Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

According to that site, the following is the Youtube link for the #XRISM launch (I think this is #JAXA English-language coverage):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4ZMp4a2xw

Anyone else going to watch the next #XRISM launch attempt this evening? Per the site below, it looks like it is scheduled to launch at 7:42 p.m EDT tonight.

#JAXA #NASA #ESA #Astrodon #astronomy #XRaysAreTheBestRays #science

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xrism/

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at http://BlinkingGuy.com

For anyone unaware, Google Chrome is currently rolling out an update that track your interests based on browsing history, then share them with 3rd party websites. The notification page makes it sound like they added a new privacy feature, but in actuality they've automatically enrolled you into their tracking system and you have to go and manually opt out.

Several years ago, George Dyson – author, science historian, and canoe builder – drew a contemporary metaphor from the ancient differences between canoe-building techniques in the Pacific North-West:

Part of what happens when stores turn into online services is you lose physical spaces dedicated to SOMETHING, and which have their own aesthetics. Like a stationery shop is a whole universe dedicated to the art of sending cards and letters. A hardware store is dedicated to fixing things. A movie shop is dedicated to film. They're like little churches, but we lose them because online shopping is easier.

No but for real:

MasterCard getting to determine what counts as "adult" content, including drawn images like figure studies?

Patreon handing your face data & ID information over to a 3rd party?

That 3rd party claiming a right to use that data to train their facial recognition "AI"?

All bad.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/88720290

In addition to the great coverage of the unionizing efforts of VTGLU and VT United Campus Workers, it's really nice to see WVTF the local @NPR affiliate, reference Virginia Tech's commitment to graduate stipend increases to a living wage:
https://www.wvtf.org/news/2023-09-05/two-new-labor-unions-rally-on-virginia-tech-campus

Some people talk about the need to fight for X but there's nothing to fight for. They won unless Musk sells it or something.

Social media before today's social media was ephemeral. It's not the same thing as sharing an internet with questionable and or legit bad folks... it's like sharing your fav hangout with them after they took it over and brought a bunch of weirdos with them.

@dan613 I got hit with five or six hardcore Nazi genocidal n-word-slinging posts in my feed a month or so ago, which I of course reported. And I don’t doubt that there are plenty of less crudely expressed racist messages slithering around on Mastodon as well.

Black Mastodon users are writing in frustration that people don’t believe that #racism exists on Mastodon. As a new moderator, I can assure you that racism is very real here. Be sure to report it when you find it so that we can stamp it out.

Greetings from the @CMSexperiment control room where I’m presently on shift. We have permanent video connections to other remote control rooms, tonight (or should I say this afternoon 😇) Jingli is connecting from @fermilab to do the data quality monitoring!

I found this a while ago and my sincere reaction was “I guess emacs needs its own power supply now. That sort of makes sense.”

https://store.cwc-group.com/emacs.html

New daily record highs at all major local stations.

DC: 98
Dulles: 99 (hottest in Sept, second in a row)
Baltimore: 99

First time DC has had its hottest day of the year in Sept since 1970.

Still at least two more days we can try for 100 ahead. #dcwx #mdwx #vawx #dmvwx

For all the folks starting their #PhD (or their master thesis) today - a reminder why your PhD advisor can solve a problem so "easily" ...

#astrodon #academia #AcademiChatter #research

Confess: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/confess
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

If any US-based person is concerned about seemingly not being able to fully, functionally, and easily delete their data from twitter in order to meaningfully opt out of having said data used to train Elon Musk's "AI", here's a helpful video on how to file an FTC complaint:

https://consumer.ftc.gov/media/video-0054-how-file-complaint-federal-trade-commission