shnuboops @shnuboops@qoto.org

My short story JUST OUT OF JUPITER'S REACH is available today as an ebook and an audiobook (read by Dele Ogundiran) here: https://a.co/d/c0PKEbR

What it’s about: Tornado Onwubiko is one of seven paired with living ships to research the cosmos for 20 million euros. A decade of solitary life for a lifetime of wealth. Five years into this 10-year mission comes a consolation: A temporary meetup of the seven travelers. A lot can happen in a week.

[This is set in Binti's universe.] #Africanfuturism

@chris Poilievre getting his back up over the government defending human rights for Canadians is both telling and upsetting.

@LindaCollins11 Have them implanted in men who don't want them. Then they'll see what it's like to be forced.

This article is like something straight out of 1950s. As the province burns, we have this nonsense being written about a fossil fuel project that will emit more CO2 than any single project in the history of British Columbia. Shamefully short sighted and dangerous. “Some environmental groups and First Nations” are protesting. Nice understatement..#ClimateEmergency #endfossilfuels #CANPoli #BCPoli #CoastalGasLink
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitimat-lng-coastal-gaslink-economic-impacts-1.6880885

Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Full HD widescreen version on Youtube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-b7Z4mllLPw&list=PLc4W06G5-v7BDRHoh7n3QkUKUDJmgMO0n

I find it increasingly annoying, if not unbearable, how #Fediverse culture locks itself out of the larger Web culture of crawling and indexing everything unless some person or some server explicitly disallows. Being able to #search and find anything from huge amounts of published posts has become an essential, core part of how research, discussion, research publishing and more is being done on the web, since more than twenty years by now. It is essential for addressing the right persons. It helps greatly in finding ongoing debates, and to add to them. No, these essential tools for online discussion can not be replaced by hashtags. Show me the proper #hashtag for https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161231180449 - I hope you get my point here.
Today, as the Fediverse has brought us a decentralised infrastructure for distributing, storing and connecting online discussions, we have better means to fence out hate speech than before. The dispense of being able to search for things goes far over the top.
Quite the opposite: I fear that to keep going on like this will risk to loose what we have reached.
#scholcomm

What Role Will NASA Play In Developing ISRU On The Moon?

The long-term goal for NASA's lunar exploration will be a research station on the Moon. It'll be too difficult to bring all the supplies from Earth, so astronauts must "live off the land" for some of their resources. During a recent meeting, NASA officials explained how in-situ resource utilization fits in with their more extensive plans for lunar exploration. Which components will NASA build, and which will they subcontract to outside suppliers?

https://www.universetoday.com/161894/what-role-will-nasa-play-in-developing-isru-on-the-moon/

Recently an interesting article titled "Why AI will save the world" was published by **Andreessen Horowitz**. I was skeptical before reading it but was won over.

I look at some of the key points raised by it, but also think about whether AI will save the Data ecosystem.

We've seen many existing and new data vendors use AI to provide interfaces between humans and tooling, could we see AI powered interfaces inside the stack too?

**#ai** **#data**

https://davidsj.substack.com/p/will-ai-save-data?sd=pf

I like that the #RedditBlackout is happening. Because it demonstrates how dependent many people have become on only this 1 website controlled by a few rich people.

I hope this is a wake-up call for people and it will lead for some communities to seek independence.

The Internet is !!!NOT!!! just 5 large websites.

I believe in a decentralized Internet; huge central websites with the goal to be a "community of everything" are missing the point of the #Internet.

#Reddit

Brother Day wages war to cling to power in Foundation S2 trailer https://arstechnica.com/?p=1947347

@clarkesworld, which publishes some of the absolute best short fiction year after year, is taking a huge hit from Amazon abruptly ending the Kindle magazine subscription program (while AI-generated slurry is simultaneously overwhelming their staff readers).

Their monthly subscription costs less than many Substacks. If you can, this would be a PERFECT time to subscribe and get the word out.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/clarke_03_23/

It seems odd to me - watching the shift towards video as the default medium in news stories online.

99% of the time, I don't want to watch a video. I want to read the story. I want the information.

Video is okay in support of the text of the report - but I generally want the text first & foremost. The facts, the data.

When I click a news link - and turns out it is just a video link & no text - I generally bail before the video plays.

#News #Internet #Media #trends #demographics

Twitter: "Hi, we're run by a cryptofascist who reinstates the accounts of literal nazis while suspending those of press. We'll keep randomly taking away features with no notice and limiting your visibility until you pay us a monthly fee, which you can only do in a handful of countries. Vaccines are bad, the election was rigged, and we love Putin!"

Mastodon: "Hi! You need to choose a server and our DM UX is a little iffy."

Users: "NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FACED A CHOICE THIS HARD"

This recent wave of #racism against #subsaharans in #Tunisia is yet another example on how #social_media companies (mainly #Facebook) are enabling a minority of extreme right wing fascists to spread their hatred among the population. #Hate_speech is being amplified by the #algorithm and content moderation is inexistent. #Meta doesn't even care about the harm they're causing outside of Western countries.

Minnesota State Senator John Jasinski arguing against marijuana legalization:

"The police dog discussion and all that. What's it gonna cost the local law enforcement agencies who've done these dogs-- who've spent thousands and thousand of dollars on these dogs to get these dogs drug trained. And now they're gonna have to be retired?"

https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1626283181287653376

Any context-free (prompt-less) chat-AI screenshot should be assumed to be fake, or entirely manipulated with very explicit prompts.

Unless it's funny, of course. Then we assume it is true.

#ai #chatgpt

The #Taku #River #Tlingit #First #Nation (#Atlin, northwest #BC) has declared 1.8 million hectares of the Taku River watershed to be an #Indigenous #Protected and #Conserved #Area. 60% of that is to be off-limits to #mining or other development.

The BC government needs to rapidly work toward #respecting and supporting the Tlingit Nation’s #stewardship of their land.

#IPCA #conservation #biodiversity

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/taku-river-tlingit-protected-area-1.6723444

It has been repeated many times, but the idea that cis het men would go to any bother whatsoever pretending to be trans women in order to sexually assault someone when they do so all the time already and are rarely and barely punished for it is patently absurd, and yet we are constantly forced to address this nonexistent, made-up problem by people who just want trans people to disappear and die.