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Ahh. ... Elon did it again...
Video:
#SpaceX

Finland could charge Russia-linked ship’s officers over cable breaks by ‘August at the latest’ https://therecord.media/finland-could-charge-eagle-s-ship-officers-cable-breaks

Sources: an official told Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC that the US wants to revoke waivers that let them ship American chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/u-s-prepares-act…

I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:
It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/com…

is AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
CALLY: But pointless revenge, it doesn't achieve anything.
VILA: We're going home ... to Earth. Does it have to matter why? [Tarrant moves game piece]
[Servalan's ship brings one man patrol vessel into bay]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/27

It takes a long time, a lot of money, and a lot of people with under-appreciated skills to do a major preservation.
(I know this from personal experience preserving steam locomotives.)
The project below is worth supporting. (And a visit to the Rosie The Riveter National Park in Richmond, California is a worthwhile way to spend an afternoon.)

Volunteers sought for historic WWII ship restoration project in East Bay
Seasoned welders and people with experience working with power tools or trained in safety procedures are being sought out to support the Victory Ship Revival initiative in Richmond. 

Wind in their sails: £750,000 grants boost for archives https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/wind-in-their-sails-750000-grants-boost-for-archives/

Wind in their sails: £750,000 grants boost for archives - The National Archives
Design plans for Titanic, sketches by Raymond Briggs and gig posters by Martin F. Bedford will all be more accessible thanks to cataloguing grants. Archives Revealed has just awarded more than £750,000 in 16 separate grants to archives across the UK. Recipients range from the Harland and Wolff Ship Plan Archive in Belfast to the […]

Trump’s New Appointee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics Boasted About Hitler’s Favorite Ship ‘in All His Glory’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-new-appointee-ej-antoni-boasted-about-hitlers-favorite-shi…

Trump’s New Appointee Boasted About Hitler’s Favorite Ship ‘in All His Glory’
E.J. Antoni seems to have no issue sitting in front of the Nazi warship while being interviewed.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
World Party:
🎵 Ship of Fools
#WorldParty
https://nocturneblue.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-fools-world-party-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ndKgw7LvKO7zIk1rgOQJ2

How Trump's Imposition of Massive Tariffs is Repeating the "Ship Money" Abuses of King Charles I (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/15/how-trumps-imposition-of-massive-tariffs-is-repeating-the-ship-money-abuses-of-king-charles-i/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p62#a250615p62

Salty Seagull: A VSAT Honeynet to Follow the Bread Crumb of Attacks in Ship Networks
Georgios Michail Makrakis, Jeroen Pijpker, Remco Hassing, Rob Loves, Stephen McCombie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11325

Salty Seagull: A VSAT Honeynet to Follow the Bread Crumb of Attacks in Ship Networks
Cyber threats against the maritime industry have increased notably in recent years, highlighting the need for innovative cybersecurity approaches. Ships, as critical assets, possess highly specialized and interconnected network infrastructures, where their legacy systems and operational constraints further exacerbate their vulnerability to cyberattacks. To better understand this evolving threat landscape, we propose the use of cyber-deception techniques and in particular honeynets, as a means t…

Israel has boarded Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition says
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-flotilla-gaza-aid-ship-thunberg-intl-hnk

“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-f…

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists
Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists and is escorting the boat to Israel, the foreign ministry said early Monday.

TERF Inc.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190727183834/http://terf.com/

Communications lost with
Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen
after Israeli navy tells it to change course
Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching Gaza

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Freddie McGregor:
🎵 Big Ship
#FreddieMcGregor
https://thompsonsound.bandcamp.com/album/freddie-mcgregor-big-ship
https://open.spotify.com/track/3wIMCE0IWJmOQFeBjCS6hy

Madleen!
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named

Who is “Madleen”, the woman for whom the aid ship approaching Gaza is named
The aid ship sailing towards Gaza has been named after the enclave’s first and only fisherwoman named Madleen Kulab.

