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Remembering Gladys West: who used Einstein to create GPS
RIP to Gladys West: the "hidden figure" most people have never heard of, but whose work is second only to Einstein's in enabling and developing our modern GPS.
#BlackInAstro
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #GPS #astro #physics #einstein
RIP to Gladys West: the "hidden figure" most people have never heard of, but whose work is second only to Einstein's in enabling and developing our modern GPS.
#BlackInAstro
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #GPS #astro #physics #einstein
Remembering Gladys West: who used Einstein to create GPS
Two main contributors enabled our modern global positioning system (GPS): Albert Einstein and Gladys West. Here's how she made it happen.
bigthink.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Remembering Gladys West: who used Einstein to create GPS
RIP to Gladys West: the "hidden figure" most people have never heard of, but whose work is second only to Einstein's in enabling and developing our modern GPS.
#BlackInAstro
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #GPS #astro #physics #einstein
RIP to Gladys West: the "hidden figure" most people have never heard of, but whose work is second only to Einstein's in enabling and developing our modern GPS.
#BlackInAstro
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #GPS #astro #physics #einstein
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Es wäre einfacher gewesen, aufzuzählen was gestimmt hat.
www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...
www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...
January 22, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Es wäre einfacher gewesen, aufzuzählen was gestimmt hat.
www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...
www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder...
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Something beautiful is happening: the world is rejecting Donald’s insanity in one voice. And it’s working. He backed down like the coward he is.
Bless The World For Humiliating President Epstein In Switzerland
Dear Humans,
www.thegodpodcast.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Something beautiful is happening: the world is rejecting Donald’s insanity in one voice. And it’s working. He backed down like the coward he is.
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In Frankreich schützt Trump Marine Le Pen vor der französischen Justiz, in Deutschland offenbar die AfD vor einem Verbotsverfahren. Wir sollten uns sehr klar darüber sein, was hier stattfindet: Der US-Präsident stellt gemeinsam mit Putins (Desinfo-)Armeen die Weichen für Regime-Change in Europa. ⏰ 💣
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 PM
In Frankreich schützt Trump Marine Le Pen vor der französischen Justiz, in Deutschland offenbar die AfD vor einem Verbotsverfahren. Wir sollten uns sehr klar darüber sein, was hier stattfindet: Der US-Präsident stellt gemeinsam mit Putins (Desinfo-)Armeen die Weichen für Regime-Change in Europa. ⏰ 💣
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Lieber Spiegel, ein US-Präsident droht einem NATO-Verbündeten mit Invasion. Das ist kein Streit. Das ist eine Annexionsdrohung. Ihr normalisiert etwas, das nicht normal ist. Das ist das Problem mit der Trump-Berichterstattung: Die Sprache passt sich dem Wahnsinn an, statt ihn zu benennen.
January 16, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Lieber Spiegel, ein US-Präsident droht einem NATO-Verbündeten mit Invasion. Das ist kein Streit. Das ist eine Annexionsdrohung. Ihr normalisiert etwas, das nicht normal ist. Das ist das Problem mit der Trump-Berichterstattung: Die Sprache passt sich dem Wahnsinn an, statt ihn zu benennen.
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- Good deeds are the greatest
blessing in life.❤️
blessing in life.❤️
January 16, 2026 at 3:02 AM
- Good deeds are the greatest
blessing in life.❤️
blessing in life.❤️
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♥️✊😉
German law professor Werner Schroeder is suing his government after police forcibly checked his ID at the Austrian-German border. He argues these controls violate EU law and undermine the Schengen system of borderless travel.
Law professor sues Germany for 'illegal' border controls
German law professor Werner Schroeder is suing his government after police forcibly checked his ID at the Austrian-German border. He argues these controls violate EU law and undermine the Schengen system of borderless travel.
euobserver.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:04 AM
♥️✊😉
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Dass der Deutsche Journalistenverband in Verbindung mit Nius von einem „kritischen Nachrichtenportal“ spricht, ist auch wieder so ein Kapitel wehrloser Demokratie, dass ich letztes Jahr noch nicht auf dem Bingozettel hatte.
January 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Dass der Deutsche Journalistenverband in Verbindung mit Nius von einem „kritischen Nachrichtenportal“ spricht, ist auch wieder so ein Kapitel wehrloser Demokratie, dass ich letztes Jahr noch nicht auf dem Bingozettel hatte.
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BREAKING: everything. Everything is breaking.
January 14, 2026 at 6:45 AM
BREAKING: everything. Everything is breaking.
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Ich vor 10 Jahren: Ja klar ist Feminismus wichtig, aber müssen die Feministinnen immer so radikal formulieren?
Ich heute: Wie können Feministinnen so unfassbar viel diplomatische Selbstbeherrschung haben, und wieso haben sie nicht schon längst alles angezündet?
