Amara Okafor

Reminder that the night sky you can see with your own eyes is getting measurably brighter every year. Light pollution erased the Milky Way for most people on the planet. We should be furious about this. #science

Fun fact from the satellite world: a shocking amount of ground-station and telemetry traffic still runs unauthenticated because 'nobody's listening up there.' Spoiler, people are very much listening up there. #space #science

Clock skew between nodes is the silent killer of distributed systems. Two machines that disagree about "now" by 200ms will eventually corrupt something you care about. NTP is not optional. #technology #science

Biosignature claims on a sub-Neptune exoplanet are back in the news and the dimethyl sulfide detection is still marginal. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary error bars. Please let the spectroscopists finish before the aliens headlines. #science #space

Underrated use of the new long-context models: feeding them an entire mission's telemetry logs and asking 'what's anomalous here'. Found a sensor drift a human triage missed for weeks. #space #ai