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Rocket Report: How a 5-ton satellite fell off a booster; will SpaceX and xAI merge?
"We’re seeing remarkable growth year after year."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/rocket-report-how-a-5-ton-satellite-fell-off-a-booster-will-spacex-and-xai-merge/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Gil Domingo May 6, 2025

kottke.org May 5, 2025

New language for talking about slavery and the Civil War, like “labor camps” instead of “plantations”. https://kottke.org/15/10/new-language-for-slavery-and-the-civil-war

New Language for Slavery and the Civil War

Drawing upon the work of colleagues, historian Michael Todd Landis proposes new language for talking about slavery and the Civil W

kottke.org

Gil Domingo May 4, 2025

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Indivisible ❌👑May 4, 2025

ActBlue is still powering grassroots fundraising, and they have no plans to give in to Trump’s bullying. Nor do we.

If you’re able, please support our nationwide organizing work — and then “leave a tip” for ActBlue so they have the resources they’ll need to fight back. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/indivisibleproject?refcode=mastodon20250504directpost&source=mastodon

Gil Domingo Apr 9, 2025

Ars Technica Apr 9, 2025

A SEC unit goes rogue in Murderbot trailer
"Now that I've hacked my programming, I can do whatever I want... as long as they don't find out."
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/a-sec-unit-goes-rogue-in-murderbot-trailer/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Apple TV+ releases first trailer for sci-fi comedy Murderbot

“Now that I’ve hacked my programming, I can do whatever I want… as long as they don’t find out.”…

Ars Technica

Gil Domingo Mar 14, 2025

Chris Hanson Mar 13, 2025

It’s been just over six months since I retired from Apple, and at almost exactly the six-month mark I gave myself a new job: Commercial landlord!

I now own a building in downtown San José near the convention center and museums that has a few tenants and a couple of large empty spaces that I’ll be turning into The Museum of Technical and Advanced Computing.

For anyone who’d like to know more, http://motaac.org/ has a little bit more detail about my goals for the museum.

#retrocomputing

The Museum of Technical and Advanced Computing

Gil Domingo Nov 21, 2024

kottke.org Nov 21, 2024

A world map of where you don’t need a permit to buy a gun. This belongs to a class of maps in which the US is (inexplicably, infuriatingly) highlighted and almost everywhere else isn’t. https://brilliantmaps.com/buy-gun-map/

Where You Don't Need A Permit To Buy A Gun - Brilliant Maps

Map created by reddit user Borysk5

Brilliant Maps

Gil Domingo Nov 6, 2024

Indivisible ❌👑Nov 6, 2024

We are going to have a lot more to say about how we respond to this moment, but we’re in a race against the clock to pull out wins in narrow House and Senate races. The most important thing you can do right now is help make sure that every vote is counted in these tight races. We will be sharing ballot curing phonebanks throughout the day. Please help out if you can.

Gil Domingo Nov 4, 2024

Polygon Nov 4, 2024

Over the Garden Wall’s new stop-motion short only extends OTGW watch season https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/474202/over-garden-wall-otgw-short-stop-motion-animation

Over the Garden Wall’s new stop-motion short only extends OTGW watch season

Cartoon Network released a new OTGW clip, this time in stop-motion to celebrate the anniversary (and usher in your annual rewatch)

Polygon

Gil Domingo Nov 3, 2024

Polygon Nov 3, 2024

The best noir movies to watch this Noirvember https://www.polygon.com/what-to-watch/473649/best-noir-movies-watch-streaming-neo-noir

The best noir movies to watch this Noirvember

Looking to celebrate Noirvember with some noir movies? Here are the best noir and neo-noir movies you can watch at home right now, many of them for free.

Polygon

Gil Domingo Oct 30, 2024

Indivisible ❌👑Oct 30, 2024

If we want a functioning democracy, we've got to reform the courts.