Raging Spirit

*adds to list of sentences that would kill a Victorian child*

A long exposure image of the Earth from orbit showing the Dragon capsule, the city lights appearing like streaks with the green and orange atmospheric glow, many stars in the background of space with the streak of the Milky Way and both Magellanic Clouds as large circular blobs.

3 GALAXIES CAPTURED FROM ORBIT!!!

YOU CAN SEE THE MILKY WAY AND BOTH MAGELLANIC CLOUDS!! 🌌🌌

yet ANOTHER banger from astronaut don pettit

Ultimately, it's all just vibes. Most people don't know how anything works, which makes trivializing Musk's failings easy. "Misconfigured the test" and the rocket crumpled? It happens! Unless you think for a second how many QA steps have to be missed for it to happen.

You don't trust the safety guy who sits nowhere near the controls? =)

Basically, the planning which lane to be in on short notice is still a mess, like it was many years ago.

The initial route wanted it to turn right at the nearest intersection from the puck-up point (look at the map on the screen), it didn't do that because it ended up in the straight only lane, then it rerouted and ended up trying an illegal maneuver at the next intersection.

Got into an awkward position from which it couldn't move into the turn lane - it obeyed the road markings tho, then started the left turn from a straight only lane under the green light and got stuck blocking the traffic for a long time.

Tumblr poll from “lesbianalism” Do you think you could take a werewolf? Yes: 70.6% No: 29.4% In a fight? Yes: 8.1% No: 91.9% Final results from 35,878 votes

Allow me to share one of my favorite tumblr polls of all time

Other people's typos are a public service to people like me, who even with proofreading do a bunch of weird miss takes.

They made a motorized trunk lid with no obstruction sensors and no motor torque sensing, with edges sharp enough to cut fruit and the metal bendy enough to trap owner's finger and still lock. Also on the same car, did a hidden recall of the battery pack. I think there's plenty of evil in there.

The HP spell vanity plate, which they bought well after everyone knew who JK was... It's the consistency of being too late to know stuff that does it for me.

Honestly, between AI-generated texts and nothing i'd prefer to get nothing - it's more honest about the mental engagement.

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

If young men are asking “how do I make women like me,” the first and most important thing to address imho is “why did you ask that question in that way? Let’s look at the unexamined assumptions that you’re baking into your premise, because the root of the issue may well lie there”

Get in line! I've been predicting this since 2012!

Aftermarket nightmare rims with a second set of holes, the paint on the hood is flaking off, the C-pillar has a weird "Airbag" sticker outline, there's rust around the rear wheel well. All of this is badly shopped onto a single color "road surface", with Trump casting weird shadows with his elbows.

Historian here that is the Soviet Lada in this tweet! The big ugly GOP bill is really taking America backwards and making America bankrupt!

I'd be okay with it if there was a compelling product instead of what is basically a Man-In-The-Middle attack of the entirety of human interaction.

Musk's SpaceX is quick to build in Texas, slow to pay its bills SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk's space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state.

SpaceX is the same way. The contrast between the stated mission and reality is crazy.

Also the ideas are as childish as it gets - just automate all the labor.

The man who wouldn't pay $100k a day for the boats to go bring back to port his reusability dream while on a $1.6b contract has ideas about abundance.

He wrote his second book on SpaceX and it's terrible in largely the same way as that biography.

Eric Berger of Ars Technica fame.

Man asks a newspaper seller:
-Got Pravda?
-No.
-Soviet Russia?
-Sold out.
-What do you have?
-Work for 3 kopeks.

Still waiting for my Pravduh. You know, the media truth rating thing named after a soviet propaganda outlet.

Berger, apparently, screwed up which ASDS supported the third barge landing attempt and didn't mention that the first JRTI was written off. Also even the space police doesn't know if they intended to de-orbit the very first F9 S2 with the weed reference Dragon mock up, but he implies that it failed.

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Relatable.

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.