@david@boles.xyzHey Now! Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025): Buy Now!
Hey, there! Welp, it's that time of the year again -- yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by buying our eBook -- Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 16 (2025) -- to show your support so we may continue to publish this blog without advertising while still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs…
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzIn 10 minutes the #ArtemisII Fueling Test News Conference will stream at https://www.youtube.com/live/ycqk3uN_N6g - as announced in https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ and https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2018578937115271660 the first launch attempt has already been moved to March.
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social“Sie radeln wie ein Mann, Madame!” - ÖNB-Mitarbeiterin Elisabeth Briefer verfasste ein Blogposting zur #Fahrradgeschichte / #CyclingHistory und präsentiert damit zugleich Recherchewege in den Beständen der ÖNB:
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOne thing Mastodon brought me back is the connection to blogs. In the past years, I followed mainly news sites via RSS and "professional IT stuff" only on LinkedIn ...
With the degration of LinkedIn and my increasing commitment to the fediverse, I found the link(s) back to some IT-people and my blogroll is steadily increasing.
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialBloggen sei „alt“ und Websites „peinlich“? So einfach ist’s nicht. @… kontert, dass Blogs mit stabiler URL, eigenem Denken und echter Argumentation dem algorithmisch verkürzten Social-Media-Lärm überlegen sind. Das eigene Web bleibt ein Ort der Freiheit – keine Klick-Ökonomie, sondern Gedankentiefe. 🔗
@benny@norden.socialEin Klassiker, den man oft bei WordPress-Blogs sieht: Das Datum in der URL🫣
domain.de/2023/10/mein-artikel
Das wirkt im Moment logisch, ist aber langfristig Gift. ☠️
Wenn man den Artikel 2026 aktualisieren will, steht da immer noch "2023" in der URL.
Das signalisiert dem Nutzer in den Suchergebnissen sofort: "Alter Kaffee."
URL ändern heißt Weiterleitung bauen (nervig).
Deshalb: URLs immer zeitlos halten (/mein-artikel). Dann bleibt der…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@cdarwin@c.im @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRE: #ArtemisII WDR: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-test-terminated-at-t-515/ - a lot of unfinished business ...
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…
@cdamian@rls.socialBlog Roll and Podcast Roll
I have been meaning to do this for a while. Finally, @… made me do it.
I added a blog roll and a podcast roll to this site.
Both pages will be updated as my subscriptions change … if I remember.
<…
@matthiasott@mastodon.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe #Artemis stack on the pad in a good image from the ISS: https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2018365716181705015 - processed with IrfanView, using AutoAdjustColors and contrast adjustment. Meanwhile the Wet Dress Rehearsal is in trouble because of - you guessed it - a hydrogen leak. Since the updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ have become super-sparse it's hard to tell how serious the problem is.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…
@david@boles.xyzThe Wound Remains Faithful: A Tragedy of Nora
It has taken me more than fifty years to write this book. That sentence appears in the author's note, but it deserves to open this introduction because it explains everything that follows. The Wound Remains Faithful is not a thriller. It is not a mystery. It does not offer the satisfaction of solved cases or the comfort of justice delivered. It…
@ebinger@bildung.socialWir schneiden ein Kreuz und lassen den Edison ein Kreuz abfahren Wir probieren, wie man mit einer coolen Falttechnik und einem einzigen Scheren-Schnitt ein Kreuz bekommt. Siehe dieses Video: Anschließend programmieren wir mit den iPads unsere Edisons so, dass er eine Kreuzform abfährt. Fange mit dem linken kurzen Balken an, dann kannst du mit einer Schleife arbeiten und dreimal das Gle Vollständiger Beitrag:
@jake4480@c.im
@MartinM@norden.socialEs sieht so aus, als ob der Artemis-II-Start verschoben wird. Die Startfenster im März würden sich damit schließen, aber wenn die Verschiebung bald erfolgt, bleiben die Optionen für April erhalten.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/0…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWo sind die jungen Bloggerinnen und Blogger? Wahrscheinlich dort, wo wir Älteren nicht hinschauen. Mehr Respekt gegenüber den neuen Video-Formaten - solange die Qualität stimmt. Vielleicht sind Reels, Shorts und Creator kein Gegenentwurf sind, sondern eine moderne Weiterentwicklung? #Bloggen
@poppastring@dotnet.socialMaking music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/17/making-music-with-midi-just-got-a-real-boost-in-windows-11/
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialUhuh the server that holds my blogs has been under attack from China. dcscience.net (blog) and onemol.org.uk (serious stuff) have been down for lots of 5 - 10 minutes periods during the last couple of days. It's improving now, thanks to the wonderful people at #PositiveInternet,
#posipeople
@david@boles.xyzReal ID: Federal Mandate, National Card, or Something Worse?
The Real ID is now the law of the land, but it is not the law most Americans think it is, and the story of how it arrived at your local DMV is a twenty-year saga of congressional sleight-of-hand, serial postponement, and a quiet transformation of the American driver's license into something it was never designed to be. The question everyone should be asking…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThere have been FOUR #SolarFlares in the X class over just 20 hours: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/solar-cycle-25/2026/02/02/sun-releases-4-strong-solar-flares/. But the consequences for Earth will be practically zero: https://bsky.app/profile/vincentledvina.bsky.social/post/3mdv7xktvs22b and https://x.com/JAtanackov/status/2018334607653937177 - what a waste ... ;-)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Athletic is investing in live blogs and video to combat AI scraping; Similarweb says The Athletic had 16.9M unique visitors in January 2026, up 59% YoY (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-athletic-invests…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comYe apologizes for antisemitic remarks: 'I lost touch with reality' (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5706421-ye-kanye-west-anti-semitic/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p65#a260126p65
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Pigments of the Imagination: Art & Archaeology from Across the Colour Spectrum" Bodleian Libraries blog: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sackler/2026/01/23/pigments-of-the-imagination-art-archaeology-fro…
@Europablog@mastodon.socialDie Essays von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer zu den politischen Entwicklungen von der konstitutionellen zur absoluten Demokraite in den USA und in Europa (aus De Morgen 2024 und 2025) in deutschsprachiger Übersetzungen:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe Wet Dress Rehearsal for #ArtemisII has begun in earnest with the tanking of the SLS Core stage now underway as planned: frequent updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zDlM8d4Q7g (the pictures here from https://images.nasa.gov/ show yesterday's sunrise and moonrise behind the stack on the pad).
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAmazon Threat Intelligence observed sustained targeting of global infrastructure between 2021-2025, with particular focus on the energy sector, by Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The Euclid-Mullin sequence of prime numbers.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-curious-sequence-of-prime-numbers/
saved 2019-05-26
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBrainwaves meet spatial computing: Cognixion Vision Pro #noninvasive
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@Jyoti@mas.toI hate clicking a link and it leads to a paywall or Medium or some other anomic nonsense...
BRING BACK BLOGS!
(and, yes, I realise a lot of us have had them since the '90s and still post on there - I'm about to copy this to mine.)
(bzangy.com, thank you for asking)
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialImmer wieder die gleiche Frage: Wo sind die jungen Blogger:innen?
Meine Antwort: Sie bloggen – nur nicht so, wie wir es gewohnt sind.
Reels, Shorts und Videos sind für viele heute das, was Blogs früher waren.
Meine Gedanken in 60 Sekunden.
#60Sekunden #Bloggen
@toothFAIRy@scholar.socialCopypasta from LinkedIn:
Recent blogs by KnowledgeRights21 blaming copyright and the creative industry for knowledge hampering instead of, for example, the enormous bureaucracy in place in Horizon Europe / European Commission grants is really something.
Don't get me wrong, I think #copyright should be reformed and in its current form is indeed strange - why can we copyright research articles for example?
1/3
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMicrosoft's AI datacenters are now completely closed loop, liquid-cooled w/ zero evaporation loss.
At construction, they are filled with as much water as a golf course during the summertime ONCE, then never again.
