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Tommy Weir Nov 6, 2023

AaronDavid Nov 5, 2023

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Tommy Weir Nov 6, 2023

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Tommy Weir Oct 20, 2023

Fascinating reasearch at Penn State on deer. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/science/deer-forest-study-penn-state.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Deer Are Everywhere, but We Barely Know Them

A decade-old research project in Pennsylvania has been revealing the secret lives of familiar woodland mammals.

The New York Times

Tommy Weir Oct 18, 2023

Depressing listening to a cavalcade of Irish surnames backing Jordan...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/18/us/house-speaker-vote-jim-jordan

House Votes Again on Speaker as Jim Jordan Seeks Gavel: Watch Live Updates

Jim Jordan, a hard-right Ohio Republican, failed to gain enough support from his party to become speaker of the House. He and his allies are leaning on 20 holdouts in hopes of ending two weeks of paralysis.

The New York Times

Tommy Weir Oct 17, 2023

Prof. Sam Lawler Oct 13, 2023

Not worried enough about corporate over-development of orbit yet? New article: companies have now filed asking for a total of ONE MILLION satellites: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi4639

Non-paywalled version here: https://www.outerspaceinstitute.ca/docs/One%20million%20(paper)%20satellites%20-%20Accepted%20Version%20.pdf

There is no way we can have anywhere near one million satellites in orbit without going into full Kessler Syndrome and destroying everything in orbit - making satellite science, communication, and interplanetary exploration impossible for decades.

Tommy Weir Oct 13, 2023

America circling the drain https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/us/politics/house-speaker-jordan-scalise.html

Jim Jordan Nominated for House Speaker by Divided G.O.P.

The Ohio congressman was his party’s second nominee this week to emerge from an internal fight. But with scores of Republicans refusing to back him, the party put off a House floor vote until next week.

The New York Times

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Tommy Weir Oct 9, 2023

@Drwave lovely piece and the Toy Story 2 tale at the end, a great testimony to the top to bottom excellence within the company and what on the ground talent will do when they have management that gets it.

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Tommy Weir Oct 9, 2023

@claesdevreese hopefully a direct train to Berlin at some point. Have to change once and impossible to book seats.

Tommy Weir Oct 9, 2023

Wordle 842 2/6

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Awaiting Wordlebot’s ‘lucky guess’ assessment.

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Tommy Weir Sep 10, 2023

@harrymccracken I was an early beta tester for iChat, issues mostly centred around my camcorder via FireWire. It was almost a curiosity, given that there was no one to reciprocate.