⏰ The town that rebelled against the crypto farm that kept it awake for six months
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-31/the-town-that-rebelled-against-the-crypto-farm-that-kept-it-awake-f…
Pristine ices in a planet-forming disk revealed by heavy water: #PlanetForming disk: https://public.nrao.edu/news/first-ever-detection-of-heavy-water-in-a-planet-forming-disk/ - new ALMA data traces water found in comets, and planet formation, back to the dawn of the cosmos / How old is our water? https://www.eso.org/public/blog/water-origin/
Meeting at Google: “We haven’t fucked up the Web enough with our AMP shit, but the AI shit is doing pretty good work. What about if we also fuck up RSS?”
What an utterly shit company. I hope the AI hype destroys them.
(Just in case you think they're "just asking questions", they already opened a removal tracker before listening to replies: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334)
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523
US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Elvis Presley:
🎵 Blue Moon
#NowPlaying #ElvisPresley
https://hamziarif.bandcamp.com/track/blue-moon-elvis-presley
https://open.spotify.com/track/47Yann2RUKWbjSIIjQadiC
The First Radio-bright Off-nuclear #TidalDisruptionEvent AT 2024tvd Reveals the Fastest-evolving Double-peaked Radio Emission: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0a26 -> Astronomers Discover Fastest-Evolving Radio Signals Ever Observed from Black Hole Tearing Apart Star: https://public.nrao.edu/news/astronomers-discover-fastest-evolving-radio-signals-ever-observed/ - NRAO telescopes reveal first radio-bright "off-nuclear" tidal disruption event, showing unprecedented double-peaked radio emission -> Investigation of the First Radio-Bright Off-Nuclear Tidal Disruption Event: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/15/investigation-of-the-first-radio-bright-off-nuclear-tidal-disruption-event/
Horizon-scale variability of from 2017--2021 EHT observations: #EHT Images Reveal Unexpected Polarization Flips at M87*: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2025/6
#Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) - as it's now officially called: https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25RA2.html with new orbital elements - next to Spica in an image by G. Rhemann & M. Jäger remotely with a 12-inch telescope in Namibia: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=24139356712431407