Bill Schrier Seattle
@billschrier.bsky.social
Former CTO at the City of Seattle posting about Seattle, astronomy, and information technology.
Missing John F Kennedy’s inspiration now more than ever. www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/...
Saturday marked 62 years since JFK’s assassination in Dallas; his legacy endures
Saturday marked 62 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. He was shot while riding in a motorcade through downtown and later died at Parkland Hospital. The ...
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November 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Missing John F Kennedy’s inspiration now more than ever. www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/...
Need another holiday this week? The poetry of mathematics manifests everywhere in nature, but few numerical patterns are more common than the Fibonacci Sequence. www.popsci.com/science/fibo...
Break out the calculators: November 23 is Fibonacci Sequence Day
The cornerstone of modern math wouldn’t be possible without the Hindu-Arabic numerical system.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Need another holiday this week? The poetry of mathematics manifests everywhere in nature, but few numerical patterns are more common than the Fibonacci Sequence. www.popsci.com/science/fibo...
The Propeller Nebula in the Constellation Cygnus the Swan, taken last night, 18 November 2025, from my house in West Seattle, Bortle 7/8 skies, Celestron Origin (new 678 camera), 103 minutes of exposures. #astronomy This nebula does not have a Messier, NGC or IC designation, just "DWB 111".
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Propeller Nebula in the Constellation Cygnus the Swan, taken last night, 18 November 2025, from my house in West Seattle, Bortle 7/8 skies, Celestron Origin (new 678 camera), 103 minutes of exposures. #astronomy This nebula does not have a Messier, NGC or IC designation, just "DWB 111".
The 2025 #Drone Photo Awards. I really like the swordfish and turtle swimming together. www.popsci.com/environment/...
13 dizzying and dazzling images from 2025 Drone Photo Awards
A lone camel, a hungry polar bear, and a congregation of herons.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The 2025 #Drone Photo Awards. I really like the swordfish and turtle swimming together. www.popsci.com/environment/...
Is there such a thing as "humanist superintelligence"? Microsoft thinks (maybe "hopes") so ... @geekwire.com - www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...
Microsoft forms Superintelligence team to pursue ‘humanist’ AI under Mustafa Suleyman
Microsoft has formed a new Superintelligence team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, to pursue what it calls “humanist superintelligence” — advanced AI that remains under human control. The effort reflects Mic...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Is there such a thing as "humanist superintelligence"? Microsoft thinks (maybe "hopes") so ... @geekwire.com - www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...
New photos of Jupiter from the #Juno spacecraft, including some from citizen scientists who who use JunoCam’s publicly available raw images to process into image products. #astronomy - www.popsci.com/science/jupi...
Jupiter stuns in new images
Say 'gas giant.'
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November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
New photos of Jupiter from the #Juno spacecraft, including some from citizen scientists who who use JunoCam’s publicly available raw images to process into image products. #astronomy - www.popsci.com/science/jupi...
Tesla's "Mad Max" mode: Feds investigate Tesla's two new driving modes: One, called “Sloth,” relaxes acceleration and stays in its lane. The other, called “Mad Max,” does the opposite: It speeds and swerves through traffic to get you to your destination faster. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...
Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny
The new mode added in the latest update will speed and weave through traffic.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Tesla's "Mad Max" mode: Feds investigate Tesla's two new driving modes: One, called “Sloth,” relaxes acceleration and stays in its lane. The other, called “Mad Max,” does the opposite: It speeds and swerves through traffic to get you to your destination faster. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10...
The trillion dollar idiot wants to build an army of our future #robotoverlords. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the ‘Robot Army’ He’s Building
In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them.
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October 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The trillion dollar idiot wants to build an army of our future #robotoverlords. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Do runners really want a robotic shoe to help them run? www.cnet.com/health/fitne...
Nike Unveils Robotic-Powered Footwear System for Everyone
Nike compares its new system, which helps runners and walkers move with less effort, to electric bikes.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Do runners really want a robotic shoe to help them run? www.cnet.com/health/fitne...
The smart glasses #glasshole competition continues - Amazon developing new augmented reality glasses for delivery drivers, using #AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, do walking directions, capture proof of delivery, among other features. @toddbishop.bsky.social in @geekwire.com -
October 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The smart glasses #glasshole competition continues - Amazon developing new augmented reality glasses for delivery drivers, using #AI and computer vision to help them scan packages, do walking directions, capture proof of delivery, among other features. @toddbishop.bsky.social in @geekwire.com -
The Amazon web services #AWS outage this week reminds us that not everything needs to be connected to the Internet, for example ... arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea
“Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position …”…
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October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Amazon web services #AWS outage this week reminds us that not everything needs to be connected to the Internet, for example ... arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Our future #robotoverlords win yet another round thanks to Amazon: www.theverge.com/news/803257/...
Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
They’re taking our jobs.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Our future #robotoverlords win yet another round thanks to Amazon: www.theverge.com/news/803257/...
Galaxy Messier 33 in the Constellation Triangulum, sometimes called the "Pinwheel" Galaxy. Photo taken 15 Oct 2025 with my Celestron Origin from Goldendale Sky Village #GSV Washington (the State). Bortle 2 skies. I am amazed by the clarity. #astronomy
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Galaxy Messier 33 in the Constellation Triangulum, sometimes called the "Pinwheel" Galaxy. Photo taken 15 Oct 2025 with my Celestron Origin from Goldendale Sky Village #GSV Washington (the State). Bortle 2 skies. I am amazed by the clarity. #astronomy
Some carmakers are bringing back buttons, thank goodness. Some touchscreen functions are ok, but gawd I hate touchscreens for everything ... 🤬- www.popsci.com/technology/c...
