Mastodawn

I feel I need to say something about Artemis as a former NASA employee, Space scientist and engineer.

I hope more than anything that the astronauts get back safely. But let us not be fooled by what this is.

Is it spectacular, yes. Is it a feat of engineering, yes. Does it make any advance in science, no. Does it help mankind explore the universe, dubious at best.

Why exactly are we sending humans to the moon? With our technology we will never send humans much further than Mars. The only way humans can possibly go further is through a scientific breakthrough. Good luck with that when Trump is gutting science.

Human exploration needs money spent on long-term advances - not using the same technology to do what we did before, however, glamorous it is.

So why do this and why do it now? Political theatre, a win for a Trump led NASA if it succeeds.

So I hope all works well and all return safely. But let us be clear what this is and why it is being done.

This is my opinion, I do not represent anyone.

Tyler Vu Feb 24

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Feb 24

😂 😂 😂

We just had a blizzard in the Northeast #USA and in #NYC a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

#Housing #HumanRights

Tyler Vu Oct 31

mandy brown Oct 31

“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability & to demand that technology serve the many, not the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency & justice must come before speed, efficiency & scale.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/

We should all be Luddites

Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

Brookings

Tyler Vu Oct 25

UFW Oct 25

Today is Larry Itliong Day in CA, honoring the Filipino American labor leader whose union members began the Delano Grape Strike on 9/8/65. They asked Cesar Chavez’s National Farm Workers Association to join their picket lines. The rest is history.

More: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/25/2350237/-Farm-worker-movement-marks-Larry-D-Itliong-Day?_=2025-10-25T07:54:53.000-07:00

Tyler Vu Oct 25

I’m not crying, you’re crying. Mamdani talks about what it’s like being Muslim in America.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMxmPDYg/

TikTok - Make Your Day

Tyler Vu Oct 23

evacide Oct 23

If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/

SFILEN

San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network

SFILEN

Tyler Vu Oct 21

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Oct 21

They are trying to normalize cruelty and violence. We cannot allow it.

Tyler Vu Oct 18

scott f Oct 18

It was frustrating to see all the “not a paid protester” signs today. These scabs are driving down wages for hardworking unionized paid protesters.

Tyler Vu Oct 18

coffeeholic Oct 18

#nokings Orlando

Tyler Vu Oct 16

Mariya Petkova Oct 15

Jewish journalist Noa Avishag Schnall describes how Israeli soldiers abused her:

"I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways."

#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #Palestine #JournalismIsNotaCrime
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/14/headlines/journalist_abducted_by_israel_says_she_was_tortured_in_israeli_custody

Journalist Abducted by Israel Says She Was Tortured in Israeli Custody

A journalist who was abducted by Israeli forces last week as she accompanied a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid vessel says she was tortured in Israeli custody alongside activists seeking to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. Noa Avishag Schnall described the abuse in a video statement to Drop Site News, with bruises from her ordeal clearly visible on her face. Noa Avishag Schnall: “Any flotilla member who upset the Israeli guards was subjected to twisted and tightened handcuffs, and some received beatings. I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways. Many comrades, understandably, do not want their identity made public when recounting this treatment. During the evening, the men were tormented by guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened with pepper spray. Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”

Democracy Now!