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🧵Evidence thread of reasons why you need to own and control your digital world. Don't build things of meaning on rented land.
(I'll add to this over time as I encounter examples. Comment with your own, too.)
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Andron Ocean
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Andron Ocean
@AndronOcean
Yeoman programmer and crafter of fine websites. I enjoy space, spaceships, old books, gardens, long walks, and beautiful things. Here be occasional silliness.
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@eigenrobot Watching that unfold while also being just old enough to remember the VERY different global attitudes after 9/11 was Something.
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this was an insane moment in american politics and i want to revisit it
a hospital in gaza was reported by the entire american press corps as having been destroyed by an israeli airstrike with 500 killed
i was on stimulants monitoring the situation in realtime
eigenrobot@eigenrobot
Further discussion with @it_is_fareed On reflection it seems like ok, the geoconfirmation is solid, but do we actually know that the rocket that somehow failed caused the hospital explosion? Maybe that's not so clear? But then you have to ask: all right, so a rocket fails or is hit and then five or six seconds later there is a giant explosion underneath where the rocket was hit. What are the odds that it just happened to be ANOTHER rocket? So. (1) Guy quoted upthread has a theory that it was a "heat seeking missile" fired at rocket launchers by israel that locked onto the hospital but I'm FAIRLY confident that's not how interceptors work. I'm pretty sure they use radar or at least use it in conjunction with infrared, which would probably(?) mitigate the likelihood of hitting the ground. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome And I haven't seen any other reports of "oops we hit a building" with interceptors. This doesn't mean it can't happen but it does make me more skeptical. Finally, these rockets seem like they'd only just been fired afaict, which makes me think it's less likely that it was an interceptor on account of those take time to travel. Further, from Iron Dome videos i've seen I have the vague impression they tend to intercept somewhat far from the initial launch site. If all of this feels extremely fuzzy and uncertain to you: correct, i don't know what i'm talking about. (2) Maybe it was some kind of counterbattery attack by Israel that misfired: they saw the launches and struck out at the site of the launch with something other than an interceptor. Do these exist? Perhaps! I have no idea, but let's entertain it; it's not implausible. Now you have to consider two explanations for the hospital: - Israel's counterbattery is occasionally unreliable - Hamas/PJI/whatever was firing rockets from the hospital The first seems like a rare but not crazy event; the second seems plausible but now there are more questions raised. (3) Another possibility: maybe another Hamas rocket misfired or was badly aimed. If the rocket failure rate is 30-40% as claimed, sure, this isn't crazy; it was a large barrage. Overall these things seem un-parsimonious to me and I think the single missile failure remains the most likely story. But of course I can't rule them out on account of que sçay-je. x.com/eigenrobot/sta…
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@zriboua @Jacob__Siegel Indeed.
These days I often feel like the media (of all stripes) have become substantially more corrupt x incompetent than even the government. Which bodes poorly for our society’s future.
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This is one of the best pieces I’ve read on the current media/NGO ideological landscape in the United States and how Israel fits into it.
By the inimitable @Jacob__Siegel
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
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@conan_esq The "Tolkien spends pages and pages describing a leaf or single tree!!" meme is the most baffling, when his actual prose is generally spare, direct, distant-covering, and has more than a little similarity to his rough contemporary, that avatar of verbosity, Ernest Hemingway
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@mattbramanti If one wanted to purchase a significantly larger quantity of polonium today, AFAIK, Company 7 still sells Staticmaster brushes.
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I was curious so I ran the numbers
these apparently came out in 1947
the half life of polonium-210 is 138 days
which means there is now only about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002% of the original polonium left
Brian Eastwood@BrianEastwoodx
This Lone Ranger Atomic Bomb ring was distributed by Kix cereal in the late 40's, for 15 cents and a mail-in box top. It was actually a spinthariscope containing radioactive Polonium-210 (one of the most toxic substances out there). A child would take the toy into a pitch-black room, remove the tail cap from the 'bomb', and look through a tiny lens to see flashes of light from the Polonium-210 atoms decaying into Lead-206.
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@JTAlexander_ For amusement, we can compare that map to the map of countries with a slavery problem today:
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Let's be specific here.
Ghana proposed a UN Resolution condemning the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade as *the gravest crime against humanity.*
When compared to the potential competitors for that title, it explains how every country voted.
The Muslim World sees nothing wrong with the Islamic Conquests, Arab Slave Trade, or Holocaust, of course.
The Chinese & Russians are plenty happy to make America and Europe look like bad guys while pretending they haven't massacred 100,000,000 people in just the past century, give or take, between the two of them.
The Global South gets to play around in The Shape Store, pretending to understand how government and international politics work. They declare their moral superiority through 'official' means over the objectively-in-all-empirical-measures superior Global North, while demanding more free money that they will inevitably steal from each other to fund some civil war or another over a warlord's right to a particular child to rape or conscript.
