If you have formal education in computer science, which of the following most closely tracks your educational experience about the ethics and social consequences of computing and software (from here on abbreviated to "ethics" due to character limits)?
Glad she’s at last being noticed again
Guys, I’ve jinxed it. I sent an email to our partner space agencies saying how sunny the weather was at Tanegashima. Now it’s raining buckets and my windows are shaking.
WHAT HAVE I DONE?!
(#MMXLIFTOFF 10.20 at 04:41:03 JST 🚀)
In Winter And In Summer…
… but only a month apart.
Almost exactly the same viewpoint, taken while crossing a small bridge over a gravelly riverbed. The first shot was taken on October 1st, and the second was on November 12th.
The river is Evindará near Mjóifjörður in eastern Iceland.
The photos were taken nine years apart, but the similarities and changes are the main reason for this toot. Winter takes hold quickly in Iceland.
#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag #Stunday #Iceland #Photography
a-dumbian, wk.v: to hold one's peace, to keep silence, to become mute. (ah-DUM-bi-ahn / a-ˈdʌm-bɪ-an)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Good news: there's a special "invite only" reception beforehand and they will feed me!
It scares me a bit how much those years of living way below the poverty line (with a baby) during grad school/early postdoc has made me ALWAYS seek out free food.
Did experiencing that make me a better person? Yeah, probably. Do I think others should go through that to "build character" or something? No.
Academia really sucks sometimes.
Got all the hay bales from the field. The downside of very large Saskatchewan farms is that I had to drive the tractor almost half a mile to get the farthest ones. Glad I only have to do this once a year! That's enough tractoring for me for a while...
It’s been a million years since i posted a picture of myself. Taken by @Ameboid.
Kaikōrero: Speaker, orator, one who speaks
Lovely bike ride! We had a couple of very windy days, so most of the fall colour is already gone off the trees. Not too many animals out besides birds, and most of the birds have migrated away already. But I saw a grouse, and some good footprints (deer, moose, badger!) in the muddy roads.
Also had to stop and dig mud out of my bike fork with oat stalks (from the edge of a harvested field) which might be the most Saskatchewan thing ever.
#fabulamurina (mouse story) 526
Minimus rana laneam tenet et coaxat (Minimus is holding a woollen frog and croaking). Silvius stridet, "iocaris, tata! rana non est sed neurospastum!" (Silvius squeaks "You're teasing, Daddy. That's not a frog but a puppet!)
With launch training, document prep, handling interviews and social media, the work before the MMX launch at Tanegashima can honestly feel overwhelming. But the team are really supportive, and it’s an incredible feeling to be this one cog in an insanely complex, amazing machine. 🚀
Dance of the (Heaven) Veils
A beautiful, clear night with hours of starlight and little moonlight. I decided to be ambitious and try a new target.
This is the eastern part of the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop or Caldwell 33. The structure is part of a supernova remnant. The "229min" in the caption refers to the exposure time.
My pareidolia is seeing the outline of a face with a pointed nose, grinning spookily.
#SaturdayScenery #AstroPhotography #Astrodon #Scotland #Photography
To those who complain about Deutsche Bahn*,
wait till you try the Deutsche Autobahn..
We decided to try a new transport mode to cross Germany this week, having left ticket booking too late to be reasonably priced and given recent disruptions on the line.
Our rental EV, a VW ID.4 was perfect, long range, lots of space, good acceleration and a very large network of super fast chargers everywhere.
But I wonder if there is more than a 50km stretch of autobahn between Denmark and the Belgian border that is not currently undergoing some kind of work?
Back to letting the train take the strain next time.
*I admit I am occasionally one of those too.
adesa, m.n: adze. (AH-deh-za / ˈa-dɛ-za)
Image: Book of Hours; France (Paris), c. 1420-1425; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1004, f. 173r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Oh this is good too. You don't even need to know anything about what this is showing, it's just neat looking.
The mascot was born around November 2016 when I asked my #Dota2 friend @dopatwo for an illustration to put on Mastodon's error page. It was meant to be a homage to Twitter's "fail whale". As you can see, the design of the mascot has changed considerably in ten years. It was cute then, but more realistic, less round. I much prefer the contemporary design, and the fact that it's not a single character.
Pakeke: Adult, mature person, grown up
RE: https://mastodon.online/@michael_w_busch/117450825343521189
It's not SpaceX so probably no silent dudes in rented U-Hauls will show up. Very curious to hear about how the US deals with a different country's space garbage, since I recently watched Canada (rather badly) deal with American space garbage.