Giles King
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Heart of the Milky Way
The Euclid telescope has imaged the bulge—the dense central region of our Galaxy. Creating the mosaic took about 26 hours, and the resulting image reveals more than 60 million individual stars.
The bulge is not merely a yellow glow at the center; it is an ancient, densely packed region of the Milky Way teeming with older, cooler stars.
Why is such an image valuable to science? In a star cluster like this, it is easier to detect microlensing—a phenomenon where the gravity of a star or planet momentarily amplifies the light from a distant object. This is one way astronomers search for hidden exoplanets!



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🌌🪐 Scientists Found a Planet With Two Suns
Kepler-16b is an exoplanet located about 245 light-years from Earth. It orbits two stars instead of one, making it the first confirmed circumbinary planet and giving it spectacular double sunrises and sunsets.
Cinematic visuals and audio generated with AI.
Source: NASA / Kepler Mission
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La visita del Primo Ministro dell’India, @narendramodi, sancisce l'apice di un percorso che in questi anni abbiamo costruito con costanza e determinazione.
Oggi a Roma eleviamo il nostro rapporto a partenariato strategico speciale, cioè il più alto mai raggiunto nelle relazioni tra le nostre due Nazioni.
Italia e India sono più vicine che mai e le nostre relazioni sono nella condizione di poter esprimere il loro potenziale al massimo livello 🇮🇹🇮🇳
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@Thomas_Vera_ Very solid, without the start and finish, wouldn't be the same movie.
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@RidgeandFrost @SophyRidgeSky @jamesmurray_ldn As much as I sympathise with those who sympathise with me, I think sentiments reflect those types of elections and to not respond to those general sentiments concerning politics will be seen by the public as ignoring a message and is a potential insult to their intelligence.
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🗣️ 'Does PM have the numbers to fend this off?' - @SophyRidgeSky
🔴 'The important numbers are: NHS waiting lists...' - @jamesmurray_ldn
🗣️ 'Part of the problem with this govt is you don't answer questions'
🔴 'What's the question again?'
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@TEDTalks @anilkseth If there is a single instance in all human hisotry of a person experience a mirco event of the non normal kind, like randomly thinking about a person before they call you, non of this technology will ever be conscious.
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"Many experts think that conscious AI is possible. I think they're wrong."
Watch neuroscientist @anilkseth's full TED Talk here: t.ted.com/0NR6eGI
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@DNIGabbard Hey, ah can someone help me leave the area with a job. That would be great. Preferably in cyber security and in Governance, risk and Compliance. Thats would be tops.
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@r0ck3t23 Meta-cognitive feedback loops for assessing current state of tasks and goals and reorienting function. Exactly how a mind works as it relates to task and goal performance with a scheduling function.
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Elon Musk just described the white-collar extinction event. On Joe Rogan. Casually.
Musk: “Anything that is digital, which is like just someone at a computer doing something, AI is going to take over those jobs like lightning.”
Not gradually. Not eventually. Lightning.
The assumption most professionals are operating on is that AI will assist them. Make them faster. Augment what they do.
That assumption is the most expensive mistake a person can make right now.
Musk: “Just like digital computers took over the job of people doing manual calculations. But much faster.”
Think about that analogy for a moment.
We used to employ entire rooms of people whose sole function was arithmetic. Highly educated. Well-compensated. Essential to every organization that ran on numbers.
Then the computer arrived and the entire category disappeared.
Not shrank. Disappeared.
Nobody talks about it as a tragedy anymore because the transition happened before most people alive today were born.
It’s just history. A curiosity.
That same transition is happening right now to coding, writing, analysis, research, legal work, financial modeling.
Every profession whose output lives entirely on a screen.
The difference is the speed.
Digital computers took decades to displace manual calculation.
This is moving in years.
If your work begins and ends on a screen, you are not competing with a tool that makes someone else more productive.
You are competing with a replacement that does not sleep, does not need benefits, and gets cheaper every six months.
Musk is not predicting this future. He is describing the present tense.
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@bestofstarwar This is a great scene because symbolically, they are fighting over the Senate and the republic as well.
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The Revenge of the Sith might have the best soundtrack of the franchise.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Name a movie where the soundtrack elevated the entire experience.
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@DNIGabbard I have sent communication to the following emails. The matter is of significance and deserves the attention of senior persons. "ICIGHotline@odni.gov" <ICIGHotline@odni.gov> "ic-standards-support@odni.gov" <ic-standards-support@odni.gov>
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@DNIGabbard I now have to go through the ambassador in relation to this as well.
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