@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-29 03:00:21
I would be interesting to compare launchpad explosions of heavy-lift vehicles of private space companies with NASA, but none of the NASA ones ever did that.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-29 03:00:21
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-05-28 08:03:04
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-26 22:21:18
Sources: Anthropic and the White House are moving closer to an agreement to lift US restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/anthropic-moves-toward-deal-with-us-to-lif…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-05-28 16:26:11
The GUARDIAN: Opinion "As 2028 approaches, America needs ranked-choice voting more than ever" by Jamie Raskin
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/ranked-choice-voting-jamie-raskin
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-27 06:21:25
The abrupt removal of Mythos 5 and Fable 5 created uncertainty within the industry and among allies around the world
Anthropic's most powerful models are back online on a limited basis
after the company addressed risks that led the government toeffectively shut them down,
according to a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Anthropic, seen by Axios.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-27 02:30:56
Commerce Department greenlights limited return of Anthropic's Mythos (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/27/commerce-anthropic-mythos-restrictions-lift
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p131#a260626p131
@krone@frawas.de2026-07-24 14:51:14
Mieter „gefangen“ - Lift defekt – Techniker kam erst drei Tage später #News #Nachrichten
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-25 21:19:50
A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to allow Donald Trump’s administration to implement in 23 states his executive order
that aims to tighten rules for mail-in voting before the November elections that will decide control of Congress.
The Boston-based first US circuit court of appeals rejected the administration’s request to lift an injunction several Democratic-led states secured on 25 June from a lower-court judge
who concluded that key parts of the Republican …
@stiefkind@mastodon.social2026-05-25 09:00:02
Playlisten von Audio-Streaming-Anbietern sollten am Ende ein Geräusch machen wie CD-Spieler, wenn der Laser an die Ruheposition fährt und die CD zum Stillstand gebremst wird. Alternativ ein leises Plopp, wie es eine Plattennadel macht, wenn der Lift sie aus der Leerrille hebt. Damit man akustisch weiß: hier ist die Playlist zu Ende. #justthinkin
@tanyakaroli@expressional.social2026-07-25 10:16:36
Til min fornŸjelse - og deres ærgrelse - slog jeg både mand og YngsteSŸn med denne her:
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-25 11:59:37
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Detonators:
🎵 Lift Off
#TheDetonators
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OwgnO8rqrXLyML3v63n23
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-26 05:45:48
CXMT is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B after raising $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-26/memory…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-07-24 03:02:33
Me holding Clove up over my head as I sing to her, and she responds with what I'm 100% certain is the equivalent of "fuuuuuuuck you" in cat meows.
🎶 Clove lift us up where we belonnnnnnggggg, where the eagles cry on a mountain hiiiiiiiiigh 🎶
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-07-29 20:04:30
Sunday, August 23rd at 12:00 AM UTC Is Lift Off for China's Chang'e 7 mission which will explore the Moon's south pole, targeting the rim of Shackleton Crater. Its main goal is to search for water ice hidden inside permanently shadowed craters: #ChangE7 will include an orbiter, lander, rover and a unique hopping probe that can leap into dark craters no rover can reach.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-05-21 11:53:08
Sara is once again doing the heavy lift of using her free time to push back on a megacorporation releasing more code with accessibility gaps into the world:
https://front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/116604899770953086
It’s exhausting to watch her do this time and again…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-26 22:12:01
A federal appellate panel on Saturday rejected the Trump administration’s request
to lift a lower court’s injunction blocking the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing Donald Trump’s March executive order targeting mail-in ballots as part of Republicans’ broader attack on voting rights.
A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against a motion by the administration
seeking a pause on U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s June order blo…
@pgogl@troet.cafe2026-07-03 04:21:06
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-05-22 00:54:53
RE: https://mstdn.social/@kevinrns/116610049737192293
'A report*, external produced by the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) has found that bookings are well below expectations in almost every host city.
The AHLA said this does not align with Fifa's statement that more than five million tickets have been sold,, external and it creates a risk that "the anticipated economic lift may fall short".'
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9q34pxv79eo
* report now removed from AHLA website
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-06-09 10:12:45
Am #Fellhorn protestieren Naturschützer gegen den Ausbau eines #Skigebiets.
