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Soviet space junk, robot rampages, and Trump's librarian purge

Ellsworth Toohey
May 09, 2025
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Adulterium in Dijs Punitum, etching after Johann Wilhelm Baur, (1700), The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library, public domain.

Happy Friday! A Soviet Venus probe that's been orbiting Earth since 1972 comes crashing down today (with livestream!), while a humanoid robot goes hay…

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