Earth's rotation visualized in a stunning timelapse that follows a fixed point in the sky.

Video credit: Martin Giraud
Watch the full 4K original on Martin's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZH1vS45oW4

Find out why Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection is one of TIME's 200 best inventions of 2023.

Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library, started in 1971 to make e-books more accessible. But CEO Greg Newby says it “isn’t great at either creating or distributing.” So Microsoft and MIT teamed up to make the Open Audiobook Collection, using text-to-speech tech to turn 5,000 books into free, synthetically narrated audiobooks, now available on Spotify.

https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/6324762/project-gutenberg-open-audiobook-collection/

Don’t mind us re-introducing ourselves....

We’re The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that’s skeptical about Big Tech. And there’s a lot to be skeptical about right now.

Many newcomers due to what's happening in The Bad Place, so here's another #introduction. Hi! I'm an astronomer and science communicator at the European Southern Observatory.

Below is a pic from my previous "office" at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile. I now work full time as Media Officer at ESO's HQ in #Germany.

I mostly post about #astronomy #space #photography and #astrophotography

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Scientists calculate there are thousands of unidentified species living on the ocean floor between Hawaii and Mexico where deep-sea mining for critical minerals needed to build batteries is set to begin next year.

How many #metazoan species live in the world’s largest mineral exploration region?

#ClarionClipperton Zone
#CCZ
#DeepSeaMining

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00534-1

I've been trying for, uh, 4 months to come up with an intro post here and just coming up blank. And then I got to thinking about why that is.

Partly, I am just not a talking-about-myself-ish person. But partly I think I just struggle with the "everyone shout into the stream" style of social networking we have all been saddled with since 2006. I am inherently a creature of niche message boards and whatever LJ was, and my habitat has been eroded.

But anyway. Yeah. Hi. I'm here. I'm a long-time software engineer and short-time lawyer, mostly working in the messy junctions between technology, IP, cybersecurity, and privacy.

A two frame composite of the Milky Way and my kitty "Ding" waiting for me to join him in the freezing cold tent. Ding loved to go camping with me. I sure do miss Schrödinger, the Kampin' Kitty 💔. (Photo: Massacre Rim, International Dark Sky Sanctuary, Nevada (5/23/2020).)

#AstroPhotography #MilkyWay #Astronomy #Camping #CatsOfMastodon #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable #GIMP