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Friday, 23 January
(HTM) Earthset from Orion (APOD)
(HTM) Planetary Nebula Abell 7 (APOD)
(HTM) Notes on the Intel 8086 processor's arithmetic-logic unit (Ken Shirriff's blog)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/23/26 The Pixel That Shouted Scroll At The Heart Of The World (File 770)
(HTM) Hungry Hippos and Test Tanks – Rocket Lab building towards Neutron (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs) (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
(HTM) Arduino IDE and ESP32forth (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Summary List of File 770 Readers Recommendations for 2025 (File 770)
(HTM) Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Why Was This Obscure Plane The Greatest Fighter Aircraft of World War II? NEW VIDEO! Woo hoo! (Hush-Kit Aviation World)
(HTM) How Greenland sharks defy aging (Science News)
(HTM) Omikron: The Nomad Soul (The Digital Antiquarian)
(HTM) Donor Unknown by Nika Murphy (audio) (Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy)
(HTM) It masquerades as malignant. But this bone-covered tumor is benign (Science News)
(HTM) zeptoforth 1.15.2 is out (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Has Blue Origin Created a Starlink Killer? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) TGL E402: New Year Crate Dig (Fear of Tigers)
(HTM) Physics theories about the multiverse are stranger than fiction (Science News)
(HTM) OPM: A Unique Situation (Ether Diver)
(HTM) Do today’s work today (Interconnected)
(HTM) ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ (Media Lens)
(HTM) Quoting Theia Vogel (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Video: Novation Circuit Rhythm First Look (Ether Diver)
(HTM) FURS: Major bugfix (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Unexpected Feelings (Dinosaur Comics!)
Thursday, 22 January
(HTM) Planetary Nebula Abell 7 (APOD)
(HTM) LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion (APOD)
(HTM) Double-Pronged Extension Cord (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Blue Origin to reuse New Glenn booster on next launch (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) TerraWave enters the scene with lasers and game-changing data speeds (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/22/26 Scroll Us A File You’re The Pixel Man (File 770)
(HTM) Friday 23 January, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) SSH has no Host header (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Inspiration (Forth) Update (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) 2026 Oscar Nominations (File 770)
(HTM) Blue Origin makes impressive strides with reuse—next launch will refly booster - With this quick turnaround, Blue Origin takes a step toward a faster cadence. - Eric Berger (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Seismometers can track falling space junk (Science News)
(HTM) FTX Does Some Effective Altruism (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Pluralistic: The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit (22 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Company/department reorgs? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) A spot in the base of the brain has a love of language (Science News)
(HTM) Quoting Thariq Shihipar (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Quoting Chris Lloyd (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Dr. Laura Stiles, Blue Origin’s Director of New Shepard Launch Operations, set to Fly on NS-38 as a previous crew member dropped out due to illness (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Animals experience joy. Scientists want to measure it (Science News)
[https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueOrigin/comments/1qjsxnu/official_new_glenn3_to_launch_ast_spacemobiles/][OFFICIAL] New Glenn-3 to Launch AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird Satellite [[https://old.reddit.com/r/blueorigin/new]newest submissions : BlueOrigin]
(HTM) Book Review: An Arcane Inheritance by Kamilah Cole (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Academic Neutrality (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Hunter, Hunter (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Uncanny Celebrates Reader Favorites of 2025! (Uncanny Magazine)
(HTM) The Morning After the Tantrum Before (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) 28th Annual Critters Readers’ Poll Results (File 770)
Wednesday, 21 January
(HTM) Eric Berger says Blue is doing too much at once (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion (APOD)
(HTM) Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb (APOD)
(HTM) Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mk.1 Moon lander sets sail for Texas for prelaunch testing (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Issue #449 (Issues – Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
(HTM) 46th Razzie Nominations (File 770)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/21/26 Sorry I’m Late, I Was Off Chasing Dodos Out Of The Library (File 770)
(HTM) Blue Moon is on the move! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Blue Origin TeraWave: 6 Tbps Satellite Network Targets Enterprise Market, 2027 Launch. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Books! Booze! Ellen Kushner! Caitlin Rozakis! Amanda Cockrell! And Also Me (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) Claude's new constitution (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Hong long does it take to hear back from the final interview (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) French startup Latitude targets 2026 for first launch while following market-driven approach (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Down We Go Gently by M. L. Clark (audio) (Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy)
(HTM) Moonshot Pay Kind of Works (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Lunar Lander on its way for testing. Blue has surprised me a lot in the last year (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) A massive cosmic ring may challenge a key assumption about the universe (Science News)
(HTM) Goodbye Starlink, Hello 6 TB/s (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) This hand stencil in Indonesia is now the oldest known rock art (Science News)
(HTM) Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Physicists discovered neutrinos 70 years ago. The ghostly particles still have secrets to tell (Science News)
(HTM) wait wait wait, these feelings don't go away? I NEVER EVEN ASKED FOR THEM AND ALL MY FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ARE ROBOTS; WHAT THE HELL (Dinosaur Comics!)
