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ABC correspondent Terry Moran suspended after wild rant against top Trump adviser Stephen Miller: 'He eats his hate' (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/08/us-news/abc-news-terry-moran-goes-on-wild-screed-against-stephen-miller-draws-backlash/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p47#a250608p47
I finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter
i've upgraded the Ethernet controller applet for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer
this is the main loop of the applet working in bridge mode (acting as a network card for your PC). no weird optimizations, no hacks, just a loop that forwards packets in normal boring Python
on a 100BASE-T link, i get ~95.5 Mbps [saturated link] of upload bandwidth and ~70 Mbps of downlo…
Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.
Australian Green Party crushed in election after running hard on anti-Israel platform & attacking Labor govt as "complicit in genocide." 1st-choice vote (AU has ranked-vote system) drops from 12.25% to 11.75%, despite gains from Muslim voters. In races where final choice is Green vs Labor, more conservative voters overcome their past distaste for union-dominated Labor & transfers run massively against Greens.
Result: Greens lose at least 2 and maybe all 4 of their seat…
"As I've mentioned before, I'm working (with a group of other volunteers) on producing a Local Place Plan for Auchencairn, and, in the process of doing that, we're using the Place Standard Tool. Data from the Place Standard Tool is delivered as an unwieldy CSV file with 53 columns, most of which contain narrative data.
This is pretty hard to analyse... so I've written a tool to automate summarising the data. And, actually, I'm quite pleased with it." -- m…
Cybersec information overload got you down? Then don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--1,000 CISA employees have decamped from the agency since January
--Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack,
--New security fixes for Qualcomm chips,
--AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting,
--Marriott can't be sued for breach,
--Trump dumps …
Democrat announces run against Joni Ernst after 'we're all going to die' comments (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/02/democrat-announces-run-against-joni-ernst-after-were-all-going-to-die-comments-00380630
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p107#a250602p107