Scott
@smadin.net
Empty out the locker room, let me find my space
location: more like GREATEST Boston
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Scott
@smadin.net
· Nov 6
herewith:
in a just world, what Starlink has done to the sky would be a capital crime
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
in a just world, what Starlink has done to the sky would be a capital crime
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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My kids keep begging for an elf to visit our house like they do their friends’ houses but like I’m sorry you will not be pleased when you wake up and the milk has curdled and our cattle die of miasma exposure but that’s what happens when you invite the duine uasal into your home.
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My kids keep begging for an elf to visit our house like they do their friends’ houses but like I’m sorry you will not be pleased when you wake up and the milk has curdled and our cattle die of miasma exposure but that’s what happens when you invite the duine uasal into your home.
an administration that was sincerely concerned about getting the worst-of-the-worst violent criminal thugs off the streets could do a lot worse than starting by immediately arresting one Gregory "The Cow" Bovino
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
an administration that was sincerely concerned about getting the worst-of-the-worst violent criminal thugs off the streets could do a lot worse than starting by immediately arresting one Gregory "The Cow" Bovino
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They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 AM
They think they look tough. They look like losers. Imagine wearing tactical gear and a facemask in the city famous for people walking the streets all but naked and drunk
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the thing about extreme content in video games is that the most appalling taboo porn game on the internet is still more artstically valid and has more reason to exist than Roblox
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
the thing about extreme content in video games is that the most appalling taboo porn game on the internet is still more artstically valid and has more reason to exist than Roblox
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Great piece on the failure of centrist governments in the UK, France, and Germany to give voters anything to actually vote for and their fueling of the far-right by elevating its message, and the contrast that Spain offers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Great piece on the failure of centrist governments in the UK, France, and Germany to give voters anything to actually vote for and their fueling of the far-right by elevating its message, and the contrast that Spain offers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
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butler's recent book, Who's Afraid of Gender, completely called this shit. essential read.
people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
butler's recent book, Who's Afraid of Gender, completely called this shit. essential read.
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
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The DM started describing a thieves cant symbol
I got this far into drawing it, at his instruction, before realising what it was and getting So Mad
I got this far into drawing it, at his instruction, before realising what it was and getting So Mad
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The DM started describing a thieves cant symbol
I got this far into drawing it, at his instruction, before realising what it was and getting So Mad
I got this far into drawing it, at his instruction, before realising what it was and getting So Mad
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I do think if anyone in your life is using Polymarket to bet on the Game Awards, you are going to have to lock them in a freezer for however many months it takes for them to forget they like gambling. That might take a really long time, but if you care, you’ll do the work.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I do think if anyone in your life is using Polymarket to bet on the Game Awards, you are going to have to lock them in a freezer for however many months it takes for them to forget they like gambling. That might take a really long time, but if you care, you’ll do the work.
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I’m not anti-gambling in totality and even think a basic level of regulated sports gambling isn’t the worst thing in the world. But it’s pretty astounding how quickly the current system careened toward turning every dumbass bet you might casually make with your friends into multimillion dollar pots.
Hi. There has been $38 million worth of activity on the game of the year results on gambling platform Polymarket.
December 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’m not anti-gambling in totality and even think a basic level of regulated sports gambling isn’t the worst thing in the world. But it’s pretty astounding how quickly the current system careened toward turning every dumbass bet you might casually make with your friends into multimillion dollar pots.
Barn owls are one of the most charismatic kinds of owls IMO. They have such good faces!
Barn Owls are one of the species that suffer the most rodenticide poisoning. We’re killing the best weapon we have against rodents w/ our inability to use proper pest control management. Help us change that by donating to our campaign #birds #birdsofprey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison
gofund.me/5e442bf9
gofund.me/5e442bf9
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Barn owls are one of the most charismatic kinds of owls IMO. They have such good faces!
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Barn Owls are one of the species that suffer the most rodenticide poisoning. We’re killing the best weapon we have against rodents w/ our inability to use proper pest control management. Help us change that by donating to our campaign #birds #birdsofprey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison
gofund.me/5e442bf9
gofund.me/5e442bf9
August 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Barn Owls are one of the species that suffer the most rodenticide poisoning. We’re killing the best weapon we have against rodents w/ our inability to use proper pest control management. Help us change that by donating to our campaign #birds #birdsofprey #ratpoisoniswildlifepoison
gofund.me/5e442bf9
gofund.me/5e442bf9
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Sometimes, while out watching for gestapo vans sent by our white nationalist authoritarian govt to terrorize and kidnap our neighbors, I think about how a slate of terrible neoliberal candidates for local Mpls office touted themselves as “apolitical” in 2025.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sometimes, while out watching for gestapo vans sent by our white nationalist authoritarian govt to terrorize and kidnap our neighbors, I think about how a slate of terrible neoliberal candidates for local Mpls office touted themselves as “apolitical” in 2025.
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the state of the academy fucking sucks, frankly; there are so many pressures on students and instructors alike, artificial and unnecessary pressures bc of our fucked up capitalist society. teaching college courses made me feel like I had a lot of enemies but not once were my students among them
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the state of the academy fucking sucks, frankly; there are so many pressures on students and instructors alike, artificial and unnecessary pressures bc of our fucked up capitalist society. teaching college courses made me feel like I had a lot of enemies but not once were my students among them
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I will never ever understand the adversarial attitude so many people have towards students at every level. always talking about what students can "get away" with. maybe I'm naive, maybe I've been extremely lucky in my students, but I just don't get it and it pains my soul
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I will never ever understand the adversarial attitude so many people have towards students at every level. always talking about what students can "get away" with. maybe I'm naive, maybe I've been extremely lucky in my students, but I just don't get it and it pains my soul
that's hell. he's describing hell.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
that's hell. he's describing hell.
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The Speculative Century (pejorative)
Wtf are we doing?
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Speculative Century (pejorative)
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They do not care about legality
Comer incorrectly refers to Minnesota's Somali community as "illegals"
December 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
They do not care about legality
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The Somali community was well-established in Minnesota when I lived there in the late ‘90s and early aughts. The vitriol being directed at them is just as dangerous as any attack on any other group would be. Turning people against their neighbors only hurts communities.
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Somali community was well-established in Minnesota when I lived there in the late ‘90s and early aughts. The vitriol being directed at them is just as dangerous as any attack on any other group would be. Turning people against their neighbors only hurts communities.
[sickos yes.jpeg]
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
[sickos yes.jpeg]
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
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Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know