminDEKR More like SpaceX being bled dry

Is xAI just being disassembled for spare parts at this point?

@Simberg_Space Four billion dollars to launch Orion to low earth orbit every two years is quite a mood

In other words, they're no longer pretending that SLS can (or ever could) deliver Orion to the Moon.

Musk's repeated use of 'self-growing' is interesting. A human city on the Moon can't be self-growing, because every atom of carbon has to be brought from Earth. But you can promise it for some kind of AI megalopolis built on silicon. (The Mars afterthought here is a chef's kiss)

If only there was some way to poll people there and ascertain how they feel about this

Got my horse to water. Now for the easy part

@brett_zky Sometimes even neighboring muscle groups

Deadlifts done poorly enough can hit every muscle group very effectively

The correct goddamn plural is platypodes. Defund NASA now

Something we really need to get away from is flattening things down to the point where there is zero distinction made between Cesar Chavez being a serial child molester and a 26-year-old assistant professor going on a date with an undergrad.

Our 9-9-9 challenge is nine poutines and nine Labatt 50s in nine innings.

One year ago today, I signed the Breaking the Cycle executive directive, a plan to transform how San Francisco responds to homelessness and behavioral health crises. When I took office, the system was broken. Thousands of people cycled between the street, shelters, emergency rooms, and jail without ever reaching stability. Something had to change. Breaking the Cycle set out to: ➡️Get people the care they need. ➡️Make our public spaces safer for everyone. ➡️Make government services more responsible and accountable. One year in, the job is far from finished—but the positive direction is clear. The Results So Far Over the past year, we have seen measurable improvements on our streets. ➡️Tents and encampment numbers are at the lowest level we’ve recorded. ➡️RV counts are down as more people living in large vehicles are being connected to stable housing through our RV legislation. ➡️We've seen the highest monthly reconnections with loved ones back home since 2022 for people here from other counties, after we reformed Journey Home. ➡️Shelter placements have increased by 40% under the new street teams model. ➡️Medication-assisted treatment for fentanyl addiction is up 20% from 2024. Taken together, these results show that our approach is working—and with 64% of San Franciscans now saying the city is moving in the right direction, up from 22% in 2024, that progress is being felt across our communities. The Change We Implemented to Get Here Breaking the Cycle is about doing things differently—and delivering results. Over the past year, we’ve changed how the city responds on the street, how we deliver care, and how we hold ourselves accountable. Here’s what that looks like: ➡️One coordinated street team model, replacing nine separate teams ➡️New legislation to move families out of RVs and into housing ➡️Hundreds of new treatment, stabilization, and shelter beds ➡️A Recovery First approach focused on treatment, not enabling addiction ➡️The city’s first performance-based contract for a homelessness/health provider ➡️A 24/7 crisis stabilization center at 822 Geary to serve those suffering from a mental crisis ➡️An end to the practice of handing out safer smoking supplies without connections to treatment ➡️Almost $50M in private philanthropy raised through the Breaking the Cycle Fund to accelerate the work Looking Forward This spring, we are opening a RESET Center—making it easier for our officers to arrest those engaged in public drug use and connect them to treatment. It will allow publicly intoxicated individuals to get into a safe and controlled environment where they can get the help that they need. San Francisco has also secured nearly $100 million in state Proposition 1 funding to expand behavioral health services across the city. This funding will help us nearly double our locked bed capacity, add more treatment beds, and establish a behavioral health hub that prioritizes treatment. These investments aren't just about adding more money. They will fund proven solutions that get people off the streets and connected to care. We still have work ahead of us, but the direction is clear. We will keep pushing until more people are off the street and on a path to stability—and until San Franciscans see cleaner streets, safer neighborhoods, and a system that truly works.

This will inevitably clash with the vintage Alfa‘s urge to not start.

This is cliff. About 1 km tall. On a comet. millions of miles away from us. Captured by Rosetta mission. If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

In honour of the closure of the metaverse, I would like to re-up one of the worst videos ever recorded.

Replacing launches with rollouts is an underappreciated innovation of the Artemis program, maintaining American prestige and boosting safety while saving money, all at no impact to space science.