Listen up: The Popular Science ‘Ask Us Anything’ podcast is back
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Listen up: The Popular Science ‘Ask Us Anything’ podcast is back
Answering your weirdest questions since 1872.Annie Colbert (Popular Science)
Il governatore di Rio a processo martedì, mandato a rischio - America Latina - Ansa.it
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Il governatore di Rio a processo martedì, mandato a rischio - America Latina - Ansa.it
Il Tribunale superiore elettorale ha fissato per martedì (4 novembre) il giudizio su un ricorso che potrebbe portare alla revoca del mandato del governatore dello stato di Rio de Janeiro, Cláudio Castro (Pl), e il ritorno alle urne prima dell'ottobre…Agenzia ANSA
Dopo la vittoria di Milei, nuova visita di Bessent in Argentina - America Latina - Ansa.it
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Dopo la vittoria di Milei, nuova visita di Bessent in Argentina - America Latina - Ansa.it
Forte della solida vittoria alle elezioni legislative di metà mandato, il presidente argentino Javier Milei ha incassato oggi anche le congratulazioni del segretario del Tesoro Usa, Scott Bessent, che ha ribadito inoltre il sostegno del governo Trump…Agenzia ANSA
Wow, well, fuck, that's one way to deal with crowding in orbit: livescience.com/space/the-sun/…
"The next Carrington-level solar superstorm could wipe out 'all our satellites,' new simulations reveal"
(this is not a good way to deal with crowding in orbit. Can we please please just have fewer satellites???)
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There's finally a proper trailer for the concluding season of "Strangers Things," which will drop in three batches: Nov. 26, Dec. 25 and Dec. 31. @Engadget shares the two-minute teaser, which has Queen's "Who Wants to Live Forever," best-known as the "Highlander" theme, as its soundtrack. We want to know: Will you be watching the conclusion of "Stranger Things"?
#Television #TV #Entertainment #StrangerThings #DufferBrothers
We finally have a real-deal trailer for Stranger Things season five
The final season of Stranger Things starts streaming on November 26. We finally have an official trailer that's filled with footage.Lawrence Bonk (Engadget)
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Spiele mit einer angeblichen KI herum, auf Basis meiner Vorlesungsskripte. Tool erstellt Lernkartei. Eine der Fragen:
"Wer entwickelte Mitte der 1940er Jahre die theoretischen Grundlagen für die von-Neumann-Architektur?"
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Polish fighter jets intercept another Russian aircraft
Polish MiG-29 fighter jets intercepted another Russian reconnaissance aircraft over the Baltic Sea this week.Ulyana Krychkovska (Ukrainska Pravda)
Robert Frank’s Leica (Well, Close) - 35mmc
Fairly quickly, I purchased a black-bodied Leica iii that, according to Red Dot Camera’s online research tool, was thought to have been made in 1934John Bennett (35mmc)
IGP-M, índice usado para reajuste de aluguéis, recua 0,36% em outubro - Gazeta Brasil- Notícias do Brasil e
O IGP-M (Índice Geral de Preços – Mercado), conhecido como a inflação do aluguel, registrou queda de 0,36% em outubro, após alta de 0,42% em setembro, deGazeta Brasil
Welcome to the filter bubble!
Meta wants your input and takes it without asking. Starting Dec 16, your AI chat interactions (text & voice) will shape the ads and posts you see. Your private questions fuel the algorithm.
An AI assistant can be helpful – but be conscious about which one you use!
👉 Read the full article by CNBC: cnbc.com/2025/10/01/meta-faceb…
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Meta greenlights Facebook, Instagram ads based on your AI chats
Meta will show ads and other content to users based on their interactions with the Meta AI digital assistant and other generative artificial intelligence tools.Jonathan Vanian (CNBC)
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I am currently testing Lumo from Proton which is AI based on privacy.
People think my coldness towards those who "voted for this" is off-putting, and I simply do not care.
My empathy is reserved for people who want EVERYONE to have a better life, not people who want THEIR life to be better, but don't care if OTHER PEOPLE'S are harder.
The number of people complaining about how they didn't vote for tariffs to cost them their farm, or for their family members to be deported, I wish nothing but terrible things for you. You WANTED bad things, just for OTHER people.
