Ran out of fuel and collapsed into an ultradense core? Are stars distance runners?

TWwashingtonpost.comNov 3, 2023 8:40pm

An image released by NASA this week shows the remains of a supergiant star, more than 16,000 light-years from Earth, that ran out of fuel and collapsed. What’s left is an ultradense core, called a neutron star.

See the cosmic ‘bones’ of a dead star, captured by NASA

The images, captured by two of NASA’s X-ray telescopes, will allow scientists to learn more about the life spans of stars and what happens after they die.

A small but important step toward a U.S.-China nuclear dialogue www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

China, U.S. to Meet for Rare Nuclear Arms-Control Talks

Washington meeting comes as concerns grow over an arms race with Beijing and Moscow

The only book about AI, as a category, anyone should attempt to write is one that investigates how the label is able used and abused to encompass so many important, mundane, silly, and nonexistent things while not meaning anything in specific.

The reason this platform doesn't work for me is that if one opts out of X because of the pollution of its owner and seeks news/discourse here, you're still faced with people constantly discussing and reposting said person. Block them all and nothing to see here.

Shocking: Evernote exports appear to stall on special characters, meaning the meat of what I used the app for (automatic captures of links I tweeted) is trapped in their platform, or at least their database file format.

Evernote, which I rarely use but have kept on a paid subscription for years as a legacy matter, is increasing its prices by 370% and has earned itself a deletion of my account.

“A rising tide lifts all boats” has always bugged me. It’s not like it improves everyone’s boats; you’re no better or worse off. Nothing happened. I prefer “A rising tide floods all coasts.”

Having read the White House release on the AI executive order, it’s striking that the WH identifies so many kinds of potential harms but will only REQUIRE action around “foundation model” testing. My Q: Does the president lack power to REQUIRE other remedies, or does it not wish to? Why?

On top of the attribution issues with the hospital blast, it looks like the “500 dead” claim never existed? And a lot of the attribution analysis was based on whether observed damage was consistent with that claim. What a mess.

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Did the Entire Media Industry Misquote a Hamas Spokesperson? www.silentlunch.net/p/did-the-en...

Did the Entire Media Industry Misquote a Hamas Spokesperson?

I asked a dozen reporters and news outlets for the source of a statement they attributed to Hamas. None of them answered. This is a case study of the failure of journalistic standards.

Are we still at press release but no text on the AI EO?