Prof. Sam Lawler
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L’ Amour de Pierrot, 1920 by Salvador Dalí
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Grant me the (Saskatchewan pirate?) strength to not throw my laptop out the fucking window as I try to write parts of the text for the American Astronomical Society's response to SpaceX's infuriating, arrogant, ignorant, irresponsible non-response.
Radio & NukesBelbek Air Base Radar Site 2023-10-26.
Having a closer look at the radar site located at Belbek Air Base Crimea, Ukraine. It looks quite active with the following systems.
2 x 5Zh6U NEBO-U VHF Early warning radars.
1x 96L6 Acquisition radar of the S-300/400 system or stand alone.
1x Pantsir-S2 Air short range defense system.
1x RSP-27 Approach radar used to help aircraft land not AD.
Missing The PointWhy doesn’t Elon charge people who don’t use Twitter, it’s a faster-growing market segment.
Martijn GrootenThe guy who wrote vim died and everyone else has made the :wq joke already. RIP and thank you, Bram https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/bram_moolenaar_obituary/
I started using vim when I was writing my thesis on a faulty laptop on which other editors had stopped working. Never looked back.
I started using vim when I was writing my thesis on a faulty laptop on which other editors had stopped working. Never looked back.
Justin SearlsThanks Apple for my new email signature:
"Please do not reply this message to avoid starting a new interaction."
Erik JonkerFor those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years."It's gobsmacking."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web
#climate
Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet
Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.
Robert McNees
Sheril KirshenbaumAs a science communicator, I was interested to explore #threads.
So far, it feels like everyone is shouting everything all at once with no organization or order. There are no hashtags to help discover topics, for example. I mainly see a lot of celebs & influencers I don’t follow.
I’m not sure it can become a place to exchange meaningful ideas. But that’s probably not the point.
I’m happy at #Mastodon & there really is no comparison. It will be interesting to see how it all evolves over time.
Zach WeinersmithI guess on some deep level I don't understand why Mark Zuckerberg needs all of my personal data three separate times. It's starting to seem like an obsession.