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Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit.
When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground
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What goes up must come down: How megaconstellations like SpaceX's Starlink network pose a grave safety threat to us on Earth
Thousands of satellites with incredibly short lifetimes are being sent up into low Earth orbit. When they fall back down they're fireballs of pollution — and what doesn't burn up hits the ground.

Wildfires threaten water quality for up to eight years after they burn #environment

Wildfires threaten water quality for up to eight years after they burn
Wildfires don’t just leave behind scorched earth—they leave a toxic legacy in Western rivers that can linger for nearly a decade. A sweeping new study analyzed over 100,000 water samples from more than 500 U.S. watersheds and revealed that contaminants like nitrogen, phosphorus, organic carbon, and sediment remain elevated for up to eight years after a blaze.

#ListeningClub Since I’ve been able to ambulate a little better lately, I’ve returned to lugging albums upstairs to slowly burn my CD collection. That was The Cramps performing “Psychotic Reaction” live at the Peppermint Lounge in 1981 from their “Smell of Female” EP which, if you can believe it, I listened to an inordinate amount of times during my high school days.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Goat:
🎵 Let It Burn (edit)
#Goat
https://goat.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AGGkrFwa2LyzUkzo9rd2L

This is another horrifying statistic to shelve alongside the composition of global mammalian biomass:
• humans 34%
• livestock and pets 62%
• wild animals 4%
#science #biology #ecology

Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image …Here are some highlights (lowlights): “If you drop all that old life into the container that we call Earth, and burn them, it turns out that what we burn in *1 year* weighs 100x more than everything alive today. Everything. All the whales, elephants, forests, insects, grass, crops, birds, fish, people, dogs and cats. Add up all the carbon in everything alive now, and still, in one year we burn a hundred times more.” #climateDiary

Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Burn Children Alive
https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/sorry-if-this-is-antisemitic

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Heaven Shall Burn:
🎵 War Is the Father of All
#NowPlaying #HeavenShallBurn
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/track/war-is-the-father-of-all
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BN80vkQuCynmnt6mpaNyd

Fascists absolutely LOATHE these flags 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 So I’m flooding the feed with them, louder and prouder than ever!
🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Crank up “Rise Like a Phoenix” by Conchita Wurst and let these colors burn bright as a middle finger to hate and oppression.

Well this seems not fun...
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/More-than-One-Million-Anker-Power-Banks-Recalled-Due-to-Fire-and-Burn-Hazards-Manufactured-by-Anker-Innovations…

More than One Million Anker Power Banks Recalled Due to Fire and Burn Hazards; Manufactured by Anker Innovations
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled power banks and contact Anker Innovations for instructions on receiving a free replacement power bank. Visit https://www.anker.com/product-recalls to register for the recall. To receive a replacement, consumers will be required to submit a photo of their recalled power bank showing the model number, serial number, their name, the date of the photograph, and the word “recalled” written on the power bank in permanent marker. A purchase rec…

Incomprehensible USG self-sabotage. The combination of arrogance, stupidity and ignorance required to burn down hurricane and weather forecasting -- IN THE FIRST WEEKS OF THE HURRICANE SEASON?! -- will, incontrovertibly, kill people. I hope their surviving friends, family, coworkers etc get together and sue those responsible into smoking holes in the ground.
#NHC

Künstliches Licht bedroht viele #Tierarten, insbesondere nachtaktive wie #Fledermäuse, #Eulen und #Nachtfalter

Zu viel Licht und kaum Schutz: „Beleuchtung kann ganze Popu­la­tionen bedrohen“
Tiere können nicht einfach die Jalousien schließen, mahnt Wissenschaftlerin Sibylle Schroer. Ein Gespräch über Burn-out bei Vögeln und Lösungen.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Mamuthones:
🎵 Burn From Inside
#Mamuthones
https://mamuthones.bandcamp.com/track/burn-from-inside
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oPZ8KN8aqqj6mCJn87Nme

I started watching Midsommar today (thanks, @…) - I'm like, over halfway done - this movie could've been edited, man. SUPER slow burn. I mean they probably could've cut like, at least 30 minutes of this stuff.

