@simon But it's great for executives that want to have a nice large number of participants in their meetings to bloviate to. All they need is nodding heads that look awake. LLMs can do that.
It’s the perfect frantic insane comedy. Since it’s from 1963 some of the jokes are as inappropriate as all hell for modern sensibilities, but it’s still a masterpiece. And I struggle to think of a better showcase of human greed and shortsightedness. 😁
The Chang'e 6 lunar lander turns out to have deployed a rover camera. Shots of lander on surface, and onboard video of the prep and ascent of lunar samples : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnonHQ_s1p8
@vik With this mission, China is really showing the rest of the world how this is done. Flawless execution so far and every step documented with cameras all over the place.
So it's Godzilla Minus One "enjoyable" good or is it "accurately portrays the depth of human depravity and suffering" good? Because after 3 Body Problem and Furiosa, we're looking for something less grim.
@peterdrake Enjoyable good, but does depict a certain amount of general human suffering after the end of WWII in a bombed out Japanese city. Well, and Godzilla is doing Godzilla things.
@clive That's a great idea... it's always amazing when painters come up with a brand new way to create art like that.
My dad painted all his life and while he was doing mostly oil - and later acrylic - paintings, he sometimes branched out into wildly unusual materials. I guess it's part of the process to explore the edges of what's possible.
Look at those boulders!
Photographed yesterday by the Perseverance Mars rover while driving in the ancient riverbed of Neretva Vallis.
I assembled this panorama from 14 Mastcam-Z images captured on Sol 1162, the colors were processed to approximately match what the human eye would see on Mars.
@stim3on@TMEubanks Looking at the original crop with our bright rock, there is one other rock in the same picture that seems to be of the same type. Could some process have turned over the really bright one and we are looking at its former underside?
To celebrate Towel Day, here is a special treat for fans of Douglas Adams.
Around 1994 I had a chance to see Adams live when he gave a reading in Munich. It was a fun evening with him being in a great mood.
Now several years ago I found a recording of that evening which was in a sub-folder of a totally different audio book. This recording seems to be completely unknown online with zero search results...
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@FlockOfCats I've also switched to shorts... it seems all the local men are waiting for the official announcement of summer before they make the switch. Poor guys! 😅
IRI Temperature Probability Forecast for June-July-August:
"Regarding temperature, 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 for above-normal temperature are forecasted across most land areas throughout the forecast period." (Emphasis mine)
@peterdutoit We are in Japan, which looks not great in that map... although up to now I would say this year was actually cooler than normal here in Osaka. We'll see if that changes in June.