Tuesday, 20 January
(HTM) Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Cost Savings (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Blue Origin moon lander rolls out of Merritt Island facility (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/20/26 The Daft Hand Of Loch Ness (File 770)
(HTM) Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) on X: I'm hopeful that we might see MK1 launch late this spring or during the summer months on the fourth or fifth launch of the New Glenn rocket. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) 2026 Cinema Audio Society Awards Nominees (File 770)
(HTM) Wednesday 21 January, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Participate in the 2025 Clarkesworld Readers’ Poll Nominations (File 770)
(HTM) 2026 Edgar Award Nominations (File 770)
(HTM) Electricity use of AI coding agents (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) MK-1 “Endurance” off to Houston! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Florida Starship progress with launch sites at KSC and Cape (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Memecoin Venture Capital (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) There’s life beneath the snow, but it’s at risk of melting away (Science News)
(HTM) Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Number for payroll? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) This detached hand robot has a thing for skittering on its fingertips (Science News)
(HTM) Is it possible to write the following using standard words and without using EVALUATE? (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) ‘In Botanical Time’ explores the ways Earth’s oldest plants cheat death (Science News)
(HTM) Pluralistic: AI is how bosses wage war on "professions" (20 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Pawn to King Four (File 770)
Monday, 19 January
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Kipling Society 2026 Writing Prize Open to Supernatural Tales (File 770)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/19/26 Double Space, The Final Frontier With Extra Character (File 770)
(HTM) jordanhubbard/nanolang (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Does Blue have any actual ambitions to industrialize the moon in the relative near term? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Launch Preview: Falcon 9 set to launch two missions from California, Isar to attempt second launch of Spectrum (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid Unveils New Indigenous Logo (File 770)
(HTM) zeptoforth 1.15.1.1 is out (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) This tool-using cow defies expectations for bovine braininess (Science News)
(HTM) Code is a liability (not an asset) (Cory Doctorow's craphound.com)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Social media without socializing (19 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Liftoff for European launch startups (The Space Review)
(HTM) The PSLV-C62 failure marks a setback for India's space ambitions (The Space Review)
(HTM) A hell of a character: the late, great, Martin Caidin (The Space Review)
(HTM) The successful development of Russia's counterspace activities in LEO and GEO (The Space Review)
(HTM) Apollos anew (The Space Review)
(HTM) a bear skull (File 770)
(HTM) rip to all those who lived in history times, what can we say but "you are dead now" (Dinosaur Comics!)
Sunday, 18 January
(HTM) Scaling long-running autonomous coding (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Aurora Coolness (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Blue Origin updates work on ‘transporter’ for Blue Moon lunar lander (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/18/26 Alle The Pixels And This Scroll Will Return For Avengers: Godstalk (File 770)
(HTM) Monday 19 January, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) FLUX.2-klein-4B Pure C Implementation (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Space Science in 2026: New lunar explorers, Mars missions, and space telescopes (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Blue Origin screening process (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Cora Buhlert Toy Review: Mythic Legions: War of the Aetherblade Attila Leossyr II and Gorgo Aetherblade II Two-Pack (File 770)
Saturday, 17 January
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Apollo 14: A View from Antares (APOD)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/17/26 A Fist Full Of Scrolls, A Pocketful Of Pixels (File 770)
(HTM) Dante and the 3-Sphere (Azimuth)
(HTM) I just wrote a Founder’s statement for my Space Exploration company, condensing it into three short sentences. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Developing a Strudel/Tidal Cycles clone in r3forth (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Video: Jamuary in Progress (Ether Diver)
(HTM) Explore Gateway: The first space station to orbit the Moon (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) New Glenn X Orion || A KSP Cinematic (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Today's Bookstore Reading CANCELLED and RESCHEDULED (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) SLS space rocket roll out (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Quoting Jeremy Daer (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Paul Weimer Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War (File 770)
(HTM) A Paucity of Cat Whiskers (Flogging Babel)
Friday, 16 January
(HTM) ITS HAPPENING! NASA Just Powered Up Humanity’s First Moon Space Station (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Apollo 14: A View from Antares (APOD)
(HTM) NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula (APOD)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/16/26 See A Pixel Pulled Out Of A Hat. It Doesn’t End Well. And No, I Don’t Know How The Pixel Got Into The Hat (File 770)
(HTM) Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites? (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
(HTM) Status Report 1/26 (Ether Diver)
(HTM) Artemis II rolls out to LC-39B for first crewed lunar mission since 1972 (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Catch this! (16 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) One year ago today NG1 lit up the night sky and reached orbit on its first attempt 🚀🌌 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) NS-38 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) This fish may play a hole in its head like a drum (Science News)
(HTM) A long-lost tectonic fragment may be shaking Northern California (Science News)
(HTM) Math puzzle: The homesick rover (Science News)
(HTM) TGL - E401: New Music, New Year (Fear of Tigers)
(HTM) OPM: Weird and On Film (Ether Diver)
Thursday, 15 January
(HTM) NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula (APOD)
(HTM) Plato and the Lunar Alps (APOD)
