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Kelsey Johnson @profkelsey.bsky.social · 6h

Procrastination takes may forms. Tonight as a service to the astronomical community I offer help with your JWST proposal titles.
#JWST 🧪🔭✨

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 8h

My god.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 1d

4️⃣ Unplanned scientific opportunity ahead ☄️

Beginning of November, Juice will attempt to observe comet #3I/Atlas over a period of four weeks. The team plans on using several instruments, including cameras, spectrometers and a particle sensor. 6/8

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 18h

Fuck this.

Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 18h

(*) Two that I've seen, one here in Pima Country that got run out of town once it became known and another up near Duluth, MN, in Hermantown.

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 18h

I don't know, even if public officials signing NDAs is normal, it shouldn't be. Really suspicious behavior.

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 18h

I also note a lot(*) of data center plans are being done in secret with NDAs being signed by our public officials. Seems like if they're signing NDAs about just planning a data center, maybe they should reconsider it… Or reconsider their jobs.

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 19h

It's "funny," but the "guessing they don't have a lot of data centers" part I anticipated as being a positive there. But ya, the outsourcing. Ugh.

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 19h

Oh no. Their COVID plan was terrible, too.

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 2d

Could this be aliens?

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

www.newscientist.com

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 4d

Basebalk

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

You all know we're an American English Dictionary, right?

It may be pronounced differently in your country, but that's not our jurisdiction.

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 5d

I think that's how the person behind you picks their way through a mine field…

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 5d

(I do 100% get this, by the way!)

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 5d

At least you're using a fork and knife!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 5d

I would buy, play, read, or watch Coelacanth Fighter, I don't even care what medium it would be. Video game, TTRPG, comic, coffee table book, teen drama on The CW network, cartoon, doesn't matter.

John Allison @badmachinery.com · 5d

Vertigo have just announced ten new titles at #NYCC. Fine. So will I.

COELACANTH FIGHTER #1
LET'S BUY DECKCHAIRS #1
SUPERSTAR COBBLER #1
THERMOSTAT 3000 #1
THE GNOMIC NINE #1
BALTIMORE HUG PATROL #1
EBONY AND USURY #1
FLABÉLOS WARRIORS #1
PORTNOY THE PUNK #1
LINGERIE JONES #1

Collect them all!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Emily Lakdawalla, Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 5d

Oh neat! Both Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter and Mars Express observed comet 3I/ATLAS. (Or at least attempted to; Mars Express' max exposure duration was too short for it to be visible. Still, a null result is a result!) Amazing that Mars Express is still doing science. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

ESA’s ExoMars and Mars Express observe comet 3I/ATLAS

Between 1 and 7 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as it passed close to Mars. 

www.esa.int

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 5d

And seat my rep, @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social!

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Dan Berman @bermandc.bsky.social · 6d

My new paper on Barnard crater, Mars is out in the Planetary Science Journal!
#planetaryscience

doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...

Barnard Crater, Mars: Evidence of Glaciofluvial Activity in a Large, High-latitude Impact Crater in Southern Hellas - IOPscience

Barnard Crater, Mars: Evidence of Glaciofluvial Activity in a Large, High-latitude Impact Crater in Southern Hellas, Berman, Daniel C., Crown, David A., Bernhardt, Hannes, Williams, David A.

doi.org

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