Europe abstains, torn between their terminal Wokeism and the objective reality that not only were they largely the people behind this "gravest crime against humanity," but they also know for a fact that its not even the gravest crime against humanity to come out of their continent. Australia, spiritually European, abstains.
Japan abstained for several reasons.
(1) They don't care;
(2) They've done worse; and,
(3) They've had worse done to them.
America, the only country with both brains and testicles, of course spoke up to vote against this roleplay experience.
Argentina voted against to protect their high score.
Alan MacLeod@AlanRMacLeod
BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.
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If you're now designing or redesigning a website, this will help you a lot.
I recently curated the best hero sections, footers, social proof and other website parts because I got tired of having 15+ tabs open (even with Mobbin).
Giving it away 100% free.
Comment on this post, and I'll send a Figma link to your inbox!
GIF
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@simonsarris You probably shouldn’t follow me yet, but one day I hope to earn that. I care similarly about beauty and good work.
But I might post too much about space, among other things. I’m not sure whether that interests you.
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@DanielleFong Ooooooooohhhhhh
That is extremely hazardous to productivity.
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get in early on this account guys
Wind Vector@windvectorapp
Turbulence and icing data are now live. ✈🥶
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We must put this myth of the uncouth, tasteless American to rest. We are a clever and cunning nation with a deep appreciation for beauty.
We laid iron rails across river and mountain and desert, then conquered the skies and reached the Moon. We pushed back the darkness with the electric light. We raised a thousand spires of steel and glass toward heaven so we could work and dwell amid views as broad as our dreams.
Whitman, Melville, Steinbeck, Faulkner. Copeland and Gershwin. Balanchine and Ailey.
We know beauty in an instant, and we see it everywhere. Remington's cowboys. Adams' Yosemite. O'Keefe's flowers. Hopper's diner.
When we slipped past the bonds of Earth's gravity, what did we send forth? Cameras: to see the wonders of every world in our solar system, to glimpse the awe and splendor of the stars as human eyes had never seen.
Barbarians? No! The American soul is as far from barbarism as any humans have ever been.
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@DJSnM Or have it do a tour of the asteroid belt.
I wonder if it could do a few years of belt science, and then re-encounter Mars to pick up a sample return package and bring it home.
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Thinking about the NEP demo for Mars and something special it could do, since adding deltaV is relatively cheap. Since it's nuclear powered it could drop off those Skyfall drones and fly past mars to raise its orbit. It's nuclear powered so it could head out beyond the asteroid belt towards the outer planets.
NASA could try sending it to Uranus or Neptune, even with token science instruments it could be worthwhile.
But that requires a lot of extra work to make sure it can handle the thermal environment, and the communications requirements.
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@eager_space We wouldn’t need to see point sources, though. We would see illuminated ground, same as astronauts in space do today. The total area illuminated would determine visibility.
The real question is whether there will be a need for that much outdoor lighting.
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(Somebody check my math)
The moon is about 384,000,000 meters away.
Starlight is about 2x10E-7 lumens/m2
You need a source on the moon that puts out...
4,000,000,000 lumens for it to be as bright as a star.
That would be on the unilluminated lunar surface.
ApoStructura@ApoStructura
We have grown completely accustomed to seeing planes in the sky. And not so long from now we will grow completely accustomed to seeing lights on the moon.
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Okay and who of you couldn't reply to this? Please please only if you couldn't okay?
@levelsio@levelsio
Okay let's see who can reply to this
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@SpaceNews_Inc I’m confused, is this RESULTS OVER RHETORIC in action?
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Space Force weighs launch alternatives as Vulcan faces potential months-long grounding spacenews.com/space-force-we…
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From 1 = HATE to 10 = LOVE, what's your opinion on SVG images?
I have a very specific number in mind, so I want to see if it resonates.
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@jeffr0 Yup. There are a lot of risks on this one. The life support system has never flown before, for instance.
NASA’s been way more transparent lately, but I do hope they’re being fully honest internally.
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This is great. Finally an animation that shows what the flight is like and how far this crew is really going!
1 week to go, fingers crossed 🤞
NASA Artemis@NASAArtemis
Our Artemis II crew will be going around the Moon, but they'll always find their way back home 🌎 During this complex journey, the four astronauts will travel ~685,000 miles on a trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. See their daily agenda: go.nasa.gov/4bw1ddt
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Why we need nuclear electric propulsion:
Transit time to Jupiter is doable, 2 or so years. But Delta-V to even reach Callisto is insane, let alone Europa
On the other hand, aerocapture means Titan isn’t too hard to reach. But transit time with a hohmann trajectory is many years
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