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The problem with having a politically diverse circle of friends is that it REALLY complicates all my virtue signalling.

@simonharley Is that from "The Admiral"?? Which I haven't seen. I've seen "Master and Commander," which I found very good and I understand to be very realistic. Fighting scenes were very good.

*the worst

Pretty cool. Though I belatedly noticed that this is identified as being from the Artemis 1 (not 2) mission, an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission from late 2022. Still worth watching IMO.

@zapatas_mom @JaredLain Ma'am, your attitude is ugly.

@JaredLain That’s ugly

Americans… this is a good faith question. I’m not baiting or trolling. Why are you so scared of condos and walkable cities? Does not having to drive for your groceries freak you out? What about it makes you uncomfortable? Please be honest.

@zapatas_mom @JaredLain My cousin chose a semi-rural n'borhood becuz he didn't want to live too close to n'bors, especially when listening to music out on his back deck. He's sociable, likes his n'bors but doesn't want to be on top of them. His house has a huge back yard & is on a lake. Very pretty.

@sciencegirl He's making threats/attacking the door. He may not be in his right mind/not fully responsible for his actions. He probably needs to be escorted away by >1 men. Call 911. On the off chance that he's sane, sober & truly concerned about someone in the house, urge HIM to call cops.

A Ring camera owner has shared footage showing a frantic man banging on their door and mentioning the house owners daughter What would you do in this situation.

@tariqjmalik @SPACEdotcom The brave little toilet that could not.

Artemis 2: CRITICAL UPDATE from Mission Control - 'Integrity, Houston, the toilet is unpowered.' And that's a wrap for toilet ops on Artemis 2, the first toilet around the moon. If the astronauts have to go before splashdown, well...they're not using the toilet @SPACEdotcom

@PhilipKAllan "600 men."

HMS Leopard pursued by the Dutch warship Waakzaamheid in the Roaring Forties by British artist Geoff Hunt. Readers of Patrick O’Brian may recognise it as the cover art for Desolation Island #RoyalNavy #Ageofsail #Navalfiction

@iTheWolfman This doesn't feel like AI fakery at all.

The horse brings home an injured owl! It's amazing to see what happens from here❤️❤️

Hot take: This seems wrong to me.

@Pontifex Perhaps it should be a requirement that a man must take some economics classes before ascending to the leadership position of bishop.

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

@kmanguward I like "Canuckonaut."

We should absolutely be calling Canadian astronauts Canuckonauts

@tochterzwiebel No Greta Thunberg jokes.

[southern gentleman voice] slow mind, that child

@tochterzwiebel I heard that in Morgan Freeman's voice.

@MbarkCherguia FURDER!!!

Kylie Jenner strutting around in a massive lion head at Schiaparelli like it’s the hottest accessory ever. They swear it’s “faux”… but does that actually make it okay? 🦁💔 Fashion or straight-up disrespectful?

@DanielMCharter @Thebestfigen ? Please provide ALL the words.

@Thebestfigen The side of the moon you're seeing faces the Earth. Why is it as the backside of the moon? Total fake.

I'm simply fascinated by these videos of the Moon.

@IMAO_ youtube.com/watch?v=AjZuzC…

“I have low IQ? What is that exactly? People keep explaining it to me, but I don’t understand.”

@MbarkCherguia Northwest Africa. Look up and to the right and you can see the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain and the Mediterranean Sea. (From a guy who always looks down at the ground when I'm on a plane flying low over my hometown of 60+ years & I can never figure out what part of town I'm over.)

What part of the Earth is this?

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks. The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people. ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher. My Take The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing. I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all. Hedgie🤗 nature.com/articles/d4158…

@IMAO_ Growing up in the 1970s, I think my two biggest fears were: 1. An accidental nuclear war. 2. A deliberate nuclear war. Quicksand was also scary, but it was way down the list of fears. Roughly the same probability as having an anvil or a safe dropped on you by a coyote.

Nuclear holocaust was pretty high on the list.

@MbarkCherguia Also, keeping the loose part might help figure out what happened, exactly. I expect it will bounce out during the landing and braking phase, but it shouldn't be so hard to find it at that point. 2/2

@MbarkCherguia If I'm the pilot, I shut down that engine.* If I'm a passenger, I shit down my pants. At first I also thought maybe go into a medium dive and see if the part falls out. On 2nd thought: No. The wind will probably keep it in there. And I'm not restarting that engine anyway. 1/2

Wyd in this situation? 👇