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PaulHammond51, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to space

Another drive from Perseverance rover takes it to site 52.0870 during Sol 1138 (May 3, 2024).

EDIT - The rover has not yet reached the downslope, see recent post by @65dBnoise

Attached is a roughly processed 16-tile NavCam image acquired at the end of the drive. NASA/JPL-Caltech

#perseverance #mars2020 #solarocks #marsrover #space

elaterite, 16 days ago to AncientHistory

So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.

#Archeology #Desert #Canyon #RockArt #Photography #Darktable

pgiulan, 1 month ago to Minneapolis

With #Uber & #Lyft pulling services from #Minneapolis May 1, I've been watching for alternatives.

#TRIP seems promising as a #decentralized "#rideshare protol": https://www.trip.dev

Built by the same company, #Teleport is the first mobile client using the #opensource network: https://www.teleport.xyz — with it still being invite only, my referral link to log in: https://app.teleport.xyz/rider/refer/CQ1AeSCrBX6GNxRtBXhxydbxg3ZSnT2i365qxQCXQ3qF

Anyone with insight or experience with either willing to share? I'm reading there's also #blockchain

#OSS

AAKL, 1 month ago to firefox

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drahardja, 2 months ago to reddit

Just as we all knew all along, #Reddit’s move to charge exorbitant fees for API access was so they can cut lucrative deals to sell user-created material to train #AI models.

I was a redditor of about 15 years when I decided to delete everything I wrote and close my account because I foresaw this hostile repurposing of what is essentially a massive store of freely-accessible, context-rich community-generated content, made by people who didn’t necessarily want their content to be used for training without compensation.

AI training is largely built on top of exploitation of labor for private gain. It’s legal in many cases, but it’s often unethical and immoral.

“Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-16/reddit-is-said-to-sign-ai-content-licensing-deal-ahead-of-ipo

No-paywall version here: https://archive.ph/caW1Y

pgiulan, 3 months ago to random

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
— Peter De Vries

#quote

obu, 4 months ago to random

Nyanatiloka Thera's Dictionary of Theravāda doctrines
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/reference/buddhist-dictionary_nyanatiloka

pgiulan, 6 months ago to YouShouldKnow

#ysk who owns who in the #media landscape

justinling, 7 months ago to random

Since leaving Twitter, I've been trying to figure out what my journalism-y socials look like. (Threads: A sad Potemkin village where I just share articles. Bluesky: A fun, bitchy hotel cafeteria that still seems ill-suited to news.) I've been trying to use Mastodon for more hard news stuff, but I'm having a hard time getting my feed to be both active and relevant.

So I'm trying a few experiments to see if I can rejig my good. If you've got good journalism follow suggestions, send em my way.

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to random

It’s. Not. Over. 😷💉

#COVID hospitalizations jump 22% this week — and CDC predicts further increases - CBS News

https://apple.news/AjxgP6BlFTymuddUZT9aqAw

pgiulan, 9 months ago to random

If you bank with #wellsfargo, might wanna check your account(s).

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/wells-fargo-deposit-missing-outage-what-happened-rcna98201