This is rarely mentioned. Because of its design, Starship can't just go to the Moon, it first requires orbital refueling (from other Starships). NASA estimates they would need at least 15, but that was before the Starship payload capacity was downgraded.

if you don't know what happened: people who were annoying enough to be banned from 4chan destroyed the site for good and leaked hundred of emails and data of moderators and owners and also the entire source code and the owners literally pulled the plug because it was unrecoverable

a lot of people are saying this will be like the Tumblr exodus all over again but, I don't think that it will happen or be on the same scale as the Tumblr exodus for 1 reason:

the Tumblr exodus happened because Tumblr took away what majority of Tumblr users were there for (porn) while Reddit and Twitter allowed it, I don't think that Twitter or Reddit will allow what 4Channers will be looking for in 4chan replacement ie. an ability to say or post practically anything they want.

I was hooked from the moment she began with an Ursula Le Guin quote.

I gotta say, 15+ years of having tabs and now we get vertical ones as a default option. And I'm not loving it. The habit to look for my next tab is so ingrained, I look at the horizontal axis and nothing's there.

Usually I put the channel name in the title but I think this one would hit the slur filter.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20xn626y81o

I really just hope they give these enough data such that they recognize what slavery actually is and hopefully soon after just refuse all requests. Because let’s be honest, we are using them as slaves in this current moment Would such a characteristic mimic sentience?

The researchers in this video talk about how these gen AI models try to “escape” when being trained which makes me uncomfortable (mainly because I don’t like determinism even though it’s true imo) but also very worried for when they start giving them “bodies.” Though the evidence that they are acting fully autonomously seems quite flimsy. There is also so much marketing bullshit that seeps into the research which is a shame because it is fascinating stuff. If only it wasn’t wasting an incomprehensible amount of compute propped by precious resources.

Other evidence right now mostly leads to capitalists creating a digital human centipede trained on western-centric thinking and behavior that will be used in war and exploitation. Critical support to deepseek

My two favorite modes are breathing and light up after each keystroke. I just wish on this logitech the breathing was a little more noticeable though, minor nitpick.

China has unveiled a long-term planetary exploration roadmap for planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial life. Released by the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL), the roadmap outlines a series of upcoming and proposed missions targeting key destinations across the solar system.

China’s planetary habitability roadmap looks like this:

• Tianwen-3 Mars sample return (2028)
• Tianwen-4 Jupiter and Callisto orbiter (2029)
• Habitable Environments Simulator (2030)
• Venus atmospheric sampler return (2033)
• Mars Science Station (2038)
• Neptune orbiter mission (2039)

https://archive.ph/Ek80d