Tanzania post-election unrest spills into Kenya as police lob tear gas over the border
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Tanzania post-election unrest spills into Kenya as police lob tear gas over the border | Africanews
Tanzania’s post-electoral unrest isn’t confined to the country. It’s now spilling over in to neighbouring Kenya, with police lobbing tear gas over the border and cross-border traffic ground to a halt.Africanews
4 Major Stretching Myths—Busted
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4 Major Stretching Myths—Busted
From types of stretches to do before a run to working on flexibility in general, here are four stretching myths you should keep in mind.Elizabeth Millard (Runner's World)
Concerti al lume di candela alla Fortezza
MONTECARLO Al via la rassegna concertistica della Fortezza di Montecarlo. Un cartellone ricco di appuntamenti dal 9 novembre fino al 22...
Riapertura Basilica di Norcia, vescovo: "Benedetto continua a parlare al mondo"
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Riapertura Basilica di Norcia, vescovo: "Benedetto continua a parlare al mondo"
"Benedetto ritrova la sua casa e continua a parlare a noi e al mondo e ci insegna un modo altro di costruire la società e di guardare al bene comun…La Stampa
Ukraine's commander-in-chief finally meets with brigade commanders – photos
Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has held a long-awaited meeting with the commanders of the brigades fighting on the Pokrovsk front.Olha Kyrylenko (Ukrainska Pravda)
Liam Hemsworth isn’t the problem with The Witcher’s fourth season
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Liam Hemsworth isn’t the problem with The Witcher’s fourth season
Netflix’s live-action series The Witcher returns for season 4, and this time Geralt of Rivia is played by Liam Hemsworth instead of Henry Cavill.Andrew Webster (The Verge)
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How 'Love is Blind' is reshaping global views on love, from Japan to Brazil
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Goldman Sachs CEO Solomon Says US Recession Odds Are Low
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what could possibly go wrong?!
cnbc.com/2025/10/28/paypal-ope…
PayPal signs deal with OpenAI to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT
The move makes PayPal an early part of OpenAI's efforts to broaden ChatGPT's use for e-commerce.Hugh Son (CNBC)
Decent Cybersecurity Highlights Slovakia's Tech Leadership at the EU-NZ Business Summit (2025年10月30日) -
Auckland,NewZealand,Oct30,2025-(ACNNewswire)-AttheinauguralEuropeanUnion–NewZealandBusinessSum...WACOCA News Editor (WACOCA NEWS)
The 6 7 thing is just the youths engaging in dadaist performance art. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.
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Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year Is…
Each year, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year and short-listed nominees capture pivotal moments in language and culture. These words serve as a linguistic time capsule, reflecting social trends and global events that defined the year.Anna B. (Dictionary.com)
Sports Trivia Quiz: Eight questions to test your knowledge
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‘Morrisons killed us’: UK’s most westerly village shop closes after half a century
The Ferry Stores, in the remote village of Kilchoan, will shut its doors after struggling to fight off the decline in footfall and the advent of home delivery servicesLibby Brooks (The Guardian)
E diamoglielo 'sto Nobel per la pace 😤
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Trump ha annunciato l’avvio di test nucleari: “Rispondiamo agli altri Paesi”
Il portavoce del ministero degli esteri cinese Guo Jiakun ha dichiarato che si augurano gli Stati Uniti ''rispettino seriamente” il divieto di condurre test nucleari, come previsto dal Trattato sulla messa al bando totale degli esperimenti nucleariIl Fatto Quotidiano
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‘Scamming became the new farming’: inside India’s cybercrime villages
The long read: How did an obscure district in a neglected state become India’s byword for digital deceit?Snigdha Poonam (The Guardian)
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1:10 min animation video
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Francesca Albanese names over 60 states complicit in Gaza genocide.
The special UN rapporteur was sanctioned by the US earlier this year for naming companies profiting from the genocide
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This lesbian was the voice behind the morals at the end of She-Ra episodes in the 80s
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/this-lesbian-was-the-voice-behind-the-morals-at-the-end-of-she-ra-episodes-in-the-80s/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This lesbian was the voice behind the morals at the end of She-Ra episodes in the 80s - LGBTQ Nation
Erika Scheimer and Filmation Associates helped make classic cartoons very queer.Matt Keeley (LGBTQ Nation)
As college basketball continues to change, how long will the game's old guard of coaches press on?
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Tell me if I’m wrong, but the necessity for collision of avoidance related to density exponentially. The wrong kind of meteor shower would seem to me to be equally a threat and much more likely. Even stray object.
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in reply to Jef Poskanzer • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Obot 50549535 • • •That would be the swelling of the atmosphere due to a warming climate, right?
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in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •Beldarak
in reply to Jef Poskanzer • • •Satellites aren't in true orbit as they're too close to Earth, so after some time they would fall back on Earth.
Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Beldarak • • •LΞX/NØVΛ
in reply to Beldarak • • •@Beldarak @jef hum, do you even know what you talking about.
Even i that have 0 qualification to talk about satellite know that some would be a catastrophic junk if they stop, as they are too far to come back "by temselve" short therm, yet too close so they will anoy everyone up there.
Beldarak
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I probably used the wrong wording here but I was talking about atmospheric drag:
swpc.noaa.gov/impacts/satellit…
Satellite Drag | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
www.swpc.noaa.govLΞX/NØVΛ
in reply to Beldarak • • •Kingsley Bugarin PLY OAM 🇦🇺
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Here is a handy online tool for calculating the rate of orbit decay due to atmospheric drag;
lizard-tail.com/isana/lab/orbi…
@Beldarak @jef @sundogplanets
SATELLITE ORBITAL DECAY PREDICTION
www.lizard-tail.comProf. Sam Lawler
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in reply to David Penfold • • •They will find stiff competition with Butlerian Jihadists
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Michael Busch
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •I do not like how Live Science's headline exaggerates the ESOC report.
"GPS temporarily unavailable until the satellites are recovered from safe mode" and "newly launched satellites in very low orbits are lost" is already quite bad enough.
Prof. Sam Lawler
in reply to Michael Busch • • •@michael_w_busch Ohhhh yikes. Yeah, that's a big difference. I should have actually read the report!
But I do agree that if a large fraction of LEO satellites are offline/in safe mode for more that a few hours, really, we are in deep trouble collision-wise.
Michael Busch
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Ray McCarthy
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Not a spoiler
A student mentions that at the end of "No Silver Lining".
The "GPS" and similar satellites are used for all kinds of non-navigational timing applications, sometimes to save $100 on a $50,000 system install.
Cell/Mobile phone base stations, DAB, DVB-T and others.
An avoidable disaster waiting to happen to save a small percentage of once-off capital expenditure.
Speculators, shareholders, accountants and bookkeepers shouldn't be in charge of technical decisions.
Dan Sugalski
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Read the story and... that'll be a hell of a mess. A bunch of the satellites will end up catching air and deorbiting (yay? I guess) but most will just get temporarily or permanently knocked offline and we'll probably have a bunch of cascading collision events tossing debris clouds all over. Eww.
Guess we'll need a second Carrington event to push all the unpowered debris into the atmosphere to clean up after the first.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Think of it as evolution in action
- Larry Niven All the Myriad ways.
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •jdliechty
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •In these discussions on Kessler syndrome I find myself thinking about Starfish Prime.
Companies may promise their satellites will be shielded (and mil-spec in their government contracts). Even if that were possible it seems like there are so many existing older satellites that would be vulnerable to the Christofilos effect:
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t…
It's specially disturbing that Starfish Prime was less than 5 years after Sputnik - relatively primitive tech.
entrapment of charged particles along magnetic lines of force
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •So I read this and wonder who or what is the organisation that’s going to restrict Musk’s Starkink programme?
Do we just assume another potential ‘Earth as we know it showstopper’ has been added to the list…and governments around the world will do absolutely diddly squat to minimise the risk from this Carrington level event.
Eggs now in different baskets.
in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •"I saw two shooting stars last night.
I wished on them but they were only satellites.
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care."
B Bragg, "A New England" - Life's A Riot With Spy vs Spy
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in reply to Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Like disaster movies?
Be sure to watch the exciting new series:
Carrington vs Kessler: The fall of the new machine
coming soon to a field near you.
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