Maybe We Should Let Liberal Cities Burn (Derek Hunter/Townhall)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/06/10/maybe-we-should-let-liberal-cities-burn-n2658508
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p63#a250610p63

But I owe a duty to Ireland:
I held her honour in my hand,
This lovely land that always sent
Her writers and artists to banishment
And in a spirit of Irish fun
Betrayed her own leaders, one by one.
James Joyce, Gas From a Burner (1912)
http://www.ricorso.net/rx/library/authors/classic/Joyce_J/Poetry/Gas_Burn.htm

Sources: xAI is burning through $1B/month and expects to burn through ~$13B in 2025; revenues are expected to be just $500M this year, rising to $2B next year (Bloomberg)

#Palantir wants to see the world burn to profit from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95Gmvg_D4

at this point I would just get rid of every #anker power bank regardless of whether it’s been #recalled or not, it’s only a matter of time

More than One Million Anker Power Banks Recalled Due to Fire and Burn Hazards; Manufactured by Anker Innovations
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled power banks and contact Anker Innovations for instructions on receiving a free replacement power bank. Visit https://www.anker.com/product-recalls to register for the recall. To receive a replacement, consumers will be required to submit a photo of their recalled power bank showing the model number, serial number, their name, the date of the photograph, and the word “recalled” written on the power bank in permanent marker. A purchase rec…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn The Witch
#NowPlaying #Radiohead
https://hlc999.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-burn-the-witch-hlc-synthwave
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DpuYpzkvUWXbmzCm6pfzR

Finished Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed last night. It's gripping, sad, and fierce all at the same time. Explores themes of racism, Islamophobia, white supremacist terrorism, and police malcompetence in an extremely timely manner. It's a good book, which I'm extra happy about since I also liked Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn, so now I have another author whose work I'll be reading through.
Including Sabaa Tahir, Sabina Khan, and Adiba Jaigirdar, I've been reading a ton of great YA books by south Asian muslim authors recently, all discovered via the "grab something off the YA shelf by a probably-not-white author" method that has yet to fail me. Turns out the racism in publishing that puts a higher bar in front of authors of color at least makes it easy to find good books in one way >:(
#AmReading

You know, I was just looking for a "chip download burn write probe spring needle flash eeprom chip burner cable" with a "flapper limit chip easy entry". Thanks, Monkey Electronics Store!

"Our love is history, gonna burn the letters you've been sending me"
When you ghosted someone in the 80s, you really had to take action. #TOTP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn the Witch
#Radiohead
https://hlc999.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-burn-the-witch-hlc-synthwave
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DpuYpzkvUWXbmzCm6pfzR

My AI spend brings all the buys to the yard
And they’re like, “It’s bigger than yours”
Damn right it’s bigger than yours
I can burn your money, but you have to pay

Den här posten är en bra illustration av vad krig gör med människor. Jag känner igen den från många israelvänner jag träffat med trauma bakom sig. Jag har själv känt och när jag var yngre uttryckt sådana känslor. Om ni är oförstående för varför så många israelvänner är oförmögna att ta in krigsbrotten som sker under IDF:s härjningar, kom då ihåg att inga sådana argument går fram förrän man bestämt sig för att se att de där bostadshusen på bilden - oavsett om de ligger i Tel Aviv eller i Gaza…

"Inspired by the political philosopher Albert Hirschman, figures including Goff, Thiel and the investor and writer Balaji Srinivasan have been championing what they call “exit” – the principle that those with means have the right to walk away from the obligations of citizenship, especially taxes and burdensome regulation. Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies."
...
Our opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by embracing lethal yet self-serving delusions. Having bought into various apartheid fantasies of bunkered safety, they are choosing to let the Earth burn. Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet."
#OligarchApocalypse #Oligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

The most shortsighted take on "let's replace human iNaturalist contributors with 'AI'" that I've read comes from people that cite that shit paper about how much more energy efficient "AI" is at solving tasks than humans.
All aspects of human enjoyment and fulfilment that comes from volunteering aside. It's not like they'll put all contributors against the wall to save energy now, do they?! Bob Contributor will still drive his car, eat his sandwiches and burn energy 🤦‍♂️

