Notices by RJD (rjdlandscapes@mastodon.nz)

@thomasfuchs it won't just happen. It's taking decades if hard work from tens of thousands of very smart people.

It'll happen like any human accomplishment, in small steps, but general AI is pretty much an inevitability

@cstross

And yet we have the iPad (2001 space oddity), Mobile phone (star trek communicator), video calls (Metropolis, 2001 , blade runner etc), Ear buds (Fahrenheit 451), robotic prosthesis (terminator) , Helpful robots, language translators , smart watches etc etc

Vast swaths of our current world are ideas we've had that takes a lot of effort to bring into reality. Why do you think these people become billionaires.

The difficulty is in the execution

@skrishna

Wait what? Doesnt hubble orbit higher that starlink?

Myself and my mate Dennis shooting the milky way at lake Ellesmere after a workshop

Usually I'm beat after spending several hours teaching, not normally a people person but I love doing this stuff.. Still kills me..

But couldnt resist shooting this and getting Dennis in the frame on the right

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And here is a little bit of the Aurora Australis from Magnet Bay, no trails this time, one of the cool little bays on Banks Peninsula

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