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- This is the first image of an aurora taken from the surface of Mars, or indeed the surface of any world other than our own. "But wait!" I hear you say. "I thought Mars didn't have a magnetosphere. How can it have an aurora?" A short 🔭🧵. physicsworld.com/a/this-is-wh...
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- The magnetic field protects the atmosphere from being stripped by the solar wind. Without an atmosphere, surface water would evaporate.
- Morning Bluesky. Britain and Germany are to develop a “deep precision strike" weapon with a range exceeding 2,000 km, Reuters reports.
- Looks like this. Originally France, Germany, Poland and Italy. UK and Sweden joined the project in October 2024. www.defensenews.com/global/europ...
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- Good article by Gary Marcus here: garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
- It is a statistical engine trained on a huge corpus of human output. Despite OpenAI's effort to remove toxic results arising from this, some occasionally gets through. With Grok, the opposite is happening. There is no brain or self there.
- Carney: Canadians weren't impressed by UK govt's state visit invite to Trump www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- That is why Scotland needs to take him back and embrace him and his offspring - give them a stable environment.
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- You have to look after your children even when they stray.
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- He is half Scottish as it is. If Scotland leaves the UK he will be entitled to Scottish citizenship, which I think is his long game - a modest retirement flat in a nice part of Edinburgh with a gold toilet and walking distance to the shops.
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- As pure as the driven snow.
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- Maybe we can volunteer - one in, one out.
- Lead headline on BBC Politics Live: “Prime Minister accused of echoing far right language.” Was/is this the Downing Street comms goal in framing their immigration reform? If so, how is this helpful? If not, how has this happened?
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- 3 main factors: 1. gutter press 2. cultural hubris 3. FPTP electoral system
