Jaime Green

fascinating thread about how big satellites are laid to rest

Just nap for the rest of the year

I love a chronological timeline... except when I am hoping to get a post seen by more than the people who are online the exact moment I post it???

(and pls RT, reaching strangers is so much harder on this app!)

Putting this out there for the #STS and #astronomy folks:
If anyone knows great readings on space telescope and Mars rover images, how they're constructed and how we make meaning of them, I would love to add those to my research! (I already have Seeing Like a Rover and Picturing the Cosmos)

I just cannot handle this AI bullshit from the times today, I’m sorry

Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words

If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.

From an ignorant outsider perspective, NASA making the cuts before the budget passed (which it never did) felt so insane to me

It fascinates me that humans want this connection so much. It's SETI on planet Earth.
And that there's an openness to consciousness in machines, but less so* to identifying it in most sentient, intelligent, socially complex non-human animals.

*I'm talking public, not researchers in either case

Is this not just... inflation?

Springtime angle of the sun reveals a LOT of dust on my computer monitor

This Saturday! And if you can't make it then, the class will be recorded, too! jaimegreen.net/classes

This is great (and lots to think about in terms of creativity for anyone)

1. Le Guin was lowkey such a brilliant romance writer 2. I gotta read Tehanu

= Reposted by Luke O'Neil Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsk... • 53m → Replied to Luke O'Neil God I am such a fucking good writer.

Hey this isn’t a dunk at all, if you’re a writer this is the energy I genuinely need you to bring to your own work. You have to believe in yourself at least as hard you expect anyone else to.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

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Bay Area! 3/12! Me and the legendary Cindy Cohn! Don't miss this amazing opportunity to hear from a veteran of the privacy wars ... and learn new ways to keep yourself safe from the prying eyes of government.

His mom is the Global Head of Parental Advocacy at Roblox

The trite reply to this is “quite well, thank you” or “It’s when a human being is conscious”. I actually think a wilfully ignorant answer guards us from grifts; we have little idea how it works, so little chance of correctly identifying it in non-humans, including that pet rock you just put a hat on

Fake Throat, Real Body, Lived Experience To tell the story of Howard, a 472-pound patient facing a dire procedure, The Pitt followed actor Craig Ricci Shaynak’s lead.

this behind-the-scenes on Howard, the fat character on this season of The Pitt, made me cry and cry www.vulture.com/article/the-...

I just did this. It's not effortless, but it took me less than ten minutes.

The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.

aas.org/action-alert...

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

🔭 🧪

I'm at the old world dying / I'm at the new world struggling to be born / I'm at the ccccccccccombination old world dying and new world struggling to be born

Former PRH Exec Brendan Cahill Launches Navigator Books The industry veteran’s new Philadelphia-based publisher is focused on history, biography, memoir, and historical fiction. The company plans to publish three titles this year, starting in July, with pl...

just a heads up that this dude is a hardcore AI booster, do with that info what you will (avoid his company at all costs) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

you tellin me the text generating machine that we've been shoveling the collective textual output of modern-day civilization into has decided that anxiety is highly likely to be the appropriate output in response to various inputs about contemporary matters. that's crazy

apparently i will be getting myself through my dont-wannas with the sporadic reward of a very bad attempt at singing/rapping along to titi me pregunto

thank you! wild how we carry our kids' interests longer than they do

hey totally unrelated, have CT license plates used up all the Bs yet? you see a BZ? I still think about this

you may not like it but this is what peak cooking performance looks like