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Drone strikes halt a third of the world's helium supply, threatening chip production

At the center of the issue is the precision gas vital to chip manufacturing and cryogenics. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication, maintaining the extremely low temperatures...

TechSpot
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Please RT. This link will help find the nearest foodbank in the United States. There is a search bar by zip code that provides a list of food pantries nearby.

https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank

Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.

In a culture that is brutal in its suppression of #SexWork, including disapproval, punishment, debanking, and every other means of devaluing the people who do it, to see #AI companies pivot to “horny" is even more awful than many of their other industries.

Let me get this straight: it's okay to throw billions of dollars at letting people get off to LLMs, but if a woman wants to get paid to turn men on, that's wrong somehow?

Fuck everything about this timeline.

This paper completely breaks my brain (and gives me all sorts of interesting story ideas.) I think the main question for me about this is: do we actually fucking know what we are talking about when we separate organisms into species?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w?ref=404media.co

@futurebird what do you think?

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.

Nature

Dark ages, here we come!

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/nasas-acting-chief-calls-for-the-end-of-earth-science-at-the-space-agency/

#nasa #science #politics

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

Ars Technica

Today is the chance to get my cozy space opera bundle!

If you like cozy, interesting, somewhat optimistic #sciencefiction stories about alien interactions, human culture, a bit of space travel, with diverse and LGBTQIA+ characters, these might be for you.

https://itch.io/s/153800/cozy-space-opera-bundle

Cozy Space Opera Bundle by Max Pearl

A bundle by Max Pearl, $1.99 for The Cassiopeia Chronicles, The Casitian Universe Omnibus Edition

itch.io

Cozy space opera bundle! 5 books for $1.99. If you like cozy but interesting stories about alien interactions, human culture, a bit of space travel, with diverse and LGBTQIA+ characters, these might be for you.

https://itch.io/s/153800/cozy-space-opera-bundle

Cozy Space Opera Bundle by Max Pearl

A bundle by Max Pearl, $1.99 for The Cassiopeia Chronicles, The Casitian Universe Omnibus Edition

itch.io

@maxpearl

Just finished the first trilogy, that was a fun read but I'm predicting you did not expect the Casitian AI to age as badly as it did.

I look forward to reading the rest of the story.

Same.