Maintenance on High-Speed Wind Tunnel - NASA
During April and May 2024, maintenance is being conducted within the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel (UPWT) complex at NASA Ames Research Center. One key partOsvaldo R. Sosa Valle (NASA)
NASA Honors Three Chroniclers for Helping Tell America’s Space Story - NASA
Through decades of hard work, three storytellers brought out of this world news down to Earth, providing a lens through which young and old could watch spaceJamie Groh (NASA)
No Thanks, la app para boicotear las empresas que financian y apoyan a Israel
"Entre las empresas que detecta la aplicación se encuentran Coca-Cola, Nescafé, Starbucks, Adidas, McDonald’s, Chanel, Netflix, entre otras corporaciones de industrias que van desde la alimentación hasta los cosméticos."
Artemis Accords Reach 40 Signatories as NASA Welcomes Lithuania - NASA
A milestone was reached on Wednesday as Lithuania became the 40th nation to join NASA and the international coalition in pursuit of safer space exploration byNASA
X-59 Passes Milestone
NASA’s X-59 Passes A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA recently completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety for the public and staff during ground and flight testing.Lillian Gipson (NASA)
As much as I'm generally in favor of blaming AI for things, the explosion of fake studies is not, at its root, an AI problem. It's the very natural result of the ridiculously profitable and predatory scientific publishing industry (more profitable, according to one study, than drug dealing) doing exactly zero work in exchange for the money it charges on both ends of the process.
The party most responsible for Wiley publishing fake papers is Wiley. Let them burn.
5 Things to Know About NASA’s Tiny Twin Polar Satellites - NASA
Called PREFIRE, this CubeSat duo will boost our understanding of how much heat Earth’s polar regions radiate out to space and how that influences our climate.Naomi Hartono (NASA)
NASA’s Juno Provides High-Definition Views of Europa’s Icy Shell - NASA
Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft shows some intriguing features on the ice-encased Jovian moon.Naomi Hartono (NASA)
Discovery Alert: An Earth-sized World and Its Ultra-cool Star - NASA Science
Our galaxy is a jewel box of red stars. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are M dwarfs, also known as red dwarfs.science.nasa.gov
Presentación de libro «Uso comunitario de drones ligeros para la gestión, conservación y defensa del territorio»
El jueves pasado asistimos a este encuentro, donde se habló de autonomía tecnológica, a raiz de este libro digital
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Presentación de libro «Uso comunitario de drones ligeros para la gestión, conservación y defensa del territorio» | Sursiendo
[Actualizada] El jueves 9 de mayo a las 18:00 horas, se presentó del libro digital de acceso libre «Uso comunitario de drones ligeros para la gestión…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
Eleasa Kim: Pioneering CLDP Payload Operations and Cultural Integration - NASA
Eleasa Kim, stationed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, leads the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) payload operations at JohnsonSumer Loggins (NASA)
The Next Full Moon is the Flower, Corn, or Corn Planting Moon - NASA Science
The next full Moon will be on Thursday morning, May 23 at 9:53 AM EDT. The Moon will appear full from Tuesday night through early Friday evening.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s X-59 Passes Milestone Toward Safe First Flight - NASA
NASA has taken the next step toward verifying the airworthiness for its quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft with the completion of a milestone review that willDede Dinius (NASA)
Good Night, Moon - NASA
The waning gibbous moon stands out against the dark backdrop of space in this April 26, 2024, image from the International Space Station. Waning gibbous isNASA
Binoculars: A Great First Telescope - NASA Science
Do you want to peer deeper into the night sky? Are you feeling the urge to buy a telescope? There are so many options for budding astronomers that choosing one can be overwhelming.science.nasa.gov
Sounds like a serious lack of management and director competence and integrity if the union claims are even half true. Depressing.
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California Academy of Sciences considers layoffs amid deficit
Senior scientists and unionized staff raise alarms over potential layoffs at the deficit-plagued natural history museum.Jennifer Wadsworth (The San Francisco Standard)
Space Physics and Space Weather Scientist Dr. Yihua (Eva) Zheng - NASA
"I grew up in China. In China, everybody talks about what they want to be . Many want to grow up to be a scientist or engineer. So I aspired to be a scientistNASA
Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star - NASA Science
Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.science.nasa.gov
APOD: 2024 May 15 – AR 3664 at the Suns Edge
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Today Nextcloud is in Erfurt, Germany at the Bechtle IT Forum!
With a focus on digital sovereignty and open source, we're excited to share with you our mission.
