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China State Dinner Menu: First Course: Yellow Squash Velouté Wild Mushroom FricasséeCrispy Pancetta Scallion Oil Second Course Sesame Crusted Sea Bass Braised Baby Bok ChoyRoasted Garden Eggplant Sauce Verte Dessert Vanilla Crémeux & White House Honey Ice Cream Walnut Frangipane Sour Cherry Confit I'm sure it'll be good but that's it? I'd still be hungry.
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Good map of Starship's orbital path next week. No visibility from the US after launch. Looks like ocean splashdowns for both vehicles.
SpaceX is targeting September 28th at 7:15am CDT for the launch of Starship Flight 14. This will be the first time Starship completes an orbit around Earth, and it actually plans to do it six times! Here is what that path may look like, including the known contingency and main landing zones.
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Don’t get ahold of black seabass collars everyday. @ChefGruel how do I do these best? Same way I would for bluefin or yellowtail?
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Big white shark pretty much ate this guy. Wasn’t a hit & run.
Dad mauled to death by shark in front of horrified friend as rare kill order issued for monster great white trib.al/NhDVxaO
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NASA’s Dragonfly sending back video while flying through the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon, Titan, will be one of the coolest missions ever. Launch scheduled for July 2028 on a Falcon Heavy.
The landing location has officially been named for NASA's Dragonfly mission! The global body responsible for designating objects in space has approved a name for the large dune field on Saturn's moon Titan: Ahmakiq Undae. Here's the story behind it: go.nasa.gov/4xvqRH2
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Mandatory eternal flame on top of the 250 foot Triumph Arch is solid red tape. 🔥
JUST IN: FAA clears Trump’s proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch near Arlington National Cemetery, requiring an “eternal flame” on top to make it visible to pilots.
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They could probably get @boringcompany to build tunnels for these so they can shield them from drones.
Saudi Arabia shuts key oil pipeline after drone attack launched from Iraq bbc.in/4j0p6Ol
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Yemen has a population of 43 million - a little more than Ukraine. Saudi Arabia’s population is ~35 million at around 4x the land area of Yemen.
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There will be signs.
Replying to @OpenAI
This model represents a step-function improvement on many benchmarks, and its training is ongoing. Our internal model group arrived at the Navier–Stokes solution in 88 hours, using around 10,000 coordinating AI agents. Throughout the effort, we maintained the strict safeguards—including monitoring and isolation—that we apply to all our frontier evaluations.
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Uh oh. Miami International
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If anyone has a better stick, let's see it.
This is the best stick I have ever seen
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Great thread on institutional infiltration & demoralization.
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century. Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions. Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935. 1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first. 2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another. 3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own. 4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections. 5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked. 6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to. 7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march. Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.
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There will be signs
Exclusive: A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research reut.rs/4gJ7FPG
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Down Detector spiking across most majors.
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94 launches for Electron. Didn’t know they were hitting numbers like that. Good work
LIFTOFF! Electron has launched for the 94th time🚀
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High hopes for this space telescope. It’s going to get us pictures of ‘local’ exoplanets.
Earth to Roman! 📡 Our team has deployed Roman’s high-data-rate dish antenna. This antenna will be used to send more than a terabyte of science data down from the observatory daily. science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman…

ALT Animation of the Roman Space Telescope deploying in space. The antenna folds out from the back of the telescope to point up. Behind it, space it black and dotted with stars. A galaxy comes into view.

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Grey checkmark on this account. LFG
1,000+ U.S. launches and reentries a year by 2030 is just the foundation. Under President Trump's space guidance, DIU is scaling space architecture for domain overmatch through launch, re-entry, in-space logistics, and autonomy to secure space superiority. We are scaling reusable tech, mobile infrastructure, control, advanced propulsion, and autonomous control to ensure U.S. constellations out-maneuver and out-last peer threats at machine speed. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2… (Video courtesy of @SpaceX)
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Glad this thing is on our team
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Replying to @AshleyKillip
STARSHIP will sit in that cradle with it resting against the two large pillars. Looks like she will be oriented with the rockets facing aft, based on the spacing of the rig. The starboard placement of the cradle means FORTE will not have to ballast as much to get STARSHIP on board. The precision of the operation is when she deballasts and picks up STARSHIP in the cradle. They will have to secure her in place once onboard.
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