B. Shimoda
@bshimoda.bsky.social
😎 Twitch affiliate, gamer, all-around nerd
🎮 Space games and simulations
🥋 Kempo black belt and tai chi practitioner
🎭 I also love linguistics and I'm a fanatic rationalist.
📩 [email protected]
🎮 Space games and simulations
🥋 Kempo black belt and tai chi practitioner
🎭 I also love linguistics and I'm a fanatic rationalist.
📩 [email protected]
Late start to the stream again today, but we'll be finishing our lunar sample and return lander in KSP today.
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Late start to the stream again today, but we'll be finishing our lunar sample and return lander in KSP today.
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goal: Finishing a Venus probe in 61 days
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
December 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goal: Finishing a Venus probe in 61 days
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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Reckless, self-centered, and dangerous. Astrophysicists owe it to everyone to understand the implications of our words and actions on the world, and Avi Loeb is not holding up our end of the deal.
Some have argued to me strongly that even if Loeb is wrong, he’s getting people interested in 3I/ATLAS and that’s a good thing for science.
But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
But Loeb isn't just wrong, he's recklessly following an old playbook that got 39 people killed in 1997.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s Behavior is Reckless
I’ve largely ignored Loeb for the past few weeks. When he started in on his 3I/ATLAS thing, there were plenty of mainstream media outlets willing to give his claims a wide and credulous platform, and ...
sites.psu.edu
December 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Reckless, self-centered, and dangerous. Astrophysicists owe it to everyone to understand the implications of our words and actions on the world, and Avi Loeb is not holding up our end of the deal.
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I feel like Pump Up the Volume has some lessons for 2025
December 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I feel like Pump Up the Volume has some lessons for 2025
I didn't want to play this game at first, but now I can't stop. Let's get ready for winter in Vintage Story!
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I didn't want to play this game at first, but now I can't stop. Let's get ready for winter in Vintage Story!
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
Late start to the stream today. My day job doesn't often interfere with my schedule but today it does
December 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Late start to the stream today. My day job doesn't often interfere with my schedule but today it does
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goals: finalizing 15T lift vehicle, more crewed launches
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goals: finalizing 15T lift vehicle, more crewed launches
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
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My friends, you MUST follow Chanda. Please waste no time.
#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein
Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
My friends, you MUST follow Chanda. Please waste no time.
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If you're looking to support a small business on Small Business Saturday, check out @adastragames.com. We make award winning space and key combat boardgames!
And, you feed my cat!
And, you feed my cat!
Ad Astra Games
Ad Astra Games produces games – science fiction, air combat, and even little RPGs. Many of our games, following from Attack Vector: Tactical through Birds of Prey and Squadron Strike, use 3D movement....
www.adastragames.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you're looking to support a small business on Small Business Saturday, check out @adastragames.com. We make award winning space and key combat boardgames!
And, you feed my cat!
And, you feed my cat!
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I agree with the author here, not the CEO. Shocker, I know
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production'
Don't need a notice if everyone's doing it.
www.pcgamer.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I agree with the author here, not the CEO. Shocker, I know
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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(3/3) - G’Kar is the author of one of my favorite speeches of all time.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
(3/3) - G’Kar is the author of one of my favorite speeches of all time.
Happy World Linguistics Day from Colorado, USA!
Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy World Linguistics Day from Colorado, USA!
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goal: First kerbal in space! Plus, finalizing the Mars orbital probe in time for the launch window
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
November 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goal: First kerbal in space! Plus, finalizing the Mars orbital probe in time for the launch window
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
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A week ago we introduced #RaJav, a massive nebula ✨
Only 6 similar ones are known (Enormous Lyman-Alpha Nebulae)
Located 11 billion light-years away 🌌
And the first major discovery coming from the J-PAS survey
A colossal structure in a still-young Universe ✨
👇
www.cefca.es/news/show/in...
Only 6 similar ones are known (Enormous Lyman-Alpha Nebulae)
Located 11 billion light-years away 🌌
And the first major discovery coming from the J-PAS survey
A colossal structure in a still-young Universe ✨
👇
www.cefca.es/news/show/in...
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A week ago we introduced #RaJav, a massive nebula ✨
Only 6 similar ones are known (Enormous Lyman-Alpha Nebulae)
Located 11 billion light-years away 🌌
And the first major discovery coming from the J-PAS survey
A colossal structure in a still-young Universe ✨
👇
www.cefca.es/news/show/in...
Only 6 similar ones are known (Enormous Lyman-Alpha Nebulae)
Located 11 billion light-years away 🌌
And the first major discovery coming from the J-PAS survey
A colossal structure in a still-young Universe ✨
👇
www.cefca.es/news/show/in...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goal: testing Mercury capsule and maybe first crewed launch!
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I set fires to feel joy. Is it less creepy if I direct them out the back of a rocket nozzle? Time to learn from explosions with KSP! Today's goal: testing Mercury capsule and maybe first crewed launch!
twitch.tv/bshimoda
twitch.tv/bshimoda
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Just imagine holding beliefs and living your life in such a way so that you see "racist behavior" and "bigots" and immediately think they must be talking about you.
November 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Just imagine holding beliefs and living your life in such a way so that you see "racist behavior" and "bigots" and immediately think they must be talking about you.
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Historical unbuilt Gemini concepts:
1) Lunar Reconnaissance Gemini for mapping the lunar surface
2) Mission to rendezvous with the Pegasus micrometeorite satellite
3) Big Gemini space station logistics craft
4) Rescue Gemini for picking up stranded Apollo astronauts
1) Lunar Reconnaissance Gemini for mapping the lunar surface
2) Mission to rendezvous with the Pegasus micrometeorite satellite
3) Big Gemini space station logistics craft
4) Rescue Gemini for picking up stranded Apollo astronauts
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Historical unbuilt Gemini concepts:
1) Lunar Reconnaissance Gemini for mapping the lunar surface
2) Mission to rendezvous with the Pegasus micrometeorite satellite
3) Big Gemini space station logistics craft
4) Rescue Gemini for picking up stranded Apollo astronauts
1) Lunar Reconnaissance Gemini for mapping the lunar surface
2) Mission to rendezvous with the Pegasus micrometeorite satellite
3) Big Gemini space station logistics craft
4) Rescue Gemini for picking up stranded Apollo astronauts
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I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
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#3IATLAS update: we've just pinpointed the comet's path with 10 times more accuracy, using data from our #ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. 😎🧪🔭
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#3IATLAS update: we've just pinpointed the comet's path with 10 times more accuracy, using data from our #ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft. 😎🧪🔭
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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"There is an extreme amount of AI artwork used within the base version of the game, despite the fact that last year’s Black Ops 6 made over $1 billion in its first 10 days on sale—the highest-grossing CoD game ever."
Too bad I don't play CoD, I can't boycott it 🤣
Too bad I don't play CoD, I can't boycott it 🤣
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
"There is an extreme amount of AI artwork used within the base version of the game, despite the fact that last year’s Black Ops 6 made over $1 billion in its first 10 days on sale—the highest-grossing CoD game ever."
Too bad I don't play CoD, I can't boycott it 🤣
Too bad I don't play CoD, I can't boycott it 🤣