Boy Andor was a slow burn, but what a great show.
Re-watching Rogue One now, neat to see them line up.
#StarWars #Andor

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
// Dylan Thomas

Every single time this happen, they are making sure creatives, artists, academics, etc are never setting foot to the US again.
Just a slow burn that is making sure US dominance in many fields will disappear. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114666117530646022

Interesting study of eastern Joshua tree mycorrhizal associations from trees near the Dome Fire burn in Mojave National Preserve, with sampling stratified by season
#ecology #mutualism #JoshuaTree …

Very efficient: running Reichstag moment and Kristallnacht reenactment all in one day instead of months apart
I really had hoped the situation would have calmed down over night, just to wake up reading about Trump having setup everything to burn down his country completely—and then gone golfing
#USPol #WTF

If you really want to celebrate Pride Month, burn a Harry Potter DVD

Spoken Wisdom, Padhānasutta:" ExertionKinsman of the heedless,
Evil One,
come here for whatever purpose:
I haven’t, for merit,
even the least bit of need.
Those who have need of merit:
Those are the ones
Māra’s fit to address.
In me are
conviction
austerity,
persistence,
discernment.
Why, when my mind is resolute,
do you petition me to live?
This wind could burn up …

And this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…

rickf (@rickf@indieweb.social)
Attached: 1 image Dragon is what the US uses to resupply the ISS, for those that don't know...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Dining Dead:
🎵 Burn Your Dinner
#DiningDead
https://wearediningdead.bandcamp.com/track/burn-your-dinner
https://open.spotify.com/track/7p7ZWyzSXbsGHvJ7WOQo7q

Migrants placed on a deportation flight originally bound for South Sudan
are now being held in a converted shipping container on a U.S. naval base in Djibouti,
where the men and their guards are contending with baking hot temperatures, smoke from nearby burn pits and the looming threat of rocket attacks,
the Trump administration said.

Migrants and ICE officers contend with heat, smog and illness after detoured South Sudan flight
The Trump administration said the converted conference room in the shipping container is the only viable place to house the men on the base in Djibouti.

Regret-Optimal Q-Learning with Low Cost for Single-Agent and Federated Reinforcement Learning
Haochen Zhang, Zhong Zheng, Lingzhou Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04626

Regret-Optimal Q-Learning with Low Cost for Single-Agent and Federated Reinforcement Learning
Motivated by real-world settings where data collection and policy deployment -- whether for a single agent or across multiple agents -- are costly, we study the problem of on-policy single-agent reinforcement learning (RL) and federated RL (FRL) with a focus on minimizing burn-in costs (the sample sizes needed to reach near-optimal regret) and policy switching or communication costs. In parallel finite-horizon episodic Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with $S$ states and $A$ actions, existing m…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03590 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Enhancement to Fusion Reactivity in Sheared Flows
Sheared flow increases the reactivity of fusion plasma. In unmagnetized plasma with flow gradients comparable to the mean free path of reacting ions, fusion reactivity can be more than doubled. The effect is of particular relevance to inertial confinement fusion (ICF), where it allows implosion kinetic energy to contribute to the fusion burn even before thermalizing. In fast ignition, this allows remarkable energy savings because colder fuel stops alpha particles more quickly, enabling ignition…

You know what would be really cool? A #quantifiedself person influence monitor. Say I have a #Fitbit and Joe has a Fitbit, we could have them detect when we are in proximity (if both people agreed) and then it would let us know over time how being around the other person influenced us - e.g. did heart rate variability increase or decrease (do they relax us or cause stress), did we burn more calories (maybe we usually go on hikes together), did we sleep better that night, and so on.
There are definitely people in my life who I'm pretty sure have significant effects on me in both directions, it'd be awesome to quantify them.
It would also be cool if one could do this without data sharing - e.g. maybe one presses a button on ones device to indicate one has entered x's presence and again when one has exited...
Honestly, I'd totally forget to do this...so something passive would be better - e.g. when you want to start tracking the next time you are around someone you press a button and it scans for electronic signatures and identifies Bluetooth etc. uniquely so that when you are around then it auto knows and can record...
The latter raises issues of #consent and #privacy...I'm not sure how/if one could do this in an ethical manner...but I'd like to have it 😂