RE: https://mastodon.nl/@radiotelescoop/117620945871579395
Dutch **AMATEUR** radio astronomers observe Voyager 1 with their 25 meter dish. These people are so impressive. These detections involve dozens to hundreds of photons per bit. The Dwingeloo people are aiming to make observations Wednesday when Voyager 1 will cross 1 light-day of distance, and there will be a livestream on camras.nl
RE: https://techhub.social/@NSFVoyager2/117620346780571615
Twenty-two seconds short of a light-day!
DON'T BOOK THE 5AM FLIGHT, MIKE!
Whoop! There it is.
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This is absolutely fascinating tomrowley.substack.com/p/what-happe...
Cancellations and delays continue throughout the US air network as yesterday's ground stop has planes and crews in the wrong places.
White smoke coming out of my GPU! A new CEO has been chosen!
I could go *so* *far* on. If your chatbot talks a teen into self-harm, jail time. No question. Social media platform cause genocide? Kind of in war crime territory, really.
We have a lot of stuff to fix in the world and especially in America. But I think one really important thing is to assign responsibility, force accountability, for oligarchs hiding behind the law and taking all the money.
I've said this a few times before, but this is a good time to re-up.
If you design a bad drug, build a bridge that collapses, make firetrap housing, you're legally liable for negligence. Computer programming is the only discipline that calls itself engineering that also disclaims liability for how its products perform.
That's bullshit.
If you make or deploy AI that shuts down air traffic, if you deploy vibe code that turns the Microsoft cloud off, meaningful penalties should obtain.
Man AI is having a bit of a week.
Matt Levine's Money Stuff is always a highlight read for my day, but this morning's edition is a standard deviation or two above the mean:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-11-12/nvidia-s-board-had-to-do-something
@mttaggart
Don't say it chilly don't say it chilly
All it took to pop the AI bubble was a little prick.
If trains and economics are in the overlap portion of your nerdery Venn diagram, this'll be fun for you:
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/
Scifi title wins the Booker prize:
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-end-of-everything
Have not read; plan to fix that.
@mikeolson I'm extremely interested in the last mile proposal here.
Communities need modern, cheaper options for microgrids and sharing excess generation with small co-ops. This can't exist without better local storage options, improved SCADA at both the consumer and co-op level, and localized power distribution hardware that allow for different optimization routing.
Well, this is interesting:
Collection of open source tools for improving bicycle infrastructure. Built in Copenhagen, currently covers just European cities. Love to see this expanded to the US.
Interesting policy proposal from Project 2029 to deregulate the electricity industry in the US:
https://www.project2029foramerica.org/post/open-the-grid
I'd like to see decentralization of the sector -- simpler, faster, cheaper local power generation and distribution to increase reliability and drive down costs. It'd further accelerate the shift from fossil fuels to renewables, too. This is exactly the sort of national policy we need to promote that.
I've always been curious about this piece.
https://richmondside.org/2026/11/10/torque-sculpture-hilltop-gets-sign-45-years-later/
Good story.