ESA has released this Timelapse of BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drh5agiQYzE
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"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? (…) Maybe this is the chance of a lifetime for the European continent; if not for all, at least for some countries therein: Portugal, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, for example."
https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/william-aspray/
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I wish I could remember one of the terms for a white guy they hire in Asia (it actually happens enough to merit a term) to pretend to be the boss just because he looks the part.
I'm going to have to look one up so I can throw it out there every time someone uses the term "diversity hire".
VIDEO - Naveed Haq Keynote at IEEE CTU Summit 2024 - Everest Community Network
https://isoc.live/18736
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Happy Birthday, Kowalewskaja!
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofja_Wassiljewna_Kowalewskaja
#OTD 14 January 2005, ESA’s #Huygens probe made history as it touched down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon
https://www.youtu…
Oooooo yeah okay.
I am definitely not comfortable with this one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_monkey
"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0fs0/til_chinese_companies_rent_white_people_to_look/?rdt=52577
Wut.
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Injustice Watch first reported on the incident, saying Glennon-Goodman had told a confidant that “the message was intended for a close friend and was instead mistakenly sent to a fellow judge with the same first name.”
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https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/judge-reassigned-after-texting-my-first-ankle-monitor-gag-to-another-judge.html