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Friday, 17 April
(HTM) New Glenn is being lowered to the ground (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) New FCC STA application for New Glenn Flight 4 extends past June 1st (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Blue Origin on X: Here’s a glimpse of the New Glenn-3 flight profile. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) D0G by Tania Fordwalker (audio) (Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction & Fantasy)
(HTM) FCC STA application submitted on 4/15/2026 for Blue Moon MK-1 testing (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) An endangered mouse may need a helping hand to adapt to climate change (Science News)
(HTM) Fireside Friday, April 17, 2026 (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
(HTM) Amazon payments to Bezos’ Blue Origin reach $1.8B as shareholders cite conflicts of interest (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) NG-3 launch trajectory and hazard areas (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 4: Non-Fiction Meets Fiction (The Digital Antiquarian)
(HTM) How to invent a realistic language for fictional speakers (Science News)
(HTM) USSF Weather Forecast for NG-3: 90% GO for launch! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) TGL - E411: I See the Future In My Mind (Fear of Tigers)
(HTM) Know the legal age to buy tobacco products in the U.S.? Many parents don’t (Science News)
(HTM) voxels in r3forth (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) OPM: More Mystery Less History (Ether Diver)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Tiktokification shall set us free (17 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XV (File 770)
(HTM) good news! eventually! possibly. ...maybe (Dinosaur Comics!)
Thursday, 16 April
(HTM) This equity plan is a joke...and punchline is YOUR future! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) datasette 1.0a28 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/16/26 Once Is Happenstance, Twice Is Coincidence, Three Times Is Pixel Scrolls (File 770)
(HTM) Friday 17 April, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) New Glenn mission patches (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Blue Origin on X: 🚀 Launch Alert | We're targeting New Glenn's third launch no earlier than Sunday, April 19, 2026, from LC-36. The two-hour launch window opens at 6:45 a.m. / 10:45 UTC. NG-3 will send @AST_SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite to low Earth orbit. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) NG 9x4 launch pad upgrades? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) llm-anthropic 0.25 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) View of the launch pad from cocoa beach (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Tory Bruno on X: “Project Quartz” is a brand new, Blue Origin global network of ground stations and Operation Centers. Here’s pics of the first one about to go in. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Will New Glenn 9x4 most likely be higher or lower cost per kg for LEO stuff? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) For Hire: Cost Leader, New Glenn 9x4 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Tax Alpha Needs Some Real Alpha (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) A strange ‘neutrino force’ helped heal a crack in particle physics (Science News)
(HTM) Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Job offer for a welding position! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) A new measurement reveals gravity is still hard to pin down (Science News)
(HTM) This tree is number one for cloud forest mammals going number two (Science News)
(HTM) Dave Limp on X: Some video of our successful 19 second hot fire today. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Never Tell Me The Odds using several upgrades. Awesome job team blue (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Blue Origin on X: ✅ NG-3 integrated hotfire complete. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Spaceflight Now on X: Static fire for Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket occurred at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 UTC). If all went well the BlueBird 7 mission could launch as soon as April 19. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) “A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Book Review: Sauúti Terrors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton, and Cheryl S. Ntumy, eds. (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: Ashok K. Banker (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Dad Died on Discord (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Video: Hainbach Octaves Plugin First Look (Ether Diver)
(HTM) 2026 Tähtifantasia Award Shortlist (File 770)
(HTM) Jon Klassen Wins 2026 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (File 770)
(HTM) Ship 39 and Booster 19 Both Complete Full Engine Static Fires (NASASpaceFlight.com)
Wednesday, 15 April
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Issue #455 (Issues – Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/15/26 I Scrolled The Pixels And The Pixels Won (File 770)
(HTM) datasette.io news preview (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) SFWA Honors Roger Zelazny with Infinity Award (File 770)
(HTM) datasette-export-database 0.3a1 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Blue Origin's New Equity Plan Doesn't Give You Equity (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) datasette 1.0a27 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Expedition 74 sees vehicle departures and a spacewalk during March (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) How long after the job offer did you receive the background check email? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) 2026 Ditmar Awards Ballot (File 770)
(HTM) NSF flyover shows aftermath of recent GS2 test failure in 2CAT (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) The Hybrid E-Ink/OLED PDA | Pt. 1: Electronics (Ashtf)
(HTM) Looking forward to the 3rd Flight I added New Glenn to my 3D-printable Rocket Garden (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Relocation (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) AIbirds (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) NG-3 now NET Sunday, April 19th (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Blue Origin (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Quoting John Gruber (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) 2026 Prometheus Award Finalists for Best Novel (File 770)
(HTM) Breath carries clues to gut health (Science News)
(HTM) Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Quoting Kyle Kingsbury (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Leaving your 2016 equity after a decade of empty promises, just to chase the 2026 version with “built-in liquidity events” (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Some GLP-1 drugs are more effective for those with specific gene variants (Science News)
(HTM) Blue Origin on X: NG-3 Update: Standing down on today’s hotfire. Next attempt tomorrow, vehicle and payload are both healthy. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Blue Origin has a new employee stock plan, but not everyone is happy (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Hayley Gelfuso Wins 2026 Compton Crook Award (File 770)
(HTM) Math long resisted a digital disruption. AI is poised to change that (Science News)
(HTM) The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XIV (File 770)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) however i am the undisputed global expert on what it's like being me, uncontested though that field may be (Dinosaur Comics!)
