Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

The DoJ lawsuit alleges #SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration & Nationality Act. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-spacex-discriminating-against-asylees-and-refugees-hiring

⬆️ Launch moved due to weather - we are now go for 09:30 JST / 01:30 BST / 02:30 CEST on 27 August 2023!

My nerves, my nerves - I want to see this thing fly and get my hands on the data, I had the first observation proposals planned back in 2014 ... !

More info: ▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Next_major_X-ray_mission_set_to_launch_on_Saturday

[image of # XRISM by JAXA, during thermal tests ...]

#astrodon #ESA #XraysAreTheBestRays

Got it:

"I'm a match, she's kerosene,
She's unlikely to ignite at STP."

Released into the #PublicDomain, and uploaded to #WikimediaCommons together with the #Mathematica script used to generate it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Non_chaotic_double_pendulum.gif

When you look into the abyss and sometimes #TheAbyss looks back..
@jaztrophysicist appears to be stuck somewhere nightmarish and stunningly beautiful.

#TheScream #SciArt #Abstract

😱

https://astrodon.social/@jaztrophysicist/110943371977373065

I'm going to deactivate my Mastodon account sometime soon. Currently using Bluesky more actively. My handle is still devezer. Come and find me there!

Trump's video interview with Tucker Carlson racked up ~75M "views" on X in its first 2 hours.

I wrote for the Washington Post's live blog about why that's a deeply misleading metric that doesn't actually tell us how many people watched it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/23/republican-presidential-debate/#link-PQMIE5H7T5CANF25HMWGJSUR5Y

Even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as during the pandemic lockdown, we wouldn't achieve our climate targets.

While individuals made huge sacrifices, the system remained. This shows that individual action will not solve climate change. We need the system to change.

Today and over the next couple days we can expect a lot of news related to the Georgia Trump racketeering indictments. To demonstrate how Mastodon has become an excellent source for coverage of such events, and to promote good accounts to follow, this account will be boosting breaking reports and analysis.

#USPolitics #Trump #GeorgiaRacketeering #Mugshots

What is the business model that will keep #BlueSky open? It's a business. It will need revenue. But even when the get out of Beta and open it up, it'll be far smaller than Twitter ever was, with pretty much most of the same costs to make it function.

The Internet Archive has joined the Partnership on AI.

I expect fast-reading people to read we're suddenly all AI-crazy, but in fact the organization is a pump-the-brakes what-part-of-AI-makes-sense study group trying to get a grip on the now-loose cyberhorse galloping through everyone's backyard.

https://partnershiponai.org/how-we-work/

Something I love about Oslo: This city is incredibly quiet.

Lots of people are walking/biking/scooting. And most vehicles are electric, while speed limits are typically 30 km/hr (19 mph), so engine/tire noise is negligible.

A reminder that cities aren't loud; *cars* are loud.

nice summary on the amount of exoplanets discovered so far (spoiler: terrestrial - 198 exoplanets)

🔗 https://spaceexplored.com/2023/08/22/how-many-exoplanets-are-there-discovered/
#space

#Wireshark 4.0.8 has been released. Enjoy.

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.0.8.html

@static The best bits of science are so unbelievable you need science to convince yourself it's true 😂 😎

There is a lot of anxiety and energy put in to the project of defining fascism. It makes sense. Fascism is (nearly) universally understood to be negative, dangerous, intoxicating. Fascism is the bath salts of political philosophy. A drug terrifying not just because of its degrading effects on the body, but the horror of enacting out atrocities -- but being unable to recognize them as atrocities until sober.

A precise, sorting definition of fascism would be a powerful prophylactic. 1/

Was wondering when this accident was going to happen.

WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April

Vulnerability allows hackers to execute malicious code when targets open malicious ZIP files.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/winrar-0-day-that-uses-poisoned-jpg-and-txt-files-under-exploit-since-april/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Congratulations to our colleagues at the Indian Space Research Organisation on the successful soft landing of their Chandrayaan 3 probe on the Moon 🇮🇳👏

#SpaceExploration #Astrodon

India's historic #Chandrayaan3 #moon landing celebrated by #ISS #astronauts. We heard from the crew on the #space station today about how thrilled they were with the good news.

https://www.space.com/chandrayaan-3-india-moon-landing-international-space-station-astronauts-celebrate