Wow! I’ve never seen anything like this 😱 This CCTV footage captures the powerful M7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar in March. You can clearly see the dramatic shift in the ground. Absolutely surreal.

Grant Tremblay I like one of Eugene Cernan in the Lunar module:

出羽桜 Dewazakura is a very smooth sip from Yamagata Prefecture.

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/epi…

Charmed by this old machine slowly and mechanically sorting eggs by weight.

Frog Sumō, by Ohara Koson, ca. 1930

We were here

The Shoebill Stork..

All statewide bills banning gender-affirming care contain a so-called “intersex exception.” So why are intersex people losing access to healthcare? ‼️These are really exceptions for intersex mutilation. interactadvocates.org/no-care-just-c…

Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism" —the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing —outgrowth of decades of NIH funded research nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… NEJM

Two weeks ago I destroyed a camera lens to get this shot of this Atlas V rocket… Next week I’ll be putting cameras this close to the largest rocket ever built. Here’s a thread on why I sacrificed my lens and couldn’t protect it:

A new method to quickly make plants with 'desirable' traits — without radiation or breeding. Ruby Red grapefruits and Golden Promise barley were both made by irradiating seeds to randomly induce mutations. Irradiation physically breaks DNA, and typically leads to 0.8–1.6

For my video on Fixing voyager 1 I wanted to try an illustrate the code relocation, so I made this little video showing the chunks of code getting relocated out of the bad memory into the free space they found.

And continuing the theme of astronomy related tweets: Zoom! That's an entire star doing 8% of lightspeed, or 24,000 kilometres per second. A 20 year time-lapse of the galactic centre by the Very Large Telescope interferometry array.

"o3, show me a page from the instruction manual for a machine that turns everything into crabs" Intrigued by the warning it created: "make the warning page of what happens if you insert a crab into the Universal Crabbifier" "show me a security camera still..." (all zero shot)

It is really weird that we have collectively chosen to memory hole this fact.

excited to finally share on arxiv what we've known for a while now: All Embedding Models Learn The Same Thing embeddings from different models are SO similar that we can map between them based on structure alone. without *any* paired data feels like magic, but it's real:🧵

🧵1/ Ukraine Cites Mossad as Assassinations Multiply Kyiv’s patiently constructed intelligence services and their assassins have more targets in their sights. It's a clear message to russian war criminals.

Always funny to me that computers are 100% efficient turning electricity into heat. You’d think some of the energy goes into the math. Really the math is a useful byproduct Once we make silicon cheaper than wires, your toaster and dryer will do AI . Pass the butter I guess.

Pro tip: you can point Deep Research at The Math Academy Way by Justin Skycak to generate a learning system for nearly any skill domain. I'm using mine to learn traditional art (I'm following it and actual results shown)--put the time in and do the reps!