Michael Davidson

Mission control said its my turn on the ipad #artemis2

This is soo unfortunate. Teams spent months preparing for this, and someone on a random boat is just like "hold my beer"

RIP Gateway, hellooo NEP!!

Taco Bell announces a promotion to coincide with the re-entry of the Russian Mir space station. The company tows a large target out into the Pacific Ocean and announces that if the target is hit by a piece of the Mir, every person in the United States will get a free taco.

@NovemXI prepare the funko pops of marvel characters

Here’s a blackpill for you: despite how played-out this flavor of ‘humor’ feels, the boomer die-off means we are just now coming into the era of Millennial cultural dominance. Steel yourselves.

>Сlair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs didn't write code, the entire game was built with visual programming Another reminder to NEVER give up on your dreams

Every single thing you do today is something your 80-year-old self will wish they could go back and do. Slow down. The good old days are happening right now.

75% of people can’t go 2 weeks without smartphone internet. Even when they volunteer for it. 467 people signed up to block mobile internet for 14 days. Motivated participants who actively wanted to change. Three out of four couldn’t do it. The researchers used a locked app called Freedom that made it physically impossible to re-enable the internet. Most people still found workarounds. Here’s what’s happening at the neurological level. Every phone check triggers a small dopamine release. 186 checks per day means 186 micro-doses of dopamine, one every 5 minutes, training your brain to expect stimulation at a frequency that makes sustained attention on any single task almost impossible. Your prefrontal cortex, the part responsible for deep focus and executive function, is getting interrupted before it can enter the state where real cognitive work happens. The 25% who made it through the full 2 weeks? Their sustained attention improved by the equivalent of reversing a decade of age-related cognitive decline. That’s a measurable, objective improvement on a validated attention task, not self-reported “I feel more focused.” 91% of all participants, including the ones who failed the full detox, still saw gains in mental health, well-being, or attentional capacity. Average screen time dropped from 5 hours to 2.5. They replaced that time with face-to-face interaction, movement, outdoor exposure, and 18 extra minutes of sleep per night. The reduction in depressive symptoms was larger than what multiple antidepressant studies have shown. The protocol insight here matters more than the willpower narrative. You cannot discipline yourself out of a product built by thousands of engineers optimizing for one variable: time on screen. The 25% who succeeded had a system that removed the choice. They didn’t resist the urge. They eliminated the option. Environment design drives the outcome. Partial detoxes produced nearly the same cognitive benefits as full ones, and participants were 4x more likely to sustain them. Charge the phone in a different room at night. Use app-level timers. Delete the 2-3 apps driving compulsive checks. Add friction between the impulse and the behavior. You need a higher activation energy between you and the screen.

@Robotbeat it does not say the exact payload size and what band so the cost per kg is undefined so far

That’s below $1000/kg.

@Gol_D_Retweeter everyone just wrote electron apps that hog 4gb of ram by default

Этот сраный кризис железа всем имхо пойдет на пользу. Ибо последние 10 лет все тупо забили хуй на оптимизацию и берут брутфорсом за счёт прироста мощности :/

Йеп , как я и говорил, проблема современного рынка софта не в железе а в отсутствии оптимизации. Эппл в этом плане нужно отдать должное, потому что пока их машинка монтирует 4к видео и ебашит в мультизадачность на 8гб, у конкурента меню пуск подвисает хоть на каком железе

I regret to inform you that staying off of social media, exercising every day, and spending a little time organizing the messiest parts of your house does, in fact, do wonders for your mental health

Unlike bad things, which tend to happen suddenly, good things tend to be built gradually, so are rarely newsworthy on any particular day. Thus, bad things dominate the news, even as overall the world gets better (albeit too slowly for us to notice).

you'll never know if you don't go, you'll never shine if you don't glow

@astro_anil Yes its great you guys get iPads and iPhones now!! Probably a huge jump usability. Do you guys get random Windows bugs popping up and do you have to restart it all the time?

@mikedavidson613 It’s all onboard tools via IT. So, we have a windows laptop called SSC that allows us to search inventory, downlink photos, look at procedures, etc. we also have iPads and iPhones as you have probably seen. The iPhones are new to share more photos!

People ask me all the time what astronaut training actually looks like day to day. So here's a sample week. Every week is different — some weeks are heavy on sims, others on EVA prep or vehicle training. But this gives you a feel for the range: spacewalk practice, emergency scenarios, robotic arm ops, medical codes, jet flying, even Russian language. No two days are the same. And that's what makes this job incredible.

@SciGuySpace This bill has every bullet point of your realistic plan from 2024 (though i still hope for Gateway) you must be thrilled

The US Senate's new 'reauthorization' bill offers a major endorsement for NASA's revamped Artemis plans. Seriously, this is a really great legislation overall. No idea how Isaacman got this done so quickly, but he delivered. arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/…

@SciGuySpace 💀💀

Two years later, this remains hands-down the best page on the internet. Full stop. boeing.com/features/2024/…

Worth reading in its entirety. I'm not sure I've seen this kind of accountability taken at NASA since, well, since I'm not sure when.

My opinions on solar sails do not reflect the opinions of my employer. Pun intended.