Devindra Hardawar

I love narrative information, my favorite form of content

The near & far sides of the Moon, as seen by NASA's LRO spacecraft.

China's Chang'e-6 lunar lander may have solved one of the great Moon mysteries: Why does its far side look totally different than the side that faces us?

A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided, according to a new study. 🧪🔭

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Elon Musk posted about race almost every day in January Many social media posts by Tesla CEO on his platform are indiscernible from those of white supremacists, say experts

The deafening silence of space policy people (or space journalists) on this is bizarre. He's a straight-up white supremacist, and we're still talking about "Elon's plans for Starship" or "Elon's take on space colonization" without a thought as to his core beliefs.
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trying to think of a reason to do this that isn't a personal desire to be in kissing distance of a toilet seat

I've been going to these fancy conferences and just doing a gloves off thing for the last few months and I feel freer than a guy with five DUIs riding an ebike on a sidewalk.

You cannot claim to be restructuring city government while silencing the voices of the people. As I began to speak to the charter commission tonight on its stalled police accountability reforms, they cut the mic.

Watch the moment the Commission chose bureaucracy over the community. (1/3)

Walz: "We've got children that a core memory for them will be their classmate being taken away. That will stick with them the rest of their lives. My hope is what sticks with them is human decency wins out, rule of law matters ... "

So rough! And thanks, trying to rest

Love getting sick in my 40s. Had a chest cold that might have progressed to walking pneumonia, now I'm short of breath when doing basic tasks. Docs say it's normal, but not looking forward to more colds turning into whatever this is. Mask up out there folks, and keep your lungs healthy

Something Big Is Happening Something Big Is Happening Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ • Feb 10 Think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were

It took just one weekend for the new, self-proclaimed king of open source AI models to have its crown tarnished. Reflection 70B, a variant of Meta's Llama 3.1 open source large language model (LLM) - or wait, was it a variant of the older Llama 3? — that had been trained and released by small New York startup HyperWrite (formerly OthersideAI) and boasted impressive, leading benchmarks on third-party tests, has now been aggressively questioned as other third-party evaluators have failed to reproduce some of said performance measures.

Keep being sent this completely nonsensical hogslop. It has multiple egregious lies, which is appropriate because he’s a fraud. Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks to hype up his open source model. Article is total dogshit. I should annotate it venturebeat.com/ai/reflectio...

Donate to Support for James Van Der Beek's Family, organized by Jason K James Van Der Beek was a beloved husband, father, and friend who touched the lives of … Jason K needs your support for Support for James Van Der Beek's Family

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially

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Colon cancer numbers are rising in the US, UK, Canada, China, Australia, India, South Korea, the EU, Brazil, South Africa etc., the exception is in women in Nordic states who are more likely to eat a diet high in fiber because of berries. Eat beans, berries and other high fiber foods. Limit booze

Oh he’s been cooked for a long while, this should be the final straw though

I’m sure a certain subset of online shitheads is ecstatic right now, but what happened to highguard — and the many people who worked on it — is tragic. we can’t keep making games like this. a more sustainable approach is literally the only way forward

Incredible stuff here from Hunter. Must read.

Not yet! I need to see it for sure

YouTube video by Simpsonphile Come on Lenny. The Simpsons

What I hear every time I see an AI boosting post youtu.be/ELxLj6damX8?...

The concept of white flight has always fascinated me. Like, to see pictures of communities that were all white like 30 years ago, yet fast forward to today, and there are barely white people in that same area, and it's like, really? So yall all saw one soul food restraunt and left?

Exclusive | OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination Ryan Beiermeister, who served as the vice president leading OpenAI’s product policy team, had raised concerns about the upcoming launch of erotic content.

In Jan OpenAI fired VP of public policy (safety) for discrimination against a male colleague. There are no details about the alleged complaint but she had raised concerns about the ChatGPT’s proposed adult mode and was vocal that co wasn’t doing enough to stop CSAM. She also led mentorship for women

A little sad at how much generational analysis is just “look at these self-starters who know exactly how to work seven jobs to afford a carrot”

FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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tbf the lo-fi enthusiasts have had to fend off A.I. generations for a *while* now pitchfork.com/thepitch/how...

For years, the first newsletter I read after waking up & getting the kids to school was @ishaantharoor.bsky.social’s WorldView for the Washington Post. Nothing else in mainstream US media gave readers foreign perspectives on US news. Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis killed it. Today was its last edition.

Lucy: How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?

Lucy’s Dad: I have two other daughters who live with me so it wouldn’t upset me that much.

Later that day, Lucy’s dad murdered Lucy.

Then a grand jury let him walk.

Fuck Lucy’s dad.

Thanks!

Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with mRNA technology.

It is absolutely outrageous that Moderna’s flu vaccine was met with a “refusal-to-file” even after their approved their protocol with FDA and carried out the trial as agreed. This vaccine works better in older adults than the current flu vaccines.

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They damn well better

Funny story: my career in drones exists because I have a arithmetic learning disability, tested awfully in math and couldn’t study STEM in college, and became so angered by how normal it was to look down upon non-tech people in the 2010s that I decided to master a hard tech field out of pure spite.

Photo of Dr. Oz kissing his own newly installed star on the Hollywood walk of fame

This image speaks volumes about the guy’s relationship to fame vs. tiresome priorities like healing the sick

Former Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew of Epstein’s Actions

MeToo might've actually led to systemic change if it included accountability for those who knew and didn't intervene.

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