Serge Parel

Megaproject The Line has likely failed Construction on the 170-kilometer-long city of The Line has stopped. However, the megaproject is still being pursued by officials.

On a scale of 1 to “invading Russia in winter”, how stupid was this idea ?
#neom #TheLine

www.heise.de/en/news/Mega...

Louvre robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe? An audacious heist at the Louvre saw thieves make off with priceless crown jewels in broad daylight – here is how a decades-old geometry problem can help museums boost their security.

bbc.com/future/artic...

Common ink cap
Horn of plenty
False chanterelle
White saddle
#MushroomMonday

Meanwhile in Russia…

“The naked arsonist who set fire to the canopy of a tuberculosis dispensary turned out to be a patient with a criminal past.”

What a headline

www.fontanka.ru/2025/10/19/7...

Thousands of websites report massive disruption Numerous online services were temporarily offline on Monday morning. This was due to a serious outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which paralyzed several global platforms - from Snapchat to Fortnite...

Maybe hosting half the internet in one single place in Virginia might not be a good idea… 😂 #awsdown

www.bluewin.ch/en/news/thou...

Rosy russula
Dark fieldcap
False saffron milkcap
Porcelaine mushroom
#MushroomMonday

Twig parachute
Psathyrella pennata (a species of brittlestems)
Gray coral
Pleated inkcap
#FungiFriday

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was announced today

Fluted bird’s nest
Amethyst deceiver
Violet webcap
Collared earthstar
#MushroomMonday

Fringed earthstar
False turkey-tail
Slimy spike
Fairy inkcap
#mushroommonday

Shaggy mane
Parasol
Freckled dapperling
King Alfred’s cake
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Freckled dapperling
Devil’s fingers
Cauliflower mushroom
#FungiFriday

Full recent PNG article. (New subs remain welcome)

FOX REPORTER: “The way it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, got his photo next to the president, then left.”

Quick summary of the Alaska Summit:
-Putin played Trump like a fat orange fiddle
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er... that's it

So it sounds like Trump is going to give Putin another two weeks, on top of the ten days he gave him instead of the original 50 days he gave him, after the two weeks he gave him following the first two weeks he gave him.
TACO Trump strikes again.

Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Beyond the hype: is #ModelContextProtocol enterprise-ready?

#AIInfrastructure #MCP #DistributedSystems #EnterpriseAI #RPCProtocols #AIIntegration #SoftwareEngineering #AITools #EnterpriseArchitecture #TechStandards #ProtocolDesign #AIEngineering

julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-dis...

Umbrella polypore
Common stinkhorn
Old man of the woods
Sulphur tuft
#FungiFriday

Did GPT-5 create this graph ? 😳

#OpenAI #GraphFails

Cinnabar-red polypore
Red cracking bolete
King bolete
Yellow stagshorn
#MushroomMonday

Modern-day potato originated from hybridization event with tomatoes 9 million years ago, study reveals An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 9 million years ago gave rise to the modern-d...

You say potato, I say tomato phys.org/news/2025-07...

Take that, Vik!

At this rate, Americans should go extinct within the next two decades…🙄

So Starship Ship 36 just detonated *before* the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

Gericht stoppt Abweisung Asylsuchender hinter der Grenze Juristische Schlappe für Innenminister Dobrindt. Beamte der Bundespolizei dürfen Asylsuchende an der Grenze nicht einfach abweisen. Das entscheidet das Berliner Verwaltungsgericht nach einer Klage von...

Dobrindt und Gerichte… Hatten wir das nicht schon mal ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

www.n-tv.de/politik/Geri...

SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Even More Humiliating Than… Musk is making a fatal mistake.

“SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Even More Humiliating Than…“ by Will Lockett on Medium: wlockett.medium.com/spacex-has-f...

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Father of the Abortion Pill, Is Dead at 98

“I want to help women. I have not dedicated my life to abortion. I am not anti-children… Women die in botched abortions. Two hundred thousand every year. RU-486 can save them.” Hero.

Brechen die Berge durch den Klimawandel auseinander? - bergundsteigen Nach Felsstürzen in Tirol und im Engadin wurde auftauender Permafrost als Ursache viel diskutiert. Welche Rolle spielt der Klimawandel dabei?

Aus gegebenem Anlass…

« Der Klimawandel hat verschiedene Folgen, die sich negativ auf die Stabilität von Felsflanken auswirken, wie den Rückzug von Gletschern, das Auftauen von Permafrost, extreme Niederschlagsereignisse und plötzliche Schneeschmelzen »

www.bergundsteigen.com/artikel/brec...

The Molecular Bond That Helps Secure Your Memories | Quanta Magazine How do memories last a lifetime when the molecules that form them turn over within days, weeks or months? An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory.

www.quantamagazine.org/the-molecula...