Two differing views of tonight’s ongoing long-duration #SolarFlare, which... sat for nearly 4 hours above M-class levels. It appears that an initial filament eruption triggered a much larger event! #spaceweather (data: AIA/SUVI/LASCO)show more

Yesterday the Sun produced this moderate-class #SolarFlare. Despite its... smaller size, it was a long duration event, continuing for several hours and providing this hypnotic view of beautiful coronal rain (seen in yellow) and Supra-arcade Downflows (seen in cyan). Mesmerising!show more

The volatility - yes, volatility - in AR 4366... is absolutely unbelievable. I don't think I have ever used the word 'volatility' to describe an active region. The X-ray flux has been mostly above the M-class threshold for *35 hours* now. There have been 25+ M-class and 4 X-class flares. It is unfortunate that most of these flares are impulsive, else we'd have a train of CMEs en route and likely impacting by now. Even so, the show is incredible, one of the highlights of Solar Cycle 25 - we will be talking about this for a long time!show more

Here is a 3D visualization of the coming solar... storm using model parameters from NASA's run, NOAA's run (shown below), and the coronagraph views from STEREO-A/COR2 and SOHO/LASCO. The storm is expected to hit Earth early December 9. The 3D visualization clearly shows the low inclination orientation of the solar slinky core inside the larger storm envelope. Of course, the earlier eruption that erupted to the northeast, might deflect this structure a little bit, but likely that will only make the structure move more towards the ecliptic plane, which will give us a larger chance of crossing through the solar slinky core. One nice thing about low inclination flux rope cores is that they almost ALWAYS have southward field in them at some point. So this is good news for aurora photographers-- as long as this solar storm stays true to its launch trajectory and inclination, we could see some organized southward pointed magnetic field. Considering this solar storm is fast-- that usually indicates the storm will not deviate much from its original launch trajectory! Here is the link to a static frame of the 3D frame visualization so you can fly around it yourself:show more

🌋Kīlauea eruption episode 47 summary Episode 47 of the... Kīlauea summit eruption in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park stopped at 12:27 am HST May 15 after 9 hours of lava fountaining. 🌋 Lava flowed from the south vent about 75 times in the 12 hours before episode 47, but only the north vent produced a lava fountain (up to 650 ft/200 m) during the episode. The south vent continued to overflow for a couple of hours, diminishing over time to spattering and then only flames. An estimated 6.2 million cubic yards (5.2 million cubic meters) of lava spilled across Halemaʻumaʻu, covering nearly half of the crater floor with new lava. 💨 The eruptive plume rose to about 20,000 ft (6,000 m) above sea level; weak winds as the episode peaked allowed the plume to rise vertically, causing tephra to fall around Kaluapele (Kīlauea caldera). Most tephra fell within the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, but sparse reticulite up to 3 inches (5 centimeters) in size fell at both the Uēkahuna and Keanakākoʻi overlooks. Fine ash and Peleʻs hair fell in communities to the northeast. ⛔️ The USGS kept the Kīlauea alert level/aviation color code at WATCH/ORANGE throughout the episode because fallout was not extensive and did not last very long. After the episode ended, USGS lowered Kīlauea to ADVISORY/YELLOW reflecting that volcanic activity had decreased significantly but continues to be closely monitored for possible renewed increase. Kīlauea summit region inflation since the end of episode 47 indicates that another fountaining episode is possible; however, more time is needed to collect data to generate the model to forecast episode 48. 📹 Video clips show Kīlauea episode 47 lava fountaining on May 14, 2026. #Kilauea #Lava #Eruptionshow more

🚨LATEST: $ASTER CLOSES IN ON $HYPE FOR PERP DEX... TOP SPOT According to data from DefiLlama.com, perpetuals DEX Aster 🥷 saw an impressive $3.075 billion in volume over the past 24-hours. While Hyperliquid saw some $3.772 billion in volume, it looks at surface level as if the gap between them appears to be narrowing, Hyperliquid historically much more active than Aster. Could it be that CZ 🔶 BNB's open support of the protocol is triggering a resurgence? Here's what you need to know about what could one day be crypto's leading perp DEX ⬇️show more

LongWriter Unleashing 10,000+ Word Generation from Long Context LLMs... discuss: Current long context large language models (LLMs) can process inputs up to 100,000 tokens, yet struggle to generate outputs exceeding even a modest length of 2,000 words. Through controlled experiments, we find that the model's effective generation length is inherently bounded by the sample it has seen during supervised fine-tuning (SFT). In other words, their output limitation is due to the scarcity of long-output examples in existing SFT datasets. To address this, we introduce AgentWrite, an agent-based pipeline that decomposes ultra-long generation tasks into subtasks, enabling off-the-shelf LLMs to generate coherent outputs exceeding 20,000 words. Leveraging AgentWrite, we construct LongWriter-6k, a dataset containing 6,000 SFT data with output lengths ranging from 2k to 32k words. By incorporating this dataset into model training, we successfully scale the output length of existing models to over 10,000 words while maintaining output quality. We also develop LongBench-Write, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating ultra-long generation capabilities. Our 9B parameter model, further improved through DPO, achieves state-of-the-art performance on this benchmark, surpassing even much larger proprietary models. In general, our work demonstrates that existing long context LLM already possesses the potential for a larger output window--all you need is data with extended output during model alignment to unlock this capability.show more

I decided to establish a comms constellation around Kerbin... using three equally spaced relay satellites in geostationary orbits. It was a single launch mission. I circularized at 2,863,334 meters above Kerbin, which places the orbital period at 6 hours - the same duration as a Kerbin day. This gives the appearance that the satellite hovers over one spot on the planet. I launched the first relay there, then burned retrograde to reduce the periapsis until my instruments reported a 4 hour orbital period - 2/3s of a Kerbin day. Once I got back around to apogee, I launched the second relay and circularized, then did it once more for the final relay.show more

We've now had two 2.5 x-flares from sunspot 4419... over the last 12 hours, both launching gigantic coronal mass ejections outwards pretty much in the direction of Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS. Surprisingly we're not in a radiation storm yet, and plasma headed to Earth from these events seems to be minimal, but sunspot 4420 is nearly Earth-direct now and 4423 following just behind just blasted off a 1.7 m-flare. As Comet R3 PANSTARRS continues to fly across Earth-facing while cutting through the ecliptic plane just outside the orbit of Mercury, my forecast is that we're most likely to enhanced activity from 4420 and 4423 as well over the next 2-3 days. Keep in mind the comet will begin experiencing #spaceweather from the CMEs very soon, and that will energize it electromagnetically even further, perhaps pronouncing this Comet-Sun effect we're seeing even further...show more

🚨 $IREN CEO DROPPED A HINT Last year That... 1.4 GW WILL BE WITH one of the MAG 7 👇 “Two hours ago we got an email from a TRILLION-DOLLAR HYPERSCALER… They are now INTERESTED IN OUR SWEETWATER DATA CENTER.” Let that sink in. 👀 1. SWEETWATER = 1.4 GW Energization in 3–4 months. At the moment , ZERO other data centers in the U.S. bring this much raw power online this fast. 2. CHILDRESS = Another 300–450 MW - Horizon 4-5, Still available. Still unannounced. Expect CRAZY NEWS in the weeks ahead. If a trillion-dollar hyperscaler plugs into Sweetwater, $IREN becomes a top-tier U.S. AI-compute player Soon. Now I wonder Who’s the trillion-dollar hyperscaler? 🤔 $GOOG $GOOGL $AMZN $MSFT $META $ORCL $NVDA $AMD All of them NEED multi-hundred-MW blocks right now. Only $IREN can deliver 1.4 GW on a single energization event. $cifr $wulf $nuai $nbisshow more

Brainrotting teens watching short form memes so much to... the point that parts of the fragments of other memes become even more short form and get colluded in other memes to the point that it really doesnt make sense. However. Brain loves pattern recognition of these patterns and nonsensical randomly shown fragments of memes, because it is not long form reward, nor short form reward — but instantaneous; it is the only form of pleasure it can feel So brain tries to look for these patterns unconsciously, it sees patterns and similar resemblance in random things and adds a symbolical emotional labeling of truth to it. So everything becomes a piece of information and data. It gets stored in their subconscious brain and fires up everytime there is a resemblance. Extremely dangerous if weaponised but no one sees the patterns yet. However because of these pattern behaviours teens are split into two categories, the brainrots which God knows how it will end with them — consumers and slaves that later on might have no free will and be driven by pure chemical instinct. And those who see for truth in patterns. The latter is able to overcome modern day censoring and freedom of speech mechanisms, and possibly overcome the evil trying to control the world with pure silliness and having fun. (67 is part of a random pattern that someone said during a match score, and it became viral, nothing more but a collective participation to which youth finds identity by being and acting in it; “performing”) Its beauty lies not in the act but in those individuals that look beyond the chemical instincts of the lower mind. Example of the video below. It shows many fragmental elements of history, symbolism, that is collaged into art. Which by being seen individually or collectively it shows the expression on how man uses its own soul for these kind of co-creations he choses to participate in creation. Symbolism that can leave a person ask for its meaning and search for it, only by questioning himself not by a direct answer (short or long form). Of course which extreme beauty there is also extreme ugliness which are out there which I wont show here Lets see how it really turns out to be honest, West has no protection toward the subjective, the feminine, the subconscious. To which the inner sins of man try to exploit.show more

It's 2030 and you are reviewing humanoid robots. A... Tesla. A Google. An Apple. An OpenAI. A Meta. A Figure. And a bunch of Chinese-made ones. Which one is best, and why? I think the Tesla understands the world much better. Why? There were eight Teslas around me on the freeway today. Start there. No other robot company has that data. But my robot is parked at the local high school twice a day. Its cameras see humans in all of our weirdness. How we move. Where we go. Where we walk. Who we talk with. What you are wearing. Whether your hair was combed this morning. That data will lead to robotics breakthroughs. Apple might keep up with its Vision Pro data, but it is too freaked out by the privacy implications of using said data. (On the front are six cameras and a couple of TOF -- Time Of Flight -- sensors that can see everything in your home in great detail). Google has a lot of data, for sure. All my: 1. Email. 2. Calendars. 3. Photos. 4. TV watching behavior. 5. Contacts. 6. Documents and spreadsheets. 7. Files. 8. Location data. So I expect Google's robot will be attractive to many. But how do you see the others shake out over the next five years? Make some guesses. But remember what an AI pioneer told me years ago about AI: it's all about the data. The Chinese ones have huge advantages: the Chinese have more data on their citizens, and many more citizens to boot AND they can make robots cheaper than we can. But now that you know OpenAI is building its own robot you have caught wind of what I've heard from many in San Francisco and Silicon Valley: that humanoid robots are the real prize of AI and will be highly profitable for those that can make them and find customers willing to buy them. Here, too, I learned long ago never to bet against Elon Musk. Will you?show more

Introducing my new OSS framework: OhSnap provides really simple... way to record and reproduce the data your users saw when encountering an issue (bug/crash), integration in your project should take a few minutes at most. Majority of bugs are related to data you have to deal with and often times we have to work with frequently changing data via network API's. Even if you have access to multiple environments (prod/staging/dev) it's still going to be PITA to reproduce a lot of bugs your user saw, since we often get to them a long time after the bug occured... OhSnap allows you to easily record any data your app downloads, pack it and put it on server so that you can replay it on your device later on, while connected to debugger and save hours of development time trying to figure out what exactly they experienced! Here's a demo of 2 app instances running, and me manipulating what server reply I'll be getting, there is 1 line of code needed to record and reply this data (outside of just setting up your framework). I built this so that I can show dev tool building process for the members of which I encourage you to join if you want to put your engineering efficiency at a different level😉show more

