Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

The solar panels, antennas, probes and booms are now fully deployed on the ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, about 6 weeks after launch.
Most instruments have been check out, including the JANUS camera/imager which took a sequence of 7 test images of a star field centered around eta Cyg in the Cygnus constellation.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_deployments_complete_final_form_for_Jupiter
#ESA #ESAjuice
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A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on ChatGPT to help prepare a court filing.

It did not go well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-lawsuit-chatgpt.html

Master or PhD positions

University of Ottawa

Master and PhD in #Canada fully funded positions in #bioinformatics

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ottawa-27778-master-or-phd-positions/?feed_id=46627

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research #bioinformatics #machine learning
Ottawa #Canada #PhDStudent #ResearchAssistant
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-ottawa-27778-master-or-phd-positions/?feed_id=46627

@zleap the difference versus a Turing test is that in the Blade Runner world, the "androids" are designed without the ability to have human feelings, and the Voight-Kamff test is designed to test emotional response. So, basically they can pass a Turing test - they can have a normal human conversation - but if you check things like pupil dilation and heart rate when asking them an emotional question you can tell they're not human.

@rysiek@mstdn.social @jeff@honeytree.social

Careful before blocking newsie(dot)social! They’re also hosting Doctors without borders.

It is absolutely essential that Doctors without borders stay available to the widest audience possible. They’re new both here and on bluesky and re-gaining their audience is already hard enough to not fediblock them on top of that.

Whatever you decide to do, please be sure to not harm their work.

Cognitive Load Theory for Teachers

https://www.educationcorner.com/cognitive-load-theory/

Both despots running for president have said they would pardon 1/6 insurrectionists; DeSatan went even further, that he would consider pardoning tRump. One is a serial criminal & the other is ruling Florida like a dictator!👎🤨😠😡🤬-ER

On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.

The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.

Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!

The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide. On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.

https://www.rawstory.com/brentwood-union-school/

Tom Baker is trending, hence resharing his biggest Doctor Who memory:

"I remember a man stopping me in Oxford Street once, looking at me with absolute incredulity.. 'You know, when I was a boy, I was in a home for children; nobody wanted us, you know? It was terrible. And you made Saturday night good.' And I went to say something to him and I could see him so close to tears that he couldn't speak. And he shook his head and he just did a.. thumbs up. It's incredible, isn't it? Just a gesture."

This is why they’re banning books and censoring educational curriculums that present any challenge to white, Christian identity as the default and normative power.

Physicist and astronaut Sally Ride was born #OTD in 1951. She was the first American woman and the youngest American in space. After NASA she worked on arms control and physics, investigated the Columbia and Challenger disasters, and promoted STEM through Sally Ride Science.

Image: NASA

@zleap as I try to explain it, when the big bang happened, space expanded in all directions, so 25 billion light years is us on this side looking at the space in the opposite direction? I think.. Shares an aspirin with you.

@zleap even if they’re armed. They’re kids. There’s non lethal solutions.

#Jazz genius Miles Davis was born OTD in 1926. You might think his celebrity status would have shielded him from the institutionalized #racism of his era. You'd be wrong. Here's Miles, beaten bloody by a NYC cop in 1959 outside a club, after recording "Kind of Blue."

Aderrien Murry is 11

He called the police at 4am when his mom heard intruders

2 officers responded

One offcier kicked the door. His mom answered and told them the intruder was gone–she then told them her 3 kids were home

Officers demanded anyone in the house show themselves, hands up

That’s when an officer shot Aderrien

He was hospitalized for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs

This isn’t a bad apple

It’s an entire bad system.

'We don't know what we don't know!'

A supermassive black hole discovered at the heart of an ancient galaxy is five times larger than expected for the number of stars it contains, astronomers say.

Researchers spotted the immense black hole in a galaxy known as GS-9209 that lies 25bn light-years from Earth, making it one of the most distant to have been observed and recorded.
#News #JWST #Space #Astronomy #NASA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/26/supermassive-black-hole-galaxy-gs9209-larger-expected?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Dear US citizenry,
Memorial Day is to honor the fallen.
Veterans Day is to honor the living.

Please don’t thank me for my service this weekend, I’m not dead.

AI writing assistants can cause biased thinking in their users

A biased "assistant" was able to influence the arguments made in essays.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/ai-writing-assistants-can-cause-biased-thinking-in-their-users/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social