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Facebook’s secrets, by the insider Zuckerberg tried to silence Careless People author and former Meta director Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals what it was like ‘babysitting’ her boss

“She describes [Zuckerberg] as a cross between a truculent teen and a toddler: he doesn’t like to get up before midday, even to meet prime ministers, and his obsequious colleagues feel obliged to let him beat them at board games.”

Sigh. The tech bros are all the same.

Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help. Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth.
The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

This NIRCam image reveals a rich field of galaxies in the distant universe, potentially including the Hercules Cluster. Various galaxy shapes and colors are visible, indicating a diverse range of distances and ages. The image provides a glimpse into the distribution and evolution of galaxies across cosmic time, showcasing a tapestry of galaxies, some with distinct spiral structures, others appearing as faint, diffuse objects. The varying colors suggest different stellar populations and redshifts within this deep field observation, offering a window into the early universe.

Tiny pixel of the deep universe, imaged by JWST as part of search for supermassive black holes and distant active galaxies.
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This vertical image has layers of semi-opaque rusty red colored gas and dust that starts at the bottom left and goes toward the top right. There are three prominent pillars rising toward the top right. The left pillar is the largest and widest. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of brown and have red outlines.

Full size image of iconic Pillars of Creation.
By JWST.
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PLEASE NOTE: Bribes are now called "settlements."

Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, this image showcases the dynamic beauty of NGC 2070, a young and luminous star cluster residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud. The cluster's brilliant core illuminates a swirling canvas of gas and dust, where vibrant nebulae in hues of red, white, and blue mix with dark, obscuring patches. This rich tapestry of light and shadow highlights a region of intense star formation, where newborn stars energize the surrounding clouds and sculpt the cosmic landscape with their powerful radiation and stellar winds. NGC 2070 offers a stunning glimpse into the raw energy and ongoing creation of stars within a nearby galaxy.

Hubble image of NGC 2070.

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The fact that, following the DeepSeek ascendancy, uranium stocks fell 11% (on the 'fears' that the vast expansion of data centres may be unnecessary, rendering nuclear power less attractive), reveals how deeply in the void of madness crazy the stock market had fallen...

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

Grimm reading, but required context: Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

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Don't you want to key a Tesla

Sell your Tesla. ❌

Sell your Cybertruck. ❌

Get off Twitter. ❌

Don’t sign up for Starlink. ❌

Bankrupt him. It will take while but it’s possible. ✊🏻

#resist

The Matrix Reloaded | The Silicon Valley Release! We are all part of the Matrix now, Silicon Valley's social media matrix which is sustained by harvesting our attention

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How many liberals are complaining about Elon Tusk while still holding onto their Tesla stock? Let’s be honest, capitalism is the moral compass of most Americans….

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as NGC 2070, is a star-forming region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), showcases the nebula's intricate structure and vibrant colors. Red hues indicate the presence of hot, ionized hydrogen gas, while blue areas reveal cooler dust and gas.

NGC 2070, a field of newborn stars.
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On Silicon Alley and Its Discontents | The revenge of the nerds? When you are one of the wealthiest people in the world and still desperate for attention and validation from the “cool” kids …back to high school cafeteria!

On Silicon Alley and Its Discontents | The revenge of the nerds?
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(Top-Left:) A 25′×25′ infrared image from the Digital Sky Survey 2 centered on our NIRCam field of M 4 for JWST program GO-1979 (green box). The image is aligned with North up and East toward the left. The region indicated in red shows the archival HST deep field from programs GO-10146. (Top-Right:) The entire NIRCam primary field. (Bottom:) A zoom-in on a representative dark sub-region (of ∼3′×0.6′ ) in the NIRCam image (highlighted in magenta in the top panel).

JWST's insane resolution demonstrated.
The ability to see each star clearly from such distance, is clearly the future.
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#capitalism

The Two Warring Companies That Ruined Skiing The past two decades have seen mountains all over succumb.

It’s capitalism stupid…

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Life and its discontents | Eros Nostalgia, Love, and the Quest for Meaning

Life and its discontents | Eros

Nostalgia, Love, and the Quest for Meaning

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I really wish this “bend the knee” framing would stop. They’re not acquiescing or being forced to comply. They’re putting themselves in a good position to maximize profits. These are billionaires and corporations; applying morality to their motives gives them way too much credit.

Are we alone in the universe?

Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

Not only do Americans spend more time sick than the rest of the world, but their life expectancy plateaued years ago and has even decreased while other similarly developed nations continue to see a steady increase in life expectancy.

Remember, even the brightest stars are just giant balls of chaos holding it together.

Thousands of overlapping objects at various distances are spread across this field, including galaxies in a massive galaxy cluster, and distorted background galaxies behind the galaxy cluster. The background of space is black.

Clean image of galaxy cluster MACS J1423, where the Firefly Sparkle galaxy is located.
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Americans Spend More Years Sick Than Rest of World, Study Finds Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

Even as Americans live longer, they spend more of their years in poor health than any other country, a new study shows.

People in the US live with illness for 12.4 years on average – up from 10.9 years in 2000, according to a study published by the American Medical Association

Chronic inflammation, such as propelled by high ultra-processed food intake, as an underpinning of colon cancer
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This image, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), reveals the interacting galaxy pair Arp 269, also known as the "Cocoon Galaxy." The image showcases NGC 4490, a barred spiral galaxy, and its smaller companion galaxy, NGC 4485. The two galaxies are locked in a cosmic dance, their shapes distorted and their star formation ignited by their gravitational influence on each other. The image reveals a vibrant display of star formation, with young, hot stars illuminating clouds of gas and dust in hues of red and orange. Arp 269 is located approximately 65 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Mid-infrared view of Arp 269: Cocoon Galaxy.
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