Douglas Long

Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.

"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals?

It feels odd to even have to answer this question"
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It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

The epic hunt for a planet just like Earth Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining life.

I was an undergrad in 1995, just about to declare a major in astronomy. This really felt like the world changed overnight, although I still didn’t suspect the role it would play in my career over the next 30 years.

I called him a mean name today, too.

Message from The Artist - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

@852dude.bsky.social this! www.anildash.com/2016/05/15/m...

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Or Russia. Not a coincidence that dissidents from authoritarian nations and reporters that covered those places have been waving their arms over what the Trump White House has been doing since 2017 while most US opposition and media have been sedately concerned. It’s not confusing to us at all.

What flavor of chips did his red envelope come in?

This was great!

Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/

who was President from 1 Jan 20 until 20 Jan 21 continues to be the defining political question of our time

Dutch late night TV has its take

A 1940’s ad for Walt Disney’s Donald Duck in “Der Fuehrer’s Face”. A small Donald Duck hits a large Adolph Hitler in his left eye with a tomato. Red text at the top reads “Here’s the PICTURE from which the SONG SENSATION was taken!”

Remember when Disney OPPOSED fascism? Good times, good times…

Join us tonight at 7 p.m ET. I'll be chatting with Dr. Néstor Espinoza about how JWST is Exploring Distant Exoplanet Atmospheres.

We're looking for atmospheres on rocky planets. Like scifi, but real. Here's the data, go learn from it! 🌎🔭🧪

Excited to share the 1st High-Level Science Product release from the Rocky Words DDT! Each RWDDT eclipse will result in HLSPs which you can use for preliminary science investigations or as a starting point for your own reduction/fit. Awesome work by Tyler Baines, Achrène Dyrek, and the RWDDT CIT
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Special JWebbinar - JSTUC Community Forum

Join us for a SPECIAL JWebbinar this Thursday, September 18 at 1:00 EDT where we'll host a community forum with members of the JWST Users Committee (JSTUC)! The committee members will introduce themselves and what they do, as well as answer questions and listen to feedback from attendees.

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“The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident”

Every day this line feels more and more relevant.

The Empire Strikes Back for the Atari 2600

A rocky planet in its star’s ‘habitable zone’ could be the first known to have an atmosphere – here’s what we found The largest telescope in space has been trained on a rocky exoplanet.

We observed the habitable zone planet TRAPPIST-1e with JWST to search for an atmosphere.

You've seen the headlines, now let's dive into the science! 🧪

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JWebbinar 45 - What's New in JWST Cycle 5

Join us tomorrow (September 10) at 11:00 EDT to learn about What's New in JWST Cycle 5! Presenters will cover policy changes, tips on proposal writing, and updates to available tools.

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I think Jessie has the best summary of our results

NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

Space Telescope Science Institute: NASA JWST Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

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But, for now-

Weak signals of other molecules, though, could be a tenuous planetary atmosphere, or (more likely) contamination from cooler spots on TRAPPIST-1 itself.
Natalie Allen has already begun a followup program to disentangle these two possibilities.

This program was designed to push the telescope to its limits, and we did. We were able to rule out any primordial (H/He) atmosphere. We're pretty sure there's no significant atmosphere of carbon dioxide.

NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e - NASA Science Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful analysis of the results so far presents

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JWST-TST DREAMS: Secondary Atmosphere Constraints for the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
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JWST-TST DREAMS: NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e
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