Andrew W Moore (he/him)

ANALYSIS | SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here's how that could impact us here on Earth | CBC News Scientists are deeply concerned about SpaceX's recent proposal to launch one million satellites into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from a loss of the natural night sky and our access to spa...

“Recent studies have shown that when satellites reach the end of their lives and burn up upon reentry, they leave behind metals like aluminum and lithium.

The consequences of this are not yet known. But that's [only one thing that] concerns scientists…”

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

👋 from cam.
Enjoy the Paris.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Whatever the context, this is an eternal and undeniable truth:

Join us at #CamFest for an expert panel discussion on how Cambridge’s AI research is transforming governance & public services.

🌍 From Cambridge to the World: AI and Digital Policy
📅 16 March
⏰ 17:30 — 18:45
📍 The Glasshouse, Innovate Cambridge
🎟️ bit.ly/4aRpbiW

Her progress from those early days is such a delightful to see.

Tell the Government: Protect VPN use in the UK Take action! Protect VPN use in the UK VPNs help people to stay private and safe online. Young people use them to avoid harassment, or protect location data. Companies use them to make sure remote log...

Protect VPN use in the UK action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...

I wonder where this ends - I can imagine this causing even pain for hobby setups ones like @spiny.org.uk which don't offer a VPN service as such but with SSH tunnelling could certainly be used as one.

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’ Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.

Excellent piece from @astrokiwi.bsky.social @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & Laura Revell.

This one sentence is the crux of it all 👇

"There is no public mandate for a single company in one country to make changes on that scale to the planet’s atmosphere."

Highly recommended.

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so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

America's vaccine wars are shaking Australia, driven by 'sticky' myth With immunisation rates declining and outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles increasing, the consequences of vaccine hesitancy in Australia are becoming clearer.

Australia’s fight against vaccine hesitancy

Addressing vaccine hesitancy requires skill & patience: some days, the people who do it feel like they’re drowning in a sea of lies.

I was born BEFORE most vaccines. The anti-vaxxers of today have no fvcking idea what it was like. VACCINATE! #health

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

Silence your phone, put the dogs out and the kids down for a nap. Then curl up and read this article/-it’s a long one, but very good.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Plan 9 from outer space - clearly 🤣

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

Supportive thoughts.

You are a good person.

This matters.

An image of Star Wars Princess Leia bent as if to programme r2d2 (episode 4) overlaid on the thickening walls of a cholesterol filled blood vessel. Beneath is the text “Help us, cholesterol. You’re our only hope”

🍰 Happy birthday to David Skinner who turns 94 years young today.

🗺️ "I've got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it. And it was done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar"

"And these two people here, talk about sending them back."

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Totally!

Decades ago my awesome colleague Denis Zuev introduced me to neat ML technique called fcbf - forever referred to as FuSBar

It occurs to me now I wonder if it shares heritage with FUBAR. 🤔

Quite enjoy the libre.fm experience for audiobooks; drm free and support a nominated local brick and mortar store too

People aren’t afraid of the Prince of Darkness anymore.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Blasting through the Rivers of London series. Most enjoyable. It is a series but the first is delightful and stands alone well.

Fun stuff with a delightful attention to detail by
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social

I consume mostly via audiobooks and the narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is masterful.

Glad I wasn't the only one….

What is a silverback doing in Dartmoor?… (peering)…. Oh… Should have gone to opticians of choice… hmmmm

as a left-wing American, I feel the need to warn the British something they already know: if you have a choice between milquetoast centrist fucks everyone hates and literal Nazis, please don’t make the same mistake that we did

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Love it.

Here is a current view of the Matterhorn in Switzerland with bright red aurora and green proton aurora spots.

Solar wind data are turning a bit sour for extreme low-latitude aurora for the U.S., but the system is still pumped up enough for Europe!

go.theauroraguy.com/webcams