Chase
@spacechase.bsky.social
Supporter of National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. Professional Gulfstream Pilot, optimistic future Astronaut.
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Chase
@spacechase.bsky.social
· Dec 12
I’m excited to start over with social media on Bluesky. Not in it for the follows, likes, or impact. Just hope to have a place for ideas, good or bad, to exist outside my notes app.
Some things don’t need AI features. Like dictionaries.
June 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Some things don’t need AI features. Like dictionaries.
Pretty active week for auroras! Witnessed this over Kansas, caught me completely by surprise!
June 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Pretty active week for auroras! Witnessed this over Kansas, caught me completely by surprise!
Signs of spring in our yard: Lillies sprouting, and our young Dawn Redwoods budding!
March 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Signs of spring in our yard: Lillies sprouting, and our young Dawn Redwoods budding!
Opinions are worthwhile, and I generally enjoy hearing ones that differ from mine with one key point: You have to make it known respectfully. Discourse improves our understanding and forces us to examine our own beliefs. But it must be mutual. And don’t be a dick about it.
March 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Opinions are worthwhile, and I generally enjoy hearing ones that differ from mine with one key point: You have to make it known respectfully. Discourse improves our understanding and forces us to examine our own beliefs. But it must be mutual. And don’t be a dick about it.
Super Blade Runner vibes
The broader purpose of studying hidden objectives is to prevent future scenarios where AI systems might deceive or manipulate human users.
Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s “hidden objectives”
Anthropic trains custom AI to hide objectives, but different “personas” spill their secrets.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Super Blade Runner vibes
This is pretty huge. Spread the word!
The expanded financial aid plan will also offer free tuition to families that make $200,000 or less. The move comes after affirmative action was barred from the admissions process.
Harvard will be free for students whose families make $100,000 or less
The expanded financial aid plan will also offer free tuition to families that make $200,000 or less. The move comes after affirmative action was barred from the admissions process.
www.npr.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is pretty huge. Spread the word!
There’s a serene beauty being in clear smooth air over the Rockies.
March 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
There’s a serene beauty being in clear smooth air over the Rockies.
Reposted by Chase
astronaut don pettit’s new image made my jaw drop.
it’s SO beautiful!!!
it’s SO beautiful!!!
February 26, 2025 at 7:57 PM
astronaut don pettit’s new image made my jaw drop.
it’s SO beautiful!!!
it’s SO beautiful!!!
Reposted by Chase
The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service.
“It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”
“It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”
Fired Park Rangers Try to ‘Open Some Hearts’ on Social Media
Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about their firings and share their love of the National Park Service.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The National Park Service fired many of its park rangers as part of a reduction in the federal work force. Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about the cuts and share their love of the Park Service.
“It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”
“It’s scary, but it was the right thing to do.”
I’ve always loved flying at night. When I first started at the airlines most of my trips were evening flights. I bought a star chart and started learning the constellations above me.
Can you see the Big Dipper here?
Can you see the Big Dipper here?
February 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’ve always loved flying at night. When I first started at the airlines most of my trips were evening flights. I bought a star chart and started learning the constellations above me.
Can you see the Big Dipper here?
Can you see the Big Dipper here?
Vast (www.vastspace.com) announces the full-time hiring of a Lead Astronaut (Congratulations Andrew Feustel, please make a bsky account!). Does this mean perhaps they will hire their own cadre of astronauts?
Hope so!!
Hope so!!
Vast – Building Next-Generation Space Stations
Vast is developing humanity’s most capable space stations, pioneering the next giant leap toward long-term living and thriving in space.
www.vastspace.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Vast (www.vastspace.com) announces the full-time hiring of a Lead Astronaut (Congratulations Andrew Feustel, please make a bsky account!). Does this mean perhaps they will hire their own cadre of astronauts?
Hope so!!
Hope so!!
Do it!!
Direct to consumer sales is a muuuuch better experience for car purchases, and aligns with today’s society in providing one price, click here to buy convenience.
