Benj @Benj@qoto.org

This seems like.a big deal: the world's first tax on the carbon content of imported goods, from the E.U.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-reaches-deal-on-landmark-carbon-import-tax-11670921011?mod=hp_lead_pos6

An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221213.html #APOD

This mind-bending timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized shows the Earth is spinning through space.

Credit: Eric Brummel
https://www.instagram.com/brummelphoto

#photography #milkyway #space

Important note for educators about now: it looks like GPT-2 output detectors can detect #chatgpt output pretty well.
https://huggingface.co/openai-detector

In #JapaneseFolklore 'The Boy Who Drew Cats' is a tale about a boy who was compelled to draw #cats everywhere. He initially got into trouble but his hobby paid off because one day the cats he drew came to life and saved him from a giant rat goblin. This story speaks of the compulsive nature of creating, the benefits of practicing & perfecting your craft, and ultimately letting your art save you. Full tale here: https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/07/boy-who-drew-cats.html?spref=tw&m=1
@folklore #folklore #japodon #folktale
🎨Mel Pearce

Good morning! #goodmorning #monday #horror

When two galaxies encounter each other, it takes 1-2 billion years for them to merge and settle down. While the stars already in the galaxies don’t change much, the collision can spark lots of new stars to form! ✨ #MondayMotivation
#NASAUniverse

11/Nuancier
J'ai mis au point un implant d'adaptation du langage à la volée. Ça s'appelle un nuancier. Vous parlez et, le temps que le son arrive aux oreilles de vos interlocuteurs, votre discours se transforme pour devenir plus convenable, plus agréable.
#writever

On reflection, big tech companies churning through the entirity of prior human cultural output whilst burning thousands of megawatts of electricity to automate the creation of fluent bullshit that’s optimised for believability but not truthfulness… it couldn’t be more on message for humanity in the 21st century.

Welcome to the Forbidden Bidet, bring a friend.

Ring-tailed lemurs enjoy sunbathing in the morning, a behavior described as "sun-worshipping", and most often seen following a cold night.

Photo Credit: FPNW / Welsh Mountain Zoo

#animals #nature #sunrise #lemur

Good morning! #goodmorning #saturday #horror

Me in class: “Looks like no one managed to finish the reading, that’s on me, clearly I assigned too much today. Let’s discuss [X] instead.”

Students: 😮🤯🥹

It’s really powerful for students when the role model at the front of the classroom takes responsibility & shows imperfection. The more I #Teach the more I realize showing weakness teaches humaneness & combats impostor syndrome, & is one of the things my students most often say they loved when a course is over. #teaching #academidon #histadon

Earth at night viewed from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson

#space #nasa #timelapse #science

I keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.

The adorable Venezuelan poodle moth was discovered and photographed in 2009 by Dr. Arthur Anker. It’s supposedly the only sighting of this critter, but insects are small and Earth is big. #nature #photography

Just imagine the diversity of species we haven’t found yet…

Ixion review: an intricate management sim wrapped in a stirring space opera - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ixion-review #Strategy:Management #BulwarkStudios #ScienceFiction #KasedoGames #WotIThink #Ixion

With #Galactica and #ChatGPT I'm seeing people again getting excited about the prospect of using language models to "access knowledge" (i.e. instead of search engines). They are not fit for that purpose --- both because they are designed to just make shit up and because they don't support information literacy. Chirag Shah and I lay this out in detail in our CHIIR 2022 paper:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816

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