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Turns out that what hit flight #UA1093 was most likely a balloon from https://windbornesystems.com - this was brought up first in the thread https://x.com/vk5qi/status/1980386581497409891 and now the company confirms that it's a very strong possibility: https://x.com/johndeanl/status/1980462264974209292. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzbS30xdjM for a short video about the company and how it's filling the atmosphere with long-duration balloons carrying weather sensors. They had just been hailed as one of the best inventions of 2025: https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2025/7318250/windborne-systems-atlas/ ...

Pterosaur with unusual bristle-like teeth discovered in fossilized dinosaur vomit https://www.sciencealert.com/bizarre-new-species-of-flying-reptile-discovered-in-fossilized-dinosaur-vomit

Bizarre New Species of Flying Reptile Discovered in Fossilized Dinosaur Vomit
Imagine throwing up after a bad burrito – only for that heave to reveal the existence of onions to scientists 110 million years in the future.

Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…

Google Unseats Anthropic With Gemini 3
Before we get to Gemini 3, we want to highlight this morning’s news that former Harvard University President Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board of directors following a congressional committee’s release of emails showing a personal correspondence between him and convicted sex ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Radiohead:
🎵 Jigsaw Falling Into Place
#Radiohead
https://radiohead.bandcamp.com/track/jigsaw-falling-into-place
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YJ9FWWHn9EfnN0lHwbzvV

One month after the justice department’s congressionally mandated deadline to
👉release all Jeffrey Epstein investigative files went unmet,
victims’ advocatesare expressing outrage over the department’s failure to comply with federal law.
Advocates have also indicated that they are not surprised,
describing the justice department’s noncompliance with the
"Epstein Files Transparency Act"
as yet another example of US officials failing to hold wrongdo…

I have a serious question about deadnaming of trans people. Please answer kindly, I'm seeking understanding. Do trans people refer to their deadname as a previous life of themselves? An old mask of a time that they were not feeling themselves? Or deadnaming is just something that trans people want to completely forget as it was always wrong?
I'm expecting two types of answer here:
1. It really depends on the person, some trans have different relationships than others with …

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-employees-social-security-inform…

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

💥2000 meters to Andriivka
The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes.
Death comes randomly.
The noise is terrifying;
the fear is stifling.
And most people can’t bear to see what war actually does to the human body
—how a brief instant can transform a living, breathing person
into ugly scraps of flesh.
The fighting in Ukraine has, in many ways,
transformed the nature of warfare.
As many as 80 percent of battle casu…

A War Film to Change All War Films
An Oscar-shortlisted documentary shows battle in startling clarity.

Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long relationship with OpenAI, including plans for a new subsidiary during Sam Altman's firing (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/the-microsof

Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (Melos Ambaye/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…