Der #LBV klagt gegen den Neubau der
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-25 13:50:47
SoftBank stock jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, spurred by hopes of big returns from the company's stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-2…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-22 19:22:31
Note, these are all super-heavy-ish launch vehicles.
(The cargo capacity of the Space Shuttle was a lot lower than “super heavy” because it has to lift itself up into orbit as well; but all these vehicles are in about the same ballpark as for their total power.)
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-05-19 22:02:34
I really hate to say it, but things are going to get much worse before he's gone. And Republicans won't lift a finger to stop him.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-06-18 07:23:42
Just listen to this senile fool. He's so obviously in late stage dementia & yet the cowards Congress betraying America won't lift a finger against him.
Remember that during the midterm elections this year:
https://www.usvotefoundation.org/when-are-
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-05-23 00:10:39
The 12th test flight of a #Starship was a mixed bag: good lift-off, loss of the booster, Starship limping into orbit, deployments fine, no Raptor relighting, fun reentry, RUD at the very end as planned. See https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/05/21/starship-vor-dem-12-test-erster-der-version-3 for maaany more screencaps from the webcast!
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-07-05 21:09:41
Rules,what rules? #sigh. But then, they gave him the FIFA Peace Prize,, not a prize for integrity or respect for the game, or anything else.
White House lobbied Fifa to lift Folarin Balogun suspension for World Cup game v Belgium
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-07-05 21:09:41
Rules,what rules? #sigh. But then, they gave him the FIFA Peace Prize,, not a prize for integrity or respect for the game, or anything else.
White House lobbied Fifa to lift Folarin Balogun suspension for World Cup game v Belgium
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-21 17:38:08
The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees.
Under Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500,
with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners.
This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries.
The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 …
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-12 23:52:15
How come they didn't lift your lardass up as fast as they did JD? Hmmm...
Trump questions why Secret Service grabbed JD Vance quicker during DC shooting | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/jd-vance-white-house-shooting-trump-secret-service-b2975062.html
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-05-12 00:50:55
The Uplift Podcast
a fortnightly drop of good energy, real stories and inspiring conversations. Hosted by Harrison Kirkwood and Rachel Baigent...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-uplift/
@ellie@ellieayla.net2026-07-08 12:14:00
DO YOU EVEN LIFT?
From: @…
https://kolektiva.social/@KevinCarson1/116880175346501659
@bici@mastodon.social2026-07-05 23:04:35
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-23 20:14:21
JD Vance has said that Iran has agreed to allow UN nuclear inspectors back into the country
as part of an agreement under which Washington will lift sanctions on Tehran’s oil exports and the strait of Hormuz will reopen, the US vice-president
Long-term independent monitoring of Iran’s nuclear programme, which it says is for energy purposes only, was in effect halted last summer after Israel and the US attacked the country.
Tehran suspended cooperation with the Internationa…
@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-07-23 08:24:17
A High-Order Flux Reconstruction Actuator-Line Framework for Rotating-Blade Aerodynamics on Fixed Cartesian Grids
Abdullah Al Imran, Meilin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20347 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20347
arXiv:2607.20347v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work couples a high-order flux reconstruction/correction procedure via reconstruction (FR/CPR) solver with a rotating actuator-line model (ALM) to simulate rotating-blade aerodynamics on fixed Cartesian grids. Blade loading is represented by volumetric body force source terms projected through an isotropic Gaussian kernel in a blade-attached frame, eliminating the need to resolve blade geometry. Vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) serve as the demonstration configuration, with a modified Boeing-Vertol dynamic stall model incorporated to capture unsteady lift and drag. A mesh-resolution criterion for the Gaussian projection kernel on reasonably coarse meshes is derived. It shows that cost-effective coarse meshes can operate in a mesh-controlled regime with negligible induction feedback, motivating a Double Multiple Streamtube (DMST) correction to recover the physical inflow. Simulations are carried out over a range of tip-speed ratios at a chord-based Reynolds number of Re_c ~ 3.6 x 10^5. The framework is validated against experimental near-wake measurements and previously reported LES-ALM results, and the mean wake profile shows good agreement. The predicted power-coefficient curve matches high-fidelity three-dimensional LES-ALM data to within 6% around the optimal VAWT operation conditions. The framework also captures the regime-dependent influence of dynamic stall, azimuthal blade loading, lift hysteresis, and characteristic wake structures. These results demonstrate that the FR/CPR-ALM framework provides an accurate and computationally efficient geometry-free approach for VAWT analysis, making it well suited for parametric studies and large-scale wind energy applications.
