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Mohsen Mahdawi: I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next?...
Mohsen Mahdawi: I Was Detained for My Beliefs. Who Will Be Next? “By seeking to deport me, the Trump administration is sending a clear message: There is no room for dissent, free speech be damned.”
Trump Has No Idea What the Declaration of Independence Means
Trump, showing off to ABC News’s Terry Moran the historical copy of the Declaration of Independence now hanging in the Oval Office:
Trump: Of course, you have the Declaration of Independence.
Moran: What does it mean to you?
Trump: Well, it means exactly what it says. It’...
Trump, Asked if He Has to ‘Uphold the Constitution’, Says, ‘I Don’t Know’
nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-asked-uphold-constitution-says-dont-know-rcna204580
NBC News:
When Welker tried to point out what the Fifth Amendment said,
Trump suggested that such a process would slow him down too much.
“I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re
talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million
or 3 mi...
Koji Kobura Remakes the GoldenEye N64 ‘Pause Music’
Just shoot this straight into my veins. So good.
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Ok, one more time testing WebSub.
This is another test post for WebSub notifications.
It’s create day at IndieWebCamp Düsseldorf, and I’m trying to make WebSub updates work for my site (and this is an update).
The Happy Pod: The rescued Ukraine lions learning to roar again
A group of lions rescued from Ukraine are roaring again. Their new homes were built with money donated globally. Also: the paralysed man who's completed a marathon; a teenage cricket star; and a 103-year-old influencer.
A series of info visualizations that show how true “based on a...
A series of info visualizations that show how true “based on a true story” Hollywood movies actually are. Selma & The Big Short top the list with Hacksaw Ridge & The Imitation Game bringing up the rear.
Swirling Green Aurora Captured From the ISS
I don’t have a whole lot to say about this video except wow. Wow wow. It’s almost inconceivable that we live in a world of sights like this. Feels like science fiction but is actually real. Captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit aboard the ISS.
Tags: astronomy · Don Pettit · science · space · video
60-year-old cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has spent a little over three full years...
60-year-old cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has spent a little over three full years in space. That’s 5% of his life.
What?! 108-Gigapixel Scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Several years ago, digital microscope technology company Hirox collaborated with The Mauritshuis museum to create a 10-gigapixel scan of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Recently, Hirox upped the game with the creation of a 108-gigapixel scan of the painting. 108 billion pixels! And each pixel is 1.3 microns in size — 1000 microns is 1 millimeter. Incredible.
You can explore the scan of the painting courtesy of Hirox. Be sure to check out the 3D view (button at the bottom of the page); here’s a topographical view of the pearl:
For a look at how they captured this image, check out this behind-the-scenes video.
Tags: art · Johannes Vermeer
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Tag and release works with tardigrades now — scientists are using nanotechnology...
Tag and release works with tardigrades now — scientists are using nanotechnology to “tattoo” the tiny creatures with “squares, dots, and lines as small as 72 nanometers wide”.
The World’s Largest Data Center Rises in Texas
Photographer Stephen Voss has been working on a project about data centers and recently travelled to Abilene, Texas to document the first data center built as part of the Stargate Project. When completed, it will be the largest data center in the world. Here’s a short drone video he took of the project:
“The place was mesmerizing and deeply unsettling,” Voss told me over email. “When finished, it’ll have the power demands of a mid-sized city and is on a piece of land that’s the size of Central Park.”
The video immediately reminded me of Edward Burtynsky’s work that documents “the impacts of human industry on the planet”.
Tags: Edward Burtynsky · Stephen Voss · video
3D-printed Starbucks? Sure, why not. “3D-printed construction is really taking off throughout...
3D-printed Starbucks? Sure, why not. “3D-printed construction is really taking off throughout the United States…”
Is This the Best Cover of Radiohead’s Creep?
Do yourself a favor and watch this: Erin Morton is a junior in the BFA Musical Theatre program at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and she absolutely blisters the paint off of the walls with her performance of Radiohead’s Creep. Wow. I actually got some goosebumps watching this.
BTW, other contenders for best Creep cover include Prince and a 1600-person pub choir.
Tags: Erin Morton · music · Radiohead · remix · video
Apple Updates U.S. App Review Guidelines Following Injunction
macrumors.com/2025/05/01/apple-updates-u-s-app-review-guidelines-epic/
Apple, in an email to developers yesterday (as reported by MacRumors):
3.1.1: Apps on the United States storefront are not prohibited
from including buttons, external links, or other calls to
action when allowing users to browse NFT collections owned
...
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Terrestrials: The Snow Beast
Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole, spending her afternoons scavenging for ancient treasures on the ground. One day, she found something the size of a po...