As the Artemis II mission heads for a flyby of the moon,
the Orion crew module is testing one of NASA’s most ambitious upgrades to space communications yet:
a laser-based system called O2O.
Short for Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System,
O2O caps more than two decades of work by NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
to build better high-bandwidth links for deep space.
The system is designed to send data down to …
Anti-ICE Antifa member arrested on federal charges of Cyberstalking and Threatening Communications after allegedly calling for the murder and assault ... (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/anti-ice-antifa-member-arrested-federal-charges-cyberstalking-and-threatening-communications
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p60#a260205p60
Commission trials European open source communications software https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-trials-european-open-source-communications-software/
"The European Commission is trialling using European open source software…
Le Nouveau-Brunswick n’utilisera plus X pour ses communications au quotidien
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2226139/fin-twitter-reseau-social-nb-grok?partageApp=rcca_appmobile_appinfo_android
"Where do you start when it comes to creating a brand image for what is arguably one of the most important milestones of your institution?" – "The Smathers Centennial" https://communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2026/01/20/design-diary-the-smather…
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Caroline Polachek:
🎵 Spring Is Coming With a Strawberry in the Mouth
#CarolinePolachek
https://carolinepolachek.bandcamp.com/track/spring-is-coming-with-a-strawberry-in-the-mouth
https://open.spotify.com/track/0I49aN2b9qfw1UWtctmNtr
"Coral Reefs are Coming Back"
#CoralReefs #Environment #Oceans
How often you hear right-wingers in the #west conflate or equate #Islam with #Communism is quite jarring when you're a journalist who first started covering politics in
How Jeff Bezos has forced WaPo into severe decline in Trump's second term, including today's mass layoffs that seem to transform it into a kind of Politico-lite (Ruth Marcus/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c…
Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …