Notices by Stargeezer Smith (stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza), page 2

@countcol
Maybe, as with money, the information is being sucked up by intellectual billionaires.

@Remittancegirl
I agree.

VP Harris had to endure the time advantage Trump got because the moderators succumbed to his bullying, but he couldn't bully her. It was toe to toe and as he flailed as he tried to land made up attacks, she responded with in your face direct, factual attacks.

VP Harris is the toughest opponent Trump has ever been on stage with.

@jeffowski
Very well stated. I've thought for a long time that liberals can feel empathy for people they don't even know, and the bubble of empathy of conservatives seems to only envelope folks close to them.

@HistoPol @ReallyBlue2
Just compare the number of scandals in Biden's cabinet vs the scandals during Trump's tenure.

@nonlinear @kevinriggle @futurebird @dahukanna @PavelASamsonov @knowuh
It seems the microscopic to macro influence must be hinted by the old limerick:

Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity, And little whorls have lesser whorls And so on to viscosity

(By Lewis Fry Richardson)

@WarnerCrocker
Is a return to slavery next? It was in the books if you go back far enough.

@cstross
I'm admittedly not up on the AI news and development. I'm mostly familiar with it as a means to spot subtle information buried in astronomical data. A legitimate use I think.

I'm more concerned about it's use in Internet search engines. Why? Because science research data doesn't contain lies, just noise and data, sometimes with complex relationships. The Internet has a high percentage of misinformation -- lies.

@georgetakei
I suspect that Johnson will find that the Speaker job was far easier to get (he kind of fell into it) than it will be to do.

If I believed totally in fantasy, I'd suggest that he consult with Nancy Pelosi, the most successful living previous Speaker, and perhaps the most successful in history.

Imagine any other field where you as the new kid have at your access the historical legend of the position you hold. You'd take advantage of that.

But not in politics.

@rsliva
That's a spectacular #M31 image. I envy you the equipment to take images like that. I envy you even the 5 inch refractor.

I offer for your sense of humor my cheat image. I used the Harvard-Smithsonian #MicroObservatory, a system of a half dozen or so 6 inch Maksutov-Newtonian telescopes available to the public. I provided my own image reduction and stacking software to get this image.

@thanius
I fancy those models myself.

How's this for stupidity. I've owned a Timex computer, a Vic 20, a C64, and a C128. over time I let them all go.

My son felt sorry for me and picked up a C128, but alas it doesn't work.

@thomasfuchs
I'm a big fan of small telescopes and what can be done with them. What you've done with your Messier 16 photo is FANTASTIC.

I'm just not well set up for star photography, but I've done some #lunar and #planetary photography with small instruments.

The following photo of #jupiter was taken with an unmotorized #60mm refractor. The #yorick stacking software combined about 60 frames for the image. This was taken in 2010 when the SEB did one of its disappearing acts.

@georgetakei
Ah, I too remember the efforts of the GOP to cast "liberal' in a negative light. Us oldies have a few things in common.

I haven't, however, been a chief officer of a star traveling spaceship. (Worked in missile guidance however)