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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the flood risk in Texas.

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the National Weather Service, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk. What’s more, they say it underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.

People are going to die. Firing the experts and vowing to replace them with vaccine skeptics is dangerous.

RFK Jr. must stop undermining America’s public health system and take our lives and our health seriously.

Two rows of three images. Top row is labeled Webb 11 July 2023 and the bottom row Keck 14 July 2023). The first column, labeled atmosphere and surface, shows two full-color images of Titan, appearing in mottled shades of yellow and brown with a blue haze around the edges. A bright spot near the top of Titan in each has an arrow pointing to it. The second column, labeled troposphere, shows two images in shades of orange. Each image is relatively featureless except for a bright spot near the top with an arrow. The third column, labeled stratosphere, also shows two images in shades of orange. The top image, taken July 11, is featureless and has no arrow. The bottom image, taken July 14, has a bright spot near the top with an arrow.

NEW: Saturn’s moon Titan has weather similar to Earth’s, but driven by methane evaporation and condensation. Astronomers have found evidence for clouds bubbling up over Titan’s northern hemisphere for the first time, using #NASAWebb and Keck observatory: webbtelescope.pub/3GofvQ1 🔭 🧪

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

It's amazing what a fresh set of eyes on a problem can help produce:
www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat...

Tweet from the world's dumbest fascist reading: there is a shortage of top notch air traffic controllers. If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so.

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

Screenshot of original The Onion post with the famous Sickos comic, dated 16 February 2015

Detail of the Sickos guy. Unshaven man leaning against a window from outside saying "yes... ha ha ha... yes!"

Happy tenth birthday to a real one

before the previous firings, CDC managers compiled a list of “mission critical” workers to assess necessary employees. they tell WIRED “none of it was taken into account.”

now, they’re working on a software…

The agency was scheduled to make a final decision on whether to start paying Verizon for the contract next month, said one of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Instead, Musk’s team determined the job should go to Starlink, the person said. But the process for unwinding a contract and awarding it to another company is lengthy and has not been followed in this case so far, the person said. Several senior FAA officials have refused to sign paperwork authorizing the switch, according to the person, who has been briefed on the internal deliberations and resulting fallout, so Musk’s team is now seeking help from the acting administrator of the agency, Trump appointee Chris Rocheleau, and Duffy.

This sort of comic book corruption is quite literally illegal in every single country in the world that has written laws. I don't even know what else you say about this, it's amazing

The lawsuit about this is going to be real fun, especially considering the tweets Musk is posting where he straight up brags about his no-bid corruption being a direct result of his role in the government

Trump firings hit agencies with oversight of Musk's companies Staffing changes, including the firing of several top officials, have affected agencies with federal investigations into or regulatory battles with Elon Musk's companies. Transportation Interior SPACEX Violations, fines Starbase review Lawsuit Complaint Justice Agriculture National Labor Relations Board Equal Employment Opportunity Comm. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Securities and Exchange Comm. Defense Federal Election Comm. Office of Government Ethics TESLA Investigations Lawsuit Complaints NEURALINK Investigation Investigation Investigation Lawsuit Security clearance Complaints Oversight By Malika Khurana

Not a bad return on a $250 million investment in the Trump campaign and a $44 billion investment in a pro-Trump media platform. Over 4 years this should pay off handsomely for our “anti-corruption” crusader in chief.

Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.

So we moved over to blue sky.

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F--- 'em, I'll deadname the sh-- out of a mountain or an ocean. I still call it The Boston Garden.

Enhanced color image shows a closeup of a massive sand sheet with visible frost along the wavy edges. There are also visible ripples on the dunes in the scene, which is less than 1 km across. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

Black and white image shows an expanded view of the dune field within the crater. The scene is less than 5 km across. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)

Dune Monitoring in Lomonosov Crater

This stunning image shows part of a massive dune field located near the center of the even larger Lomonosov Crater. This image was requested for seasonal dune and frost monitoring.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
#Mars #NASA

A round, rusty orange planet against the blackness of space. The surface is a mix of lighter and darker orange areas, with some darker markings that look like smudges or streaks. There's a lighter, whitish patch at the top and bottom, which are the polar ice caps.

Clearest image of Mars ever taken.
🔭 🧪

They did pray to the Lords of Cobol, didn't they?

“Perverse scene of despair and violence” - Caroline Kennedy

The sick pattern of collecting animal carcasses and now hearing he put baby mice in a blender is a sign of someone sadistic and unhinged—not to be trusted with lives and safety.

HARD NO ON RFK JR.

look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls

We need to amplify this—the Republican House refused Secretary Buttigieg’s request for safety improvements at Reagan International.

Response from Pete Buttigieg

Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals) Uncovering the Lies, Confronting the Violence, and Standing Firm for Democracy

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...

A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes.

A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line

The ESA #Gaia mission has delivered the best Milky Way maps to date and taken its last starlight before spacecraft retirement 🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

De-twittered link: science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Webb is solving mysteries it created. Remember “little red dots?” They seemed too big to exist in the early universe... and maybe theory couldn’t account for them. It turns out they may be a new class of galaxy containing growing supermassive black holes. https://t.co/OXo6TzNgus https://t.co/Y

The high level of violent crime Trump keeps talking about will be an easy problem to solve because Trump made it up. Violent crime has been falling sharply and is at historically low levels.

Happy New Year!
P.S. Here’s us last night below.

A closeup photo of a honeybee collecting nectar from an orange flower

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#naturephotography #bees #insects #photography

NEW COMIC: Homewrecker

#webcomics #webcomic #gingerbreadhouse #christmas

The chart below shows a historical view of reported cancer death rates since 1950 in the United States.

You can see several major changes:

Lung cancer rose and fell greatly. Colorectal & stomach cancer had been the two most common cancer causes of death, but both have declined greatly over time.

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