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Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (Madeleine Cuff/New Scientist)
https://www.newscientist.com/article/25850

Planes flying over the Atlantic will be re-routed to avoid contrails | New Scientist
Operation Blue Skies is the world’s first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace, aiming to lower the climate impact of flights on a large scale 

A Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot had no ammunition left, so jet wash it is. They flew dangerously close to a Russian Shahed drone, used the jet’s thurst to destabilize it and send the drone to the ground. Eat wake drone.
h/t @nickmelnick.bsky.social
#Ukraine #russia

Smoke Gets In Your...Hole Where Your Soul Should Be
MAGA may have a set a new mark for belligerent stupidity
BILL MCKIBBEN
JUL 20
...wildfires, and hence smoke, will persist all summer, and since the hot world we’re creating produces ever more wildfire and hence an endless supply of future smoke, I think it’s worth taking a moment to get all this on the record.
Also, the flow of smoke down from Canada has produced a perfect MRI of the MAGA nervous system, reveali…

Two truths and a lie: Ben Johnson is the new Bill Walsh, while John Harbaugh has revived the Giants https://www.nfl.com/news/two-truths-and-a-lie-ben-johnson-is-the-new-bill-walsh-while-john-harbaugh-has-revived-the-giants

War jetzt das erste mal im deutschen Fußball-Museum, und insgesamt schon ganz gut gemacht. Aber die „Sonderausstellung“ kann man sich eigentlich klemmen, wenn man nicht unbedingt auf pathetische Dtar-Kult-Doku-Filmchen mit KI-generierten Superhelden-Motiven steht. 🙄

Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof.
How I updated my AI footprint calculator accordingly https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/agents-are-where-ais-energy-bil…

Some people are desperately trying to salvage their reputation after cravenly following orders from the #TangerineToddler. #Cassidy is a prime example:

Republican senator denounces Trump’s ‘crazy, stupid’ claims about MMR vaccine safety
Outgoing Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy as health secretary before speaking out

Some people are desperately trying to salvage their reputation after cravenly following orders from the #TangerineToddler. #Cassidy is a prime example:

Republican senator denounces Trump’s ‘crazy, stupid’ claims about MMR vaccine safety
Outgoing Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor, voted to confirm anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy as health secretary before speaking out

Fox revamps sports site OutKick following Clay Travis' departure, hiring Matt Calkins, who quit The Seattle Times after it spiked his column on trans athletes (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

Outkick Moves Past Its Clay Travis Era
Fox is revamping the sports site following the exit of its founder, Clay Travis. It’s hiring a writer who resigned from The Seattle Times over a column about transgender athletes.

Filing: AST SpaceMobile delays the launch of its satellite-to-phone service to 2027 after the Blue Origin mishap and plans to raise $1B in convertible notes (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ast-spacemobile-delays-service-launch-to-2027…