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No left turn at the waning gibbous

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Today at 10:01 CET the Sun was directly above Earth’s equator, marking the #SpringEquinox! 🌸 At this moment, our planet is neither tilted towards nor away from the Sun, creating nearly equal day/night. 🌓 This stunning image was captured by our Meteosat-12 satellite. 🛰️

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Fun with Gallouet-Merigot scheme: Semi-discrete fluid sim with cubes.

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Last year, Toronto lost the Ontario Science Centre and Seattle lost the Living Computers Museum. Needlessly. A plague on the vandals that shuttered & dismantled them. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park? Pacific Science Centre? Support your cultural institutions while you still have them.

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Spring here yet?

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So the US went from wanting Greenland to wanting eggs

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

In work news, I continue to work to advance the RISC-V Composable Custom Extensions Task Group (CX TG), to make it easy & routine to reuse & combine multiple RISC-V custom extensions, their software libraries, and their hardware implementations. Our Charter: lf-riscv.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...

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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 43 comments

A beautiful March afternoon to meet nice folks & hear inspiring scientists talk about their work in medicine, climate, materials science, etc. & BTW how the US government is stupidly, cravenly shuttering it and disappearing it. A colossal own-goal. Call your reps and advocate for NIH CDC NOAA etc.

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In Anniston, Alabama

submitted 17 days ago • 149 comments

Happy World Book Day … stories are the thread that connect us, help us to stand in other people’s shoes, show us lives beyond our own. Now, as then (this is a 14th century manuscript speaking to us down the centuries.) Books matter, reading matters. Pass it on …

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I need the institution where I teach (NYU) to respond clearly and unequivocally saying this is unconstitutional and they will not be adhering to it. This is a red line.

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

UK Royal Society makes startling discovery of invertebrate features within its own ranks. tinyurl.com/yc4ywcde tinyurl.com/mr2r55nk #UK #RoyalSociety #Musk #Science

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"Wokeness" from TheScreed Fakaria #Zakaria

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Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

submitted 22 days ago • 1192 comments

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

submitted 22 days ago • 286 comments

Illegally ending USAID in a weekend, knowing full well this overt act dooms many many thousands of people to misery and sickness and death, is all you need to know about these people.

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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

submitted 24 days ago • 304 comments

That a wartime president who courageously remained in his country despite being urged to leave, and has united and led his country since, is lectured on 'peace' and 'advantage' by a former military photographer and a draft dodger is a massive irony.

submitted 24 days ago • 41 comments

"Leading AI Companies Get Lousy Grades on Safety: A new report from the Future of Life Institute gave mostly Ds and Fs" Eliza Strickland, 13 DEC 2024 IEEE Spectrum, Feb 2025 issue spectrum.ieee.org/ai-safety

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I want everyone who said they couldn't vote for Harris, because her policies didn't go far enough in one or several areas, and concluded "they're all the same", to make themselves a little scrapbook over the next four years. As an aide-mémoire for next time.

submitted 39 days ago • 168 comments

1/2 Just heard that Rod Burstall is no more. R.I.P. I don't think I've met him in person, but he had a great influence on my thinking and career.

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"February 14, 1946: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Unveil The ENIAC" www.computerhistory.org/tdih/februar... tubes.mit.edu/6S917/_stati...

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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 39 days ago • 16 comments

#RISCV #FPGA RISC-V Composable Custom Extensions TG's Extension Logic Interface Workshop (2025-01-31) RoCC : CV-X-IF : SCAIE-V : CXU-LI Recap: lists.riscv.org/g/tech-compo... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdV... Slides: lf-riscv.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Civilization is Made of Interop

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Et tu, #Google? Goodbye, Google, it was nice in the early days. How the mightly have fallen! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Fractalysis

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Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

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But the tactical mistake here is that he’s set himself up to look hypocritical when he is inevitably censorious/critical of others… denying others “grace” for their mistakes.

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Farmers slammed. “American farms… supply about about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency sends around the world.” And “hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone.” wapo.st/3WSo7nI

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Displaying varying expertise in use of git

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My postal mail today included a flyer for "(La-Z-Boy President)'s Day Sale" #OrangeMenace #Cheeto

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