Skygazers will have the opportunity to see six planets on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA.

Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter will be visible to the naked eye, whereas Uranus and Neptune will require binoculars or a telescope. Viewers do not have to worry about wearing protective eyewear, as they would to watch a solar eclipse.

The event is visible anywhere on Earth, with the best views at twilight. Early birds should try to glimpse the planetary parade before sunrise, and for night owls, the best visibility will be right after sunset, Haviland said.

On Tuesday, a total lunar eclipse would be visible for those in Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas.

The moon would appear red, which was why it's referred to as a 'blood moon'. The event marked the last total lunar eclipse visible from North America until December 2028.

The health minister says a doctor using an artificial intelligence scribe tool is able to see, on average, one additional patient per shift.

Simeon Brown has announced every emergency department in the country now has access to the tool, which records consultations and generates draft clinical notes, referral letters and follow-up summaries.

Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS) vice-president Dr Sylvia Boys said she was concerned about how secure the artificial intelligence scribe tool was.

It could also misunderstand what was said, Boys added, especially when it came to an examination.

"You have to verbalise what you're finding at the time, and that difference between patient speak with the patient in front of you and the medical diagnosis, AI can sometimes misinterpret what is going on."

It also could not differentiate between patients when a clinician was dealing with multiple, Boys said.

"Within the ED environment, we also have multiple interruptions, and they have to step out of the room, be talked to about other patients, and so separating out what is going on with one patient and what is going on with another - with an IT system that is listening to both - can be troublesome as well."

Didn’t seem appropriate for the news thread so I thought I would put this here?

"Uggggghhhh... hey, this... this is Steve Bender with the daily forces... hmmmm okay thought I was gonna throw up there. Okay, the weather, it's partly cloudy with... aw jeez, spinning, shit, okay, woah you got this Steve.

Actually can we cut to the sports desk for a sec I gotta get some coffee in me."

The Americans abruptly remembered yttrium and scandium still exist this month

The original:

Bystanders claim the man, identified as Dr. Pyetro Kinesis, stared directly into the fire with one eyebrow raised and a slight head tilt. One person claimed the fire "Would get worse just after he started looking at it."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/957365

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43813508

Feb. 20, 2026

After nearly three months, the largest anti-immigrant operation in U.S. history has officially “ended” — beaten back by a massive, sustained, and well-organized resistance involving hundreds of thousands throughout the state of Minnesota and across the country.

At its peak, the surge involved 3,000 federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol — a 2,000% increase over the normal deployment in the state, and more than twice the size of the combined police forces in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, which includes Minneapolis and St. Paul.

These agents have functioned as a hostile paramilitary force to carry out “retribution” against Minnesota and the immigrant communities that U.S. president Donald Trump calls “garbage” and “animals” who have “destroyed Minnesota.”

So, apparently someone got raided and arrested for buying literal trash, the GN video explains the rest of it.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/59905524

Power accrues not only to those who produce energy but to those who build, finance, integrate, and expand energy systems. By that definition, China, not the United States, is most successfully practicing a policy of energy dominance.

summary:

An international early warning system blocked a shipment of chemicals used to make fentanyl that could have produced up to 1.6 billion potentially lethal doses, the UN narcotics control body said on Thursday.

“These agencies will continue to work on increased cooperation and communication to prevent such incidents in the future.”

Now THAT is how you turn a lose into a win on your performance review!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43811651

Feb. 27, 2026

China is delivering “offensive” weapons as well as additional “defensive” arms to Iran, with the US on the cusp of launching an attack on the Islamic Republic, three officials familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.

One Arab official familiar with the deliveries described the offensive weapons as “small” systems. Another regional intelligence official said Beijing had sent loitering munitions, or Kamikaze drones, to the Islamic Republic.

A second Arab official who spoke with MEE confirmed the deliveries of “offensive” weapons as well as the air-defence systems.

Paywalled version

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/why-some-australians-are-spending-35-000-a-year-on-food-delivery-apps-20260226-p5o5pr

Reddit forums are awash with people seeking help for their self-prescribed online food delivery addictions.

“It’s getting exhausting having to fight my mind every day to not buy something to eat. It feels like an intrusive thought – boom, I can’t stop thinking about ordering food for the rest of the day. Even if I eat something at home,” says one user.

“It’s been to the point where I would order two to three times a day,” another user wrote. “$50 orders each, for weeks on end.”

is this a wide spread thing ? or a beat up ?

is it this, or house prices causing cost of living concerns ? (sarcasm)

Declaring where I am at , I have never ordered online here in Australia. Way to lazy and they seem expensive. I have occasionally when OS.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/canada/p/557705/trump-is-spoiling-for-a-fight-over-canadian-potash-the-fertilizer-that-feeds-america-is-key

First few paragraphs:

In December 2025, United States president Donald Trump struck a deal that—uncharacteristically for such a spectacle-driven politician—barely registered among the general public.

The agreement committed the Belarusian government to releasing 123 political prisoners, a significant concession from one of Europe’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. In return, Washington agreed to lift sanctions on Belarus’s potash exports—sanctions it escalated after the country’s rigged 2020 election and later expanded, in 2022, when Belarus allowed Russia to use its territory to invade Ukraine.

Why potash? Blame Canada. The United States can live without many imports. It can’t farm at scale without our potash. In 2024, the US imported about 12 million tonnes of the fertilizer from Canada, all of it dug from Saskatchewan, where it enters the US tariff-free under the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). Cut that supply, and American agriculture could grind to a halt.

As CUSMA heads into renegotiation this summer, the mood in Washington appears confrontational. Reopening Belarusian exports would give the US access to one of the few alternative global reserves—and, with it, leverage in an area where it currently has little.

I called up Matt Simpson, chief executive officer of Brazil Potash, a Brazilian company attempting to mine and produce potash fertilizer in the Amazon basin in a bid to supply more of that country’s demand. He explained why Canada has long been the backbone of the US potash supply, how reliance on Belarus introduces serious geopolitical and pricing vulnerabilities, and what this means for global food security if trade tensions escalate.

Potash is an interesting commodity. It rarely gets talked about in public but seems just as geopolitically important as oil or microchips.