Solemn & Formal Declarations, The

Hey Dani, I run an account that falls outside the core criteria, but I think it might be worth including! I'd love to chat. :)

‘Whelmed’ really means ‘capsized’ - the over and under were added later for effect. But you can be consolate: consoled and comforted. And gruntled too.

Less absorbed solar energy and more internal heat for Jupiter - Nature Communications Radiant energy budgets and internal heat play a key role in the evolution of planets. Here, the authors analyze data from the Cassini mission to show that Jupiter’s radiant energy and internal heat bu...

What gets to me is that there are legitimately weird things out there in nature that we aren't able to explain yet.

Jupiter emits TWICE (2.132 ± 0.051) as much heat as it absorbs from the Sun. So does Neptune. But not Uranus for some weird reason. And no one knows why.

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These restrictions allow us to use these military technologies in day-to-day life while preventing harmful use.

Much of American policy around EAR / ITAR can be summed up as, "If a dual-use system is built for civilian use, then it should remain ONLY for civilian use."

Hence the hard-coded limits

Dual-use technologies like GPS & Starlink are subject to EAR & ITAR.

If SpaceX hadn't shut off Starlink, they would have (arguably) been in violation of US law by allowing weaponization of dual-use technology intended for civilian use.

Just like GPS units turn off above 600m/s AND/OR set altitude

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white and tabby cat approaching the camera with tail raised up in a friendly greeting. For some reason there are two dark regions on the photo, on either side of the cat, as if there were fingers over the lens or it was peering through a crooked fence.

The back of this photo says “Pulley’s cat. July 1956”. ❤️

Bitcoin Set to Form Death Cross as Dollar Index Teases Golden Crossover A death cross indicates a potential long-term bearish shift in momentum while a golden cross suggests the opposite.

dudes will make fun of women who are into astrology and then read shit like this

Recreate the Conditions xkcd.com/2511

PSA - Don't scroll Bluesky's new "Discover" feed in public.

Someone neglected to add a NSFW detection algorithm to their project. 🤦‍♀️

First Amendment litigator protip: do not write in your law that you are “trying to maintain content neutrality”

https://www.thefire.org/news/sign-times-alabama-city-bans-signs-containing-hate-speech-indecent-content

This stat, a random walk, is one way of measuring is how some of the energy generated via fusion in the core of the sun is transferred to the surface via radiation.

The absorption, emission, re-absorption & re-emission cycle acts as a way to move energy via photons through a random walk. 2/2

No.

This "fact" is a fairly common misunderstanding of what the stat is measuring.

First, there is no "a photon" that is making a trip from the core to the outer layer. Photons are absorbed, emitted, reabsorbed, then re-emitted over & over again by the sun's plasma. 1/2

A grid of images of protein crystals under a microscope. They are mulicoloured, reflect the light in strange ways, pucker the surface of the drops they grow in.

Hi I'm new here, so if I put the little science emoji, my post goes to the science board list thingo? 🧪

I'm an enzyme engineer and crystallographer and now I am building X-ray instruments for a living!

Here's some crystals

Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai http://bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪

He seems to be the first customer to be satisfied with the order 😆

POV: you are the one in charge of treats

If the inviter keeps on inviting toxic people, then that means their judgement isn't good, and that branch of social tree can/should be pruned.

This structure will limit growth, necessarily, but I think it'll make it possible to have a high-quality social network that scales.

Here's the experiment + possibility,

If someone you invited directly does something horrible, such as, posts slurs, then the inviter should also get a notice that their invitee was a horrible human being.

Suddenly, there's a social consequence to being bad, people you're connected to get to know.

I think they should hand out more invites, but I pray to Artemis, they never "open up."

An invite-only social network is an opportunity to play 6-degrees of Bacon at large.

Social shame is a strong motivator that hasn't been properly deployed by any platform (twitter & bsky mobs don't count).

How the Four-Color Map Problem Was Finally Solved The twisty history and surprise ending of the four-color theorem saga

This is a fun history of the four-color map problem and why some mathematicians are still yearning for a better proof of it 🧪 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-doodlers-problem-sparked-a-controversy-in-math/

Tagalong the black cat in a pink sweater, pink bunny ears, and a yellow Easter egg bowtie. Standing in the yard yellow flowers

look at this boy. look at my guy. he's a little blessing 11/10 cat

One does not question The Dax. One merely accepts ones place in a universe with The Dax.

1517 Fund on Instagram: "Happy Apollo Day! It has been 54 years since humans took the first step ou... 3 likes, 0 comments - 1517 Fund (@1517fund) on Instagram: "Happy Apollo Day! It has been 54 years since humans took the first step out of our cradle. Apol..."

Happy Apollo Day!

Let's celebrate the spirit of Project Apollo together and do something that's impossible. :)

It makes the care that you take in your writing more palpable.

It's no longer just a neat book, it's a well thought out book by someone who thinks things through and is really awesome.

Awkward to say this, but I've always liked your books. (I read Old Man's War when I was 15) But after reading your posts... it hits different

Usually, learning about the artist subtracts from the work. Knowing about you adds to yours. The more I learn about you, the more I go, "oh wow he's awesome"

For such a small dev team, their productivity is astounding. They've managed to out-ship Twitter really quickly and are building something fascinating.

I hope that they succeed. I'm grateful that they're trying.

There's something called waterfall development that's the old-school, Apollo style development where you sit down, document everything in advance, document again & then write the code.

BSKY & other projects are driven by more... fluid practises. Stuff slips but stuff also gets done.

It's the perfect being the enemy of good adage come to life because people (especially creators) can't meet that standard.

"But it's so basic, it should have been in there!!!" has been true for a lot of disasters throughout history. This was a PR mishap. No one was killed. Or harmed significantly

As someone who has audited projects, built stuff (mostly robots & some toy software) + spends her time reading sci/tech history, this is completely understandable.

When projects move fast, the obvious sometimes slips. Sometimes to disastrous results; like people burning alive in a flame in 16psi O2

First, wow.

Second, clearly, the correct term is Barbieheimer.