Remembering Aaron Swartz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz?wprov=sfla1

The reliable New York Times normalizes extremism, as always, with the Kash Patel nomination. This headline does not even begin to hint at his often-stated eagerness to be a fascist apparatchik.

The Times' indifference to dictatorship is disgusting.

Sobering analysis from David Frum @theatlantic

For more than 40 years before #Trump, “the #FBI director was a position above politics. Never, never, never was a Senate-confirmed FBI director fired so that the president could replace him with a loyalist.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trumps-fbi-kash-patel/680840/?gift=V2Xz1LHbTiPfZ3uourZyW7pSojK1LBovuxzAPcxJdeA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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✍️ Rubin #CommissioningNotes, entry 4️⃣: whoaaaaa, we’re halfway there 🎶

Halfway through data-taking with Rubin’s test camera, that is. Our team has continued to make great progress testing Rubin’s systems with ComCam.

=== Highlights ===

🎨 The team got data using all six of Rubin’s wavelength filters for the first time!

💨 The team also continued increasing the telescope’s speed as the systems that manage the forces felt by the mirrors continued to show good response.

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