The ngscopeclient about dialog now has a (hopefully) full list of all 77 authors credited! Very manual generation process for now, but I'm going to try and automate the list generation for the future.
One less thing to do before we ship the v0.1 release.
We now have only six release blocking tickets and then we can ship it:
* Fix some shaders assuming unlimited X axis thread block size is possible
* Binary packaging for MacOS
* Window resize events not handled …

Feature-Space Oversampling for Addressing Class Imbalance in SAR Ship Classification
Ch Muhammad Awais, Marco Reggiannini, Davide Moroni, Oktay Karakus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06420

Feature-Space Oversampling for Addressing Class Imbalance in SAR Ship Classification
SAR ship classification faces the challenge of long-tailed datasets, which complicates the classification of underrepresented classes. Oversampling methods have proven effective in addressing class imbalance in optical data. In this paper, we evaluated the effect of oversampling in the feature space for SAR ship classification. We propose two novel algorithms inspired by the Major-to-minor (M2m) method M2m$_f$, M2m$_u$. The algorithms are tested on two public datasets, OpenSARShip (6 classes) a…

When next to a "she build it" billboard (that happens to be an ad for a certain "construction toy" brand that happens to be loaded with stereotypes about girls), there is a huge ship docked — and the punchline suddenly suggests something better.

⚓ Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/meet-the-cement-transport-ship-that-makes-cement-ingredients-while-sailing/

Meet the cement transport ship that makes cement ingredients while sailing | TechCrunch
London-based Seabound has developed a carbon capture system that transforms CO2 from a ship's engine into limestone, which Heidelberg Materials will use to make cement.

Calamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.

Sri Lanka hit by plastic pollution after cargo ship sinks off Indian coast https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/sri-lanka-hit-by-plastic-pollution-after-cargo-ship-sinks-off-indian-coast/

Sri Lanka hit by plastic pollution after cargo ship sinks off Indian coast
Sri Lankan authorities, locals and environmentalists say they’re deeply concerned about the possible impacts on the country’s marine ecosystem and coastal communities from the sinking of a container ship off the southern coast of India in May, Mongabay contributor Malaka Rodrigo reported in June. The Liberia-flagged ship MSC Elsa 3 sank on May 25 about […]

Petty Assifer Hegseth orders #HarveyMilk name to be removed from US Naval vessel
https://apnews.com/article/harvey-milk-navy-ship-rename…

Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name scrubbed from US Navy ship
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. T…

"Defense secretary said the vessel will be renamed after Oscar V Peterson to take ‘politics out of ship naming’". 🤔🤔🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/hegseth-navy-ship-harvey-milk-osc…

"Defense secretary said the vessel will be renamed after Oscar V Peterson to take ‘politics out of ship naming’". 🤔🤔🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/hegseth-navy-ship-harvey-milk-osc…

Oh? 😏😏
https://macaw.social/@mergesort/115028469127154952

Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social)
Attached: 2 images Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022. https://fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/goodbye-fellow-tweeps

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
AVON: Pressurize the rest of the ship.
SOOLIN: Right. [Applies some controls.] The forward section's pressurized.
AVON: All right. Vila, let's get to the airlock.
VILA: Me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/56 B7B2

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Live updates – Madleen Gaza flotilla: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7

Madleen Gaza flotilla live: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km (100 miles) from Gaza.

Here we go again… Ship attacked by the Houthi’s probably.
#yemen #houthis #geopolitics @…

"UK startup looks to cut shipping's carbon emissions"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions #Ships

UK startup looks to cut shipping's carbon emissions
In a small London workshop, a prototype mimics the process of capturing carbon emissions from a cargo ship's engine.