Direct to consumer sales is a muuuuch better experience for car purchases, and aligns with today’s society in providing one price, click here to buy convenience.
South Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill to allow direct EV sales. If it passes, companies like Rivian and Scout could sell directly to consumers instead of going through dealerships. Governor McMaster has signaled his support.
Read more: riviantrackr.com/news/south-c...
Read more: riviantrackr.com/news/south-c...
South Carolina Lawmakers Push to Legalize Direct EV Sales
South Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill allowing electric vehicle companies to sell directly to consumers. Scout Motors, a Volkswagen subsidiary, is building a $2 billion EV factory in the sta...
riviantrackr.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Do it!!
Direct to consumer sales is a muuuuch better experience for car purchases, and aligns with today’s society in providing one price, click here to buy convenience.
Direct to consumer sales is a muuuuch better experience for car purchases, and aligns with today’s society in providing one price, click here to buy convenience.
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TIL a new term: ‘cognitive offloading’, the idea of using lists, phones, etc to lessen the demands on your brain.
I do this all the time - I basically let google be my memory! But is this damaging my *actual* memory?
@helenpearson.bsky.social has the full story:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I do this all the time - I basically let google be my memory! But is this damaging my *actual* memory?
@helenpearson.bsky.social has the full story:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
TIL a new term: ‘cognitive offloading’, the idea of using lists, phones, etc to lessen the demands on your brain.
I do this all the time - I basically let google be my memory! But is this damaging my *actual* memory?
@helenpearson.bsky.social has the full story:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I do this all the time - I basically let google be my memory! But is this damaging my *actual* memory?
@helenpearson.bsky.social has the full story:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Oh… oh no.
There is a reason that aviation is slow to adopt change.
Aviation appears deceptively simple, and is the most unforgiving, except for perhaps crewed space flight.
There is a reason that aviation is slow to adopt change.
Aviation appears deceptively simple, and is the most unforgiving, except for perhaps crewed space flight.
Move fast and break things is not the motto you want to adopt at a regulatory system that, as challenged as it may seem at times, is extremely functional.
February 6, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Oh… oh no.
There is a reason that aviation is slow to adopt change.
Aviation appears deceptively simple, and is the most unforgiving, except for perhaps crewed space flight.
There is a reason that aviation is slow to adopt change.
Aviation appears deceptively simple, and is the most unforgiving, except for perhaps crewed space flight.
I have yet to hear a single person say that going to a dealership was a good experience. The last time I bought a car at one I caught the salesman *three* different times trying to get my wife to sign a credit check form.
Dealers: adapt or die.
Direct, one-price sales are desirable.
Dealers: adapt or die.
Direct, one-price sales are desirable.
Scout Motors sued over plan to sell EVs direct to consumers
Scout Motors sued over plan to sell EVs direct to consumers
Scout Motors’ plan to eschew traditional dealerships and sell EVs directly to consumers is running into legal trouble. A group of Volkswagen and Audi dealers filed a lawsuit this week against Scout Motors, the EV that spun out of Volkswagen. The lawsuit,…
tcrn.ch
February 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I have yet to hear a single person say that going to a dealership was a good experience. The last time I bought a car at one I caught the salesman *three* different times trying to get my wife to sign a credit check form.
Dealers: adapt or die.
Direct, one-price sales are desirable.
Dealers: adapt or die.
Direct, one-price sales are desirable.
If you have an internet connection, especially on a smartphone, there is no good reason to remain uneducated on any topic you encounter. Stop celebrating how much you don’t know something. Don’t fall into the trap of believing you don’t need to know something.
Knowledge is power. Use it.
Knowledge is power. Use it.
February 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you have an internet connection, especially on a smartphone, there is no good reason to remain uneducated on any topic you encounter. Stop celebrating how much you don’t know something. Don’t fall into the trap of believing you don’t need to know something.
Knowledge is power. Use it.
Knowledge is power. Use it.
