Carl Sagan's Guide to Not Being Fooled

This video takes a look at some passages from Carl Sagan's book 'A Demon Haunted World."

Tomorrow’s the big event! 🎉 We’ve saved 1 trillion web pages — now celebrate The Web We’ve Built with the @internetarchive.
Explore the past & future of our shared digital world in this lively presentation, livestreaming around the world and in person in San Francisco. 🌐

📅 Weds, Oct 22
🕖 7 PM PT
🖥️ Virtual & 🎟️ In Person ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/event/the-web-weve-built-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #Livestream

Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.

Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour stacked exposure from CFHT. This was from 2022, when there were thousands fewer satellites... This is dumb.

Image credit: P. Cowan/W. Fraser/S. Lawler/CLASSY Survey Team

(The small streaks that are similar lengths are actually asteroids!)

DHS is reassigning hundreds of CISA cybersecurity experts to process deportation paperwork, pulling them off defending U.S. infrastructure from hacks.

We are gutting cyber defense for political theater, leaving power grids and networks more vulnerable.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/17/trumps-cisa-raid-pulling-cybersecurity-experts-off-critical-infrastructure-defense-to-process-deportation-paperwork/