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elvendecker.bsky.social
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We have blue skies ahead, folks!

submitted 205 days ago • 1 comment

Okay my jester?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters chant “Free our Mayor!” outside the DHS building in Newark, NJ where Mayor Ras Baraka is being held (Video: @spydermonkeywatch.bsky.social)

submitted 38 days ago • 359 comments

USA Data security discussion with Mark Warner. The latest developments in the Signalgate scandal Why USA needs to be aggressive responding to Volt Typhoon How tariffs are affecting American alliances Why the Five Eyes alliance is sacrosanct

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump budget in one chart: Cut programs that help families and make America a leader of the world, pour money into kidnapping grad students and deporting toddlers.

submitted 42 days ago • 137 comments

2024 YR4 estimates starting to converge... See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_YR4. JPL's estimated nearest approach is now (Feb 7) 120,000 km. 3 sigma uncertainty on either side of that distance is 792,000 km. Impact probability of 2.2%. 0.1% better than yesterday. Yay!

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

Pay attention to the convergence of robotics and AI.

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

If you're worried that generative AI will take your job, realize that ChatGPT has a linear understanding of events. If your job involves creating and thinking about nested or interdependent hierarchies, you may be safe for now.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

It's the Musk and Judy show!

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out we can create bacteria with fundamentally different chemistry than life as we know it. Will our immune systems be able to fight off those bacteria? An open question. A *REALLY* open question.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Turns out we can create bacteria with fundamentally different chemistry than life as we know it. Will our immune systems be able to fight off those bacteria? An open question. A *REALLY* open question.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Education may be a higher priority than tariffs, but maybe that's just me.

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Lack of water standing in the way of drill-baby-drill fracking in Texas.

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

“Brave” decision on the day the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot in an apparently planned assassination. Have these 🇺🇸 insurers lost their bloody minds?

submitted 194 days ago • 30 comments

@geology.bsky.social Turkey is having a proliferation of sinkholes. Any idea why most of them are round?

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments