Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@qoto.org

Any #ttrpg #artists fancy working on a project? I’m looking for some cards / hex cards drawn for a #ttrpgDesign that draws a lot from The Hobbit, A Wizard of Earthsea and I particularly like the Ruth Robbins style drawings in the latter.

Hit me up with a reply/links and we can talk portfolio and rates.

Please also boost so that some artists actually see this.

@mcnees
Wow! I wish I could have become a real scientist so I could create marvelous maps like this!

I make maps for science fiction writers to assist them. I am muddling along with the Hipparcos star catalog,

Since scifi authors are interested in flight paths for their starships I did auto generation of paths. What worked best was iterating through the list of star systems ( singles, binary, trinary) and creating a path between that system and 2 closest neighbors.
#StarMaps #AtomicRockets

Day of the Tentacle (1993)

Mapping Titan is really hard. Cassini spacecraft gave us great datasets, but they are all looking at different things, different depths, have different resolutions, and don't overlap.

Arrrrgh!

Is like that story of 5 people examining an elephant, but one person touches, one person tastes and one person smells and they have to describe the full elephant.

There were five datasets at our disposal....

I did the #30DayMapChallenge as #1Day30MapsChallenge last year and this is what I made
https://hannes.enjoys.it/blog/2022/11/30daymapchallenge-as-1day30mapschallenge-2021/

This year I will do it all again on the 26th of November, mark your calendars!

#cartography #qgis

Now with a fun pixel filter. Continuing to be impressed by what you can do with svg filters: https://samanpwbb.github.io/terrain-experiment/

New blog post: we take a tour through all the fascinating ways our OpenStreetMap-based Stamen map tiles were used during last month's #30DayMapChallenge! https://stamen.com/30daymapchallenge-2022/ (including images from @neilc @clairehalloran @cartocalypse @geofritz and many more)

It was two years ago today that the platform of the 305m Arecibo Telescope collapsed. The Observatory continues to produce science from its other instruments, including airglow cameras, lidars and a 12m radio telescope.
Here's a sunrise photo from happier times, taken at the end of an observing session in November 2009.

Since I work at a garbage dump, people regularly ask me if I ever find anything interesting. The answer is yes, I do.

Beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

moving out ❄️
#mastoart #pixelart

It's #FollowFriday! Here are two EU accounts you'll want to follow:

@EC_Commissioner_Breton - The first EU Commissioner to post on Mastodon. Covers topics related to EU single market. A must-follow if you're curious about the evolution of "Twitter 2.0" and how EU law works online.

@EC_REA (European Research Executive Agency) - Follow for funding opportunities under #HorizonEU and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, among other programmes.

Stay tuned for more EU accounts coming to Mastodon soon! 👀

I welcome Elon Musk’s statements of intent to get Twitter 2.0 ready for the DSA.

I am pleased to hear that he has read it carefully and considers it as a sensible approach to implement on a worldwide basis.

But let’s also be clear that there is still huge work ahead, as Twitter will have to implement transparent user policies, significantly reinforce content moderation and protect freedom of speech, tackle disinformation with resolve, and limit targeted advertising.

One thing I’ve learned in life is that every time I said “no, having one central provider of that service/software will lead to faster development and better UX than investing in many providers”, I was right for a while — and then I was suddenly very wrong.

I'm an Antarctic explorer + creative director, embarking on my next expedition to Antarctica in a few days.

I'll be in Antarctica for 2 months as a researcher + filmmaker making a docu-series supported by National Geographic. Follow along on my newsletter:
💌 https://buttondown.email/arielwaldman

For the last several years I've been an advisor to NASA on advanced tech, human spaceflight and astrobiology.

But my educational background is art school & graphic design!

#introduction
https://www.ted.com/talks/ariel_waldman_the_invisible_life_hidden_beneath_antarctica_s_ice

Let me tell you about the wonders of the #GDPR #BlackFriday, child!

Years ago, in the land of the EU, millions of happy people minded their business.

Suddenly they started receiving so many sales emails that the @EU_Commission decided to protect its disturbed citizens.

So, they regulated the pushy marketers who bought their ✉️ & wrote them unprovoked and in automated sequences.

And now on the holly Black Friday, their inboxes are (mostly) clean & shiny.

And they lived unspammed ever after!

Mooncharmer

#gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly #gameart #CreativeToots #MastoArt

I couldn't find anything about this in English.

But summarizing it, the article says that during the pandemic lockdowns in Santiago de Compostela, there was a chance to study pavement temperature. It was discovered that in places where the grass and moss was not removed, the temperature was up to 20 degrees lower than in places where it was.

More moss and grass make our physical spaces more liveable in these times of #ClimateCrisis.

#SaveTheMossSaveTheWorld #Mosstodon

Here is my thesis on Security:

The diligent and reliable existence of locks, matters a lot more than their strength.

In trying to find how often lockpicking is a factor in burglaries, a huge number/majority of thefts were from behind no locks at all. Lockpicking is almost nonexistent.
Thieves simply try doors for being left open. Or just break a window.

This matched with my experience in Enterprise Security.
Penetrators got in through poking for trivial misconfiguration and lack of protection, not novel trespass.
They had millions of targets with a small % of success and won.

So I ask, why aren't we focusing on high assurance?

Because assurance is hard. It is not fun. It is not flashy. It fails silently. It supposes diligent attention.
Remediation is by definition beyond self-correction. The percentage of failures meets 85% SLA, even though it fails every month for three years.
Catastrophe is demure.

The modern Enterprise endpoint is almost always a massive distribution of responsibility. And in that denial of culpability, nobody is responsible for success.
The completeness of maintenance. The completeness of security configuration. The completeness of the agents that assure it.
It is the perfect failure.

Nobody owns actual success, just blame.