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John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Splashdown.
The @NASA_Orion spacecraft successfully completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 12:40pm ET (17:40 UTC) as the final major milestone of the #Artemis I mission. go.nasa.gov/3Fl7kzQ
ALT NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the Artemis I mission splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after a 25.5 day mission to the Moon. There are three main parachutes trailing behind the vehicle as it splashes in the ocean. The sky is blue in the background.
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
I'd be fascinated to read a piece by an #autistic writer on how myths and projections around "savants" helped enable Twitter's owner, who is self-diagnosed, to conceal the fact that he's just a bumbling billionaire asshole with asshole friends and utterly banal far-right beliefs.
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
“TWITTER FILES”: The true story of that time Elon Musk bought a company, weaponized internal company documents including the names of uninvolved private citizens, then used that company’s platform to publicize and win over public support for a targeted harassment campaign.
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
MUSK: libs have the woke mind virus
NYT ...
MUSK: I'm literally urging you to vote Republican
NYT ...
MUSK: *high-fives every far right account on Twitter*
NYT: ...
MUSK: I support Ron DeSantis
NYT ...
MUSK: *reinstates a slew of Nazis*
NYT: It's unclear what he stands for
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Orcas have 'best friends' 💕 They spend more time interacting with specific individuals in their pod, and tend to choose those of the same sex and age.
These mammals are also known as killer whales, but they actually belong to the dolphin family.
ALT Four orcas in the sea, swimming together
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Dozens of active-duty Black military personnel were believed to have been killed on or near U.S. bases during the World War II era because of their race, but their stories were largely papered over. Now, the Army has corrected the record for one of them. nyti.ms/3FDIE7c
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
I made a video about maths in playing (and making) video games for @RhGMBC_FMSPW. Check it out here youtu.be/3TQFuoggR3Q (and look at playlist for more from @stecks @jamesgrime and @ZoeLGriffiths and more)
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Galaxy brain 🤯
Preliminary Webb science shows galaxies confirmed by spectroscopy to date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang. Finding and confirming early galaxies is a continuous process, and Webb is just getting started: go.nasa.gov/3uB4npV
ALT On a black background, two white, rectangular outlines are connected at one corner. Within the two outlines are hundreds of small galaxies of all colors. Thin white lines connect to four outlined inset boxes on the right. Each of these boxes contain a blurry central dot surrounded by other specks. The central dots are distant galaxies Webb has discovered that date back to less than 400 million years after the big bang. The featured galaxies are reddest in the top inset boxes and closer to orange and white in the bottom two boxes.
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Because the universe is expanding, the light from distant galaxies is stretched — or redshifted — into longer, infrared wavelengths. We can figure out galaxies’ distances by measuring how much the signatures of elements in their spectra have shifted due to this effect.
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it..
To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Three members of Twitter’s trust and safety council have resigned. “A Twitter ruled by diktat is not a place for us.”
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John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨17 days after he dined with antisemitic Kanye West and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump goes on the attack — against Jews:
"Jewish Leaders forgot that I was the best, by far, President for Israel. They should be ashamed of themselves."
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
.@GOPLeader - Did you see this tweet before @RepGosar deleted it? Time to condemn Trump yet?
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Hey @GOPLeader, @EliseStefanik did you guys see this?
It’s now deleted because I’m sure @RepGosar expects to be disciplined…. Right?
John Ferrara 🇺🇦 retweeted
Sen. Kysrten Sinema (Ariz.), facing a tough 2024 primary, registers as an independent azcentral.com/story/opinion/…
