48 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, CA.
The shuttle was planned to be named the Constitution, but thanks to a massive write-in campaign by Star Trek fans, President Ford relented and advised NASA to change the name to Enterprise.
Star Trek creator Roddenberry and many of the show’s cast members attended the Shuttle rollout ceremony.
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45 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Enterprise Makes its Public Debut - NASA
On Sept. 17, 1976, NASA rolled out its first space shuttle, named Enterprise, from its manufacturing plant in Palmdale, California. The story of EnterpriseKelli Mars (NASA)
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Sports diplomacy
Australian sports diplomacy can be a potent weapon in the Pacific to improve ties with democratic nations and resits China’s coercive grasp for political power and social influence. #Pacific
Most of my timeline is arguing about supply chain attacks vs. cyber-induced explosions, but I think the most important thing to note here is that this attack is incredibly reckless.
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Arizona Sen. Justine Wadsack, a local Republican, appeared in Tucson City Court on Tuesday for a criminal speeding ticket for allegedly driving her Tesla down Speedway at more than 70 mph.
#Tucson #Arizona
1. Y'all just now adding anti-cheat?
2. Good to see that y'all don't care about all of your game's users.
Grand Theft Auto V gets BattlEye anti-cheat, breaks online play on Steam Deck / Linux
gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/gran…
#GrandTheftAutoV #Rockstar #TakeTwo #BattlEye #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamDeck #Valve #Steam #Gaming
🚀 Day 6 of my 30 Kaggle Challenges in 30 Days is live! Today, I'm tackling a multi-class prediction problem to assess obesity risk using various ML models. 🤖 Tuned #XGBoost, explored #ModelStacking, and much more!
🔗 Blog: surajwate.com/blog/multi-class…
📊 Notebook: kaggle.com/code/surajwate/s4e2…
📁 Code: github.com/surajwate/S4E2-Mult…
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Kaggle #Python #XGBoost #MultiClassClassification #ObesityRisk #AI #30DaysOfKaggle
Open Scanner is a fast, free #opensource document scanning app for iPhone. It "scans your receipts, notes, textbooks, and anything else you point your #iPhone at". #iOS #Swift
"Has Elon Musk’s careless posting finally caught up with him? Just one day after having to play off his horrific take on the second attempted assassination of Donald Trump as a “joke,” the Tesla CEO is back in the hot seat again for sharing anti-Ukrainian content that, as it turns out, was actually generated by a Russian psychological operations team"
So a "convoy spin-off" gang spends the evening hanging out with Pierre Poilievre's Conservative MP Michael Cooper and next morning proceeds to harass Jagmeet Singh on Parliament Hill while enroute to a Terry Fox ceremony.
WHAT KIND OF CANADIAN HAS THE NERVE TO DISRUPT A TERRY FOX CEREMONY?!
#Ottawa #occupation #poilievre
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Mozilla leadership
(edit: it was in ref to web.archive.org/web/2024091717… , but still works in 2025)
Mozilla (@mozilla@mozilla.social)
We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta.Mozilla.social
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Never, ever forget that Republicans don’t care who they kill.
In Georgia, experts say this mother’s preventable death was caused by abortion bans
salon.com/2024/09/17/in-georgi…
#Abortion #Georgia #GOP #GOPKillsBest #NoRepublicansEverAgain
Twitter is still the best place if you want to get a brand's attention or follow politicians. Bluesky seems to have attracted the Big Personalities that have (mostly, but not completely) left twitter. Threads might have the user numbers for convos about Dave Grohl's extra-marital kid
But boy, if you want an in-depth understanding of how pagers can be used to kill a few high value targets and terrorize thousands more innocent brown people, Mastodon is the place to be
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![[seriously, there are a few dozen posts like this today. if the goal is to never be the smartest person in the room, i'm winning life on mastodon in a big way]
John Cormier writes:
Long ago, the Cdn govt contracted my startup to test the detection of such explosives using the tech | invented. I ran a proof-of-concept simulation first, which showed there was no way for us to detect the off-gassing vapours of the explosive material at normal temperatures. | jokingly suggested it would work better if we heated the sample. No one at the funding org saw the problem with this approach. In the end, they paid us in full and didn't require us to do the test.](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/15868019 "[seriously, there are a few dozen posts like this today. if the goal is to never be the smartest person in the room, i'm winning life on mastodon in a big way]
John Cormier writes:
Long ago, the Cdn govt contracted my startup to test the detection of such explosives using the tech | invented. I ran a proof-of-concept simulation first, which showed there was no way for us to detect the off-gassing vapours of the explosive material at normal temperatures. | jokingly suggested it would work better if we heated the sample. No one at the funding org saw the problem with this approach. In the end, they paid us in full and didn't require us to do the test.")
THE VASELINES
The Way Of The Vaselines - A Complete History
2023 U.S. 2xLP pressing
Ltd. Ed. Clear vinyl
All 19 of The Vaselines’ official recordings in one spot, originally released on Sub Pop in 1992.
So great.
Most of the general public was made aware of their genius through Nirvana, who covered 3 Vaselines songs over their career.
I know I definitely wouldnt have discovered them if not for Kurt.
Such great indie pop songs.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #90s #90smusic #1990s #80s #1980s #80smusic
"[The guillotine] represents the idea that the violence of the state could be a good thing if only *the right people* were in charge.
Those who take their own powerlessness for granted assume that they can promote gruesome revenge fantasies without consequences. But if we are serious about changing the world, we owe it to ourselves to make sure that our proposals are not equally gruesome."
#Crimethinc, 2019
Biden’s green policies will save 200,000 lives and have boosted clean energy jobs, data shows.
Two separate reports find policies will save Americans from pollution in coming decades and added nearly 150,000 jobs. #ClimateChange
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Martijn van Dijk
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in reply to Martijn van Dijk • • •urig
in reply to oaktree • • •internetsdairy
in reply to urig • • •urig
in reply to internetsdairy • • •Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪
in reply to urig • • •Israel ( and the US ) just want the world to burn. And take their houses after that. Plenty of history there...
Mycotropic
in reply to Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪 • • •@dacig @urig@mastodon.online
NPR reports that the Israeli government conducted the attack via supplying Hezbollah with the pagers.
Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪
in reply to Mycotropic • • •@mycotropic "9 year old Fatima Abdullah came home from school yesterday & picked up a pager on the kitchen table when it started beeping & went to bring it to her father when it exploded. Her face was blown off in the attack. The silence from western states in particular to the terror attacks is deafening." - Erin A. Snider, Assistant Professor of International Affairs
#Lebanon #Pagers #Terrorism #WarCrimes #Palestine #Gaza #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide #Israel #USA
nytimes.com/2024/09/18/world/m…
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Unknown parent • • •okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
in reply to urig • • •An 8-year old girl and an 11-year old boy among the 12 killed.
This isn't WW2 you absolute ghoul.
bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kn10x…