HOLEE SHIZZLES‼️ 🚨 The Fulton County Georgia FBI Raid... Affidavit CONFIRMS Election Records in Fulton County's 2020 Vote Count was MANIPULATED 1. Only 16 tabulators out of an expected much larger number were used to generate closing data for about 315,000 ballots across 138 provided poll tapes. This extreme concentration improperly funneled through a small set of machines, breaking chain-of-custody rules and making it easier to alter election results 2. Review of machine logs indicated that memory cards were likely removed from their original tabulators and inserted into different ones to produce or recreate closing poll tapes. This indictated tampering or fabrication of records to cover up discrepancies, as it allows data to be manipulated OUTSIDE the standard process. 3. Many closing poll tapes—essential documents that verify end-of-day vote totals from each polling site—were entirely MISSING from the records provided. Without these, there's no way to confirm that votes weren't added, removed, or changed post-election. FRAUD. 4. It was discovered that the Tabulator's data appeared to cover ballots from several different polling sites, which shouldn't happen under normal procedures. This suggests intentional mixing of data streams, which leads to DUPLICATE votes, misplaced ballots, or hidden errors across precincts. 5. Tabulators showed mismatched or anomalous timestamps in their logs, such as dates and times that didn't align with actual election events. This could indicate backdating, editing, or unauthorized access AFTER polls closed, further hinting at possible manipulation to make records appear consistent. 6. Auditors assisting in the Risk Limiting Audit reported counting purported absentee ballots that had never been creased or folded, as would be required for the ballot to be mailed to the voter and for the ballot to be returned in the sealed envelope requiring the voter’s signature for authentication. Affidavitshow more

This is proof that we’ve only explored less than... 5% of the ocean, which is actually terrifying.. In rare deep-water footage captured by a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) near an offshore oil platform, a tuna estimated at nearly 5.5 meters (18 feet) long was observed. For comparison, Atlantic bluefin tuna typically range from 1.8 to 2.4 meters (6–8 feet), with the largest verified reaching about 4 meters (13 feet), making this sighting truly extraordinary and hinting at underreported size outliers. The video was recorded during routine ROV inspections of subsea structures, which sometimes reveal the hidden ecosystems surrounding offshore platforms. These artificial environments attract schools of fish and larger predators, turning industrial sites into unexpected windows into marine life. Encounters like this underscore how little we know of the ocean—over 80% remains unexplored—and how even familiar species can astonish with their scale and behavior.show more

In March 2026, a flying-wing aircraft with a wingspan... exceeding 130 feet made an emergency landing at Larissa Air Base in Greece. Local media photographed it. Greek aviation enthusiasts initially identified it as a B-2 Spirit. It was not a B-2. The War Zone, SOFREP, and Military Watch Magazine identified it as the RQ-180, designated “White Bat,” the most classified unmanned surveillance platform in the American inventory. An aircraft that the United States Air Force has never officially acknowledged exists just landed in public view at a NATO base in the Eastern Mediterranean during the largest American military operation since the invasion of Iraq. The RQ-180 is what replaced the RQ-170 Sentinel, the “Beast of Kandahar” that Iran captured in December 2011 after it crashed or was brought down over eastern Iran. The RQ-170 had a wingspan of 66 feet, endurance of five to six hours, and a service ceiling of 50,000 feet. It was a tactical platform designed for short-duration ISR over Afghanistan and Pakistan. The RQ-180 is a different category entirely. Estimated wingspan: 130 to 172 feet, larger than a Boeing 737. Endurance: over 24 hours. Range: over 14,000 miles. Service ceiling: above 60,000 feet. Advanced broadband stealth across all radar frequencies. A sensor suite that remains entirely classified. The aircraft that Iran captured in 2011 was a bicycle. The aircraft that landed in Greece is a freight train. The operational implications for the Iran war are direct. The RQ-180 can loiter over Iranian territory for an entire day at altitudes beyond the reach of most air defences, collecting signals intelligence, mapping mobile missile launchers, monitoring underground facility entrances for repair activity, tracking IRGC ground force movements, conducting battle damage assessment after strikes, and feeding real-time targeting data to US and Israeli strike packages. It is the platform that enables everything else: the B-2 bombers that dropped MOPs on the IRGC headquarters, the F-35s that hit Asaluyeh, the SEAL Team 6 extraction that required precise knowledge of IRGC positions around the WSO’s hiding spot, the CIA deception campaign that needed to know which Iranian forces to misdirect and which to monitor. The RQ-180 is the eye. Everything else is the fist. Greece is the basing hub. Larissa hosts the 110th Combat Wing and has received American assets throughout the war. The emergency landing exposed the aircraft to public photography for the first time in operational context, after years of speculation and only a handful of grainy images. The aircraft that no government has confirmed just told every OSINT analyst on earth that it is real, that it is operational, and that it is flying over Iran. The last time the United States flew a stealth drone over Iran, Iran captured it, reverse-engineered elements of its design, and displayed it on state television. The RQ-180 is designed to ensure that never happens again. If it is lost over Iran, the technology compromise dwarfs 2011. The fact that the Air Force is flying it in active combat tells you the intelligence it provides is worth the risk, and the confidence in its survivability is absolute. The White Bat landed in Greece. It flies over Iran. And the war that Hegseth just called the largest strike day since February 28 is being guided by an aircraft that does not officially exist.show more

$4.4 trillion in PE assets under management Monitored by... analysts who spend 500+ hours a year copying numbers from PDFs into Excel. Not analyzing. Copying and pasting. A fund has 10 portcos. One on NetSuite, one on QuickBooks, three on Excel, one CFO sending a paragraph in an email every quarter. Company A calls it "Revenue." Company B calls it "Net Sales." Company C doesn't even use the same EBITDA calculation. Before AI can do anything useful, you need four layers: 1. Ingestion: get the data out of PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, whatever format it shows up in 2. Normalization: make sure the same metric means the same thing across every company 3. Storage: structured database that can actually be queried, not a folder of files 4. Query layer: natural language interface so a non-technical partner can ask "which portco is trending down on margins?" and get a real answer Most companies jump straight to layer 4 and wonder why nothing works. The unlock is building layers 1-3 first. Once those exist, the AI part is MUCH easier. The firms that get their data infrastructure right first will be untouchable.show more

From International Space Station, we have a unique vantage... point to observe lightning storms from directly above them. Much like from the ground, they appear as rapid, intense flashes that are over as quickly as they started. But, with the help of handheld cameras and a bit of practice (and, admittedly, some luck), we can capture these intense flashes with a very high frame rate then slow them down to see how the lightning propagates. It's lightning, in slow motion. This is one that occurred over Indonesia on 6/28. I shot it for a half second at 1/120 frame rate, so, 60 separate frames. I then compiled those frames into two videos: the first, in real-time, and the second, slowed down so that each frame is a half second to highlight the progression of the flash. Note the incredible burst of light in one frame, which includes what is likely a TLE on the upper left. A TLE, or Transient Luminous Event, is an electrical discharge that happens in the upper atmosphere above lightning storms (if you haven’t seen Nichole “Vapor” Ayers TLE photo from last week, head over to her page). As their name implies, these are transient, or short lived, phenomena – it appeared in only one frame of the sequence, lasting for no more than 1/120th of a second. The last photo is that single frame. Absolutely incredible.show more

Many people online speculate that the drones spotted in... New Jersey might be the PteroDynamics Transwing X-P4. This drone transitions between two configurations: a quadcopter mode (7 feet by 4 feet) for vertical takeoff and landing and a fixed-wing airplane mode (7 feet by 13 feet) for efficient flight. PteroDynamics has contracts with the U.S. Navy, which tests drones at the Naval Air Station at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. The company has also carried out test flights from the flight deck of the USNS Burlington, which is currently stationed in New Jersey. This capability might explain the drone sightings reported from the sea. These sightings are likely tied to classified U.S. Navy drone testing, which explains the federal government’s silence on the matter. If these drones are not the PteroDynamics X-P4, they are likely similar unmanned aerial systems being evaluated by the U.S. military. That's the most logical explanation for why the federal government is allowing these operations to happen. At this point, it appears to be as much an experiment in psychological operations as it is a test of drone technology.show more

This company also appears to only do business in... Africa and in fact much of its management team is African. So in summary, we have a website with a hidden owner contracting an IT middleman who specialises in "raising sustainable revenue" through high-traffic regulatory activities (such as visa applications) to operate the website on their behalf. This website is not affiliated with the UAE government and the middleman operating it appears to only be active in African jurisdictions. My educated guess is that there is a private company behind all of this - possibly linked to someone in Aso Rock or the Foreign Ministry - which has quietly positioned itself to rip Nigerians off. In fact, I'd go as far as to guess that the reason why the visa ban dragged on for so long - and why there were multiple false dawns - is that this private entity was haggling over details like revenue split. I now await the frenzied, angry denials followed by the tacit admission that I've not even scratched the surface. If you're familiar with Nigeria, none of this will come as a surprise.show more