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Of course, today we know the ventilation shafts were an intentional design flaw introduced by Galen Erso...😉

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AI: 1, clickbait: 0 (But Alphabet wins in any case)

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Das Tempo der Emissionsminderung (beim CO2 auf null!) können wir nicht frei wählen: die Pariser Klimaziele geben es vor. Alle Staaten haben sich dazu verpflichtet - weil die Alternative eine schreckliche Katastrophe wäre. Der Bundestag hat das Pariser Klimaabkommen *einstimmig* angenommen.

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This Russian military plane supposedly descending into the Gulf of Finland caught my eye as a likely consequence of GPS interference. TLDR: I'll show you what it really did. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=154eb6 1/

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We rarely use the ‘commentary’ tag at @theaircurrent.com. It was time. AI slop fills the information void of Air India crash investigation theaircurrent.com/commentary/a...

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🙄 China is otherwise quite strong on aviation safety, this is.... #%@%.

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Nach der Explosion einer Starship-Rakete in Texas beklagt SpaceX Probleme bei der Bergung von Trümmern. Mexikos Präsidentin droht mit juristischen Konsequenzen. #Raumfahrt

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Excited to release today with Daniel Sitompul ICCT's first air and GHG inventory for private jets. A lot of eye opening statistics in this report. Let me walk you through a few. (🧵) theicct.org/publication/...

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Sleek as can be.

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Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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"We can capture the CO2 with quicklime!" "And how do you make quicklime?" "You heat limestone to release the CO2!" "Exactly the same amount of CO2 as you capture?" "Well, no..." "So isn't this actually releasing MORE CO2?" "We'll use GREEN quicklime!" "Is that a real thing?" "No."

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Airline tickets in France could become more expensive as the government is considering adding new taxes on domestic flights, reports @lesechosfr.bsky.social . bit.ly/4epIv71

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If things were that simple, I'd rejoice. Unfortunately, ... nonlinearities. They result in limit cycle oscillations, which are a pain to calculate.

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Not only will things go smoothly, but also continuously and sinusoidal.

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Daniel Coffman

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Wusstet ihr dass Lob über diese QR Codes noch während der Fahrt beim Zugpersonal und auch bei Vorgesetzten landet? Übrigens zugeordnet zu Zug und Wagen. Das System heißt railmate. Nutzt die bitte wenn mal wieder ein*e Eisenbahner*in einen wirklich guten Job gemacht hat. #bahn

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Potez baut den Rumpf für die neue 228.. Potez...

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There are some interesting details about how Anthropic trained their models tucked away in today's summary judgement: they bought, chopped up and scanned millions of dollars worth of books! simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/...

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Ich kannte mal einen Witz über Ole Scholz, aber gerade habe ich eine Erinnerungslücke.

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#OTD 2018 an inadvertent A320 flap retraction occurred on departure from Liverpool John Lennon Airport. AAIB examined the human factors related to flap / landing gear mis-selections. aerossurance.com/safety-manag... #flightsafety #aviationsafety #humanfactors

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SpaceX detritus porn

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Emissions are not distributed equally. Just 5% of power plants generate 75% of power sector emissions; 12% of people consume half the beef produced; 2% of aviation emissions come from the 0.003% who are (private jet users; etc. What a great opportunity for targeted reductions!

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Next up in: WORSHIP THE A.I. OVERLORDS. I.D. the aeroplane in the picture created by A.I. Give it a rating and pour the correct levels of praise upon it. #Aviation #AvGeek

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