Goodbye, annoying touchscreens. Welcome back, buttons?
Why some carmakers are bringing back your beloved knobs.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Some carmakers are bringing back buttons, thank goodness. Some touchscreen functions are ok, but gawd I hate touchscreens for everything ... 🤬- www.popsci.com/technology/c...
Nebula NGC7822, Constellation Cepheus taken with my Celestron Origin Telescope from West Seattle, Bortle 7/8 skies 25 Sept 2025. This nebula is almost impossible to see visually, which may be the reason it doesn't have a common name like "torch flame nebula" or something similar. #astrophotography
October 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Nebula NGC7822, Constellation Cepheus taken with my Celestron Origin Telescope from West Seattle, Bortle 7/8 skies 25 Sept 2025. This nebula is almost impossible to see visually, which may be the reason it doesn't have a common name like "torch flame nebula" or something similar. #astrophotography
New jet replaces windows with screens <-- when I first saw this headline, I was thinking "screen doors". www.popsci.com/technology/p...
Luxury jet replaces cabin windows with video screens
HD cameras beam panoramic images inside.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
New jet replaces windows with screens <-- when I first saw this headline, I was thinking "screen doors". www.popsci.com/technology/p...
Did Billiard Balls lead to our present craziness in using plastic for everything? #savetheelephants - www.popsci.com/environment/...
How billiard balls led to plastic everywhere
The drive to save elephants had some unforeseen conservation consequences.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Did Billiard Balls lead to our present craziness in using plastic for everything? #savetheelephants - www.popsci.com/environment/...
Cederblad 214 Nebula part of the NGC7822 cloud in the constellation Cepheus, imaged 5 October 2025 from Bortle 7 skies in West Seattle using my Celestron Origin with nebula filter. About 1 hour exposure, reprocessed a bit on the Origin itself. Arrow lower right indicates north. #astrophotography
October 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Cederblad 214 Nebula part of the NGC7822 cloud in the constellation Cepheus, imaged 5 October 2025 from Bortle 7 skies in West Seattle using my Celestron Origin with nebula filter. About 1 hour exposure, reprocessed a bit on the Origin itself. Arrow lower right indicates north. #astrophotography
Seattle scientist shares #Nobel Prize for medicine. She didn't answer her phone because it was a Swedish number and she thought it was spam, but called back after listening to the voicemail. @kuow.org - www.kuow.org/stories/the-...
Seattle scientist among medicine Nobel Prize winners for work on peripheral immune tolerance
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Seattle scientist shares #Nobel Prize for medicine. She didn't answer her phone because it was a Swedish number and she thought it was spam, but called back after listening to the voicemail. @kuow.org - www.kuow.org/stories/the-...
Will China beat the US back to the moon? Can the US catch up? NASA squandered billions developing an expensive "space launch system" demanded by Congress to put jobs in their states. Now the US is in a hole, falling further behind. #space @sciguyspace.bsky.social
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How America fell behind China in the lunar space race—and how it can catch back up
Thanks to some recent reporting, we’ve found a potential solution to the Artemis blues.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Will China beat the US back to the moon? Can the US catch up? NASA squandered billions developing an expensive "space launch system" demanded by Congress to put jobs in their states. Now the US is in a hole, falling further behind. #space @sciguyspace.bsky.social
- arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
- arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
Is there actual paid customer demand for suborbital space flights offered by Jeff Bezos Blue Origin? The company is thinking about scaling up to weekly flights of its New Shepherd rocket. @b0yle.bsky.social on @geekwire.com - www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-or...
Blue Origin reportedly plans to expand New Shepard suborbital space fleet and launch facilities
Blue Origin plans to scale up its New Shepard suborbital space program for weekly launches — and is thinking about a second launch site.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Is there actual paid customer demand for suborbital space flights offered by Jeff Bezos Blue Origin? The company is thinking about scaling up to weekly flights of its New Shepherd rocket. @b0yle.bsky.social on @geekwire.com - www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-or...
Why was this grand observatory razed to the ground? Ulugh Beg, prince and governor of Samarkand in present day Uzbekistan, was probably a better astronomer than governor. He built the world's most advanced observatory in the 1400's. #astronomy @atlasobscura.com - www.atlasobscura.com/places/ulugh...
Ulugh Beg Observatory
Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Why was this grand observatory razed to the ground? Ulugh Beg, prince and governor of Samarkand in present day Uzbekistan, was probably a better astronomer than governor. He built the world's most advanced observatory in the 1400's. #astronomy @atlasobscura.com - www.atlasobscura.com/places/ulugh...
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar - ok,ok, they really wrote a book. Who is really behind the "war on science"? arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar write a book.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A vaccine developer and a climate scientist walk into a bar - ok,ok, they really wrote a book. Who is really behind the "war on science"? arstechnica.com/science/2025...
1927 Paramount Studio Map Of California Filming Locations That Look Like Foreign Countries & Regions
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1927 Paramount Studio Map Of California Filming Locations That Look Like Foreign Countries & Regions - Brilliant Maps
Map found via reddit
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September 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
1927 Paramount Studio Map Of California Filming Locations That Look Like Foreign Countries & Regions
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Is Saturday 27 September the coolest mathematical date of our lifetime? It's a "global square date". Well, ok ... www.popsci.com/science/sept...
Why September 27, 2025 is the 'coolest mathematical date of our lifetime'
Get ready for a whacky series of numerical coincidences.
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September 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Is Saturday 27 September the coolest mathematical date of our lifetime? It's a "global square date". Well, ok ... www.popsci.com/science/sept...