✅ Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - Microsoft
https://
@david@boles.xyzMiscast: The Playwright Decides, and No One Else Gets a Vote
There is a moment in the life of every playwright when someone walks into a rehearsal room and announces that the character you wrote is not, in fact, the character you wrote. The director has a vision. The institution has a policy. The casting committee has decided that your Irish Catholic mother from the Southside of Chicago would be better served by an actress who has no connection to the world you built…
@ebinger@bildung.socialUnser Luanti Video ist fertig Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der Reli digital AG haben sich große Mühe gegeben, endlich ist das Video – rechtzeitig vor Weihnachten – fertig. Viel Spaß beim Anschauen! Auf Peertube: Auf Youtube: Zur Anleitung: Wir bauen die Bibelgeschichte mit den Königen aus dem Morgenland in Luanti Allgemeine Anleitung: https:…
@thijs_lucas@norden.socialWie das also aussieht, wenn Profis Fahrradfotos machen:
https://www.rouleur.cc/blogs/desire-journal/the-best-cycling-photography
Vielleicht sucht ihr ja noch Tipps für ein
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA live view of the #ArtemisII stack on the pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - where the countdown for the Wet Dress Rehearsal has begun at 1:13 UTC; see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/31/countdown-begins-for-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/ for the timeline and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/generalprobe-wet-dress-rehearsal-fur-artemis-ii/ for maaany Artemis-related links going back to 2023.
@cdarwin@c.imKey Figures in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
⭐️Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Role: Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station
Background: Started her CIA career in the 1990s as a Soviet analyst. Promoted to Deputy Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station after the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and became Chief by March 2003.
Controversies: Involved in the CIA's interrogation program and linked to the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Criticized for her role in the tortur…
@frankel@mastodon.topI Cut My #Docker Image by 99.7% (846MB to 2.5MB). Here Is the Full Breakdown
https://www.hexplain.space/blog/42ZscpWSpYhH1vIhfMIY
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialKI im Blog? LLM nutzen für Recherche, Textkorrektur oder Bilder? Kein Ding – nur bitte mit Kennzeichnung. Wer’s versteckt, verkauft Illusion statt Inhalt. | #Couchblog 👀 #Blogs #KI
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaWow. Finally a truly good article about moving away from big tech in the national news here in Denmark. And yes, Mastodon is in it. It’s not a perfect list, but it’s the first good one I’ve seen outside of personal blogs. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknolo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJane Fonda: Authoritarianism now in 'every single nook and cranny of our government' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5702383-jane-fonda-authoritarianism-alert/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p73#a260123p73
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPolitico names Tessa Berenson Rogers as Politico Magazine's editor and Giuseppe Macri as Playbook editor (Alisa Vasquez/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-press/2026/01/22/politico-a…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The use of the word 'robust' to describe software in UK law.
https://ials.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2019/06/25/the-use-of-the-word-robust-to-describe-software-code/
saved 2019-12-20
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHey folks, when you come across a cool blog post, please
- link it in your blog if you have one
- Post a link here
I've found the best blogs from links here and also when an article referenced other blogs.
Keep in mind, the inter-NET needs links. Otherwise it's no net.
#blogging
@rasterweb@mastodon.social @metacurity@infosec.exchange @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzWith the delay of the #ArtemisII WDR to Feb. 2 finally confirmed - #Crew12 pre-launch presser day: #NASA yet, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-5By97H_8 promises to carry the first presser at 16:00 UTC - beware: shocking preview image - while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxcA8Crpkg will carry the second one with the crew at 18:00 UTC).
@david@boles.xyzThe Applause of Fools: How Erasmus Predicted Every Century After His Own
In 1509, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, writing from the restless perch of Thomas More's London house, composed The Praise of Folly (Moriae Encomium) in the span of roughly a week. The book was a satirical grenade lobbed at the Church, at the academy, at every strutting peacock of European intellectual life who mistook plumage for substance. Among its many surgical observations, one line has…
@jake4480@c.im2026 is being celebrated by Toho as Mothra Year, as this year marks both 65 years since Mothra first appeared on screen, and also 30 years since the Heisei-era Mothra trilogy.
Mothra's my girl (my wife knows, and she's okay with it). 😍
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news…
@benny@norden.socialMehr Content ist nicht immer besser. Oft ist es Selbstsabotage. 🔪
Viele Blogs produzieren jede Woche Artikel zum fast gleichen Thema.
Das Ergebnis: Keyword-Kannibalisierung. Drei Artikel konkurrieren um dasselbe Keyword, keiner rankt richtig, weil Google nicht weiß, welcher der "beste" ist.
Statt immer neue URLs zu erzeugen, ist es oft schlauer, bestehende Artikel zu aktualisieren und zu erweitern (Content Refresh).