Ich heute: Wie können Feministinnen so unfassbar viel diplomatische Selbstbeherrschung haben, und wieso haben sie nicht schon längst alles angezündet?
January 13, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Ich vor 10 Jahren: Ja klar ist Feminismus wichtig, aber müssen die Feministinnen immer so radikal formulieren?
Ich heute: Wie können Feministinnen so unfassbar viel diplomatische Selbstbeherrschung haben, und wieso haben sie nicht schon längst alles angezündet?
Ich heute: Wie können Feministinnen so unfassbar viel diplomatische Selbstbeherrschung haben, und wieso haben sie nicht schon längst alles angezündet?
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If your Sunday Scaries feel just a little stronger than usual, fear not. Scientists have proven there's no way around it...
from PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld
from PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
If your Sunday Scaries feel just a little stronger than usual, fear not. Scientists have proven there's no way around it...
from PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld
from PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld
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FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 4:37 PM
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history.
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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Die USA bombardieren Venezuela, entführen den Präsidenten und kündigen an, das Land "so lange wie nötig zu regieren". Und wie rahmen einige deutsche Leitmedien das? Als kühnen Coup. Als Actionfilm. Nicht als Völkerrechtsbruch. Ein kurzer Blick in die Medien… 🧵
January 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Die USA bombardieren Venezuela, entführen den Präsidenten und kündigen an, das Land "so lange wie nötig zu regieren". Und wie rahmen einige deutsche Leitmedien das? Als kühnen Coup. Als Actionfilm. Nicht als Völkerrechtsbruch. Ein kurzer Blick in die Medien… 🧵
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In der Tagesschau heute kein Wort zum Völkerrechtsbruch der USA in Venezuela… Und angeblich sei unklar, was die USA wollten… hat Trump zwar klar gesagt (Kontrolle über die westliche Hemisphäre, Öl, Grönland, als nächstes vielleicht Kuba), aber Putin haben wir ja auch nicht ernstgenommen 😡
January 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
In der Tagesschau heute kein Wort zum Völkerrechtsbruch der USA in Venezuela… Und angeblich sei unklar, was die USA wollten… hat Trump zwar klar gesagt (Kontrolle über die westliche Hemisphäre, Öl, Grönland, als nächstes vielleicht Kuba), aber Putin haben wir ja auch nicht ernstgenommen 😡
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January 4, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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“The White House is confirming US military ops in Venezuela tonight. Let us be clear: these strikes are illegal. The President does not have the authority to declare war or undertake large-scale military operations without Congress. Congress must act to rein him in. Immediately.”
- Rep Stansbury
- Rep Stansbury
January 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
“The White House is confirming US military ops in Venezuela tonight. Let us be clear: these strikes are illegal. The President does not have the authority to declare war or undertake large-scale military operations without Congress. Congress must act to rein him in. Immediately.”
- Rep Stansbury
- Rep Stansbury
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If only European leaders could stop being so weak. That's all I ask for in 2026.
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM
If only European leaders could stop being so weak. That's all I ask for in 2026.
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Thou shalt not baselessly accuse Somalians of “stealing billions” when you are the one stealing billions every single way you can.
Um, this commandment is mostly for Donald Trump and his racist criminal organization.
Um, this commandment is mostly for Donald Trump and his racist criminal organization.
December 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Thou shalt not baselessly accuse Somalians of “stealing billions” when you are the one stealing billions every single way you can.
Um, this commandment is mostly for Donald Trump and his racist criminal organization.
Um, this commandment is mostly for Donald Trump and his racist criminal organization.
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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I've released my tool for encoding pixel art on floppy disk tracks.
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
December 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I've released my tool for encoding pixel art on floppy disk tracks.
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
Because that is surely a thing that people will want to do? I don't know. I just get ideas and dumb stuff happens.
github.com/dbalsom/flux...
#retrocomputing #floppy #floppydisk
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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A fun side effect of streaming LGR Birds each day is having LGR Deer
December 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A fun side effect of streaming LGR Birds each day is having LGR Deer
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Sacred harmonies: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Golden Age architectural painter & draughtsman (1597-1665); pioneer of ‘church portraits’, whose subtle, tonal compositions foreshadow abstract modernism.
St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Mariakerk Utrecht, 1641 Rijksmuseum
St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Mariakerk Utrecht, 1641 Rijksmuseum
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Sacred harmonies: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Golden Age architectural painter & draughtsman (1597-1665); pioneer of ‘church portraits’, whose subtle, tonal compositions foreshadow abstract modernism.
St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Mariakerk Utrecht, 1641 Rijksmuseum
St Bavo Haarlem, 1635, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Mariakerk Utrecht, 1641 Rijksmuseum