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@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-14 15:15:36
Amid war, inflation and sinking approval ratings, Trump takes comfort in giving Washington a face-lift (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/war-inflation-sinking-approval-ratings-trump-washington-rcna349603
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p30#a260614p30
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-05-31 19:29:27
@… As a software engineer myself, I appreciate what I'm suggesting isn't a light lift, and I know it's nowhere near enough to make it worth it, but FWIW I'd be willing to commit to paying $100 towards making the big screen app a reality.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-17 06:26:35
SpaceX aborted the thirteenth mission of its heavy-lift Starship rocket on Thursday, moments before ignition on the launchpad.
The company stated it is currently unaware why its automated systems halted the launch sequence at zero countdown at Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility on the eastern coast of Texas.
CEO Elon Musk noted in a post on X that
«Some of the engines didn’t start, triggering an automatic launch abort,»
though he did not specify the cause of the failure…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-05-01 16:38:55
It appears that I've only indirectly mentioned this antenna here before...
This is a linked dipole optimized for POTA. I use it particularly when I want to increase my chances of a successful activation when it might otherwise be challenging, such as when band conditions are marginal. The one I built is only 286g (~10 oz) including the coax feed line, and it covers all the US bands from 6m to 40m. (I didn't consider that I might some day take it to a country that has the 11m band...) I…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-05-03 20:00:21
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#UltimateCalm
- Erland Cooper: Series 5
Erland Cooper looks skywards with soothing selections that lift us up through the clouds, while director and musician Sally Potter transports us to her safe haven.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lb5p
@chiraag@mastodon.online2026-04-30 15:13:57
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-15 09:01:21
Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-fable-security-leaders-trump-admin
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-06-09 12:22:45
The PDHPE & CAFS Podcast With Kelly Bell
Each episode delivers time-saving lesson frameworks, evidence-based wellbeing strategies, assessment hacks and expert interviews so you can lift student outcomes, master the new syllabus and reclaim your afternoons, weekends and holidays...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: h…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-06-30 18:00:15
"Solar fridges lift African farmers’ incomes by 50 percent"
#Africa #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-05-09 00:35:03
A daring mission to lift NASA’s sinking Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory is now one step closer to launch this June: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/05/08/katalyst-wraps-testing-at-nasa-goddard-for-swift-boost-mission/ and https://www.katalystspace.com/post/katalyst-robotic-spacecraft-passes-testing-milestone - on May 4, Katalyst Space Technologies completed environmental tests of its LINK robotic servicing spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; LINK will meet up with Swift and attempt to raise its orbit.
@arXiv_mathAT_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-06-02 09:50:38
Crosslisted article(s) found for math.AT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.AT/new
[1/1]:
- Towards fast computation of higher discrete homology
Jacob Ender, Chris Kapulkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCG_bot/116679339682085058
- Real analytic lift of foliations of Thurston and Tsuboi
Teruaki Kitano, Yoshihiko Mitsumatsu, Shigeyuki Morita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01017 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathGT_bot/116679449001037203
- Minimal intersection radius for $n$ growing, non-homogeneous ellipsoids in $\mathbb{R}^d$
Barbara Giunti, Sean Hill, Felix X. -F. Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01548 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/116679612978757695
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-09 16:26:29
The Social Security Trustees Report just dropped
-- trust fund now runs out in 2032
— I.e. next presidential term.
Huge fight coming over a basic choice:
lift the cap so the wealthy pay their fair share,
or cut benefits for everybody.
