Astroñoratx
@astrochilanga.bsky.social
Astronomer, data scientist, chilanga turned austinite.
Brilliant metaphor
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Brilliant metaphor
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NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
NEW: The commutation Trump issued to David Gentile wipes away all further fines & restitution.
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
Gentile had been sentenced to 7 years for his role in a $1.6B scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
Prosecutors had been seeking $15.5M in forfeiture.
www.justice.gov/pardon/media...
His kinship with crooks is non partisan
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
December 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
His kinship with crooks is non partisan
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
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Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Der Spiegel: Commander in Sleep
Math keeps not mathing
“To recoup their existing and announced investments, AI companies will have to bring in $2 trillion, more than the combined revenue of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia and Meta.
“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”
“And they have to bring in that $2 trillion before all those GPUs burn out…which is, again, about 2–3 years.”
The AI that we’ll have after AI
Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.
doctorow.medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Math keeps not mathing
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It isn't a war. If it were, the strikes are still war crimes.
The drugs weren't headed to the U.S.
The people killed were likely poor, low-level smugglers, not drug lords.
Most overdose deaths are from fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't come from South America.
Everything else Marshall says is correct!
The drugs weren't headed to the U.S.
The people killed were likely poor, low-level smugglers, not drug lords.
Most overdose deaths are from fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't come from South America.
Everything else Marshall says is correct!
Sen. Roger Marshall defends Hegseth: "Look, we're losing 200 Americans every day to drug poisoning from these drug lords. This is a war. And it's ugly. War is never pretty ... that strike probably saved thousands of American lives."
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
It isn't a war. If it were, the strikes are still war crimes.
The drugs weren't headed to the U.S.
The people killed were likely poor, low-level smugglers, not drug lords.
Most overdose deaths are from fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't come from South America.
Everything else Marshall says is correct!
The drugs weren't headed to the U.S.
The people killed were likely poor, low-level smugglers, not drug lords.
Most overdose deaths are from fentanyl. Fentanyl doesn't come from South America.
Everything else Marshall says is correct!
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The president is falling asleep durring a White House cabinet meeting with each member praising him for his resilience. What are we doing America? This is so embarrassing.
December 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The president is falling asleep durring a White House cabinet meeting with each member praising him for his resilience. What are we doing America? This is so embarrassing.
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“Liver cancer has disappeared in children,” one liver specialist says, after a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended since 1991. Now a CDC advisory panel is revisiting the schedule.
RFK Jr. wants to delay the hepatitis B vaccine. Here’s what parents need to know.
“Liver cancer has disappeared in children,” one liver specialist says, after a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended since 1991. Now a CDC advisory panel is revisiting the schedule.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Liver cancer has disappeared in children,” one liver specialist says, after a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended since 1991. Now a CDC advisory panel is revisiting the schedule.
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I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo.
85%
85%
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm like 90% sure that's an innocent typo.
85%
85%
😳
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Are we going to let them hurt our children like that???
fuming mad wapo.st/3XrsKoD
RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
wapo.st
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Are we going to let them hurt our children like that???
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.
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So, every month I update a graph which breaks out the percent of total traffic to ACASignups.net from every source (search engines, social media, other websites, etc). I have 10 years of data.
The 3 biggest takeaways:
--Bluesky's rise
--Twitter/X's fall
--Google's fade
The 3 biggest takeaways:
--Bluesky's rise
--Twitter/X's fall
--Google's fade
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
So, every month I update a graph which breaks out the percent of total traffic to ACASignups.net from every source (search engines, social media, other websites, etc). I have 10 years of data.
The 3 biggest takeaways:
--Bluesky's rise
--Twitter/X's fall
--Google's fade
The 3 biggest takeaways:
--Bluesky's rise
--Twitter/X's fall
--Google's fade
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talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
talking to reporters last night, Trump claimed of Hegseth's double tap strike that "I don't know anything about it," then moments later claimed "I don't who you're talking about" when asked his plan to pardon the former Honduran president
I’ll never get hover this one
Whenever i read about the cognition of evangelical faith spaces i remember they sing a sex song at gatherings because it has the word “Hallelujah” in it
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I’ll never get hover this one
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3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
😱
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Here are all the permutations of how Lando/Max/Oscar can win the championship
redd.it/1paqf6r (by u/Lyrrh)
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP
redd.it/1paqf6r (by u/Lyrrh)
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP
November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Here are all the permutations of how Lando/Max/Oscar can win the championship
redd.it/1paqf6r (by u/Lyrrh)
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP
redd.it/1paqf6r (by u/Lyrrh)
#F1 #AbuDhabiGP
I love Piastri, and I would love it if he wins de WC, but part of me thinks McLaren deserves to lose for sheer repeated stupidity.
November 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I love Piastri, and I would love it if he wins de WC, but part of me thinks McLaren deserves to lose for sheer repeated stupidity.
Please, explain VAERS to the people around you.
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
Thread [1/9]
Thread [1/9]
November 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Please, explain VAERS to the people around you.
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In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
November 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
In a new leaked memo, the FDA outlined plans to make it much harder to get new vaccines approved, claiming, without sharing evidence, that the COVID vaccines have killed at least 10 children.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
This is so reckless. The science shows us that COVID vaccines have saved millions of lives.
We went to record store recently. I told my kid that we used to walk into stores and just listen to random CDs. Feels like another planet now.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We went to record store recently. I told my kid that we used to walk into stores and just listen to random CDs. Feels like another planet now.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.