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2024-09-02 11:05:36

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@npub1a76…3kkt
Using a link shortener is not very privacy oriented, is it? At Mastodon we tend to avoid using such unnecessary services, since all liks take up 23 characters, no matter how long they actually are.

2024-06-14 12:22:12

Flowering chestnut trees, 5' from home.
Summer of '24
#Nature
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/614/807/383/633/610/original/ee2454a4306265c7.jpg

2024-05-31 12:39:52

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Excellent article and animation. Science communication at its best. 👍 👍 !!
Animation: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zc2oMnTB08E
#ESO #VLT #astronomy

2024-03-10 12:17:40

The EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into tech titans
"Last week the six biggest operators – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and ByteDance – were forced to toe the line on competition, advertising, interoperability and more. It was a gamechanger [...]
The existential challenge for societies today is whether they are capable of reining in tech power. [... T]his is a critical experiment for democracies"
By John Naughton
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/09/painful-day-for-tech-titans-as-eu-finally-sinks-its-regulatory-teeth-into-them
#EU #DMA #EUpol #democracy

2024-02-05 11:48:00

And, here is #Ingenuity at her retirement location, spotted by #Perseverance from an intermediate stop before end-of-drive yestersol, Sol 1052.
Animated zoom
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking NW (320°) from RMC 50.0820
Sol 1052, LMST: 13:05:37
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01052/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1052_0760333405_053EBY_N0500820ZCAM05175_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
#MarsHelicopter #Mars2020 #NASA #Solarocks #Space
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/878/702/818/794/159/original/029c4df1aaf9db02.mp4

2024-01-29 22:14:31

Ambush
Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking S (191°) from RMC 49.3114
Sol 1045, LMST: 12:30:36
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01045/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1045_0759709827_553EBY_N0493114ZCAM09024_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/841/526/009/896/295/original/18d2381cf14a1357.jpg

2024-01-28 12:05:17

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@npub1a76…3kkt
Why, it's the best email provider that respects and protects your privacy, isn't it?

2024-01-26 18:31:56

Here is a fresh animation of images captured by #Ingenuity from 06:06 to 09:17 AM tosol, Sol 1043, showing clearly that at least two of the 4 rotor blades were damaged during #Flight72.
14 processed HELI_NAV images
captured from RMC 72.0001/54
Sol 1043, LMST: 06:06 to 09:17
oriented with north up and animated at 4fps
Original (one of 14): https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01043/ids/edr/browse/heli/HNM_1043_0759508619_853ECM_N0720001HELI00054_0000LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
#MarsHelicopter #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/823/691/742/066/042/original/99dfef206c668542.mp4

2024-01-09 13:03:43

"The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) spacecraft Einstein Probe lifts off on a mission to monitor the X-ray sky"
My two observations about this ESA article:
1. Gravity in China seems to be pointing to a different center 😀
2. More importantly, ESA is still NOT providing a button to deny all cookies. Why is that?
Animation
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/01/Einstein_Probe_lifts_off_on_a_mission_to_monitor_the_X-ray_sky
#GDPR #ESA #EU
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/726/086/437/258/631/original/4d9a99f923775509.mp4

2023-12-17 00:51:59

"Israeli hostages killed by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza were bare chested and carrying a white flag when they were shot, according to an initial military investigation."
We only noticed it because they were killed by friendly fire. The third hostage begged them in Hebrew. They killed him, nonetheless. That's cold blooded murder.
So, what is that you don't understand about the #genocide in #Gaza?
Read the story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/16/idf-says-hostages-it-killed-were-bare-chested-and-waving-white-flag
#Israel #US #warCrimes

2023-12-10 11:54:32

No, you are not 'antisemitic' if you don't agree with what the right wing warmongering Israeli government is doing in #Gaza. Nor are you pro-Hamas if you care about Palestinians not being treated like subhuman and killed by the thousands. Nor are you anti-American if you don't agree with the hypocrisy of the US government's double speak. You are simply using your judgement to see through the enormous propaganda machine and trying to think like a human of the 21st century.
#Israel #US #warcrimes