Yesterday Mike Johnson made clear he plans benefit cuts.
h…
@arXiv_csPL_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-07-22 07:38:52
VirtualSet: Typed Ontology Worlds as an LLM Generation Target for Grounded Queries and Guarded Decisions
Qunhui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18821 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18821
arXiv:2607.18821v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models increasingly read and act on enterprise data, but SQL gives a late error signal: hallucinated fields or relations can execute and return plausible wrong answers, while incorrect writes cannot be safely assessed after execution. We present VirtualSet, a live, receiver-typed ontology-world interface and generation target for LLMs. Instead of SQL, the model emits set expressions over entity-edge worlds. Generic Constraint Projection (GCP) checks expressions before execution, while future this preserves concrete receiver types through collection chains, turning invalid fields, edges, receivers, and actions into token-anchored type errors. Type-clean reads use a SQL fast path or bounded stream interpretation, with a parity oracle checking both paths over the exercised operator space. The same substrate supports guarded decisions: actions run first in a simulated world, and world-change events require external approval before actualization. On BIRD, we lift relational schemas into typed worlds and compare VirtualSet with direct SQL while holding the model, evidence, values, zero-shot setting, timeout, glossary, repair/voting, and grader constant where possible. On a frozen 1,072-question split, VirtualSet achieves 67.5% accuracy versus 63.5% for glossary-matched direct SQL with repair and voting ( 4.0 points; McNemar exact p = 0.00117) using deepseek-reasoner. Full-corpus analysis finds no engine mis-computation of a type-clean expression; remaining errors arise from model semantics or gold defects. In a 30-body guard corpus, the write chain intercepts 20/20 hallucinated action bodies with zero false positives. VirtualSet thus remains competitive on SQL's home benchmark while providing pre-execution semantics for guarded decisions.
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-16 15:48:29
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, is scheduled to lift off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas today
— the 57th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Apollo 11 moon mission, by the way
— during a 90-minute widow that opens at 6:45 p.m. EDT.
It will be Starship's 13th flight overall and its second mission of 2026.
You can watch Starship Flight 13 live at Space.com,; coverage will begin about 30 minutes before liftoff.
S…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-07-10 01:11:01
With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the observatory for its trip to space: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/07/09/nasas-roman-launch-preparations-proceed/ - inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians used large cranes to carefully lift Roman and place it onto a specialized work platform, known as the Pantheon.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-30 23:31:13
Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/anthropic-wh-lifting-export-limits-009…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-16 18:13:31
According to Iran, the "peace deal" calls for a permanent and immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts
-- including in Lebanon.
But Israel, which is not a party to the agreement, says it plans to keep troops in parts of southern Lebanon.
“The Israelis are trying to destroy this deal,
and they will continue to try,”
says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
“It will require persistent, co…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-07-10 01:41:55
Thick Lunar Crust Amplifies Deci-Hertz Gravitational-Wave Signals / Gravitational-Wave Tomography of the Moon: Constraining #Lunar Structure with Calibrated Gravitational Waves: #GravitationalWave Detectors Get a Lift from Geology: #Moon might gather more information than previously thought, thanks to geology.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-12 04:11:52
Alvarez’s 112th-minute goal helps lift Argentina past Switzerland 3-1 and into World Cup semifinals
https://apnews.com/article/world-cup-argentina-switzerland-score-d47ccb4ac5b3af67eca1f82228155174
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-07-15 15:50:52
Brendan Carr sets a vote for bigger TV station mergers (John Hendel/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/15/brendan-carr-sets-a-vote-to-lift-tv-ownership-cap-00998803
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p49#a260715p49
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-07-01 21:50:46
Judge orders Pentagon to lift policy that NYT journalists be accompanied by an escort (Jocelyn Noveck/ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/judge-orders-pentagon-lift-policy-new-york-times-134373218
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p101#a260701p101
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-04 15:31:12
Three paragraphs, from three different hotel reviews.
Can you tell which, if any, were AI‑generated?
🔸“The hotel is in a great location for everything. Lots of places to eat and drink. The hotel itself is always abuzz. The tavern located on the ground floor is definitely a must. Food, service, prices and atmosphere were great.”
🔸“A good hotel, though the room had the proportions of a well-appointed lift. Slept well, shower was excellent, staff were friendly. Breakfast was bus…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-20 03:03:22
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Eva Lazarus:
🎵 Whole place lift
#EvaLazarus
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qBkr45TSiCMMsVrwicIFk
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-07-05 22:50:30
Trump lobbied Fifa to lift Folarin Balogun suspension for World Cup game v Belgium (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/05/folarin-balogun-red-card-suspension-lifted-usmnt-belgium-world-cup
http://www.memeorandum.com/260705/p44#a260705p44