Qualität und Tiefe schlagen Frequenz. Imme…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNicki Minaj makes surprise appearance at Turning Point conference (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5659269-nicki-minaj-trump-newsom-turning-point-usa/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p60#a251221p60
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzDetection of an NH3 Absorption Band at 2.2 μm on Europa: #Europa, Recent Study Shows: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/01/29/nasas-galileo-mission-points-to-ammonia-at-europa-recent-study-shows/
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialClaudia Klinger (@…) warnt davor, dass wir längst nicht mehr nur KI trainieren - sie trainiert auch uns. Wenn Menschen schreiben wie Maschinen, ist das vielleicht effizient, aber nicht menschlich. #KI
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@ebinger@bildung.socialWir schneiden ein Kreuz und lassen den Edison ein Kreuz abfahren Wir probieren, wie man mit einer coolen Falttechnik und einem einzigen Scheren-Schnitt ein Kreuz bekommt. Siehe dieses Video: Anschließend programmieren wir mit den iPads unsere Edisons so, dass er eine Kreuzform abfährt. Fange mit dem linken kurzen Balken an, dann kannst du mit einer Schleife arbeiten und dreimal das Gle Vollständiger Beitrag:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with TPM founder Josh Marshall on the rise of independent journalism, early blogging vs. newsletters, and feeling bullish about the media ecosystem (Thor Benson/Long Lead Presents)
https://depthperception.longlead.com/p/tpm-josh…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAnd the #ArtemisII stack is back in the VAB, arriving around 1:00 UTC today: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/25/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-returns-for-repairs/ - while in the assembly building, technicians will troubleshoot the helium flow issue to the rocket’s upper stage, replace batteries on the rocket’s upper stage, core stage, and solid rocket boosters as well as service its flight termination system.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUFC fighter bucks Trump White House event over Epstein controversy: 'I'm good, dude' (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5658459-sean-strictland-ufc-fighter-white-house-epstein-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p47#a251220p47
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNear the end of a sad journey ... the #ArtemisII stack almost back at the VAB after crawling for 9 1/2 hours, from the live feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ for updates.
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWelche Blogs, Newsletter und Stimmen prägen meine tägliche Lektüre – und warum Social Media dabei kaum noch eine Rolle spielt. Ein persönlicher Blick auf meine Informationsquellen 2025, – und auf die Frage, ob mir KI-Agenten künftig helfen oder nur vorfiltern. #MeineNews2025
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCurrent and ex-CPJ staffers say the nonprofit scrapped its Global Impunity Index in 2025 because Israel would have been ranked near the top or first, for years (Ali Abunimah/The Electronic Intifada)
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/a
@ebinger@bildung.socialAuf den Spuren des Heidenmissionars Paulus Paulus ist der bekannteste Missionar des Christentums. Er ist weit gereist, um die Botschaft von Jesus allen Menschen weiterzugeben. Weil er so viele Briefe geschrieben hat, die die Gemeinden aufbewahrt haben, wissen wir viel von ihm. Außerdem berichtet die Apostelgeschichte ausführlich über seine Reisen. Aufgabe des Tages Löse mindestens Level 1 des P@ul Vollständiger Beitrag:
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump announces 'Patriot Games,' with 2 high school athletes from each state (Brett Samuels/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5655553-trump-patriot-games-2026/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p2#a251219p2
@david@boles.xyzThe Great Audio Laundering: How AI Scammers are Highjacking the ACX Premium Market and Defrauding the Human Soul
The digital landscape of 2026 was supposed to be a golden age for the independent author, a time when the friction between a creative vision and a global audience finally dissolved into a seamless stream of data. We were promised a world where high-quality production was accessible to anyone with a story to tell and the capital to invest in professional…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzDue to weather, NASA now is targeting early Wednesday, Feb. 25, to roll the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for #ArtemisII off the launch pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/23/nasa-targets-artemis-ii-rollback-on-wednesday/ - cold temperatures and high winds are expected Tuesday, and rolling on Feb. 25, gives teams enough time to complete preparations at the launch pad that were limited today by high winds in the area.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMick Foley cuts ties with WWE, says Trump's Reiner comments 'final straw' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5651850-foley-quits-wwe-trump-ties/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p144#a251216p144
@david@boles.xyzThe People We Cannot See: What Dark Matter Galaxies Tell Us About Invisible Life
In February 2026, astronomers confirmed the existence of a galaxy called CDG-2 that is, for all practical purposes, invisible. Sitting in the Perseus galaxy cluster some 300 million light-years from where you are reading this sentence, CDG-2 is 99% dark matter. It was not found by its starlight, because it has almost none. It was found by four globular clusters huddled together in the…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the #ArtemisII rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/21/nasa-troubleshooting-artemis-ii-rocket-upper-stage-issue-preparing-to-roll-back/ - the upper stage uses helium to maintain the proper environmental conditions for the stage’s engine and to pressurize liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant tanks; the systems worked during NASA’s Artemis II wet dress rehearsals, but teams were not able to properly flow helium during normal operations and reconfigurations following the wet dress rehearsal that concluded Feb. 19.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBrian Glenn says he's engaged to Marjorie Taylor Greene (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5650473-marjorie-taylor-greene-engagement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p129#a251215p129
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz"After running through terminal count for the #ArtemisII wet dress rehearsal, the launch team paused the clock at T-33 seconds in the countdown," says https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/live-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-coverage/: "Teams are now reconfiguring and replenishing the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen systems, in order to recycle back to the T-10 minute mark and perform another run of terminal count. [...] The entire recycle process lasts approximately 60 to 90 minutes."
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@david@boles.xyzThe Westborough Crusaders: The Trilogy That Took Forty-Four Years to Earn Its Novels
Some work waits for you. Not patiently. Not the way a dog waits by the door, loyal and uncomplicated. It waits the way a diagnosis waits in a family's bloodline, silently present, expressing itself in symptoms you do not recognize until you are old enough to understand what your body has been trying to tell you. In 1982, I was sixteen years old…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz45 minutes til the simulated #ArtemisII launch, and according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KYhqePsm38 and https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/live-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-coverage/ the 2ns wet dress rehearsal is going to plan. How the outcome will be reported: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-coverage-of-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA the press conference #ArtemisII launch after the WDR went so well - see also https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/nasa-begins-artemis-ii-launch-pad-ops-after-successful-fuel-test/ issued just after it had ended - but this will not be confirmed before the Flight Readiness Review late next week.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThere is also a #PUNCH video showing only #comet #Lemmon and its tails in https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/12/19/nasas-punch-spies-comet-lemmon/ - unfortunately too faint so much tail structure gets lost which can be glimpsed in the full video. But the data are there, waiting for someone to process them for science.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzTEMPO at Night: #ALAN
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzWanna see an amazing uninterrupted multi-day timelapse of the plasma tail of comet #Lemmon blowing the #SolarWind in October/November? It's happening in the #PUNCH video embedded in the press release https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/12/18/nasas-punch-releases-refined-images-of-eruptions-from-the-sun/ - and see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kk05oIEeJ0 for a version with constellation lines.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzWhile preparing #ArtemisII for flight, NASA engineers are reviewing data after a confidence test Feb. 12, in which operators partially filled the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage liquid hydrogen tank to assess newly replaced seals in an area used to fill the rocket with propellant: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/13/following-confidence-test-nasa-continues-artemis-ii-data-review/ - during the test, "teams encountered an issue with ground support equipment that reduced the flow of liquid hydrogen into the rocket. [...] Engineers will examine findings before setting a timeline for the next test, a second wet dress rehearsal this month. March remains the earliest potential launch window for Artemis II."
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzOn Feb. 11, NASA’s Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory temporarily suspended most science operations in an effort to reduce atmospheric drag and slow the spacecraft’s orbital decay: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/02/11/nasas-swift-mission-transitions-ops-to-prep-for-orbit-boost/ - halting these activities will enable controllers to keep the spacecraft in an orientation that minimizes drag effects, extending its time in orbit in anticipation of a reboost mission.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe #ArtemisII roll-out is scheduled to begin at 12:00 UTC today (Saturday) and will last 8 to 12 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVnsO_rdew = webcast, https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-press-kit/ = mission press kit, https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/16/artemis-ii-moon-rocket-ready-for-big-move/ = the finished stack, ready to roll.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe launch of #Crew12 is planned for 10:15 UTC today: webcasts from NASA and ESA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCM-Kwq91cc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5RWX-GsQo from 8:15 UTC plus the ESA Launch Kit at https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/EPSILON_LaunchKit_EN.pdf and updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/ and the latest timelines at https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Watch_live_Crew-12_launch_and_docking_updated and https://www.spacex.com/launches/crew12 and https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-agencys-spacex-crew-12-launch-docking/
