We're losing our sense of automotive joy. Buy more colourful cars, people. Live your life to its fullest, not its dullest!

I'm still so happy about how well these prints turned out. https://www.artatomic.io/product/fine-art-print-of-floral-network-and-fish-drawing-blue-and-teal-small-/86

#ink #drawing #art #ArtForSale #GenerativeArt

In April, 1933, the Geheime Staatspolizei, or "Secret State Police", otherwise known as Gestapo, was created by Hermann Goering. This was done by combining multiple local police forces into a single one and federalizing it. This was legal.

In July 1933, Nazis revoked the citizenship of German Jews. This was done by passing the "Law on Denaturalization and Revocation of Citizenship", leaving millions of Germans effectively stateless. This was legal.

In September 1935, The Nuremburg Laws were enacted, further codifying the Nazi plan that only people with "Aryan" blood were citizens of Germany. This was legal.

In May 1940, Auschwitz was built in Poland. It was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps used during the Holocaust to imprison undesirables. This was legal.

On 5 July 1942, Margot Frank received a notice to report to a labor camp in Germany as part of the Nazi's systematic deportation of Jews from Nazi occupied Netherlands. It was well known that this was effectively a death sentence. This was legal.

On 4 August 1944, Anne Frank and her family were discovered in hiding by Gestapo, arrested, and deported to various Nazi concentration camps. Anne and Margot were deported to Auschwitz. This was legal.

On 1 November 1944, Anne Frank and her sister Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen, a starvation extermination camp. This was legal.

In either February or March 1945, Margot Frank died in Bergen-Belsen, a victim of typhus and starvation. Her sister Anne died the next day. This was legal.

On 15 April, 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen, where they walked straight into a nightmare. Approximately 60,000 starving and mortally ill people lay among thousands of unburied bodies, packed together without food, water, or sanitation. This liberation was ILLEGAL, and accomplished solely through the use of military force.

The point is, the actions of the current regime, the kidnapping of civilians, the deportations to Libya and El Salvador, the inhumane treatment of arrestees, the use of federalized law enforcement combined with military force against brown people, these things aren't immoral "because they're illegal". They're immoral because they're immoral, and it's going to take ILLEGAL force to do the right, good, and moral thing.

is there... is there a job board that's for companies that *don't* want to let themselves be cannibalized by AI?

i'm getting really sick of getting deep into hiring processes at otherwise great-seeming software companies and then finding out either they're all in on AI or that they want to be and are looking for people to lead it

people who are anti-AI *must* be in charge at *some* software companies, right?

PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/news/seti-institute-and-spacex-collaborate-to-minimize-satellite-interference-on-radio-astronomy/

The SETI Institute and SpaceX have launched a groundbreaking collaboration to help protect sensitive radio astronomy observations at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) from interference caused by satellite communications, such as certain direct-to-cell signal transmissions from Starlink satellites. This effort represents a significant step forward in preserving the integrity of radio astronomy as satellite communications continue to expand.

#science #space

@kristinHenry She gave a speech at Yale last month too...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/561417/jacinda-ardern-talks-imposter-syndrome-at-yale-university-s-graduation

@kristinHenry She's an example of just how much difference a leader makes. She became the Labour Party leader just a few months before an election, which resulted in a jump in the polls that was enough for Labour to govern (with two coalition partners). That was without Labour changing a single policy before the election. And she stepped down in her second term, (a landslide win), and Labour lost the election. I suspect they may have won if she'd carried on. But we'll never know, of course.

@kristinHenry Just noticed this and thought you might like it...
https://x.com/LouieTheRed1/status/1934821720571171129
And how are you finding the book? (I've not read it.)

Are there any fans of my art out there who are Scientists or SciComm folks? Would you like me to attempt an abstract representation of your specialty with art, in one of my daily drawings?

Why would I do this? We all need a little joy in these times, and the inspiration may help me get unstuck from my comfort patterns.

My background is mostly in Molecular Biology and Biochem, but I love learning about new fields.

#SciArt #SciComm #Science #art #inkyDays

@billbennett "lagoon of manure"? Do NZ dairy farmers have such lagoons? (Other than for what's washed off the milking shed floors.) It sounds like it's for factory farms, not pasture raised herds.

I've redone my #Lightwave3d nebula flythrough, the original is 4k resolution.

Painfully slow to render! But I really like the result.

As usual, Talking Points Memo understands what's happening earlier than Big Journalism -- in this case the Trump regime's actual goal in its attack on LA.

What's happening is a coup, an extreme right-wing overthrow of the elected state and local governments.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/noem-says-national-guard-occupation-is-meant-to-liberate-la-from-its-mayor-and-governor

made this while working on an edge bundling effect. not what I originally intended but wanted to share it.

The ants have something to say, in today's #inkyDays drawing.

#art #ink #drawing #ants #NoKings

Just got home, safe and sound, and energized by my fellow citizens. There were so many people. They just kept coming. So many! With wonderful signs!

Scientists have had an extended conversation with a humpback whale in what's being called a breakthrough. Could this encounter teach us how to talk with ET? It’s “Alien Says What?” on Big Picture Science. #podcast #science

Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/alien-says-what

@publius The objective to be served is to move people and stuff from Earth orbit to the Moon and back at a cheaper rate than using rockets to do it. If you're building stuff in Earth orbit, (space stations and such), would it be cheaper to make the parts on the Moon and elevate them to Earth orbit than making them on Earth and using rockets to get them to orbit?

@publius So assuming you're right, there's still a way to make it work.

But what about moving stuff along the elevator? That'd affect it's orbit too, right? Which means it might become uneconomic unless the elevator's made very heavy. And making a heavy elevator could prove uneconomic too, so a chicken and egg problem.

@publius OK. The surface you mean is the Moon's surface.

Looking at LiftPort's approach, they envisage starting the elevator's construction at L1 and building in both directions until one end reaches the Moon, at which point they anchor it and continue building the Earth-end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9XVHhkWxpI
Are you saying the Moon end would not be in sync with the Moon's surface? Or not be able to be put in sync with the Moon's surface? Presumably by the use of rocket's on the Moon end of the elevator.