Kyle Toth

This is NOT true. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. - Don

A man who spent months in space returned to Earth saying that humans are living a lie… Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan spent 178 days aboard the International Space Station, orbiting the globe nearly 3,000 times. During this mission, he experienced the Overview Effect, a profound cognitive shift that occurs when viewing Earth from space. From his vantage point, the political boundaries and economic systems that dominate human discourse were invisible. Instead, he saw a singular, iridescent biosphere protected only by a gossamer-thin atmosphere, highlighting the extreme vulnerability of the only home humanity has ever known. Garan now warns that our perceived separation from nature is a dangerous illusion. He argues that issues like climate change and habitat loss are not separate problems but symptoms of a failure to recognize Earth as an interconnected system. Since returning to the surface, his mission has shifted to promoting a planet-first mentality. By viewing the world as a shared vessel rather than a collection of competing territories, Garan believes we can better protect the delicate balance that sustains life within our paper-thin atmosphere. source: Garan, R. (2015). The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Glass is one of the rare materials that can be recycled endlessly without losing quality. Its structure doesn’t break down, meaning a bottle can be melted and remade into another bottle again and again, no downgrade, no loss. That’s very different from plastic. It’s cheaper and lighter to produce, which saves companies money, but the environmental cost is huge, pollution, landfill buildup, and long-term damage to ecosystems. When recycled properly, glass has real advantages. Using crushed recycled glass (cullet) cuts the need for raw materials like sand and limestone, reduces energy use in furnaces, and lowers carbon emissions significantly. It also means less mining and less strain on natural habitats. The catch? Recycling only works at its best when glass is clean and sorted by colour. Contamination or mixed glass often pushes it out of the “closed loop” and into lower-value uses instead of new bottles. Handled properly, glass is one of the strongest examples of a true circular material, something we can keep using without running out or compromising quality.

Jordan is the 63rd country to sign the @NASAArtemis Accords! 🇯🇴 Countries that join our Artemis Accords commit to a set of principles for peaceful, transparent, and responsible space exploration. These partnerships will enable us to build the future of space together. go.nasa.gov/4u0qXVG

“KitKat” sounds similar to a Japanese phrase for “you will surely win.” In Japan, KitKat bars are frequently given to students ahead of major exams for good luck.

@XboxGamePass It’s not on Gamepass unfortunately, but…

drop a game you think people are sleeping on 👇

@anishmoonka I apologize Asha Sharma, I was not familiar with your game.

Asha Sharma had never made a video game. Microsoft put her in charge of Xbox in February anyway. Her mom worked at a department store for $7 an hour. The gaming press was skeptical. Phil Spencer, who she replaced, had been at Microsoft 38 years. His deputy Sarah Bond was the obvious heir. Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, picked Sharma instead. Sharma grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. Her parents divorced when she was young. She took her first job at 17 and earned a business degree from the University of Minnesota in 2011. Straight out of school she joined Microsoft in marketing. Two years later she left for Porch, a Seattle startup that helped people hire handymen and movers. She was running it as second-in-command within four years. Facebook hired her in 2017. She spent four years running Messenger and Instagram DMs, the chat tools people use to message friends privately. Billions of users. Instacart, the grocery delivery company, made her second-in-command in June 2021. She ran the app, deliveries, growth, and marketing. She took it public on the stock market in 2023. Her stake was worth $19 million that day. In 2024 Microsoft hired her back to run CoreAI, the team behind Microsoft Copilot. She ran it two years before getting Xbox. Same pattern every job: take a product used by millions or billions of people, fix the money side, make it grow. Xbox needs exactly that. Xbox console sales fell 32% in the quarter before she walked in. The PS5 has outsold the Xbox Series X 84 million to 34 million. Last October Microsoft hiked Game Pass by 50% to $30 a month. People canceled in droves. On April 21 she cut Game Pass Ultimate back to $23 a month, a 23% drop. PC Game Pass went from $16 to $14. The catch: new Call of Duty games no longer come to Game Pass on launch day. Players wait a year or buy the game for $70. Call of Duty on Game Pass reportedly cost Microsoft $300 million last year. The math works. On March 5 she announced the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix. It runs on a custom AMD chip and plays both Xbox and PC games on the same box. Test units ship to studios in 2027. This week she renamed the whole division back to Xbox and killed the “This is an Xbox” ad campaign. The slogan had tried to claim any device streaming Xbox games was also an Xbox. Fans had been mocking it for a year. In her first memo to staff she promised Xbox games would not be filled with cheap AI-generated content. Games stay made by humans. She also picked up a gamertag, AMRAHSAHSA, and started playing for the first time. She still does not know games. She knows how to take a product used by a billion people and make them feel it is worth paying for. That is the bet.

Just found out that on 9/11, when the United States shut its airspace, 38 planes got diverted to a tiny town in Atlantic Canada called Gander, Newfoundland. The town’s population at the time was around 10,000 people. Overnight, 6,700 strangers arrived. The population nearly doubled in a few hours. Apparently the town just opened up. Schools, churches, and community halls were turned into sleeping areas. Bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to shuttle passengers. Pharmacies filled prescriptions for free. The ice rink at the community centre became a giant fridge because there was so much donated food. People invited strangers into their homes for showers, meals, and a bed. The passengers were only there for four days. Twenty-five years later, many of them are still in touch with their Newfoundland hosts. One flight raised money for a scholarship fund for kids in Gander. It started at 15,000 US dollars and has since paid out over a million dollars to local students. A musical was made about it called Come From Away. It ran on Broadway for five years. When a reporter asked one of the Newfoundland women why they did it, she said, “You don’t turn your back on people in need.”

@CultureCrave That’s one of the smartest things I’ve heard an exec say in a long time.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma on exclusives 🎮 “We’ll take a data-driven approach and a strategic-driven approach, and then we’ll look at our principles and we’ll make some calls” “I want to make the right decision, not the fastest decision” (via Game File)

In 1978, a French astrophysicist hand-drew the first image of a black hole using an IBM 7040 and punch cards. No screen. No rendering engine. Just math, ink, and patience. 46 years later, when we finally photographed one for real… it looked almost exactly like this.

A deaf dad using American Sign Language to talk to his newborn daughter, "I'm your daddy, you are a beautiful girl, green eyes, you are a cutie, I love you”.

NASA's new 'Landsat' page lets you spell your name with imagery captured by NASA and the United States Geological Survey

guys... please, stay alive for the books you haven't read, the anime you haven't finished, and the stray cats you haven't petted yet. stay alive for the smell of rain, your morning coffee, the songs that will become ur new favorites, and the versions of urself you haven't met yet

Our. Home.

The antidote for brain rot is going back to longer formats: reading books, essays. Reading will help you rebuild your focus and attention span.

This is actually kinda insane In 1996, a 14-year-old kid watched Jaws and got obsessed with Quint’s WWII monologue. He then began researching the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis, interviewed around 150 survivors, and reviewed 800 documents. His research focused on the role of the ship’s captain, Charles B. McVay III, who had been court-martialed after the incident. He came to believe that Captain Charles Butler McVay III, who had been blamed for the tragedy, was innocent. The 14-year-old, Hunter Scott, presented his findings to the United States Congress at age 14. In 2000, Congress passed a resolution clearing Captain McVay’s name, and the U.S. Navy later formally exonerated him.

@DiscussingFilm Kind of like asking a kid if he remembers how to fly a helicopter.

First clip from ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’. In theaters on May 22.

"Who would win in a fight, Superman or Hulk?" Comics actually hitting you with 'Well actually Superman would talk to him' is a pretty great answer