Dimestorehalo @Dimestorehalo@qoto.org

Overheard: “Not all heroes wear capes. Or tops, it seems.”

The Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute will be taking place in St. Andrews from June 25-July 15 this year. I taught as part of the program last year (and may join again this year, to be determined) and found the participants to be an extraordinary group of interdisciplinary researchers and "storytellers" — artists of every stripe interested in exploring notions of intelligence.

Application review begins February 13th.

https://disi.org/

BREAKING: the 5th Circuit finds that the federal prohibition on purchase and possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence protective orders violated the 2nd Amendment. (1/X) https://assets.nationbuilder.com/firearmspolicyfoundation/pages/3970/attachments/original/1675361904/United_States_v_Rahimi_Opinion.pdf
#gunviolence #domesticviolence #disarmdv #Bruenabsurdity

Good morning, the empty bookshelves in Florida schools keep my head busy, since I'm a teacher with a library in my classroom in Berlin myself. That's a history lesson in front of our very eyes and exactly how fascism started in Germany. Books were banned and then burnt and everyone said, well, I can't do anything, I don't want to loose my job, I don't like it, but... Many little steps were made by many little people who didn't stand up against a new little rule. You know how this ends.

The Sun sets on Mars, as seen by the Spirit rover looking down from the Columbia Hills. These hills – Anderson, Brown, Chawla, Clark, Husband, McCool, and Ramon – forever bear the names of the astronauts lost on Feb. 1, 2003. https://go.nasa.gov/3jixSem
#NASARemembers
#NASAMars

#NASARemembers: 20 years ago #OTD, Feb 1, 2003, at 8:59am ET, space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry. The entire crew perished.

Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Michael Anderson
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon

We will never forget. https://go.nasa.gov/3YezowF
#NASAhistory

Boost this if you ever had to manage naming your computer files using only eight characters, plus the three character extension.
#eightdotthree

The Illuminaughty.

This is accurate ;)

(via https://marketoonist.com/2023/01/evolution-of-smart-products.html)

Svalbard, Norway is where this amazingly beautiful photo was taken by photographer Marsel van Oosten WOW!! 💗

#OTD in 1986, as the crew of Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-51L) perished when the vehicle exploded shortly after liftoff.

They were Michael Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis, and Judy Resnik. #NASARemembers
#NASAhistory

Some of you may remember that a little while back, some sleazy dirtbag FL lawyer by the name of John Ruiz was threatening SLAPP suits over on Twitter. And then claimed I was violating professional rules by swearing at him and that my tweets were not protected by the First Amendment.

HE FILED a 100+ PAGE BAR COMPLAINT BECAUSE I WAS MEAN TO HIM ON TWITTER DOT COM.

Needless to say, ARDC was not impressed, and dismissed it out of hand.

Friends, I am deceased.

A spark, a pure oxygen environment, design flaws in the hatch door…

Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and Gus Grissom were tragically killed on Jan. 27, 1967, when a fire erupted inside the Apollo command module during a preflight rehearsal test. #NASARemembers
https://go.nasa.gov/3D75hPN
#NASAhistory

Today I learned from @0xabad1dea that a lot of large solar farm owners use sheep herds to maintain their grass and they're called solarpunk sheep and life seems a little better. 🤘

😂 lol total #FAFO

#law #lawyers #lawtwitter #lawfedi #robots #AI #badideas #malpractice #UPL

Patterns in slow-motion splashes

In Antarctica, a long-watched rift in the Brunt Ice Shelf produced an iceberg about twice the size of New York: Iceberg-A81. 🧊

The iceberg, with an area of 1550 square kilometers (about 600 square miles), was captured by @nasa’s Terra satellite.

https://go.nasa.gov/3kATbrD
#NASAEarth

HEARTBREAKING: At least 10 people have been shot to death in a #MassShooting amid #LunarNewYear celebrations in #MontereyPark, #California.

The deadly deregulation of guns in America remains a clear and present threat to the public safety of every American.