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How NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer Will Make a Looping Voyage to the Moon - NASA
Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months to gradually line up for captureAnthony Greicius (NASA)
I'm working on a project about the loss of cultural heritage through wildfires. In Ireland, the plant 'aiteann' (also known as gorse, furze or whin) has a rich folk history with fire, and is a current cause of many wildfires.
Many of the fire myths deal with a cycle of creation and destruction through fire. So for research, I cut some aiteann branches and made drawing charcoal from them, and then began drawing with it.
This is an experiment, documented at intervals to make an animation.
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The EU just released guidance on banned AI practices under the new #AIAct. From social scoring to manipulative tech, certain AI uses are now off-limits.
What do you think about these restrictions? Is this a major step towards ethical AI?
techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/eu-p…
EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act | TechCrunch
The first compliance deadline kicked in a couple of days ago for the European Union's AI Act, a risk-based framework for regulating uses of artificialNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
From all I've seen, the problem tends to be more about actually making use of the data you have properly rather than collecting even more. That's a theme that keeps cropping up in law enforcement across the world.
So stripping away even more privacy through AI (which I see mostly talked about in the context of mining more data) while opening the door for abuse by law enforcement absolutely has my agreement.
Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! ❤
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Tim Cook teases a new Apple launch next week, and it’s probably the iPhone SE
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NASA Readies Moon Rocket for the Future with Manufacturing Innovation - NASA
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Letter of the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United States of America (10 February 2025) | Francis
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8 Million dollars a day goes to Elon Musk Thru Contracts
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NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Will Seek Life’s Ingredients - NASA
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Rodrigo Nunes: “Las redes sociales son máquinas de subjetivación especialmente útiles a la extrema derecha”.
El profesor brasileño analiza en su último libro los rasgos de la extrema derecha emergente en diversos contextos, especialmente a partir de los liderazgos de Bolsonaro, Trump y Milei.
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Webb Maps Full Picture of How Phoenix Galaxy Cluster Forms Stars
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Join an AMA with Roger Dingledine, Co-Founder of the Tor Project, at the #FOSSASIA Summit 2025 or listen to his talk "Tor: privacy for everyone"
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The Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle has lots of goodies again gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-…
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The Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle has lots of goodies again
Humble are rehashing a previous bundle here that was first released around this time last year, with the launch of the Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle. Good chance to grab a whole lot if you missed it before.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN launches in May - will have Kernel Level Anti-Cheat gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/elde…
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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN launches in May - will have Kernel Level Anti-Cheat
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Lunar Space Station Module Will Journey to US ahead of NASA's Artemis IV Moon Mission - NASA
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Fanatical have a great Special Editions Bundle and a Simulator Collection Bundle worth a look gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fana…
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Fanatical have a great Special Editions Bundle and a Simulator Collection Bundle worth a look
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Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/wayl…
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Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged
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Dwarf Fortress has some exciting plans for the future
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The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming
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Borderlands 4 confirmed for release in September with a new trailer gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/bord…
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You gotta be a real fucking nazi if you think now is a better time than a year ago to purchase ad space on Elon Musk’s X
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Apple Resumes Advertising on X
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Marvel Rivals gets a low-quality UI fix for Bazzite Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marv…
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Marvel Rivals gets a low-quality UI fix for Bazzite Linux
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Early 80% of the world’s soy is fed to farmed animals raised for slaughter, driving devastating deforestation in the Amazon and other vital rainforests. Animal farming is the leading cause of this environmental catastrophe.
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EFF is suing DOGE and OPM over their illegal sharing of federal employee data.
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EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
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respectable Linux distributions have banned AI code. End users' safety cannot rely on AI hallucinated code.
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Fionnáin
in reply to Fionnáin • • •Fionnáin
in reply to Fionnáin • • •I'm working with University College Dublin on this, and have looked into the National Folklore Archive. It's an amazing record, and almost too dense to really make headway into.
But I'm also lucky that someone else did the hard work, and long before digitisation of the collection. The amazing book 'Furze' by AT Lucas is a gift – an 8-year research project done in the 1950s and published in 1960, where Lucas sought any entry over the past 500 years about the plant.
Fionnáin
in reply to Fionnáin • • •One interesting point that Lucas made is that aiteann was used in communal ovens and houses for its high burn point. It was also temporary hedging, so it was considered an important cash crop. Land with the plant was high value.
Today, it's seen as a pest on 'good' land, and a fire risk. The change happened around the mid 19th Century, when coal began to be imported into and mined in Ireland, a techno-social shift that gave the plant freedom to roam and grow unheeded.
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in reply to Fionnáin • • •Thinking about aiteannn (gorse) as historically a cash crop changed the way I perceived it as a cultural and heritage object.
It made me start to wonder if some day a cash crop like sitka spruce will be a cultural or heritage object in Ireland, with myth and tradition associated with the plant.
So I started creating a cultural heritage, drawing sitka spruce with charcoal made from sitka spruce branches.
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in reply to Fionnáin • • •The relationship between the two plants and fire is also very interesting. Their loose 'self seeded' plants grow all over the Irish countryside and often grown next to one another. Wildfires spread from aiteann (gorse) and heather onto sitka spruce forestry quite easily, making it a big issue for fire management.
With climate change, drier weeks and warmer summers mean wildfires become a bigger risk. And here we have two crops that have become weeds, spreading wild and burning together.
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Fionnáin
in reply to Fionnáin • • •Fionnáin
in reply to Fionnáin • • •Using fire as part of a cycle of creation, I have changed the form of these drawings again.
#art #contemporaryart #drawing #aiteann #wildfire
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in reply to Fionnáin • • •Fionnáin
in reply to Will Tuladhar-Douglas • • •@yetiinabox I have thought about it. A friend actually made a scent from it before for an artwork. I might ask her for tips.
We also have two species in Ireland that flower at different times of year. One smells distinctly of coconut, the other more like peach. Both are lovely.
Dr Emma Kate Ward
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