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Right wing racist Jake Lang was escorted off a plane in Texas by police due to an active warrant for his arrest. This is after he barged into a Cat Convention that helps get stray cats adopted calling it a Furry Convention for sex orgies.
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BREAKING: A robot developed by Caltech and funded by DARPA has successfully built part of a structure in orbit without astronauts, marking what researchers describe as the first autonomous construction of a structure in space.
The experiment, called ASTRA, uses a robotic arm to retrieve individual structural tubes and connecting joints, then assemble them into sections of a larger framework directly in orbit.
Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 in March, the system has spent approximately six months in space testing the technology.
The robot successfully constructed a new section of a truss structure, demonstrating that spacecraft could eventually assemble large structures from smaller components rather than launching them fully assembled.
The experiment is part of DARPA's NOM4D program, which aims to enable construction of enormous structures in orbit, potentially hundreds of meters or even kilometers across.
Potential applications include:
> Giant space telescopes
> Large satellite communications antennas
> Orbital solar power stations
>Future space infrastructure too large to fit inside conventional rockets
The demonstration did not complete the full planned antenna, but establishes an important proof of concept for autonomous orbital construction.
The technology could eventually allow the size of structures built in space to exceed the physical limits of the rockets used to launch their components.
Link to official report submitted by Caltech: sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
ALT Concept art showing how a NOM4D-inspired device might one day autonomously construct a truss structure in space. Credit: DARPA, Colie Wertz
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the level of fuck-you involved in AI video interviews is just insane. they know that you know it's not a real person and they're expecting you to act as though it is, and it to take it seriously when it proclaims 'bafflement', an experience it is not capable of, because it is not capable of experience, period
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A Japanese man says he escaped a sinking car by remembering a tip from Detective Conan.
His car was hit and went into a river after another driver reversed near a cemetery.
For the first 20 seconds he thought he was going to die, then a scene from episode 1078 flashed through his mind.
He waited for the cabin to fill so the pressure equalized, pushed the door open, and swam out.
A nearby resident helped him onto the bank. He wrote that he “can’t thank the creator of Conan enough.”
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Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon
they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7
the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them
as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon
the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off
but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon
so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:
> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past
> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse
> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away
> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead
we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao
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So you have to sit through a humiliation ritual with a fucking uncanny valley clanker made to look like HR Karen crones averaged out to get a job at fucking BURGER KING?
Fuck everything, man
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I'm not exaggerating at all when I say a lot of people are going to have to answer for this shit one day.
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Quite literally not rural backcountry at all. This is I-40, a road that stretches across the country. Not to mention, this is the area of I-40 that was washed out by Helene 2 years ago. Just another bad faith actor with a bad faith argument.
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Narrative violation: Met a fisherman from Santa Cruz last night who’s been fishing for over 50 years. He said the ocean is the healthiest he’s ever seen it. More fish than ever, whale populations are booming, species that had nearly disappeared are coming back.
Not all doom and gloom out there.
