Alan Klug
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@jarvis_best I’m no Dave Burge, but I don’t believe anything this ugly has ever before worn a Ferrari badge.
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Ha ha. Tremendous. Yes, against the wall please. That’s it. A little more. That’s perfect. Ok now hold still.
Mike Matas@mike_matas
Introducing Ferrari Luce, the first electric Ferrari designed by LoveFrom.
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@Ryanhillstead84 @RyanDivish The great thing is that I can’t tell without context whether this was about JP or Randy…
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@RyanDivish Move him to DH when Donavon comes back. That is a horrible mistake
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Randy Arozarena tries to backpedal on the deep fly ball instead of turning and going for it. Ball hits off the wall for a two-run double. Royals lead 4-1
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@EsotericCD I’ve probably watched Highwaymen more times than any other movie of the last decade. Great movie.
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A wonderful history lesson with a twist of car. But there's a reason that, as wildly revolutionary as BONNIE & CLYDE (1968) was, I prefer in many ways the more accurate and morally serious take of Costner & Harrelson in THE HIGHWAYMEN (2019).
David Burge@iowahawkblog
92 years ago today a posse of Louisiana and Texas police, led by dogged Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hid in ambush along a highway in Bienville Parish LA. Their intended quarry: the notorious criminal lovebirds Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Bonnie and Clyde had been on a 4 year robbery and burglary spree, abetted by a few accomplices like Clyde's brother Buck and his wife Blanche. Despite a desperate police dragnet, they had eluded capture thanks to three factors; first, their robbery spree was almost completely within the state of Texas, and targeted mostly small mom & pop stores and state chartered banks. Without an interstate commerce pretext, the FBI (then just the Bureau of Investation) was prevented from involvement. With solid evidence by 1933 that the gang's spree had spread to Missouri and Iowa, the (F)BI was now able to bring their investigators into the hunt. In May 1934 they were known to be in remote rural Bienville Parish, as house guests of a certain Methvin family. Which brings up reason two for Bonnie & Clyde's ability to stay one step ahead of the law: a certain public sympathy and romanticism. Their faces were plastered all over the papers, but not every citizen wanted to cooperate in their apprehension. This was the absolute depths of the Great Depression, and for some a star-crossed mashup of Robin Hood meets Romeo & Juliet was not just boffo headline fodder. They were aided in their spree by sympathetic strangers like the Methvins who were well aware of those crimes. But Reason Three for Bonnie & Clyde's ability to elude the law is my favorite: Clyde's unbridled enthusiasm for V8 Ford cars. So much so, he was driven to write a letter to Henry Ford himself in April 1934, effusively praising his ill gotten Fords: Tulsa, Okla 10th April [1934] Mr. Henry Ford Detroit Mich Dear Sir— While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got ever other car skinned and even if my business hasn’t been strictly legal it don’t hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V8. Yours truly Clyde Champion Barrow
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I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/…
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@JohnDalyBooks Can we convince him to take more than one trip per year?
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Fun fact: Henry Winkler's fishing photos always make me smile.
Henry Winkler@hwinkler4real
What an afternoon
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@Aviation_Intel API/APB was wild. Their lead aerodynamicist, Danny Sikavi, was always coming up with cool stuff.
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Give me the left hand column
Baseball’s Greatest Moments@BBGreatMoments
Build your all-time outfield, but you can only spend $6
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@MarinerMuse Interesting that there are only 5 position players to accumulate more than 25 bWAR in an M's uniform.
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This is a good list
The Top 9 is definitely the correct Top 9
Dan isn’t a good enough player for this list, despite him being in the Mariners HOF
That last spot would be between Alvin Davis, Robinson Cano and Julio, for me
Baseball’s Greatest Moments@BBGreatMoments
Top 10 Mariners All Time. who's missing?
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@MarinerMuse To those that say Alvin Davis, hey he was my first favorite Mariner, too, but even JP and Beltre have more bWAR as a Mariner. He's ~11th on the all time M's list and soon to be passed by Cal.
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@moseskagan I gave up after 15 years in Seattle waiting for a change...
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At some point, the people who pay taxes in Los Angeles are going to start demanding accountability for how our money is spent
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@TridentTrue As much as I dislike that Angels, I have to agree. I've seen too much from the youngins discrediting Trout. A vintage flashback reminds how incredible he was at his peak.
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Ya know what, seeing Trout lead the league in WAR, hell yeah man.
Thomas Nestico@TJStats
WAR Leaders by Team — Center Fielder
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@Art_Thiel In fairness, I was shocked when A-Rod turned out to be a pretty interesting TV talking guy. It can happen.
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.@AlaskaAir CEO: “We are going to deepen our relationship (with American Airlines).”
He says Alaska will have a bigger intl footprint that will really put Seattle on the global map.
Sure sounds like Alaska will be added to the AA Atlantic/Pacific joint venture (if approved).
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@JoKiddo @LensScientific I'm not an expert on QC (although there is a QC down the hall from where this was run at NASA Ames), but possibly. A lot of work in CFD is now on getting simulations to run faster on GPUs instead of focusing on QC.
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@klugtrane @LensScientific Thank you for the link. I understand better. Will further compute be less challenging with quantum? Is that possible?
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Turbulent air flow around the landing gear of a Boeing 777X
[This took over 1 million processor hours to simulate]
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@JoKiddo @LensScientific 8 years ago, it was a very high-end noise prediction simulation using what is now Dassault's powerFLOW code. Aeroacoustic simulation is very challenging, still. nas.nasa.gov/SC17/demos/dem…
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@LensScientific What do we learn from this? What is key to new understanding?
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This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.
The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.
There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.
That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.
📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center
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Seattle #Mariners second baseman Cole Young jumps to throw to first base for the out against New York Yankees' Paul Goldschmidt during the ninth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
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