Alan Boyle

My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

Affordability concerns are real because:
- Tariffs raise import costs
- Deportations make it harder to harvest crops
- Attacking Obamacare hikes premiums
- Budget deficits raise mortgage payments
- Undermining the Fed risks inflation.

It's not a hoax; it's a policy choice.

Guetlein defends Golden Dome secrecy, says industry is ‘well informed’ despite criticism Guetlein said his office has held extensive private engagements with industry.

Guetlein defends Golden Dome secrecy, says industry is ‘well informed’ despite criticism

Guetlein said his office has held extensive private engagements with industry.

X-ray image of the comet captured by the soft X-ray imaging telescope Xtend. The image is created from quick-look processed data. The Xtend field of view covers a region of about 3 million km2, revealing a faint emission structure extending about 400,000 km around the comet. (Credit: JAXA)

The XRISM satellite has detected the x-ray glow of Comet 3I/ATLAS. This is the first time anyone has managed to obseve x-ray emission from an interstellar comet!

(FYI: X-rays result from the comet interacting with the solar wind. No spaceships required.) 🔭🧪

www.xrism.jaxa.jp/en/topics/ne...

Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy - Nature Rapidly growing satellite constellations pose a substantial threat to astronomical observations, with projections indicating that future space telescopes will have more than 96% of their exposures aff...

You can access the article for free here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(Sorry for the previous link which is broken!)

By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.

Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…

The buzz over an ‘alien’ interstellar comet shows how way-out speculation goes viral Is an interstellar comet actually an alien spaceship? A researcher traces how influencers spread such speculation via social media.

Is an interstellar comet actually an alien spaceship? A researcher who specializes in studying conspiracy theories has traced how such way-out claims about an object known as 3I/ATLAS go viral. www.geekwire.com/2025/alien-i...

The true Peace Prize

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

In response to Musk calling to “abolish” the European Union, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, wrote in Musk’s replies on X: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.”

A Series of Messages Tied to Bricks Thrown Through My Ex’s Neighbor’s Window FUCK YOU, BRIAN! - - - FUCK YOU, BRIAN! Also, please tell your neighbor to the right (your left) that I apologize for smashing their window. - - -...

"I literally don’t know how the hell I hit your window from this angle, Brian’s Neighbor. Do bricks abide by a different law of physics? I think I’m getting the yips. I’m going to close my eyes for the next one and see what happens."

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.

Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.

It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.

That’s it.

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

More of this nationwide please!

We're proud to support our nonprofit journalism siblings as they fight for robust safeguards around the use of AI at their publications. At Mother Jones and Reveal, we're hard at work negotiating similar protections with CIR management. Solidarity!

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Judge Breyer‘s mood rn

If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

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Irony is dead

A bright green shape at lower left, the coma of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, leaving a faint trail of gas from lower left to upper right right behind it. The background is a dense starfield, with some bright, nearby stars at upper centre.

The stanning of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in this account continues

Image credit: Victor Sabet, Julien De Winter

OpenAI CEO reportedly turned to a Seattle startup in quest to challenge SpaceX on the space data frontier OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's interest in orbital data centers led him to open talks with Stoke Space, according to The Wall Street Journal.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is thinking about expanding into the final frontier for data centers, and according to The Wall Street Journal, he considered buying up a Seattle-area startup called Stoke Space to gain a foothold (and challenge SpaceX's Elon Musk). www.geekwire.com/2025/openai-...

congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was federally indicted after an anti-ICE protest, is taking a unique approach to fundraising for both her campaign and legal battle: twitch streaming. so far, it's working

Alien of the gaps: How 3I/ATLAS was turned into a spaceship online When we reach the frontier of current knowledge, we’re tempted to insert a higher power into the space where answers aren’t yet satisfying for all.

In the latest from @cip.uw.edu, Mert Can Bayar @mertcanbayar.bsky.social analyzes how knowledge gaps can lead to the spread of speculative theories, such as those shared by a Harvard astrophysicist that the comet known as 3l/ATLAS might be an alien "mothership." (1/3)

www.cip.uw.edu/2025/12/03/3...

Great podcast explaining to Americans how “balcony solar” took off in Europe, with millions in Germany 🇩🇪 alone now harvesting solar power with these panels that you just take home and plug in, and they pay back their price within a few years.

We Are Wirecutter, and Last Winter We Sent Eighty-Six Reporters to Test Fifteen Hundred Artificial Christmas Trees. Twelve Haven’t Returned We believed we were capable of anything. We had already used 22,000 bagels to test 280 brands of toasters in North America. We sent twenty-five rep...

"When the brass slid an envelope under our door that said, 'EVERY SINGLE ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE,' we didn't hesitate. We selected eighty-six testers and sent them to 189 countries to test 1,500 faux firs."

Roy is officially in (and will win)

*DEMOCRAT ROY COOPER FILES TO RUN FOR US SENATE

“Looking at history in the U.S. and around the world makes it clear that people didn’t always know when a long fight against injustice might suddenly gain ground or be won outright.”