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Pope threat display
The Cork Coypu@CorkCoypu21 Jan 2024
The Pope is just back from the vet
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As the space economy fully arrives it will need the kind of risk transfer tools long available in more mature sectors. Derivatives customized to the unique risks of doing business on orbit are a part of that future. financederivative.com/revolu… #spaceeconomy

Revolutionizing Risk: Innovative Derivatives to Support the Evolution of Commercial Space - Finance...

By Grant Gryska, Co-Founder and Director of Markets at Allocation.Space   The space economy continues to expand rapidly, crossing $500bn in revenue in 2022, 78% of which came from the commercial...

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Dream Chaser is finally about to leave its nest. @StephenClark1 got a good look at the vehicle this week: arstechnica.com/space/2023/1…

After decades of dreams, a commercial spaceplane is almost ready to fly

“Plunging into the ocean is awful. Landing on a runway is really nice."

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This paper is amazing and terrifying. "Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence" by @xinmingd drive.google.com/file/d/10j1…
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Shit like this is why making fun of England never stops being funny.
Rishi Sunak
@RishiSunak30 Sep 2023
We are a nation of drivers. Most of us use a car every day and, for many, life would be difficult without their car. But too often, drivers feel under attack. That changes today with a long-term plan to improve drivers' experience on the road. Here’s how 👇🧵
Graphic that reads: Our plan for drivers - slamming the brakes on anti-motorist measures. Long-term decisions for a brighter future.

ALT Graphic that reads: Our plan for drivers - slamming the brakes on anti-motorist measures. Long-term decisions for a brighter future.

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In some of New York City’s most flood-prone neighborhoods, increasing permeable infrastructure from the current level of 2% of land to just 5% of land could prevent flooding. We can make our neighborhoods more resilient by replacing car space with green space.
Lauren Glassberg@LaurenGlassberg29 Sep 2023
This isn’t good. #parkslope flooding. Bumper cars.
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Excellent summary and debunking of the reactionary freakout over 15 minute cities.
Jongleur de dieu@dogeatcrow27 Sep 2023
Alright, I’ve avoided it for too long, but with it back in my feed, I feel compelled to talk about it: the 15-minute city. There is no debate; it is decidedly NOT authoritarian, and should be a core proposal from any self-professed localist. 1/
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it's crazy that something as amazing as AI can be so immediately kitsch
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The quality of sweaters has declined so greatly in the last twenty years that I think it genuinely necessitates a national conversation
Film Updates
@FilmUpdates20 Sep 2023
Ben Schwartz recreates Billy Crystal’s look from ‘WHEN HARRY MET SALLY…’
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Art school is amazing.
Cora Harrington@CoraCHarrington18 Sep 2023
I can't share because it's an active assignment, but one of the projects I'm working on this semester involves researching a scrap of 18th century silk. I think I've got the thing almost all figured out, but also, it's incredibly cool that things like this are just study tools???
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Patrick Braxton, the first Black mayor of Newbern, AL, faced resistance from outgoing white mayor & allies after winning election. This struggle exposes historical disenfranchisement & ongoing challenges for marginalized voices in leadership. bit.ly/3YQrHhM

He became the first Black mayor of a rural Alabama town. Then a white minority locked him out

For years the mayor in Newbern was appointed, not elected. When Patrick Braxton won the election, the outgoing mayor and his cronies refused to accept it

theguardian.com
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Plant 👏 more 👏 trees
Gothamist
@Gothamist22 Aug 2023
A new Cornell study mapped and modeled the shade of every street tree in New York City — right down to leaf — for any day of the year. How much shade do you get? bit.ly/3QKGKrd
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Bollards save lives AND bring immense joy and happiness to the world. #WorldBollardAssociation
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This is some dystopian shit. And a reminder that rogue ai is not an immediate threat the way dipshits superenabled with LLMs are.
Popular Science
@PopSci14 Aug 2023
BREAKING: Iowa educators are turning to ChatGPT to help decide which titles should be removed from their school library shelves. trib.al/ranLMAr

School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

popsci.com
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Aesthetics are destiny
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Because we have no foundation for other kinds of miracles
Ted Lieu
@tedlieu29 Jul 2023
NSA can’t even keep basic secrets when employees go rogue that I highly doubt the government could keep spaceships and alien bodies a secret. Still waiting for any whistleblower to disclose the address of where the aliens are. Also, why are aliens always showing up in America?
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Me, shoving potato chips into an already overloaded hotdog bun: This is it - the thing that will finally satisfy me!
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