I kind of forgot how hopeless I’d become, I was prepared for nothing to change. There’s so much to fix, but it’s such a weight lifted that we have the ability to get going.

Swift team mourning yet full of gratitude for the observations the telescope made during its 22 years in orbit. Swift blasted off on Nov. 20, 2004, to search for some of the biggest explosions in the universe: gamma ray bursts and supernovas.

NASA’s article is more informative: 2-year primary mission.

“Swift was designed as a satellite dedicated to studying gamma-ray bursts, outbursts that came and went so quickly that no one could target them with large telescopes to learn more,” said S. Bradley Cenko, the mission’s principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Swift needed to detect and locate gamma-ray bursts, communicate their position to other observatories, and then swing its telescopes around to image the burst locations before their afterglows faded out. This typically took Swift about a minute to do.”

She is being kept largely in solitary confinement, she said, “away from other people and the human connections that mean so much to me”.

Such isolation was its own form of pain, she said, given that she spent the first 28 years on death row in solitary confinement.

She was 18 at the time of the murder. Most people are hardly the same person that they were that much of their life ago.

She was neglected by alcoholic parents,[12] and her attorneys said she was exposed to alcohol in the womb.[13] She was raped as a toddler and again at ages 11 and 17.[14][15] She attempted suicide at the age of 12 and in 1991 she was sent to a Juvenile Evaluation Center in Swannanoa, North Carolina

Yikes.

So “KMBC 9 reporter Andy Alcock” chose to get her in trouble?

Seems like he could have just talked to her: “hey, what are you doing? You know they cancelled the deal with ICE? Here, we have a fire extinguisher in the van.”

If they aren’t going to have the votes to make it stick, I agree it feels like a waste of time.

I would like to see really hard lines on ICE, Israel, Iran. Though government shutdown doesn’t hit me personally that hard; we would need to be ready to support vulnerable folks.

I actually think getting all the evidence ready for criminal prosecution seems helpful. And separately, building local government power.

But overall, I’m not sure how they can fight an illegal leader from within the legal system, if half the government is also illegal cronies.

Scary, but not quite as bad as: Meeting invite: no title, later this morning, attendees are your manager and HR. (That is, layoffs.)

My guess is they just phished someone’s Okta administration credentials.

Interesting content! Is it available as a web page and not PDF?

Anyway, from the first article:

Palestinians do not have their own currency. Under the 1994 Paris Protocol, they were locked into using the Israeli shekel, with no central bank of their own to issue money or set monetary policy. […] Since Palestinians clear their money in shekels, Palestinian banks can only settle transactions by routing through Israeli correspondent banks. Those banks process Palestinian transactions only under an indemnity waiver from Israel’s finance ministry, a piece of paper that shields them from legal liability for handling Palestinian-linked money. The waiver has to be renewed on a schedule, which means that a routine bit of financial plumbing doubles as a political switch that someone in a ministry can flip.

While some people in Gaza have access to Bank of Palestine accounts, many have lost this access or never had it. Cryptocurrency has become one of the most reliable ways to get funds directly to those who need them.

Nice scene!

Tone/color look great to me. Vibrant but not overly HDR or oversaturated or anything.

The spit of land on the right near the horizon feels a little too close to me. I think you should either crop on so it touches the border or pan right so there’s more room; as is, the point near the edge of the composition draws my eye more than it should / creates visual tension. Minor critique though!

I got fastmail about a year ago. I was pleased I could turn off SMS 2FA and use only TOTP, and generating masked single-use email addresses is great. Also surprisingly easy to set up the MX record for my existing domain. Their own web client is good, I’m using FairEmail on Android.

Thought Catalog has an image of the restaurant in question (though the image has a USA Today watermark, and shows a lap belt):

Or even: lots of free snacks! But a voice in company decisions, or notice before termination? No no, that doesn’t increase ROI.

Zuckerberg, worth $239bn according to Forbes, told Meta he was considering moving his primary residence elsewhere because Prop 40 could expose him to a massive tax liability, potentially forcing him to sell voting shares to pay it. In response, Meta is creating a new class of non-voting shares via a two-for-one stock split for all existing shareholders. This will allow Zuckerberg to sell some of this new class C shares to pay a potential tax bill, without diluting his control of the company.

How scummy.

Exactly — money is not the only cost nor benefit. It’s fun, it gives me control, it’s not going to get acquired and trashed, etc.

The auto-generated memories I’ve seen it create are pretty inane: “always name variables container_ when in MySpecificClass”. Not really learning engineering principles.

Similar, I’ve found AGENT.md files might nudge it in the right direction, but as always it’s a fuzzy matcher, not a learning engineer.

Human review of AI is sufficient in theory, but in practice it’s never as thorough as the understanding you get writing it yourself. It’s hard to avoid AI, but it is a constant invitation to laziness.

Don’t we have a bunch of these already, not least lat/lon rounded down to some precision? Why another?

I would be delighted for my Volvo to stop popping up a full-screen “try Gemini” page while I’m driving.

But yes, I would rather not brick the infotainment.

Beautiful!

Designed with underground exhibition halls, giant light funnels and sprawling solar farms, the museum is able to operate sustainably while withstanding an extremely harsh environment.

I wonder how it was funded.

No root cause for this one yet, but:

Similar false alarms have occurred in the past. In July 2020, the JMA issued a warning to 15 prefectures, including Tokyo, after incorrectly estimating a quake’s location and overstating its magnitude.

In August 2013, noise from a seabed seismometer was mistakenly combined with data from a small earthquake, triggering widespread false warnings across the Kinki region.