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UK astronaut #JohnMcFall could become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit, thanks to an agreement signed between the UK government and US commercial space company #Vast: #Haven1 (not launched yet!) as early as next year.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 Can’t Keep Checking My Phone
#UnknownMortalOrchestra
https://sakr.bandcamp.com/track/unknown-mortal-orchestra-cant-keep-checking-my-phone-sakr-ding-dub-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IGidq5qjagmNmwFsmNeIn

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Cousines like Shit:
🎵 Hair on Coffee
#NowPlaying #CousineslikeShit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hKBkozQZ6EykWJawhK5N0

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Japan backs SoftBank-led AI models with up to $6.2bn in chasing US, China
New company will focus on physical AI using data from Japanese companies

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Foxygen:
🎵 Cosmic Vibrations
#Foxygen
https://foxygen.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-vibrations
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UE9b79d6Ctas3w1xbsnbU

Revisiting GW170817 at Milliarcsecond Scale - High-precision Constraints on Jet Geometry and #H0: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae706c -> New measurement brings us closer to understanding the Universe’s rate of expansion: https://www.swinburne.edu.au/news/2026/06/new-measurement-brings-us-closer-to-understanding-the-universes-rate-of-expansion/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tenacious D:
🎵 Tribute
#TenaciousD
https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/track/tribute-to-tribute-a-tenacious-d-tribute
https://open.spotify.com/track/6crBy2sODw2HS53xquM6us

The multiwavelength structure of post-starburst #galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3 with JWST PRIMER - compact morphologies and residual disturbances: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00085 -> New research using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the violent origins of recently quenched galaxies: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/new-research-using-the-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-the-violent-origins-of-recently-quenched-galaxies

Reducing the impact of #satellite brightness for astronomy - laboratory characterization and simulations: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/550/1/stag1136/8722194 ("a passive, material-based mitigation strategy based on an ultra-black, aerospace-qualified coating") -> Scourge of satellites could be mitigated with help of ultra-black coating: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/scourge-satellites-could-be-mitigated-help-ultra-black-coating