Entrails. This vs. this. Bonus link.
Earth is a tiny blue exception to it. Here is why space matters.
Bargains. Amazon currently has the Airpods 4 for $89 and the Airpods Pro 2 for $149. They are [$179 and $249 at Apple](Amazon currently has the Airpods 4 for $89 and the Airpods Pro 2 for $149. They are $179 and $249 at Apple.). Oh, and the great Sony a7iv is 17% off as well. If I was rich, I would get one to match the one I already have, so I could carry two, with two different lenses. It’s a great camera.
Crumbled Cookies. I have a “news only” subscription to the NY Times through my university. I also have a subscription to The Athletic that predates my Times subscription. But now every time I go to The Athletic, the Times‘ subscription gatekeeper yells EXPAND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION at me. I can still see The Athletic on my phone. I have a login saved in my password manager, but it doesn’t work. So I have The Athletic send me a link to log in (my only choice, there is no password fix that I can find). The email comes from the NY Times, and works—in a different browser. It’s a hack, but also confuzzing.
Among other relevant topics. I hadn’t heard of the Alpha School until I read this by Zvi Mowshowitz. It’s a long post about a much longer one by a parent of a student there. Here is a short take on X that Zvi finds mostly agreeable. I have thoughts on the whole topic, of course, especially around the admissions requirements for the Alpha School, which start with an IQ test. Here is what I think about those.
Naturally, it was over Texas. The best photo ever taken of gigantic jet lightning (aka upper-atmospheric lightning, ionospheric lightning, and transient luminous events, or TLEs) was shot on Saturday from the International Space Station. SpaceWeather has the story. The photographer was astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers, aka @Astro_Ayers on X. Here is her tweet of the photo. The thread below is also informative.
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