Bummer, I was thinking of playing with their headband because it seemed to have nice APIs. Never mind, not gonna opt my brainwave data into your training set.

A solar storm can change a satellite’s orbit by changing the atmosphere around it. When energy from the Sun heats Earth’s upper atmosphere, the gas expands, increasing resistance along some orbital paths. A planned Swiss mission will investigate that connection by observing the Sun and the atmosphere from the same spacecraft.

The May 2024 Gannon geomagnetic storm exposed the operational consequences. An analysis published in the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets documented thousands of satellites maneuvering after enhanced drag caused altitude losses. Such widespread adjustments complicate tracking and collision avoidance, because predicted encounters must be reassessed using the spacecraft’s changed trajectories.

Interesting complications!

Swift team mourning yet full of gratitude for the observations the telescope made during its 22 years in orbit. Swift blasted off on Nov. 20, 2004, to search for some of the biggest explosions in the universe: gamma ray bursts and supernovas.

NASA’s article is more informative: 2-year primary mission.

“Swift was designed as a satellite dedicated to studying gamma-ray bursts, outbursts that came and went so quickly that no one could target them with large telescopes to learn more,” said S. Bradley Cenko, the mission’s principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Swift needed to detect and locate gamma-ray bursts, communicate their position to other observatories, and then swing its telescopes around to image the burst locations before their afterglows faded out. This typically took Swift about a minute to do.”

Non-zero y axis on both sides. Nice to see the matched change, but hard to tell quite how dramatic or not it is.

She is being kept largely in solitary confinement, she said, “away from other people and the human connections that mean so much to me”.

Such isolation was its own form of pain, she said, given that she spent the first 28 years on death row in solitary confinement.

She was 18 at the time of the murder. Most people are hardly the same person that they were that much of their life ago.

She was neglected by alcoholic parents,[12] and her attorneys said she was exposed to alcohol in the womb.[13] She was raped as a toddler and again at ages 11 and 17.[14][15] She attempted suicide at the age of 12 and in 1991 she was sent to a Juvenile Evaluation Center in Swannanoa, North Carolina

Yikes.

So “KMBC 9 reporter Andy Alcock” chose to get her in trouble?

Seems like he could have just talked to her: “hey, what are you doing? You know they cancelled the deal with ICE? Here, we have a fire extinguisher in the van.”

My guess is they just phished someone’s Okta administration credentials.

Interesting content! Is it available as a web page and not PDF?

Anyway, from the first article:

Palestinians do not have their own currency. Under the 1994 Paris Protocol, they were locked into using the Israeli shekel, with no central bank of their own to issue money or set monetary policy. […] Since Palestinians clear their money in shekels, Palestinian banks can only settle transactions by routing through Israeli correspondent banks. Those banks process Palestinian transactions only under an indemnity waiver from Israel’s finance ministry, a piece of paper that shields them from legal liability for handling Palestinian-linked money. The waiver has to be renewed on a schedule, which means that a routine bit of financial plumbing doubles as a political switch that someone in a ministry can flip.

While some people in Gaza have access to Bank of Palestine accounts, many have lost this access or never had it. Cryptocurrency has become one of the most reliable ways to get funds directly to those who need them.

I got fastmail about a year ago. I was pleased I could turn off SMS 2FA and use only TOTP, and generating masked single-use email addresses is great. Also surprisingly easy to set up the MX record for my existing domain. Their own web client is good, I’m using FairEmail on Android.

Thought Catalog has an image of the restaurant in question (though the image has a USA Today watermark, and shows a lap belt):

Sounds like a reminder to (a) migrate off PHP wherever possible, and,

“The vulnerabilities can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code on affected servers or read sensitive process memory,” Wiz writes in its research. “That memory may contain passwords, authentication tokens, API keys and certificates belonging to other requests or the server itself.”

Keep your server processes sandboxed / running as a dedicated user.

And if you don’t actually need dynamic rendering (looking at most WordPress installations), use a static site generator (Jekyll, Hugo, etc).

Exactly — money is not the only cost nor benefit. It’s fun, it gives me control, it’s not going to get acquired and trashed, etc.

The auto-generated memories I’ve seen it create are pretty inane: “always name variables container_ when in MySpecificClass”. Not really learning engineering principles.

Similar, I’ve found AGENT.md files might nudge it in the right direction, but as always it’s a fuzzy matcher, not a learning engineer.

Human review of AI is sufficient in theory, but in practice it’s never as thorough as the understanding you get writing it yourself. It’s hard to avoid AI, but it is a constant invitation to laziness.

The fundraising issues page seems to be gone now.

Bummer to learn of Wikipedia’s Zionist leadership. Followed that trail to Jimmy Wales’ comment from 2025 November :

I assume good faith of everyone who has worked on this Gaza “genocide” article. At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia’s voice, that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested. This is a violation of WP:NPOV and WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV that requires immediate correction. Remember: “This policy is non-negotiable, and the principles upon which it is based cannot be superseded by other policies or guidelines, nor by editor consensus.”

A neutral approach would begin with a formulation such as: “Multiple governments, NGOs, and legal bodies have described or rejected the characterization of Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.”

Nice response to that there:

We don’t even seriously argue some Robert F. Kennedy Jr. type anti-vaccination positioning anywhere, for instance, or for moon landing hoax or flat earth theories. Those are extreme examples, but even on the spectrum of those to the Gaza genocide, the same basic formula and calculus applies. The conclusion of an article under WP:NPOV on anything contentious is always inconvenient for someone. That’s neither a bug nor a feature. It’s a mirrored reflection of consensus reality.

Anyway, I’m left in a similar conundrum. I stopped my monthly donation when they refused to recognize the union, and was going to restart after I caught up on the news the union got the NLRB’s recognition, but now I’m hesitating.