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• Post #4415839

  Since I read people not understanding this today: The text generators make programming slower and more error prone. Some programmers claim that they are useful, but that is not the same as their actually being so. There is actual data on this: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/

• Post #4403170

  One bit of good news for today. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/fda-approves-moderna-mflusiva-first-mrna-flu-vaccine/

• Post #4367316

  "Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him." "He was one of thousands of immigrants arrested during Operation Metro Surge" https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/03/orbin-mauricio-henriquez-serrano-survived-a-violent-border-patrol-arrest/

• Post #4255773

  I am once again asking scientists to do multiple-comparison corrections when computing statistical significance.

• Post #4255772

  Require that all of these trumped-up charges be dropped, United States. Remove all of the Trump DoJ appointees responsible for them. And #ImpeachTrump and #AbolishICE. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/28/ice-protests-antifa-minnesota

• Post #4255771

  Today on the #arXiv : Minker et al. 2026, "Unmasking (44) Nysa: Evidence for a trilobate structure" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25786 Describing adaptive optics images of the main-belt asteroid 44 Nysa and its satellite. It is a strange place.

• Post #4255770

  Yet again, USA: #AbolishICE and the Border Patrol. And also disarm cops of weapons they manifestly cannot be trusted with. "Immigration officials misused weapons hundreds of times during protests, report finds" https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/30/immigration-officials-misused-weapons-hundreds-of-times-during-protests-report-finds/

• Post #4231325

  Yet again, USA: Do not allow anything like this. And require that Congress #ImpeachDuffy. "Proposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulations" https://spacenews.com/proposed-rule-would-exempt-commercial-launch-licensing-from-environmental-regulations/

• Post #4195939

  No, electronic medical records software vendor, there is no circumstance where I would want you to run my test results through the automated-plagiarism text generator. Not even if you pretend it is to change the actual results into "easy-to-understand explanations and diagrams".

• Post #4195938

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@esoastronomy/116997505799021780 Montargès et al. 2026, "VLT/SPHERE imaging of the candidate companion of Betelgeuse" - https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2611/eso2611a.pdf . Confirming that Betelgeuse B does indeed exist. And calling for more data to understand what it is doing to the larger star.

• Post #4195937

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116997866703618863 #AbolishICE

• Post #4195936

  Yet again, USA: Do not accept this. Require that the state governments & Congress shut down the ghoulish scams that are "prediction markets". And #ImpeachTrump for abusing the apparatus of government to enable them when his family is profiting from them. QT Minnesota Reformer 2026 July 28 "Judge halts Minnesota ban on prediction markets" https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/judge-halts-minnesota-ban-on-prediction-markets/

• Post #4195935

  Yet again, USA: #AbolishTheDeathPenalty And yet again, #Florida : Remove DeSantis and those with him before they kill even more people than they already have. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/florida-double-execution

• Post #4195934

  "Space is big." #ThingsActualScientistsSay (Except for low Earth orbit. That is actually pretty small.)

• Post #4195933

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116999946404934348 Today in the cyberpunk dystopia. Yet again, USA: Require actual effective #GunControlNow. Rather than stunts like this that do nothing to make anyone safer, but do cost schools lots of money.

• Post #4178831

  Elon Musk continues to be an ombigoted sexual predator and liar who has caused mass death. And it remains way past time for everyone to stop giving him money & power.

• Post #4178077

  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org My most-recently-played music selection is best described as "eclectic".

• Post #4100080

  I encountered a car today that had a bumper sticker that read: "I lick rocks and I know things." How to identify a geologist's vehicle?

• Post #4075792

  That is not the answer I would like to "why are those six DSN antennas offline?". May everyone who works onsite be safe. QT Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social 2026 July 24 The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. [ picture ] via Infues Avila [ image of wildfire behind one of the 34 meter antennas at MDSCC ] https://bsky.app/profile/andyscollick.bsky.social/post/3mrfqswr65s2...

• Post #4073124

  RE: https://newsie.social/@therobburgessshow/116976573604817022 #ImpeachTrump for every possible reason.

• Post #3968081

  The particularly USA experience of having a medical provider order a routine low-cost test; then the scheduler explaining the clinic's particular procedure for arguing your health insurance company into covering it. We could just have universal healthcare instead. Like a sensible country.

• Post #3952216

  In the midst of a large disease outbreak caused by contaminated produce, RFK Jr. is spending his time bragging about relaxing pasteurization standards for orange juice. Yet again, USA: #ImpeachRFKJr.

• Post #3684407

  I could do without members of the United States Congress who have been in office longer than ICE has existed pretending that calls to #AbolishICE are "not a realistic public policy".

• Post #3682093

  This happened here in the #TwinCities. The Saint Paul City Council is currently debating SPPD running Flock Cameras. Tell your councilmember to vote to shut them down, #SaintPaul. https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-flock-cameras-wrongly-tracked-me-for-days-over-stolen-plates-and-sent-police-after-me

• Post #3491886

  There is no ambiguity in the text of the 14th Amendment. 4 current members of SCOTUS are pleased to blatantly lie and pretend otherwise. Yet again, USA: #UnpackTheCourts. QT Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social‬ 2026 June 30 The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals https://bsky.app/pr...

• Post #3386266

  RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@Archivist/116802042662843380 The Fast Fourier Transform was originally developed to study the structures of crystals observed with X-rays. It then proliferated through seismology and astronomy to become essential for a great many things including digital music and wireless networks.

• Post #2493916

  via @AndrewJonesSpace : 2023 December 1 "NASA researchers get permission to apply for China’s moon samples" https://spacenews.com/nasa-researchers-get-permission-to-apply-for-chinas-moon-samples/ It would be great if the US Congress were to stop continuing the Wolf Amendment that makes it difficult for NASA-funded researchers to even talk with scientists in the PRC.

• Post #2493915

  "China’s Chang’e-7 moon mission to target Shackleton crater" - https://spacenews.com/chinas-change-7-moon-mission-to-target-shackleton-crater/ via @AndrewJonesSpace . May end up getting a bit crowded on that crater rim.

• Post #2493914

  #Chang_e6 is on the way to the Moon. QT @AndrewJonesSpace 2024 May 3 "China launches Chang’e-6 mission to collect first samples from the moon’s far side" - https://spacenews.com/china-launches-change-6-mission-to-collect-first-samples-from-the-moons-far-side/

• Post #2493913

  #Chang_e6 has successfully landed on the lunar far side: https://spacenews.com/change-6-lands-on-far-side-of-the-moon-to-collect-unique-lunar-samples/ (via @AndrewJonesSpace )