Tootfinder

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16.
The affected groups have historically offered feedback to the space agency on science efforts
-- ranging from the exploration of Mars and ocean worlds to the storage of extraterrestrial samples, and more.
The decision has taken many in the scientific community by surprise, says Jack Kiraly,
director of governme…

NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year

A place named for it's center, then abstracted from it. Towns given life from a river valley now irrelevant to most of their residents.

NFL Draft picks returning to college? How the Charles Bediako case could affect football, too https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6993798/2026/01/23/charles-bediako-alabama-basketball-college-football-eligibility/

"Even if #OpenAI was run by decent, ethical, friendly, trustworthy people (which would then of course make them not work on the products OpenAI has, but it’s just a thought experiment) their products would need to be criticized for what they are and what they do." — @…

Acting ethical in an imperfect world
Live is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are […]

I’ve lost a lot of respect for Andrewism after his recent upload. It feels disconnected from the reality of working-class life and from anarcho-syndicalism as it actually exists.
This response is a worthwhile read. It doesn’t romanticize work or the working class, but it doesn’t drift into abstract alternatives either. It sits with the fact that we don’t want to be working class, but we are, and that contradiction isn’t something you escape with theory.
I strongly relate to what’…

Unfähigkeit aus Überzeugung - Kieler Geographiestudent klagt öffentlich über seine Überlastung mit 2km Fußweg und demonstriert seine Unfähigkeit und seine Unwilligkeit zur Achtung der StVO.
Es ist halt irgendwie Teil des Erwachsenwerdens und damit auch Teil des Studiums für manche, dass man sein Leben eigenverantwortlich in den Griff bekommt. Ich wünsche ihm, dass er das schafft, bevor er größeren Schaden anrichtet.

Auto abgeschleppt: Kieler Student macht seinem Ärger über fehlende Parkplätze Luft
Für Neubauten der Uni Kiel mussten in der Olshausenstraße 300 Parkplätze weichen. Studierende und Beschäftigte sind seither die Leidtragenden der Parknot. Nun sind regelmäßig Abschleppwagen im Einsatz, um falsch abgestellte Autos abzutransportieren. Ein Student fordert eine Alternative.

The capacity to govern is breaking down, and that's a huge problem for everyone.
"Morale is one of the issues that has caused us difficulty, frankly, in getting additional help.
And it has caused us to lose some of the help that we have had."
https://www.la…

Lessons from the Minnesota’s Civil Contempt Case
“The government’s understaffing and high case load is a problem of its own making,” a federal judge observed.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories,
whether against South Americans or in the Middle East.
In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course of the war in the Middle East.
He singled out CNN, introducing a troubling dimension to the conversation.
“The soo…

Trump and Hegseth Cannot Define the Truth of the US-Israeli War on Iran
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated