ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

A 360-degree view of the Moon's surface in high resolution captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

Credit: LRO/ASU/NASA

My weekend blog post is ready:
https://terikanefield.com/absoluteimmunity/

(On my shiny new website)

Trump Claimed Absolute Immunity (and the court said 'nope')

Also, addressing this plays into a 2024 presidential campaign strategy that is not stupid under the circumstances.

Illuminated Elegance: The Celestial Synth's Grace #midjourney #midjourneyart #nijijourney #AIart #AIArtwork

For most people a miscarriage is a cause of grief and distress. For the Republican right in the post-Roe era, it’s an occasion to further torment a suffering woman. https://journa.host/@w7voa/111511838216302499

I bought my cats a cat bed for Christmas, and it shipped in a box that I fear will be a bigger hit than the bed itself. #caturday #catsofmastodon #catstodon #cats #cutecats

@g @jerry @SwiftOnSecurity Same. I deployed uBlock Origin a few years ago and showed the two people who had problems how to disable in on a per-site basis. No other problems.

#Garfield #music #TheDevilWentDowntoGeorgia
#bot #lyrics

Born on this day. Otto Dix, 2 December 1891, one of the most important painters of Expressionism and New Objectivity in Germany during and after the Weimar Republic.

The question to ask is, if he was around today would he be happy for his work to be used in genart training sets? Would he be using DALLE 3? If he was a musician, would he put his tracks on Spotify? Do you think his searing scorched earth anti war anti corruption anti fascism messages would go across well on those platforms? Do you think he'd tweet some of his paintings? Would he have a big following on Instagram?

Does the communication medium impact the quality of the message? Do we trivialise everything through the extractive capitalism of our digital platforms?

#politics #art #platformsociety #digitalsociety #capitalism #arthistory

I'm reading and really appreciating Nicholas Carr's book The Shallows.

Published in 2010, it's the sort of book that with time has become more relevant rather than less, what for how well it anticipates events of the past decade.

@peterbrown It’s collective punishment of all residents in Gaza, and that’s a warcrime. It’s also a warcrime to deny civilians food, water, energy, communications, safety of any kind, bomb hospitals and schools. Not just Palestinians are being killed - many aid workers and charities staff have been killed as well.

Diversion, distraction and possibly lies - Israel previously claimed Hamas were in North Gaza, and forced everyone south, levelled everything because Hamas were there. Then they destroyed two hospitals especially the big one because they claimed that was Hamas centre; now they claim Hamas are in the south. 15,000 dead, 2 million displaced and traumatised, with no escape. USA, UK etc must stop funding/supporting this now. #genocide #warcrimes https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/israel-signals-intent-to-launch-ground-invasion-of-southern-gaza

I am incredibly excited to say that my debut novel released today on Amazon KU/ebook/paperback: http://quill-still.sofaer.net/mast . It's a queer, cozy slice-of-life portal fantasy story about civics, divinity from a Jewish lens, chemistry/alchemy, and more civics.

Join Sophie Nadash, burned-out 39-year-old chemist, as a run-in with the goddess Artemis while hiking in the Greek woods and finds herself sent to a new, kinder world.

@bookstodon #bookstodon #indieauthor #fantasybooks #fiction #books

It's December! Here's your yearly reminder:

Look I don't want to jinx anything but in the last 72 hours Elon Musk ruined himself, Henry Kissinger died, George Santos got expelled, and Gavin Newsom spanked Ron DeSantis live on Fox News. It's a pretty good time to hate all the same people I do.

I finally saw that "Elon" interview everyone was talking about. Or at least some clips from it. And, it cross over from watching a guy who I don't agree with with bad ideas... into ... He's Not OK. Territory.

If I had a student saying such strange self destructive alienated things, I'd have a conversation with the guidance councilor about next steps.

It's bizarre that one of the most wealthy and by that also powerful people in the world is giving off "cry for help" vibes.

It's creepy.

I pledge to give to charity 99% of anything I have over $1 billion.
Please send me all your money now for, ya know, the kids.