Tuesday, 14 April
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Make It Myself (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Who's ready for class action? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) datasette-ports 0.3 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Zig 0.16.0 release notes: "Juicy Main" (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/14/26 Weyr-wolves Of Ruatha (File 770)
(HTM) What to expect (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) In other news... Get back to work 🖕 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Wednesday 15 April, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Hugo Finalist Announcement Coming on 4/21 (File 770)
(HTM) How to Design a Custom ESP32 PCB in 19 Minutes (Full Tutorial) (Ashtf)
(HTM) Audrey Decker on X: Blue Origin is getting a dedicated super heavy launch pad at Vandenberg — SLC-14 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition (Krebs on Security)
(HTM) Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Eric Berger on X: Story coming in a bit on Blue Origin's new stock option plan. One person described it as "pure fucking trash," so things seem to be going well with employee morale as Blue approaches a critical New Glenn launch. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) NG-3 now NET April 18th (Saturday) (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Manufacturing engineer (Ever Green) (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Blue Origin on X: NG-3 Update: Today, we conducted a successful launch rehearsal for NG-3 and are now targeting a hotfire for the integrated launch vehicle on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Blue Origin Stock - Former Employees (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Banks Aren’t Worried About Private Credit (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Sooo the new stock options are the same joke as before? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) So they really made the old stock plan worthless huh (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) New Glenn shows continued signs of activity at the pad. Take two for static fire? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) New high-resolution photos of NG-3 rollout (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) New mutations help the H5N1 bird flu virus infect cows but not people (Science News)
(HTM) Introducing PDR Press Minis (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Smithsonian secrets most likely to blow your mind (Science News)
(HTM) Recent anomaly at the stage 2 test facility (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Amazon Leo to acquire Globalstar + Partner with Apple for Direct to iPhone satellite Services (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Venting observed as NG fuels in preparation for a static fire (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Jackyln (LPV1) and Harvey Stone on the move (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Is AI bad for critical thinking? It depends on when you use it (Science News)
Monday, 13 April
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Amazon Leo Aviation Antenna Takes Aim at Starlink In-Flight Wi-Fi Dominance (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award (File 770)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/13/26 Nice Scroll If You Can Get It (File 770)
(HTM) Uncanny Magazine and Two Uncanny Stories Are Locus Award Finalists! (Uncanny Magazine)
(HTM) 2026 Locus Awards Shortlist (File 770)
(HTM) NG. So simple and clean! Go Blue! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) More Blue Alchemist Updates!!! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Steve Yegge (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Launch Preview: Falcon 9 to launch Starlink satellites, New Glenn to launch with flown booster (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Blue Origin on YouTube: NG-3 roll to pad (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Fluoride in U.S. drinking water does not reduce IQ, a new study finds (Science News)
(HTM) Jeff Bezos on X: <picture of NG> (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) NG-3 seems to be using different BE4 engines? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Prediction Market Making Is Hard (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Talking dogs and chatty cats could one day ‘speak’ in our language (Science News)
(HTM) Blue Origin on X: Welcome back to LC-36, "Never Tell Me The Odds." Next up: NG-3 hotfire 🔥 (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Exploring the new `servo` crate (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) NG-3 now NET April 17th (Friday) (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Artemis 2, Apollo 8, and the problem with history (The Space Review)
(HTM) Opening the path to the lunar surface (The Space Review)
(HTM) Strategic celestography and lunar competition: Artemis, CLEP, and the struggle for positional advantage (The Space Review)
(HTM) Who watches the birds? Cold War era launch vehicle photographs (The Space Review)
(HTM) A tale of two Martian cities (The Space Review)
(HTM) Possible announcement of an ESOP buyback of vested stock options this Friday? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XIII (File 770)
(HTM) 2025 Cóyotl Awards Nominees (File 770)
(HTM) it's always good to make new friends! (Dinosaur Comics!)