Owners of cargo ship that crashed into Baltimore bridge sue company that built vessel | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/owners-of-cargo-ship-that-crashed-into-baltimore-bridge-sue-company-that-built-vessel

#MOSTERDON ALERT!
Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland - cleveland.com
"ShipGoo001 is believed to be a single cell organism, but its appearance is not yet evident. It could be thread-like, spherical or even twisty," Sheik said.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07/mysterious-life-form-found-on-ship-that-docked-in-cleveland.html

Tonight’s space ship has a Moog at the helm. #eurorack #electronicmusic

CERN gears up to ship antimatter (h/t #FixTheNews)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/

In a way, the Titanic is like the Flying Dutchman of real life, a legendary ship doomed to tragedy, forever remembered in history and myth.
#Titanic #FlyingDutchman #POTC

Is there anything I can put in robots.txt that will stop Scrapy?
Failing that, let’s take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Lightweight CNNs for Embedded SAR Ship Target Detection and Classification
Fabian Kresse, Georgios Pilikos, Mario Azcueta, Nicolas Floury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10712 https:…

Lightweight CNNs for Embedded SAR Ship Target Detection and Classification
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data enables large-scale surveillance of maritime vessels. However, near-real-time monitoring is currently constrained by the need to downlink all raw data, perform image focusing, and subsequently analyze it on the ground. On-board processing to generate higher-level products could reduce the data volume that needs to be downlinked, alleviating bandwidth constraints and minimizing latency. However, traditional image focusing and processing algorithms face challen…

3D printing the ship Linda served on. A Wasp Class LHD (USS Boxer!) LIVE on Twitch! 🛳️ Come see this naval giant being made! #3DPrinting

#ListeningClub The Coctails were Archer Prewitt (The Sea and Cake), Mark Greenberg (Eleventh Dream Day), John Upchurch (Rachel’s, Fireproof Press), and Barry Phipps (North Branch Recording Studio, Tight Ship Records).

MUTE-DSS: A Digital-Twin-Based Decision Support System for Minimizing Underwater Radiated Noise in Ship Voyage Planning
Akash Venkateshwaran, Indu Kant Deo, Rajeev K. Jaiman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01907

MUTE-DSS: A Digital-Twin-Based Decision Support System for Minimizing Underwater Radiated Noise in Ship Voyage Planning
We present a novel MUTE-DSS, a digital-twin-based decision support system for minimizing underwater radiated noise (URN) during ship voyage planning. It is a ROS2-centric framework that integrates state-of-the-art acoustic models combining a semi-empirical reference spectrum for near-field modeling with 3D ray tracing for propagation losses for far-field modeling, offering real-time computation of the ship noise signature, alongside a data-driven Southern resident killer whale distribution mode…

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: What?
TARRANT: You're no use to me.
VILA: I don't have to be any use to you. I was here first. I was with Blake. I've more right on this ship than you have.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/9 B7B4

Isn't it weird how when a Federal Crown Corporation - Marine Atlantic - buys a new ship... there is nary a mention that it was built in China (#BCPoli #BCFerries

“This is the corner of a hand-sewn #sail made in the #1800s … Canvas sails like this were made from hemp, which was also used in clothing, ropes, and even the caulking that sealed gaps between ship planks. Hemp was favored over materials like jute because it was three times stronger and resistant to salt…

The Github stuff confuses me; why have people waited until now to jump ship and then suddenly doing it now?

Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold7 and Z Flip7 are the first smartphones to ship loaded with Android 16, and the Watch 8 Series are the first to get Wear OS 6 (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartph…

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 are the first phones to launch with Android 16
Samsung's new Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 are the first phones to ship out of the box loaded with Android 16.

