CsmDarkSky

Husband, Dad, Avid traveler, Dark sky enthusiast

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@basharatw @anyatrades Hope you do well. Nothing but respect for the folks at Space X (and their President Gwynne Shotwell). But I really do not understand the huge valuations and the entire financial engineering burying huge X and xAI losses inside Space X.

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@jrovner Congratulations and very well deserved!

[Sally Mauk @sallymauk]

The Missouri River Breaks country is such a special part of Montana.
#riverglory

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

Raghu Rai's unforgettable 1989 picture of Kurrkutt, a rescued sarus crane living with its adopted family in Khajuraho, India. #photography

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@KashPrime @omar_dddg Agree with drug trade as the primary factor. Sadly we see the pattern repeat even with countries like Ecuador that used to have much lower rates of violence earlier.

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@hkarthik I am not in big tech or the Bay area. I still believe this is a broad generalization based on some of the folks I have seen impacted by the layoffs. Many were folks I respected who moved into big tech at a really unfortunate time

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@starstrickenSF @LocasaleLab Someone very near and dear was stolen by this cancer. It was then we truly realized how insidious, devastating and difficult it is. This progress is most welcome.

Thank you for your response and all the best for your dad.

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

At university graduation ceremonies this spring, commencement speakers have been getting booed for championing AI, given how the technology might threaten their job prospects.

In a commencement speech at Bard College last week, I delivered a more hopeful message — that humans can do essential things that computers simply can’t. Here are some highlights from that speech:

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The ramp up of cancer immunotherapy is remarkable. Now we're seeing vaccines achieve some cures or remissions in the most refractory cancers: pancreatic, melanoma, glioblastoma, renal, triple-negative breast cancer.
✓ out the new Ground Truths (link in profile)

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@KashPrime What followed in the next couple of days was the loss of its radars and 11 of its airbases being struck deep inside its territory (including one next to its military HQ). Not sure I would take it as a ringing endorsement of its platforms.

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

I've long hoped Great Lakes cities would be revalued so I'm on guard for hopium: There's a risk this could just be a classic "bullwhip" pattern, overshooting after COVID pulled forward 5 years of Sunbelt migration

But these cities really are underrated. This could be real

[Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁 @forecaster25]

Blackwater Falls, WV is RIPPING today. It’s shaking the ground from the overlook

3-6” of rain overnight up here. Amazing for a day of waterfall photography 👌🏻👌🏻

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Human for scale

[D. Scott @bisontattooguy]

I’ve had 26 bear sightings in the last 72 hours in Yellowstone, with 21 different bears. Six of them were grizzlies.

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@KashPrime One of the domains where AI has the potential to be genuinely transformational (esp true of use cases like hard to diagnose cancers).

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Nancy Cox spent decades building America's flu defenses. Quietly, methodically, without fanfare.

When the next pandemic hits, her fingerprints will be on the tools that protect us

She passed away this week

The world won't much notice. It should

[Daniel Shaw @DanielShawAU]

The terrifying view of the tornado near Enid, Oklahoma this evening as it crossed the road. Join our live streams & watch the full chase edit coming up via https://t.co/nieJn2YwxP

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@davidfrum @TheAtlantic ❤️

[CsmDarkSky @sky_csm]

@MarkWarner @NickKristof So sorry for your loss Senator. Keeping your family in our hearts 🙏

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.