@AkaSci

Very curious about the loss of the one Raptor at t+1:43. Note one of the engine lights in the bottom left graphic goes out., and maybe there is a puff of fire. At t+1:53 there may be another puff of fire. Then they begin the shut down sequence and separation prematurely and the booster never relights successfully.

Hypothesis or just wild guess is that the engine malfunction was catastrophic in some way and resulted in damage that forced the early separation etc.

@randahl 🤮

Very scawy Big Bear™ ("0_0)!

Update: Perez has defended her choice to go after trans kids, trans teachers, other trans staff in schools, and books including trans characters.

Her actions here have a body count, and like all transphobia, is measured in suicide rates.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3mmifekgnzk2g

@TheBreadmonkey @msbw or are vampires

9to5Mac Daily: May 22, 2026 – Apple Music AI, hardware changes https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/22/daily-may-22-2026/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#SouthernCalifornia #wildfires force evacuations, and one is threatening a #nuclear facility

Evacuations remain in place for fires burning in #Ventura and #Riverside counties. The Sandy Fire in #SimiValley is burning near the #SantaSusanaFieldLaboratory, a former #NuclearReactor site, raising #AirQuality concerns.

By Emilee Speck, AccuWeather staff writer

Published May 21, 2026 1:08 PM EDT | Updated May 22, 2026 12:04 PM EDT

Excerpt: "Due to the Sandy Fire’s proximity to the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear reactor and rocket testing facility, officials are conducting air quality monitoring around the fire perimeter.

" 'Monitoring equipment has been proactively deployed to establish background air quality readings and to help assess conditions should the fire advance further into the area,' according to CAL Fire. 'At this time, the fire has not crossed into the Field Laboratory property.'

"Nuclear cleanup continues more than 50 years after a nuclear reactor mishap at the #Rocketdyne site. Fire crews are prioritizing the protection of the facility and the surrounding communities. "

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/southern-california-wildfires-force-evacuations-and-one-is-threatening-a-nuclear-facility/1893632

#SSFL #NoNukes #NuclearPlants #California #NuclearAccidents

OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E cores.

We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.

Is this consensual?

#cat
#catsofmastodon
#catsudon
#mastocats
#blackcat
#猫
#ねこ

'It fails or it blows up.' 40,000 in #California ordered to evacuate over #chemical threat

Story by Paris Barraza, May 22, 2026

"An estimated 40,000 residents in #OrangeCounty, California, are under evacuation orders as of May 22 as authorities prepare for two alarming options involving the potential failure of a tank holding an explosive #IndustrialChemical.

"Orange County Fire Authority officials outlined the danger from a 'tank actively in crisis' after responding to an industrial chemical leak the previous day. Efforts to stop the leak were not successful leading to a widening evacuation effort on May 22.

"The tank contains methyl #methacrylate, which is used to manufacture resins and plastics, according to a fact sheet from the Environmental Protection Agency. Local health officials describe the chemical as 'very toxic.' "

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/it-fails-or-it-blows-up-40-000-in-california-ordered-to-evacuate-over-chemical-threat/ar-AA23Rrz9

#ToxicChemicals #ChemicalLeak

@aredridel You're right that it's subjective, but I don't actually think that matters nearly as much as you seem to think.

When the model does this, the reason is it's literally pulling from training data that was acquired without consent or compensation of the authors. I know you know this; I'm just saying it to ground the conversation. I also know what the one Anthropic verdict said. As you note, the rest is unsettled and I remain of the opinion that a massive-scale theft occurred.

There is no author that is so naively pulling snippets of text they remember and putting them together like a ransom note. If they stray too far into imitation, there's a claim of plagiarism. If they lift whole ideas, same thing. And if they actually rip excerpts of text, well, I've failed students for varying degrees of that behavior depending on context.

Aight, that's two long silly threads in one night. I'mo finish this beer, wind down, and go to bed.

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Stay angry.

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Have a surprisingly pleasant day!

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