Paul Knightly, PhD / is on Nostr

Planetary & Environmental Geologist

🪐 Planetary: field and operational analogs🏔

🌎 Environmental: radiological assessments☢️

🛩️ Mavic and Cessna Pilot

📷 Photographer

He/Him. Views are mine.

#PlanetaryScience #Geology #Photography #Weather #Pilot #Arkansas

Research: https://www.paulknightlyphotography.com/research/
Photography: https://www.paulknightlyphotography.com
Location: Northwest Arkansas, USA

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2024-10-02 20:12:34

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Take home message is, as much as it's in your capacity to do so, is to be prepared for emergencies. It can be as simple as a first aid kit, some jugs of water, and spare canned food items. Supply chain disruptions are harder to hedge against, only advice I can offer is slowly working into a cadence where you're one cycle ahead on shelf-stable, commonly used items so that you actively "using what you prep" (e.g. toilet paper, hygiene items, canned food, condiments, etc)
https://www.ready.gov/

2024-08-19 18:18:01

Stepped outside to get the mail and smelled smoke and noticed ash falling from the sky (in Bella Vista). Now trying to figure out where the fire is and if I need to be concerned. Nothing on local media at the moment.
#arkansas #arwx

2024-07-02 21:04:10

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The intersection where I have a problem with AI models and facial recognition is that there is a long, storied history of tech companies insisting that they aren't using our personal data to train their algorithms, only to find out later that the opposite is true.
This is particularly problematic when images of children are used.
The act of being alive or taking a photo in the past 95 years is not sufficient for there to be a blanket consent to use anyone's existence as a training dataset.

2024-07-02 20:59:49

I had an interaction with a TSA officer traveling home over the weekend regarding facial recognition tech (that's a thread for another day), but it zeroed in on an important point that gets glossed over as far as why people like myself are concerned with biometric tech and AI models:
The lack of consent when it's forced onto us, and the apparent inability to opt out of becoming a living dataset in any way, shape or form.
Case and point:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/ai-trains-on-kids-photos-even-when-parents-use-strict-privacy-settings/

2024-05-22 09:33:34

Incredible drone footage of the Greenfield, IA tornado courtesy of Reed Timmer.
The drone was able to orbit through the outer circulation of the tornado capturing some of the best views I've ever seen of a multi-vortex tornado.
There's a lot that can be learned from this type of close-range footage. Includes a brief clip around 2:15 of a wind turbine being taken down by the outer wind field.
https://youtu.be/IEFGKMWYD-E?si=4ZNdSCufFAf6sFwJ

2024-05-11 06:38:06

Not only did I not have catching the aurora in southeast Kansas on my bingo card, I did not expect that I would be taking so many photos of the aurora towards the south, or during twilight.
Also had the surreal experience of it being bright enough at one point to be able to read the markings on my camera!
Made it back home in time to catch some views of the fading aurora from Missouri en route and at our home in Arkansas.
Absolutely unreal experience!
#Aurora #NorthernLights #Kansas #kswx
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