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He Lit Out for California

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He Lit Out for California

But the Timing Never Seemed Right

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

But the Timing Never Seemed Right

Found Kodachrome Slide

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Found Kodachrome Slide

handwritten on slide, “Hotel El Rancho, Sacramento, California, June 29, 1950"

Wat Fabers asielwetten betekenen voor ongedocumenteerden

Moet je straks in Nederland de gevangenis in als je niet de juiste papieren hebt? Of als je hulp geeft aan ongedocumenteerden?

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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

Markus Englund wrote copy-paste-detective to scan open science datasets for copy-paste errors. After scanning 600 datasets, the tool found 18 instances of highly improbable preserved sequences.

This work was funded by Astral Codex Ten's grant program. Markus highlights 3 papers with dubious datasets: But this is hardly the bottom of this particular well:
Next up is to scan through the rest of the ~24,000 datasets with Excel files available on Dryad. It will be interesting to see what other treasures we can dig up there! If the 3% error rate holds, we'd expect to see ~700 more cases in that sample alone.

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Doden bij beschieting vermeende drugsboot in Caribisch gebied

WASHINGTON (ANP) - Drie mannen zijn om het leven gekomen bij een beschieting door het Amerikaanse leger op een drugsboot in het Caribisch gebied. Dat meldt het Amerikaanse Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) op X.

Volgens SOUTHCOM werd de boot bestuurd door een terroristische organisatie. Hij zou over een veelgebruikte route voor drugshandel zijn gevaren.

Sinds september 2025 voeren de Verenigde Staten in opdracht van president Donald Trump dergelijke aanvallen uit. Volgens critici zijn deze aanvallen in internationale wateren in strijd met het internationaal recht.


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Voyager 1 is Running Out of Power. NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR:

The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades, that decline has become critical.

During a routine maneuver in late February, Voyager 1's power levels fell unexpectedly, bringing the probe dangerously close to triggering an automatic fault-protection shutdown — a self-preservation response that would have forced engineers into a lengthy and risky recovery process. The team needed to act first. On April 17, mission engineers sent a sequence of commands to deactivate the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, known as the LECP, which is one of Voyager 1's remaining science instruments. The LECP has measured ions, electrons, and cosmic rays originating from both our solar system and the galaxy beyond it, helping scientists map the structure of interstellar space in a way no other instrument could...

Voyager 1 now carries two operational science instruments: one that listens for plasma waves, and one that measures magnetic fields. Engineers believe the latest shutdown could buy the mission roughly another year of breathing room. The team is also developing a more sweeping power conservation plan they informally call "the Big Bang" — a coordinated swap of several powered components all at once, trading older systems for lower-power alternatives. If testing on Voyager 2, planned for May and June 2026, goes well, the same procedure will be attempted on Voyager 1 no sooner than July. If it works, there is even a slim chance the LECP could once more continue to work.
The engineers say they hope to keep at least one instrument operating on each spacecraft into the 2030s. It would leave both still reporting from places no machine has ever gone before.111
Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth, the article points out. (Radio signals take 23 hours to arrive...)
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot for sharing the article.

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Middle East crisis live: ceasefire under pressure and talks in doubt as Iran threatens to ‘retaliate’ to US seizure of ship

Donald Trump said on Sunday that US marines had taken custody of a vessel that tried to get past the American blockade on Iranian ports

Now in its eighth week, the Iran war has killed more than 5,000 people across several countries.

At least 3,000 people have been killed in Iran, more than 2,290 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states, the Associated Press has reported. Fifteen Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and 13 US service members throughout the region have also been killed.

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