Science and Technology
Wednesday short takes – Mass school buses and rockets
Let’s get the old blood pressure up, shall we? Fox has an article headlining a license-less woman who is unable to get her kid on a bus to school and can’t afford to Uber him dozensof times a week. The school district says it is unable to provide busing from more than K-6 grades to […]
Thursday tidbits
First up, the 4th Circuit Court upheld Maryland’s assault weapon ban “The assault weapons at issue fall outside the ambit of protection offered by the Second Amendment because, in essence, they are military-style weapons designed for sustained combat operations that are ill-suited and disproportionate to the need for self-defense,” the opinion stated. The Center Square […]
Supersonic – underwater?
No, we are not referring to the finances of the SST – multiple news reports say the U.S. Navy is doing research on a super-sonic submarine. The sleek jet is expected to play an instrumental role in bringing back supersonic commercial air travel. But what if I tell you that researchers are working on […]
Silly? Stupid? Malicious?
Seems this Tuesday holds many things…herewith a few that caught my eye: First up, a mind-boggling adder to the ceiling fan bite – in this case, researchers at Dell Hospital in Austin, TX have a new safety suggestion: Researchers from Dell Medical School in Austin, Texas, are warning parents and caregivers not to toss babies […]
Solar Maximum – coming to a planet near you soon
Every 11 years or so, our Sun tends to get its knickers twisted and cycles from minimum to maximum activity levels. At solar minimum, the sun’s magnetic field is strong and organized, with two clear poles like a normal dipole magnet, James said. The magnetic field acts as a “giant forcefield” that contains the sun’s […]
Artificial Intelligence Propaganda
There is an interesting piece of research out garnering a lot of attention about generative language models like Chat GPT. You can read the entire research article, Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations (you will need to download the .pdf), or click here for a summary take by Open […]
The Airforce’s Newest Bomber… the A-10?
Seems the lads at the 422 Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES) have been busy. They have updated the software and weapons racks on an A-10 to carry up to 16 GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs). Think of it like this – a flight of 4 A-10s could carry up to 64 of these “little” […]
Manipulated, part II
Well, I knew the CDC article wasn’t terribly surprising. But it just gets better and better. The NY Post has the story on how both of the last two administrations pressured Twitter to censor data they found inconvenient. The Biden White House pressured Twitter to both “elevate” and “suppress” users based on their stances on […]
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