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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · 20h

Let's see, a Nazi-saluting fascist in charge of a robot army?? That's a hard pass.

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Elon Musk presses for $1 trillion pay plan because he needs to influence Tesla's future 'robot army'

Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk made an unusual plea at the end of the company's earnings call, urging shareholders to approve his new $1 trillion pay package and claiming, among other things, he wouldn't ...

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · 20h

If a seemingly innocent robotic vacuum can map your home and transmit it back to the manufacturer, imagine what a humanoid robot from Tesla might do.

I'm not paranoid, you're paranoid. Ok, you broke me. I'm paranoid, and only the paranoid survive. Stop Musk.

$TSLA

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Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Aug 25

So cool:

Neeraj @khagolnomy.space · Aug 24

This is just dope🙌

#astronomy
#astrophotography

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We Built This to Film What’s 7,500 Light-Years Away

YouTube video by HTX Studio

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 25

Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people

Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

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Museum of Science @museumofscience.bsky.social · Jul 5

Could AI let us talk to animals? 🐾

Scientists are exploring how AI language models for human speech could help decode animal communication. To achieve this, more data on animal expressions such as sounds, movements, and pheromones is needed.

If you could speak with animals, what would you say? 🧪

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 27

Mafia stuff:

Decrypt @decrypt.co · Jun 27

Trump's World Liberty Crypto Project Gets $100 Million Investment From UAE Fund decrypt.co/327205/tr...

So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 26

Europe is scrambling to establish its own rival to Starlink:

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Europe Scrambles to Break Its Dependence on Musk’s Satellites - tovima.com

Authorities count on a homegrown alternative to Starlink and its unpredictable owner

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 26

European Space Agency taps US-based Rocket Lab for rocket launch services. Rocket Lab was founded by a US immigrant, Peter Beck, from New Zealand.

How much do you think the fact that Beck is not Musk was a big selling point?

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Rocket Lab to Launch Electron Mission for European Space Agency’s Next-Generation Navigation System | Rocket Lab

Long Beach, California. June 25, 2025 – Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has been selecte...

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 20

First, another SpaceX explosion, and now this:

Europe does not want any reliance on Starlink, since Elmo allows Russia to use it and has suppressed Ukraine's usage at crucial times. Treasonous.

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Starlink rival Eutelsat pops 19% as France backs capital raise

French President Emmanuel Macron said strengthening Eutelsat's position was "ensuring its strategic independence and paving the way for Europe's."

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yes, perhaps the HCB Great Wall was formed by the axis of rotation of a giant black hole that gave birth to the observable universe within it. What else could account for a structure of billions of galaxies in a relatively straight line extending 10B light years?

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 19

Yes, and in this model, the HCB Great Wall may have been formed by the axis of rotation of the mother black hole that gave birth to the observable universe. What else could account for a structure of billions of galaxies in a relatively straight line extending 10B light years?

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · Jun 11

Interesting theory (non-paywalled)

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole

New theory makes testable predictions.

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 19

Perhaps the HCB Great Wall was formed by the axis of rotation of a giant black hole that gave birth to the observable universe within it. What else could account for a structure of billions of galaxies in a relatively straight line extending 10B light years?

So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 8

4/ This implies a parent universe w/ far older & larger black holes forming new sets of galaxies within them. Big eggs vs. big bangs. Eventually, the black holes dissipate, and make visible the parent universe beyond. This may be why JWST is finding older black holes & galaxies in the far distance.

So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 8

3/ This implies there was no big bang, but rather a sufficiently large black hole in the parent universe to provide the sub-atomic particles at its center to form the baryon & plasma that started our visible universe.

So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 8

2/ This would make the HCB Great Wall the HCB Great Axis, indicating all galaxies should be rotating around it. To prove this, the galaxies on the far side from Earth of the HCB should be moving in the opposite direction of the galaxies on the near side.

So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 8

1/ Fact: The largest known structure in the universe is the 10B lightyear long Hercules Corona Borealis Great Wall (HCB), containing billions of galaxies in a relatively straight line.

Hypothesis: It was formed by the axis of rotation of a giant black hole that formed our known universe.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · Jun 1

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Two intriguing Saturn's moons: icy Rhea in front of the orb of potent Titan.

A splendid true-color view, taken by Cassini spacecraft on June 16, 2011.

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

🔭 🧪 #planetsci #science #space

The image shows Saturn's two moons, Titan and Rhea, apparently overlapping. In the foreground, Rhea, the smaller of the two, occupies the lower part of the image. It is spherical in appearance, with a grey, cratered surface. Titan is significantly larger. It has a distinctly different appearance: it is shrouded in a thick, opaque atmosphere that is reddish-orange in color, giving it a warm, uniform, almost hazy hue. The deep black background of space accentuates the contrast between the cool grey of Rhea and the warm orange of Titan that dominates the scene.

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · Jun 7

7 June 2024: William Anders passed away.

"We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."

– W. Anders, after the conclusion of the Apollo 8 mission.

These poignant words embody the meaning and the purpose of exploration.

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This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.
The black space background accentuates the contrast between the Earth, which appears as a variegated blue marble, and the grayish, cratered surface of the Moon in the foreground. The image inspires a sense of awed wonder.

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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · Jun 6

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American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · Jun 6

Last week, NASA and NSF released their FY26 budget requests. We list the detailed impacts on the astronomical sciences in this blog post, and share how you can take action today.
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Jacob Gillette @ekobaseobservatory.bsky.social · Jun 6

About 1700 light years away lies the North America nebula (NGC 7000). My photo is of the Cygnus Wall section, an ~20 light year across area of strong star formation. This is an emission nebula, where light from forming stars ionizes the surrounding gas causing it to glow #astronomy #astrophotography

The North America nebula (NGC 7000). Observed in the constellation Cygnus, about 1500 light years from Earth, this photo is of a what is called the Cygnus Wall, an area of particularly strong star formation. This nebula is an emission nebula, where light from forming stars ionizes the surrounding gas causing it to glow. The entire nebula is about 100 light years across, with the Cygnus Wall being about 20 light years long.

My scope will only cover a small portion of the full nebula in a single frame. I’m pretty happy with this photo though Sky conditions were actually pretty poor on Monday night with the Canadian wildfires, but I avoided the worst of it by about a day thankfully. This photo is composed of 28x500 sec exposures, for a total integration time of approx 3.8 hours. My camera is a cooled Astro camera (ASI 2600MC AIR) with a telescope focal length of 1960mm @ F7.8

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Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · Jun 7

I present to you three visions of the nearly edge on Sombrero Galaxy. From left to right we have Hubble (visible wavelengths), JWST (near-infrared wavelengths) and JWST (mid-infrared wavelengths). (1/n) 🧪🔭

📸 whole thread: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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So-called Dave @sirpapad.bsky.social · Jun 8

Agreed.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · May 6

The FAA halted the work of an outside panel of experts scrutinizing its management of air traffic control, a previously unreported move made after a fatal airliner crash near Washington raised questions about the agency’s abilities to keep the skies safe.

FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control

The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.

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Marie-Jo @marie-jo-marseille.bsky.social · Jun 6

Une belle journée
avec David Hockney....

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