#OTD in 1968, Astronaut Neil Armstrong takes the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle 1 (LLRV-1) for a training flight and is forced to eject right before it crashes in a fiery blaze!
More about this hair-raising episode 55 years ago today: https://go.nasa.gov/3LWJHCr
#NASAhistory
#Jan6 rioter in pink beret identified after ex spotted her in a viral FBI tweet. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-pink-beret-identified-ex-spotted-viral-fbi-tweet-rcna82286
Steampunk Crab
(This is more like it 😉)
Midjourney 5.1 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney
I mistyped "carb" instead of "crab" in my prompt and got this cool steampunk engine, though I have no idea what it does 🤪😆
Midjourney 5.1
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney
What!
The!
Weren't we all complaining that the #Xcode console would be nicer if it detached for #debugging?
What about using Terminal?
I did not notice this setting, ever!
Fascinating.
YouTube: Mycologist Answers Mushroom Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLWgaSPCcY
Finding anything useful on the web via google has become such a disaster. Just a sea of SEO-driven garbage. I was looking for some Python help yesterday and just could not get through the wall of robot-written SEO chum. It’s such a shame—I know that so many people are writing things that are genuinely useful and completely unfindable.
Here's a guide to all of the ostentatious and offensive pomp on display for today's ceremony:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65342840
It slides from their thick, clutching, fingers like a filthy ooze.
I really, really, despise the royal family.
This is definitely worth a read:
The Unix Koans of Master Foo
https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans.html
The Onion: Clarence Thomas Promises To Adopt Code Of Ethics For The Right Price
https://www.theonion.com/clarence-thomas-promises-to-adopt-code-of-ethics-for-th-1850409408
#humour #theonion #clarence #thomas #supremecourt #bribery #heshouldbeinfuckingjail
A fascinating look:
YouTube: Public Opinion: What Happens When You Flush the Toilet in NYC?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19wKBDhLRqA
This actually was quite enlightening and interesting - especially to someone like me who grew up in NYC as a kid.
David Brin: Pushing back at lies - and liars
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2023/05/pushing-back-at-lies-and-liars.html
Amy Coney Barrett Pissed She’s Been Doing Whatever Conservative Donors Want For 30 Bucks https://www.theonion.com/amy-coney-barrett-pissed-she-s-been-doing-whatever-cons-1850409448
I keep thinking about the fact that a white man on my subway line was so threatened by a Black man being weird in public that he killed him, in front of a crowd, and no one did anything.
Black Lives Matter.
black lives matter
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.