Mark Noble

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

I did not see this one coming. BREAKING NEWS folks!
Midjourney, yes the AI image company, just launched a real medical device that feels like it's straight out of Star Trek.
https://t.co/LSs2zbYViM

They’ve unveiled the Midjourney Scanner, the first working prototype of Full Body Ultrasonic Computational Tomography. It uses a ring of thousands of tiny transducers to fire ultra-precise sound waves through the body. The returning echoes are captured at a staggering 17 gigabytes per second, and the 806 terabytes of gathered data are then reconstructed by a 2 petaflop compute system into a highly detailed 3D map of your entire internal anatomy — organs, tissues, blood vessels, etc., in 60 seconds.

The resolution is extreme: each sensor can resolves motion smaller than the width of an atom, detecting internal tissue details down to half a millimeter. And unlike MRI or CT scans, it uses no radiation, just sound. Think of it like getting an ultrasound from the 22nd century.

The ambition is breathtaking. Midjourney wants to build a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners, capable of delivering a billion full body scans per month. That's enough to make comprehensive full body imaging available to every person on Earth.

They’re not hiding it in cold, clinical hospitals either. The vision includes placing these scanners inside what look like Midjourney spas, turning what’s usually an annoying medical procedure into something genuinely pleasant.

This is Star Trek level healthcare infrastructure: fast, safe, non-invasive full body imaging at planetary scale. If they pull it off, it could fundamentally shift medicine from reactive treatment to proactive, early detection on a global level.

Progress (and Midjourney going full medical) marches on. 🩺🚀

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

If USA beats you in the World Cup

That country has to call it Soccer until the next World Cup

New rule I just made up

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

If you’ve spent much time in Appalachia, you know a road.

One that follows a creek for miles, slips past a few houses, an old church, maybe a cemetery sitting just above the floodplain, bends around one more hillside, then simply… ends.

The more time I spend looking at old maps of Appalachia, the less I notice the mountains.

I notice the hollows… thousands of them.

Open a topographic map and you’ll see water’s fingerprints everywhere. For millions of years, streams carved narrow hollows into these old mountains. Long before modern roads, those creek bottoms had already found the easiest paths through the landscape.

People learned to follow them.

A little bottomland became a home place. A mill stood where the current could do the work. Churches gathered neighbors from the same drainage. Family cemeteries settled onto the first ground above the floodwater. Over generations, communities grew where the land finally gave them enough room.

The landscape never dictated how people should live but it quietly influenced where life was easiest to build.

Two families could live only a few miles apart and still spend most of their lives in different hollows because a ridge stood between them. Not complete isolation. Just enough distance for local churches, schools, stores, and family networks to develop in different ways while remaining connected to the wider region.

Ask someone from Appalachia where they’re from. Sometimes the answer isn’t a town.

It’s a creek.
A branch.
A gap.
A hollow.

Some places are remembered by streets. Appalachia remembers by water, ridges, roads, and hollows.

[Billy Bowling  𝕏 @babowling12]

Golden hour views from the top of Virginia.

📍Whitetop, VA

[Patrick Hedger @pat_hedger]

Just want to thank all the international World Cup fans for coming and lifting all of us Americans up with your absolutely charming encounters with our big weird country. We needed it. Best 250th birthday gift ever.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

The Patrouille de France flying over the Statue of Liberty today. What a symbol. 250 years of shared history.

[Jeremy Wilcox @jwilcox79]

The French Air Force aerobatic team, Patrouille de France, conducted a major flyover in New York City (coming from near West Point) this morning, as part of their “Liberté 250” tour celebrating American independence. 🇫🇷 🇺🇸

[Denzell @Denzell_Of_NSH]

Spain is experiencing Chattanooga, TN.

Argentina is in Auburn, Alabama.

Germans are eating Waffle House.

Brits are still complaining.

This World Cup has been amazing and it hasn’t even started yet.

[Michael Kasper @KasperStats]

i'm not kidding, the US travel/tourism board (whatever that is at a Federal level lol) should sponsor the rest of that German guy's trip through the US, dude is doing insanely good PR for the South

[The Timeless Traveler @TimelessTrvlr]

Anna Maria Island is the Florida people keep saying they miss.

Beach cottages, soft sand, turquoise water and no need to turn everything into a spectacle.

[Justin Berk @JustinWeather]

🌌 G3 Strong Geomagnetic Storm Watch for Tonight! Note this is Universal Greenwich Mean Time that turns the next day at 8 PM EDT.

‼️ NOAA has issued a G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for June 8 ( ⚠️ with G2 possible on the 9th) after a CME erupted from the Sun on June 6.

👉🏻 This means Northern Lights (aurora) could be visible across parts of the northern and mid-northern US — including a chance here in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast!

👉🏻 This is different from the event a few days ago and worth noting that this is not perfect. Timing of the energy and where on the edge of our magnetosphere it arrived can make or break the potential sky show.