Come say hello 👋
This incredible lecture by @Wolven covers so much: ableism, cybertechnics, myth, mystery, erasure, all via a deep dive into what might be 'AI'
youtube/google original: youtube.com/watch?v=l8JH0jAITn…
invidious alternative: yewtu.be/watch?v=l8JH0jAITng
Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of AI
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...YouTube
If you wanted to check out my talk "Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of 'AI'" at the Pitts Theology Library at Emory University's Candler School of Theology but were unable to attend at the time of, it's now been published online.
This was such an amazing conversation, and the audience provided some really wonderful questions to think through and with. I'm so thankful to have gotten this opportunity and such a receptive and engaged audience for a topic I've always thought was crucial, and which I think will only be more important in the coming years:
Seriously engaging with tools and concepts from comparative religious studies, mythology, ritual studies, and the occult to help elucidate both major contextual cues about a LARGE swathe of past and present-day "AI" and tech culture, and also potential insights for how to both react to and shape those contexts.
I hope you enjoy it:
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Religious Belief and Practice in the Age of AI
As part of a seed grant project funded by the AIAI Network, Damien P. Williams, assistant professor of Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North...YouTube
Grandson says Carter is ‘coming to the end’ in brief update about former president’s health.
The world will lose an incredible human-being and a President, who was far ahead of his times.
cnn.com/2024/05/14/politics/ji…
A reminder that the rot and depravity in the GOP started long ago.
"A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda."
nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/poli…
This tweet has a paywall-free link to the article.
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#Carter
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June 20, 1979 - President Carter dedicated the solar-thermal panels on the roof of the White House.
“A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.”
Carter presented an ambitious plan to put America on a path to 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2000.
Then came Reagan 🙁
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The forgotten story of Jimmy Carter’s White House solar panels
More than four decades ago, President Carter said the U.S. could harness “the power of the sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”John Wihbey (Yale Climate Connections)
AR 3664 at the Sun's Edge
Image Credit & Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer
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APOD: 2024 May 15 – AR 3664 at the Suns Edge
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Our star!
A boomer still flummoxed by the fact that us humans can see this alien landscape in real time.
If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.
> The idea of algorithmic governance is flawed. And he was wrong in his conclusions, because it can not be fixed by adding more cryptography
Did we read the same article? As I read it, this is exactly what both @ntnsndr and Vitalik are saying.
> Blockchains are good for one thing: payments.
This is exactly wrong. Payments are the one thing blockchains consistently fail to be good for.
I think it depends on what you mean by "algorithmic governance." Constitutional elections are an algorithm, too. I tend to think healthy governance finds the right balance of algorithmic systems and culture.
The argument of my critique is that over-reliance on economic incentives is a danger and ends up constraining the possibilities of governance designs—leaning too hard on algorithm and crowding out culture/values/humans.
This Is Why We Need Linux Distros
I've talked quire favourably about upstream application packaging but Neal has a different look on the situation and he thinks that distros act as a really i...YouTube
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Singers Falling Down the Stairs (no singers fell down stairs)
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Tom Petty: "I'm free fallin'!"
Michael Jackson: "OW!"
The Boutel Fil meteorite fell in Chad on July 8, 2023.
Ahmad Fairuz, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Debian Breaks KeepassXC Package For "Security"
Debian has a much bigger focus on security than many other Linux distros so much so that they will sometimes miss the mark like with this KeepassXC case, the...YouTube
Regarding the conundrum of shipping as developer intended vs distro reviewing and patching software
I think the answer is for distros to ship the package as intended unless it breaks something (like changing config files to work with the distro and other minor fixes) or has a serious issue when reviewed (like the XZ backdoor)
If it cannot be shipped as intended for any reason (legal stuff, distro policy, unable to maintain/review it, etc), then don't ship it.
Comission for a certain Magazine doing an article about Joji. Editorial was cool about me sharing a timelapse as long as I don't say where it'll be printed.
#DigitalArt #illustration #design
Eleasa Kim: Pioneering CLDP Payload Operations and Cultural Integration - NASA
Eleasa Kim, stationed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, leads the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program (CLDP) payload operations at JohnsonSumer Loggins (NASA)
Mission Manager Update: VIPER Rover Approved to Move into Environmental Testing! - NASA
While NASA’s VIPER team has been focused on building the flight rover that will go to the South Pole of the Moon, the team has also been making preparationsRachel Hoover (NASA)
Sols 4184-4185: Look Near! Look Far! - NASA Science
Earth planning date: Monday, May 13, 2024 Today I’ve chosen to show off a spectacular image of ‘Texoli butte,’ but I’m rather biased in my assessment of its beauty because I am currently part of the team studying it.science.nasa.gov
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: AI "art" and uncanniness; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/05/13/spo…
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