2023-11-22 23:44:23

#Ingenuity could fly faster if its navigation system could cope with rapidly changing NAV imagery, which the heli uses to figure out its way to the destination. But the onboard processor has already reached its limits.
Then, how did the #MarsHelicopter achieve a new speed record lately (now at 10m/s)? Well, for that they had to break the altitude record too 😀. By flying higher the ground in the images appears to move slower, so higher speeds became feasible.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/ingenuity-helicopter/nasa-uses-two-worlds-to-test-future-mars-helicopter-designs/
#Solarocks

2023-10-21 15:11:41

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@npub1ks7…eg5u
"This series of amendments did not alter the size of the metre significantly, a change of 0.02% from the original value of exactly 40000 km [...]"
Am I misreading this? Was the original value of a meter exactly 40000 km?

2023-10-21 09:35:40

The #MarsHelicopter flew #Flight63 sideways, or at least the last part of it, as evidenced by this image looking NNW, captured about 16m before it landed.
Map follows.
Image captured from RMC 63.0001/4
Sol 947, LMST: 10:37:17
Processed, undistorted, leveled HELI_RTE
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00947/ids/edr/browse/heli/HSF_0947_0751002947_469ECM_N0630001HELI00004_000085J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
#Ingenuity #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/272/314/180/451/212/original/2044f13ea20efe03.jpg

2023-10-19 09:50:55

Alternative title:
Musk wants to impose his political agenda to 500 million Europeans.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-considers-removing-x-platform-europe-over-eu-law-insider-2023-10-18/
#EU #Musk #Xitter #Exit

2023-09-14 09:04:12

We've been conditioned to believe that technology will solve all problems we create. We've failed in everything climate related, but still believe this will somehow have a happy ending, without phasing out fossil fuels.
“Fossil fuel elites will use geoengineering as an excuse to continue business-as-usual." Peter Kalmus, climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory speaking on his own behalf
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/14/experts-call-for-global-moratorium-on-efforts-to-geoengineer-climate
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #geoengineering #climate won't work

2023-08-25 06:49:40

A man who created a cult and suggested people should inject disinfectant and shine light into their bodies to cure COVID was arrested yesterday for practicing covfefe and sorcery without a license, and for fooling and bullying others to do his bidding. A mugshot sealed his #FAFO fate.
#Momus, the ancient god of #satire and #mockery also made an appearance during the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momus
#USpol #Sarcasm #χλεύη #humor #Trump #ItsNotOnlyTechThatMatters
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/948/851/596/948/590/original/2d8168a26bf58684.jpeg

2023-08-09 09:58:56

Meanwhile, in the rest of the Western world:
ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk’s X
“We also found that closing individual program accounts helps limit the exposure of team members to the toxic interactions that unfortunately are becoming more prevalent on X,”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/abc-australia-leaves-twitter-x-elon-musk
#ABC exiting #Exitter , #Musk's #Twitter

2023-08-04 10:57:41

There's never enough of #Ingenuity coming from Mars, so when we have it...
View of the #MarsHelicopter from yestersol, right before it took off for short #Flight54. Why do I suspect we might have a movie coming in? 😎
Processed, leveled MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
Sol: 872, RMC: 42.2760, LMST: 15:09:58
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00872/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_0872_0744361630_615EBY_N0422760ZCAM05157_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/830/983/712/663/347/original/9310ced01125389f.jpg

2023-07-12 18:33:29

"Over both evolutionary time and every individual’s lived experience, natural language to-and-fro has always been with fellow human beings. As we encounter synthetic language output, it is very difficult not to extend trust in the same way as we would with a human. We argue that systems need to be very carefully designed so as not to abuse this trust."
By @npub1e0a…eww0 and Chirag Shah
https://iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-machines-are-a-fantasy-auid-2334
#LLM #AI #ChatGPT

2023-04-10 11:10:19

Monday's GPT fun, by #[0]:
https://agieng.substack.com/p/gpt-to-be-or-not-tobe
#[1] #[2] #[3]
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/174/188/084/978/733/original/42c9d7c30b8a7d41.png