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SpaceX defends lunar lander after challenge from NASA administrator
In a lengthy blog post Thursday, Elon Musk’s space company said it “rapidly advanced” the core Starship spacecraft through 11 test flights
and reached 49 milestones in developing the HLS (Human Landing System) version of the craft designed to reach the lunar surface as part of the government’s Artemis program.
“Starship continues to simultaneously be the fastest path to returning humans to the surface of t…

Blueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species
#science

Meet the Arc spacecraft: it aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/meet-the-arc-spacecraft-it-aims-to-deliver-cargo-anywhere-in-the-world-in-an-hour/

«if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire»
A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject | Whatever
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/

ICE arrests at San Diego green card interviews include military spouses (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-arrests-san-diego-green-card-interviews-include-military-spouses-rcna246851
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p114#a251201p114

#Fascism

IMAGEdit: Let Any Subject Transform
Fei Shen, Weihao Xu, Rui Yan, Dong Zhang, Xiangbo Shu, Jinhui Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01186 https://arxiv.org/p…

IMAGEdit: Let Any Subject Transform
In this paper, we present IMAGEdit, a training-free framework for any number of video subject editing that manipulates the appearances of multiple designated subjects while preserving non-target regions, without finetuning or retraining. We achieve this by providing robust multimodal conditioning and precise mask sequences through a prompt-guided multimodal alignment module and a prior-based mask retargeting module. We first leverage large models' understanding and generation capabilities to pr…

Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100 dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/threads-takes-on-x-with-new-communities-f…

Threads takes on X with new communities feature | TechCrunch
Threads officially debuts communities, dedicated spaces to have casual chats around a topic.

nematode_mammal: Global nematode–mammal interactions (2018)
A global interaction web of interactions between nematodes and their host mammal species, extracted from the helminthR package and dataset. Nodes are annotated with species-level information.
This network has 30516 nodes and 146683 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata