tingilinde

finally (maybe) an intermediate sized black hole

Quite a few black holes from about three times to a hundred times the Sun's mass have been found.  Ditto for the million solar mass plus (often billion solar mass) super massive black holes at the center of galaxies.  But there's a mass range that hasn't been found.. Until now (maybe)

 

 

on 2025

Thomas Zimmer on the rightwing plan to to the US into a Christo-fascist country

 

studying swimming

One of those sports that can really benefit from analysis 

 

the second attack on the heritage foundation

They don't believe in expertise, so it's reasonable to assume their IT chops are lacking.  A second hit.

These guys, among other things, want to destroy women's rights, public education in the US and many think the Earth is only 6000 years old, that the Earth was flooded, and so on.  They want to be your masters.  Some want to repeal the 19th Amendment to get rid of that pesky women's vote.  And they're closely connected to the GOP.

 

 

 

 

avp and the disabled

Perhaps an enabler for some.

snip

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After she got an AVP, she had unprecedented control over her visual environment. She took her lab’s Slack channels and enlarged them to the size of a refrigerator, and set them off to her right. Then she opened her code editor and set it in front of her — inches from her eyes, like usual, but five times the size of her external monitors, and her posture was ramrod straight — no more craning. Finally, she opened a browser window, stretched it to the size of a door frame, and loaded the documentation for a tricky data-analysis function she could never remember, and set it off to her left.

Collard has strabismus — her eyes don’t align the way typical eyes do — which would confuse most eye-tracking algorithms, but in the AVP’s accessibility menu, she turned on “single-eye tracking,” so the device wouldn’t get confused by eyes that point in different directions. The device can lessen the effects of her nystagmus — involuntary eye “wiggles” that have confounded eye-tracking devices she’s used in the past.

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homemade motion simulator for rc flying

yoda needs to step down

a parallel universe

A tip of the hat to Greg

a coke-can turbine-electric hybrid

post debate opportunity

Timothy Snyder on an opportunity to save democracy in the US.

 

charles fort and his minions

On a new book on one of the prototype conspiracy theory generators.

 

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