Sunday, 12 April
(HTM) Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) For gray whales, San Francisco Bay is becoming a deadly pit stop (Science News)
(HTM) Countdown Standard (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Blue Angels fly over New Glenn 🚀🛩️ (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) TAFF Announces 2026 Winner (File 770)
(HTM) Quoting Bryan Cantrill (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Champagne Wins 2026 Prix Jeunesse des Univers Parallèles (File 770)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/12/26 “Open The Cat Flap, HAL” (File 770)
(HTM) New Glenn rising at LC-36 tonight (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Gemma 4 audio with MLX (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Monday 13 April, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Jaiden Floyd on X: Good Morning New Glenn! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Did someone forget to push the erect button? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Forth on iOS (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) The OSSC Pro Legacy AV Expansion, now with RF (Nicole Express)
(HTM) Spotlighted Cover Art From Marvel Dimensions Graphic Novel By Alex Ross (File 770)
Saturday, 11 April
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/11/26 Will The Moebius Strip Be Unbroken? (File 770)
(HTM) Here we go....NG3 going vertical tonight. Let's go Blue! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) 2026 Dragon Awards Nominations Open (File 770)
(HTM) Blue Origin files permit for "Project PPF", a payload processing facility on Cape Canaveral Space Force Base (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) SQLite 3.53.0 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) SQLite Query Result Formatter Demo (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) BLUE MOON IS ON THE MOVE! YES GO BLUE! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Feldspars (Azimuth)
(HTM) Blue Origin on X: BlueBird is on board! @AST_SpaceMobile 's satellite is now integrated with our NG-3 launch vehicle. Next up: rollout for hotfire. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Any updates on the stock program? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Falcon 9 launches CRS NG-24 cargo ship to ISS (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Don't Be Evil (11 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
Friday, 10 April
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Come on Blue…you know what needs to be done. Make it happen and take us back. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/10/26 Not Plane Nor Bird Nor Even Troll, It’s Just Little Old Me, Pixel Scroll! (File 770)
(HTM) Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)
(HTM) A tale of three boosters (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Kākāpō parrots (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Dave Limp on X: Booster 3 almost done… "No, It's Necessary" Welcome to the fleet. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) mist is now open source and looking for interop (Interconnected)
(HTM) All quiet on the eastern front... (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Artemis II returns to Earth after historic 10-day mission around the Moon (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Artemis II ends its historic lunar journey (Science News)
(HTM) Lots of tall stuff going up at the Cape (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) This may be the first year of a million CVEs (Liam on Linux)
(HTM) Exploding black holes could explain an antimatter mystery (Science News)
(HTM) Crossword: Traveling Light (Science News)
(HTM) OPM: Sonic Cinematic (Ether Diver)
(HTM) Nuclear Genocide – The Threat And The Ceasefire (Media Lens)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Canny Valley and Creative Commons (10 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) The Theory of Related-ivity: Segment XII (File 770)
(HTM) Neukom Institute Announces 2025 Playwriting Award Winner (File 770)
(HTM) the ol' genre switcharoo (it's a new genre switcharoo) (Dinosaur Comics!)
Thursday, 09 April
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Artemis II closing in on Earth return (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Potential offer - supply chain (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Lightning (xkcd.com)
(HTM) Legit questions regarding upcoming shares meeting. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Faster Satellite Internet Speeds for Starlink and Amazon LEO — FCC April 30 Vote Explains Why (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Phil Ochs, Dead Fifty Years Ago Today (Flogging Babel)
(HTM) How is WLB and tech bar for software engineers? (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/9/26 Lest Loch Ness Fall (File 770)
(HTM) Inspiration Forth Update (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Friday 10 April, 2026 (Memex 1.1)
(HTM) Got an offer for C shift and I have no idea what to think about it. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Silvia Park Wins 2025 Otherwise Award (File 770)
(HTM) Another anomaly has occurred at the 2CAT building, damaging the roof. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) GitHub Repo Size (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Mk-1 is done with vacuum testing!! (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) I Mass Produced This in My Living Room (Ashtf)
(HTM) Eric Berger on X: Amit Kshatriya of NASA said Blue Moon Mk 1 has “just” come out of the vacuum chamber at Johnson Space Center and will soon be shipped back to Florida. No comment on how it performed but he did not indicate there were major issues. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Bombed a portion of interview. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Buy Bitcoin at Night (Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)
(HTM) Seeing and imagining activate some of the same brain cells (Science News)
(HTM) Emperor penguins are marching toward extinction. Antarctica fur seals too (Science News)
(HTM) Aerial view illustrating the relative positions of LC-36A (existing launch pad), LC-36B (new launch pad), the new 500-foot Launch Umbilical Tower, and the new 600-foot Lightning Protection Tower. (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) (The Public Domain Review)
(HTM) Available source code of Forth on extremely resource constrained systems? (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026) (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
(HTM) China debuts new launchers, tests orbital servicing and outlines future deep-space missions (NASASpaceFlight.com)
(HTM) Zeptoforth uf2 file download? (newest submissions : Forth)
(HTM) Editorial: April 2026 (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: J.R. Dawson (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Hell Is Empty (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Author Spotlight: V.M. Ayala (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight (Lightspeed MagazineRSS - Lightspeed Magazine)
(HTM) The Tolkien Society Awards 2026 Shortlists (File 770)
Wednesday, 08 April
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) Link (APOD)
(HTM) asgi-gzip 0.3 (Simon Willison's Weblog)
(HTM) Moving to Seattle (newest submissions : BlueOrigin)
(HTM) Pixel Scroll 4/8/26 “Repent Harley Quinn!” Said The Tiktok Fan (File 770)
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