Doing calculus and checking my results with o3 feels a lot like Jernau Gurgeh talking to the ship about the progress of his game in Player of Games.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the
USNS Harvey Milk,
a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War.
The change was laid out in an internal memo that officials said defended the action as a move to align with Trump and Hegseth’s objectives to
“re-establish the warrior culture

Pete Hegseth orders Harvey Milk's name scrubbed from US Navy ship
U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move. The ship was named after the slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War. The officials say Navy Secretary John Phelan put together a small team to rename the replenishment oiler, and that a new name is expected this month. It marks the latest move by Hegseth to purge diversity, equity and inclusion references, and it comes during Pride Month. T…

One takeaway from every NFC team's offseason workouts: Bears' Ben Johnson runs tight ship; Rams ready to roll?

https://www.cbssports.com…

If you are a vendor or developer for #macOS who has not yet moved to Universal 2 or ship a product only for the x86_64 architecture, there is extremely straight forward guidance for you here to update your product ASAP
#Apple #WWDC25
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment

MV Zaandam headed North to Alaska this evening

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to see how easy Pirate Ship is for getting shipping labels at reduced rates. Their customer service is top-notch. My work had been paying for a shipping provider and I was able to drop their prices considerably.
Not an ad, just a fan of how easy they made #shipping.

"The ship of fools, is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato's Republic, about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge. "
#redux #Plato

good morning.
#SanFrancisco

Emma Bouvin: I dag talar hela Israel om Gaza – tack vare Greta Thunberg https://www.dn.se/varlden/emma-bouvin-i-dag-talar-hela-israel-om-gaza-tack-vare-greta-thunberg/

Bouvin: Greta Thunberg lyckas få Israel att tänka på Gaza
Men på måndagsmorgonen är det likadant i Israel som i övriga världen: Greta Thunberg och Ship to Gaza toppar sajter och nyhetssändningar.

"Battery cost is no longer the primary barrier to widespread maritime electrification. The critical bottleneck now shifts to shore-side infrastructure. Ports will need to rapidly scale up high-capacity charging stations, deploy substantial renewable energy generation resources, and potentially develop battery-swapping facilities to meet the surge in electricity demand from ships at berth."
#EVship

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
VILA: Maximum. Can we hold together at that speed?
AVON: We won't have to.
VILA: What do you mean?
BLAKE: Running at full power will drain the energy banks in - what?
AVON: Two hours at the most.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/133

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“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”

Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/hegseth-orders-renaming-ship-named-harvey-milk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p109#a250603p109

That it is.
"Shameful, vindictive erasure": Hegseth orders removal of Harvey Milk's name from Navy ship | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/03/shameful-vindictive-erasure-hegseth-orders-removal-of-harvey-milks-name-from-navy-ship/

Large Scale Robotic Material Handling: Learning, Planning, and Control
Filippo A. Spinelli, Yifan Zhai, Fang Nan, Pascal Egli, Julian Nubert, Thilo Bleumer, Lukas Miller, Ferdinand Hofmann, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09003

Large Scale Robotic Material Handling: Learning, Planning, and Control
Bulk material handling involves the efficient and precise moving of large quantities of materials, a core operation in many industries, including cargo ship unloading, waste sorting, construction, and demolition. These repetitive, labor-intensive, and safety-critical operations are typically performed using large hydraulic material handlers equipped with underactuated grippers. In this work, we present a comprehensive framework for the autonomous execution of large-scale material handling tasks…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Oh, what do you say to that Zen?
ZEN: Please state course and speed.
BLAKE: Very diplomatic. Set a course for Centero, speed standard by two.
ZEN: Confirmed.
[End of episode. Roll credits.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/504 …

Freedom Flotilla organiser Huwaida Arraf shortly after she and the rest of the ship’s support crew lost contact with the Madleen:
“All those on board have been abducted. They have been taken against their will while they were sailing peacefully and lawfully in international waters…
They were in international waters, sailing towards Palestinian territorial waters, not getting near Israeli waters…
It needs to be made very clear that Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction, no l…

Madleen Gaza flotilla live: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km (100 miles) from Gaza.

yukio mishima and death in june and all these artists people like cuz theyre fascist and gay are passé. yall need to locate and make space for a nonbinary south sudanese sculptor whos latest piece reconstructs the rails nazi germany used to ship jews to auschwitz

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship (Konstantin Toropin/Military and Veteran Benefits ...)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p101#a250603p101

