Archival Data From NASA’s NEOWISE Tracks Star Turning Into Black Hole - NASA Science Massive stars are often known to go out with a bang: The core collapses, and a wave of subatomic particles called neutrinos erupt outward, causing the star to

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My next book? 😆

THE COMPETITION WITH MY OWN SOOOULLLLL

YouTube video by Chubbyemu Insane Colon Cancer Revelation 😢

get your ass checked out yall www.youtube.com/shorts/IZpQL...

'Most Vile Scumbags on Earth': Critics Appalled by Explosive Report on Kristi Noem's Corruption | Common Dreams Explosive report reveals 'outrageous corruption' by US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and top adviser Corey Lewandowski.

www.commondreams.org/news/kristi-...

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

conservatives killing women again.

sick

Laws restricting abortions linked to rise in 'abhorrently high' maternal mortality rates Rising state-level abortion restrictions in the United States were linked to a similar, parallel rise in maternal deaths from 2005 to 2023, according to research presented at The Pregnancy Meeting. ...

Researchers have found that 6 of 10 abortion restrictions — bans on Medicaid funding for abortion, mandated waiting periods, 2nd-trimester abortion bans, ACA marketplace insurance coverage bans, biased counseling laws, and ultrasound requirements — were linked to higher rates of maternal mortality.

YouTube video by LegalEagle ICE Lawyer Ruins Her Life

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6o-...

"I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, 'F U, fascist.' He doesn't know I'm a fascist!"
-- Jesse Watters, on Fox News' "The Five"

"Yes, he does. You're on TV."
-- co-host Jessica Tarlove

Which reminds me, hey @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy how is Paul Graham doing with his efforts to help Trump crush woke youth because free speech something something?

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem sued for coercing platforms into censoring ICE posts.

Your free speech absolutionist tech bros when their $$ is on the line arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

its kinda how Independence Day went, I thought it was dumb at the time...

Ever notice that people whose job is to study climate change all think its real and people whose job is writing conservative think pieces don't think its real.

Remember the time conservative think piece writers were correct and scientists were wrong?

Neither do I

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

“DHS is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose ICE by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Oxide plans new rack attack with Zen 5 CPUs, DDR5 : Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

Over two decades ago, the only reporter to really dig into what we had done with DTrace was @ashleevance.bsky.social at @theregister.com -- so it is unsurprising that the best reportage on @oxide.computer is from El Reg's @tobiasmann.bsky.social
www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/w...

as with all things, one must find the balance

Sherlock Holmes, MTB racer

When I lived in that area, I found it fun that you could drive into new jersey for free. had to pay a toll to leave. lol

Do you feel like this is the case for indie games, or just AAA games?

From my perspective the quality and amount of indie games is incredibly high now, I don't even really think about AAA games except for the occasional great one (ie Baldurs Gate 3, etc)

If kids not playing Madden forever... good.

Taking the Wins There’s good news to report on many fronts, and we should not only enjoy them but understand what they mean going forward.

open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Great read from the Status Kuo
"...There is still no justice for the murdered victims, the investigation remains politically tainted, and many residents illegally detained and transported to concentration camps have yet to be returned home..."
But there are wins

This post at first felt like the usual low quality snark.
But, its pretty good. Its got me thinking.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good energy

Starmer's government arrested over 2000 people over Palestine Action, whose proscription has now been declared unlawful.

Starmer knew this proscription was unlawful.

He went against human rights law to detain over 2000 people.

That's pretty fascistic if you ask me.

+ buying one enriches a nazi which is what makes me dry heave, and any other tesla.

I think they look fine. Ugly, yeah, weird? yeah, I like having some weird ugly cars in the mix with all the boring ones.

HOWEVER, they came in way more expensive and with way less range than originally claimed, no cool exoskeleton as claimed, and just generally not a good truck at all.

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

The people who are big into Jews being in Israel and getting rid of every Palestinian are 100% stubborn and will never stop and never ease up. They will let entire other countries descend into fascism if it slightly aids their aims.

"real intelligence" and consciousness are probably distinct things. We can be confident that large language models are not conscious. Real intelligence is not well defined but they have a little something at worst.