⏰ Best Timing for Mid-Atlantic & Northeast:
• Tonight (Sunday June 7 into Monday June 8): Activity ramps up after sunset. Peak viewing likely AFTER 10 PM to 4 AM local time, especially around local midnight.

👀 Look north from a dark sky location (away from city lights). Even if faint to the naked eye
📱 your phone camera in Night Mode can capture amazing shots!

Viewing Potential:
• Strongest shows overhead in northern states (ME, NH, VT, northern NY, MI, MN, etc.).

• Low on the northern horizon possible from PA, NJ, NY, CT, MA, OH, and parts of the Mid-Atlantic under clear skies. In south-central PA (like York area), head to rural spots — faint glows have been seen this far south during similar G3 events!

Clear skies are key.
Tag your aurora photos with location and time!

Who’s heading out again to try and hunt the lights?

#NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #G3Storm #SpaceWeather

[Doug Kammerer @dougkammerer]

Have you seen these little guys? They are everywhere and I don’t remember seeing them before. SMASH EM!!! That’s because they are lantern fly nymphs and are highly invasive. They are everywhere!!

[Vincent Ledvina @Vincent_Ledvina]

Low-energy particles are still rising indicating the CME is moving closer to Earth. We should see *something* at some point, maybe in the next several hours. At least one CME was a full halo eruption, so a non-impact would be quite unusual. Weider things have happened in space weather, though! Watching and waiting...

[Vincent Ledvina @Vincent_Ledvina]

AURORA ALERT: a strong solar storm could bring the northern lights to much of the U.S. tonight (Thursday, June 4). NOAA has issued a G3 ("strong") geomagnetic storm watch for June 4 into June 5. If it pans out, the aurora may be visible across the northern states and into the central U.S., with a small chance even farther south during brief bursts called substorms.

What's happening: an active sunspot region called AR 4455 fired off several CMEs (giant clouds of solar plasma) on June 3, including ones tied to an M9.5, M7.8, and an X1 flare. At least three are aimed our way and may arrive together. NOAA expects the first impact around midday Thursday (18 UT or about 2 PM Eastern, 1 PM Central, 11 AM Pacific), while NASA's model leans to the evening and another (HUXt) pushes it into the early hours of June 5. It's a wide window, so watch tonight into early Friday.

How strong: NOAA's official forecast is G3 (Kp 7), but a lot depends on whether we take a direct hit or a glancing blow, so it could land higher or lower. Don't put too much stock in pinpoint Kp numbers or app forecasts days out. Space weather is hard to predict and the storm will evolve on its own. Treat them as a sign activity may be enhanced, not a guarantee.

How to catch it: get away from city lights, find a clear view to the north, and look during the darkest part of the night. Watch for substorms when the sky can go from dark to full of color in just a few minutes. Two things working against us: clouds (even thin, high clouds can mute the show) and a bright ~80%-lit moon that rises around local midnight. Your best window is the dark gap after dusk and before the moon comes up.

The map shows roughly how far south the aurora might reach tonight. Forecasts like this don't always come true, so keep your hopes up but your expectations realistic.

A few free resources to help you chase:

Sign up for my aurora alerts + guides: https://t.co/TmXQ9bcWkT

Live aurora webcams (100+): https://t.co/6p6lf2217i

What is a substorm? https://t.co/4zGp9vcHYG

What resources you may look at but are actually NOT helpful for chasing in real-time: https://t.co/dXajNLSH25

How to read the HUXt model: https://t.co/gWx1zGXjeB

Support these free alerts on Patreon: https://t.co/8f4dgCQHIs

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Thinking of my friend Alexei Navalny and his family today. He would have turned 50 today.
Goodbye to my fearless friend, Alexei Navalny https://t.co/HYsacXcJRT

[Tony Pann @TonyPannWBAL]

A CANNIBAL CME is coming! Sounds scary, right? 😁 What's that? When two CMEs fly off the face of the Sun towards Earth and one is faster than the other. The faster one gobbles up the slower one. Yesterday, sunspot 4455 sent multiple CMEs into space, and a "cannibal" will hit Earth tonight. There is a small chance we could see the Northern Lights here in MD, so stay tuned!

[Billy Bowling  𝕏 @babowling12]

This, and a Bar-B-Dog from Pals.

📍Grayson Highlands, VA

[Mark Noble @NobleM85]

@babowling12 Grayson Highlands is such a great spot!!

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

The Iranian regime has never acted on good faith. It’s always the same play: stall, buy time, realign.

We should not release assets or give sanctions relief until we have full access to and control of their nuclear material.

[Justin Berk @JustinWeather]

😎Do you mind if we keep it just a little cool for a while?
👀🌡️NOAA Outlook for Days 6 to 10 have us SLIGHTLY COOLER THAN AVERAGE.
😀Warm afternoons and cool or event chilly nights.

The two bottom maps are the start this weekned.
We will get a cooling breeze...
❄️⛰️ There may be a pocket of snow Saturday morning in the mountains of New England.
I bet Mount Washington Observatory will have it.
Isn't that a fun way to end May???