I make a point of not unilaterally judging someone based on political alignment, but I also detest most conversations on politics simply because frequently those involved are unwilling to listen, they only want to speak. That said, I can’t see how bills to change monuments and airport names do good.
February 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I make a point of not unilaterally judging someone based on political alignment, but I also detest most conversations on politics simply because frequently those involved are unwilling to listen, they only want to speak. That said, I can’t see how bills to change monuments and airport names do good.
The DCA crash really hits home for myself and many of those I know in aviation, and a universal theme is we greatly lament it turning into a political stage. Regardless of who you like, vote for, or what you believe, this is a conversation about safety, policy, and procedures. Expand your EQ.
January 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The DCA crash really hits home for myself and many of those I know in aviation, and a universal theme is we greatly lament it turning into a political stage. Regardless of who you like, vote for, or what you believe, this is a conversation about safety, policy, and procedures. Expand your EQ.
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.
— Lewis Carroll
— Lewis Carroll
January 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.
— Lewis Carroll
— Lewis Carroll
It’s uncanny how many times people have read me chatGPT responses to questions they had previously posed to me and how similar the responses have been. Sometimes down to the same sentence.
January 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It’s uncanny how many times people have read me chatGPT responses to questions they had previously posed to me and how similar the responses have been. Sometimes down to the same sentence.
The controllers at DCA are some of the best in the nation. It’s a long road to become a controller. Longer still to work a terminal environment. Longer still to work a class Bravo, tower, and then to work inside the SFRA. To imply anything else only demonstrates your own lack of intelligence.
January 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The controllers at DCA are some of the best in the nation. It’s a long road to become a controller. Longer still to work a terminal environment. Longer still to work a class Bravo, tower, and then to work inside the SFRA. To imply anything else only demonstrates your own lack of intelligence.
Wondering how pilots are expected to “see and avoid” other aircraft? Here’s a fantastic training video most of us in the industry have seen at one point or another:
youtu.be/-bOjRYqK6TQ?...
youtu.be/-bOjRYqK6TQ?...
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Collision Avoidance (2000)
YouTube video by Air Safety Institute
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Wondering how pilots are expected to “see and avoid” other aircraft? Here’s a fantastic training video most of us in the industry have seen at one point or another:
youtu.be/-bOjRYqK6TQ?...
youtu.be/-bOjRYqK6TQ?...
A potential upside to all this chaos: There’s a decent chance the “average American” is going to be much more educated on basic economic topics over the next four years.
January 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A potential upside to all this chaos: There’s a decent chance the “average American” is going to be much more educated on basic economic topics over the next four years.
Reposted by Chase
Breaking News: Officials said they believed no one had survived the midair collision between a plane carrying 64 people and an Army helicopter carrying three.
Follow live updates.
Follow live updates.
No Survivors in Plane and Helicopter Crash Near Washington D.C., Officials Say: Live Updates
An American Airlines jet plunged into the Potomac River after colliding with an Army helicopter. Sixty-four people were aboard, including U.S. and Russian figure skaters returning from a camp in Kansa...
nyti.ms
January 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Breaking News: Officials said they believed no one had survived the midair collision between a plane carrying 64 people and an Army helicopter carrying three.
Follow live updates.
Follow live updates.
I am a professional pilot, with past experience flying for regional airlines. I’ve known many good people who flew CRJ 700s at PSA. My opinion is one of many, founded on very little information, and should not be considered expert, though it is experienced. This is a tragedy, one we will learn from
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter as the plane was approaching a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night, according to federal aviation officials.
Here's what we know:
Here's what we know:
Live updates: Crews search for survivors after a passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided near D.C.
A regional jet carrying 64 people collided in midair with a Black Hawk helicopter as the plane was approaching a runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.
www.npr.org
January 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I am a professional pilot, with past experience flying for regional airlines. I’ve known many good people who flew CRJ 700s at PSA. My opinion is one of many, founded on very little information, and should not be considered expert, though it is experienced. This is a tragedy, one we will learn from