(HTM) International Station (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/15/25 Anything You Can Scroll, I Can Scroll Better (File 770)
(HTM) Friday 16 January, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Open Responses (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Must Reads Magazines Statement on Changes Made to Standard Contract in Response to SFWA (File 770)
(HTM) Sparkle Bookstore Reading This Saturday! (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) Pluralistic: How the Light Gets In (15 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Animal personalities can play a big role in saving species (Science News)
(HTM) Stablecoin Narrow Banking (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Color blindness hides a key warning sign of bladder cancer (Science News)
(HTM) MK1 Completed DFAT Testing (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) The Design & Implementation of Sprites (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) How cheetah mummies could help bring the species back to Arabia (Science News)
(HTM) The natural home for AI agents is your Reminders app (Interconnected)
(HTM) Book Review: Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms by Darcie Little Badger, Stacie Shannon Denetsosie, and Kinsale Drake, eds. (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: Marisca Pichette (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: Effie Seiberg (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Where the Chicken-Footed Dwell (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Bots All the Way Down (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) 2026 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award Contest Opens 1/20 (File 770)
(HTM) 2026 D.I.C.E. Awards Finalists (File 770)
(HTM) New Glenn & Blue Moon Lander (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Expanding OLED vocabulary (newest submissions : Forth)
Wednesday, 14 January
(HTM) Plato and the Lunar Alps (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Jared Isaacman pushes SpaceX and Blue to accelerate Artemis (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) 2026 VES Awards Nominees (File 770)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/14/26 Legs Like A Gazelle, Thighs Like Tugboats, X-Ray Eyes, Bionic Blood (File 770)
(HTM) Quoting Boaz Barak, Gabriel Wu, Jeremy Chen and Manas Joglekar (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) It was an honor to host @NASAAdmin yesterday in Florida! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Offer at HSV - does anyone stay long term? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) This dino’s fossil claw suggests it snatched eggs, not insects (Science News)
(HTM) Crew-11 lands after medical situation forces early return (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Wall Street Wants Predictors (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) How many launches will New Glenn have this year? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pluralistic: It's not normal (14 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Plants packed close enough to touch are more resilient to stress (Science News)
(HTM) A Brief But Telling Anecdote About Sheila Williams (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) Computer science can help abuse and trafficking survivors regain safety (Science News)
(HTM) Venezuela – ‘War Is Peace’ (Media Lens)
(HTM) if you're looking to start out the "how to rap" course you're teaching with a comic, OH BOY, have you come to the right webzone today (Dinosaur Comics!)
Tuesday, 13 January
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) 16-Part Epoxy (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Accepted Offer, Need Advice (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Earth’s last 3 years were its hottest on record (Science News)
(HTM) India’s workhorse PSLV needs to solve third stage issue following second consecutive failure (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/13/26 A Filer’s Full House: Two Scrolls And Three Pixels (File 770)
(HTM) Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) Wednesday 14 January, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) MWA’s 2026 Special Edgar Awards Include Two Grand Masters (File 770)
(HTM) 2026 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced (File 770)
(HTM) Starship launch infrastructure progress at Starbase/Cape ahead of 2026 Launches (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) GUI development in Forth - fleshed out the editing tools and made a bitmap editor widget (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Dragonfly’s Carousel (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Fake Cancer Doctor Insider Trading (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Sorry, eh (13 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Blue Origin and Nimbus Power Systems Successfully Complete Simulated Launch Test of Fuel Cells for Life Support in Space (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) This ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of humans doing math (Science News)
(HTM) Botox could be used to fight snakebite (Science News)
(HTM) Blue Origin Early Career Application Status - Any Insight on Hiring Timeline? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Brooklyn Books & Booze @ Barrows Intense -- January 20 at 7 PM (Flogging Babel)
Monday, 12 January
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Hiring process (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 1/12/26 And If You Go Chasing Pixels, And You Know You’re Going To Scroll (File 770)
(HTM) Launch Preview: Launches from China, U.S., and Norway scheduled for upcoming week (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Snow and ICE (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic's general agent (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Queen bumblebees are poor foragers thanks to sparse tongue hair (Science News)
(HTM) In a new kind of plant trickery, this yam fools birds with fake berries (Science News)
(HTM) Paramount Wants Warner to Show Its Work (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) After Sheila Williams Hospitalization, Emily Hockaday Named Asimov’s Interim Editor (File 770)
(HTM) Blue Origin Launch Complex (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pluralistic: A winning trade war strategy for Canada (11 Jan 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU, November 27, 2025) (Cory Doctorow's craphound.com)
(HTM) Among chimpanzees, thrill-seeking peaks in toddlerhood (Science News)
(HTM) Prescriptions for space medicine (The Space Review)
(HTM) Japanese commercial firms as drivers of Japanese space policy (The Space Review)
(HTM) Building empires in the sky: Effectuating off-Earth territorial expansion using existing legal frameworks (The Space Review)
(HTM) Safe passage in the stars: The next Bretton Woods (The Space Review)
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