35 years ago today a particularly long total #SolarEclipse hit Hawaii and Central and South America - of which astronomers on #MaunaKea made ample use as the legendary #WGBH documentary "Eclipse of th Century" shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRI5FEQbn7o = https://archive.org/details/EclipseoftheCentury (my favorite scene is in minute 45-46 when astronomers rush out of a telescope control room during totality to marvel at the eclipse with their own eyes). See also https://diary4dan.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/heute-vor-25-jahren-bei-der-riesen-sofi-in-mexiko and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/das-sind-die-asteroiden-torifune-kamoʻoalewa ("Eine ungewöhnlich lange Totale Sonnenfinsternis") for further memories of that event I've found online 10 years ago and today.
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“Fascism” is not a generic catch-all for everything awful. It is a word with a meaning. My definition of the word is a form of supremacist ethnonationalism that:
(1) demands the eradication of democracy and the installation of a dictator with total power over both government and industry, forcing all individuals to function first and foremost to advance the power of the state,
(2) designates some particular group(s) of people as naturally inferior Others whose presence contaminates society and is an existential threat to it,
(3) blames these Others for society’s problems and calls for their complete subordination, expulsion, or extermination, a project which demands the total militarization of society.
One can quibble over details there, but’s the rough shape of it. As angry as I am over the militarism and imperialism and environmental ruin and oligarchism that’s marbled throughout US politics — and as long as I’ve been putting my boots on the ground against it! — the definition above does •not• apply to every elected official or political party in US politics. But it •does• apply to the Republican Party in its current form.
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heise | SpaceX: Was der Börsengang für Anleger bedeutet
Am 12. Juni geht SpaceX an die Börse – und könnte sofort zu den wertvollsten Unternehmen gehören. Was das für Anleger, ETFs und den Raumfahrtsektor bedeutet.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116726575162112584
And even for the most optimal of use cases, code generation, which gives an LLM every possible advantage (huge amounts of self-similar training data with millions of iterations of the same problems and solutions, strictly deterministic symbol sequences in highly simplified languages), LLMs are starting to approach local maxima; they’re even regressing when context windows get too large (so more capable hardware doesn’t help).
I still strongly believe that they’re useless for 99% of tasks they’re marketed for and for the rest (like coding) there will be locally run solutions that are affordable.
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👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Windräder trocknen das Land aus und führen zu #Dürren“.
#Windkraftanlagen