Good time for Xi to create a crisis around Taiwan.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-planes-center-line-british-ship-b1618804e7a4bc66c411cb3cb171480a

China sends scores of planes across central line in Taiwan Strait
China has sent 74 warplanes toward Taiwan between late Thursday and early Friday, 61 of which crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait unofficially dividing the sides. China considers Taiwan its own territory and uses such deployments to advertise its threat to encircle and possibly invade the self-governing island. It wasn't clear why so many planes were scrambled between late Thursday and early Friday, as tabulated by Taiwan's Defense Ministry. The planes were sent in two separate tranch…

A Classification-Aware Super-Resolution Framework for Ship Targets in SAR Imagery
Ch Muhammad Awais, Marco Reggiannini, Davide Moroni, Oktay Karakus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06407

A Classification-Aware Super-Resolution Framework for Ship Targets in SAR Imagery
High-resolution imagery plays a critical role in improving the performance of visual recognition tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation. In many domains, including remote sensing and surveillance, low-resolution images can limit the accuracy of automated analysis. To address this, super-resolution (SR) techniques have been widely adopted to attempt to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs. Related traditional approaches focus solely on enhancing image …

@RepEricSorensen to @SecDef Hegseth on renaming of Harvey Milk ship: "Gay kids like me, they don't want to go into the Army. They don't want to go into the Navy because you don't care for them."
'Going back to that time': Gay congressman confronts Hegseth on treatment of LGBTQ troops - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/congressman-hegseth-lgbtq-troops/

Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/snap-plans-to-s…

Snap plans to sell lightweight, consumer AR glasses in 2026 | TechCrunch
Snap is back with a pair of lightweight, AR smart glasses. For the first time in years, the company wants to sell them to consumers.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: We're below horizon now.
GAN: Then she's lost!
AVON: Only us. She got what she really wanted.
VILA: I thought that was us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/510…

Caribou
Canadian navy training vessel
https://readyayeready.com/ships/shipview.php?id=1483

CARIBOU
Canadian warship CARIBOU photo and details. Royal Canadian Navy Ship CARIBOU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Freddie McGregor:
🎵 Big Ship
#FreddieMcGregor
https://thompsonsound.bandcamp.com/album/freddie-mcgregor-big-ship
https://open.spotify.com/track/3wIMCE0IWJmOQFeBjCS6hy

Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew near Gaza | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762371
UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen
(Via @…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
BLAKE: We'll do it. [Starts to call the ship]
AVON: Wait. Disarming a device is not your field. You finish what we came here for: find Provine.
GRANT: [To Avon] I'll come with you.
AVON: No.

Hateful man, that Pete. Too stupid to know it's bad luck to just rename a boat without the ceremony [Renaming a Boat https://www.discoverboating.com/resources/ceremony-for-renaming-your-boat]
Pete Hegseth orders Navy to remove Harvey Milk's name from ship during Pride Month - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/pete-hegseth-orders-navy-to-remove-harvey-milks-name-from-ship-during-pride-month/

Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…

This is what really happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, according to Apple
Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: I'm not the type for this sort of thing, Avon.
AVON: Why not?
VILA: This Egrorian, you said he was some kind of genius.
AVON: They said he was supposed to be some time back.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/62 B7B5

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Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck, instead of a traditional Quest 4, to ship in 2026 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-prioritizing-puffin-for-2026-pushing-out-quest-4-to-2…

Meta Prioritizing Ultra-Light Headset With Puck Over Traditional Quest 4
Meta is prioritizing shipping an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a tethered compute puck in 2026, and might not ship a new traditional form factor Quest until 2027.

Google is getting serious about dev tooling for web apps
— their new "Firebase Studio" is going to transform web app development.
It's a modern IDE in the cloud, packed with AI features.
Loads your projects from GitHub and installs dependencies instantly, without local downloads.
Not surprising from Google, with their hatred for local desktop apps

Very bad luck, doing it this way.
GOP blocks Democratic effort to combat Pentagon renaming of USNS Harvey Milk
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5335457-harvey-milk-navy-ship-gop-blocks-democrats/

Israeli forces intercept Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/09/gaza-aid-boat-greta-thunberg-israel
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p56#a250609p56

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I don't know. [Lauren enters]
LAUREN: [Enters] Do you hear it, Father?
AVON: Any idea where it came from?
LAUREN: There's nothing inside the ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/257 B7B2

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Trump is asking SCOTUS to permit outsourcing torture
Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D.,
is the case where the Trump administration asks the justices to effectively neutralize the Convention Against Torture
According to Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted a proceeding that determines whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country,
and then, if that noncitizen is allowed t…

Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.

Massive ship carrying 3,000 cars sinks in international waters
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-ship-carrying-3-000-154940161.html

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
AVON: Never heard of them. Are they important to you?
TARRANT: Very.
AVON: Why?
TARRANT: Because this was their ship.
DAYNA: I thought you said it was yours?
TARRANT: Prize of war.
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Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
The Freedom Flotilla ship is carrying rice, flour, medical supplies, and baby formula to Gaza.
Rashida Tlaib Pens Plea to Trump Admin to Protect Gaza Freedom Flotilla
https://www.politico.eu…

Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition says it is on a mission aimed at delivering supplies to the Gaza Strip.

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Now, even if Security trace us to this planet, they'll assume the ship crashed and we died in the explosion. Did you hear what I said?
RASHEL: Yes.
COSER: Well?
RASHEL: It's a very clever plan, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/2

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"Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured."
Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture, in DHS v. D.V.D. | Vox
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
[Mori and a trooper enter flight deck, holding guns on Avon.]
MORI: Wrong. If they did that they would destroy the ship, and we don't want that, do we Avon. That battle command is coming in to corner you and if you don't let him I'm gonna kill you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/427…

'How Can You Sleep At Night?': Once Praised by Trump As a 'Great American Hero', Pete Hegseth Now Leads Charge to Erase Medgar Evers’ Name from Navy Ship — His Family Is Fighting Back
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/21/once-praised-by-trump-as-a-great-american-hero-pete-hegseth-now-leads-charge-to-erase-medgar-evers-name-from-navy-ship-his-family-is-fighting-back/

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: It was outside the ship.
DORIAN: Slave.
SLAVE: Yes, Master.
DORIAN: Analyze exterior disturbance.
SLAVE: It is an earthquake, Master.
AVON: Cause?
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Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: That's one misfortune we don't have to share.
VILA: Fourteen I was when I was first sent to a penal colony. Ship was hit in the main drive by a meteoroid, bang! Y'know what they did to repair it? [Avon and Tarrant begin to look at Vila. As he continues they move in, listening to him.] Activated the force wall and generated an atmosphere inside the force wall so the repair team could work in a vacuum without spacesuits, 'caus…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: Tangent one eight. Full boost is on. [Liberator enters cloud of particles]
BLAKE: Zen, nearest pursuit ship?
ZEN: Nine hundred spacials. Liberator is now out of detector range.
AVON: We've outrun them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/42

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
GAN: As long as the door doesn't break.
VILA: Did you see? They killed Arco.
BLAKE: I don't understand. There's no response from the ship.
VILA: Perhaps these bracelets don't work any more.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/543

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Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: Scan.
ZEN: Gun ship. It is manoeuvering for attack position.
CALLY: Warn them off.
ZEN: Warning ignored.
CALLY: Compute coordinates, range blasters.
ZEN: Blasters ranged.
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Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
AVALON: I don't understand.
TRAVIS: No? Do you think your capture at this particular point was a matter of chance? It was a carefully calculated strategy. You're worth a great deal to me. You're going to give me Blake, his crew, and his undamaged ship. The Federation wants the Liberator - you and I are going to give it to them.