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Japan launches a wooden box into space as a “strange but brilliant solution” to an increasingly serious problem, orbital debris...

Wooden satellites like LignoSat are designed to burn up into water vapor and a small amount of carbon dioxide instead of long-lived metallic haze.

#space #satellites #spacedebris #orbitaldebris

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/japan-launches-a-wooden-box-into-space-as-a-strange-but-brilliant-solution-to-an-increasingly-serious-problem-orbital-debris-and-proposes-an-idea-that-seems-like-science-fiction-b/29244/

Japan launches a wooden box into space as a “strange but brilliant solution” to an increasingly serious problem, orbital debris, and proposes an idea that seems like science fiction, but seeks to prevent the future of space from becoming an unmanageable landfill

Japan’s wooden satellite is testing whether a simple cube can help cut space junk and make future missions cleaner.

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David Velasquez 5d ago

Script #2 is now fun cuz surprises:

RE: behavior of clients when under complete control of Nowell - THEY MOVE SLOWLY, LIKE TYPICAL ZOMBIES. The reason being that this is in fact a primitive version of the NLI; it works, but with far less efficiency than one which has been honed over years of trial and error.

…being the first iteration of a mega advanced technology, the client retains some tiny measure of agency whilst under Nowell’s attempt at full possession of said client.

David Velasquez Mar 9

Bores can have the light of the sun with all its cancer-giving rays. Me, I’ll take the cool comfort of the night, and of course with it, the moon, which gives all the light anyone needs, really.

Nina Simone - “In The Dark”

https://youtu.be/7K7Hsw56pKA?si=kYm7b3R9o_48wwQU

In the Dark

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David Velasquez Mar 9

Earlier today I saw an insta post of Tom Waits reading a Bukowski poem that made mention of “the light” (and also of course “the dark”). Used in the typical way, to signify that which is always “good” (and vice versa). But my point here is, on an 89 degrees day like today: STOP ASSUMING THE LIGHT IS GOOD AND DARKNESS IS ALWAYS BAD, people (dumbasses, really)! Being from LA, the light is tedious and mean, it’s the darkness that brings relief, means “goodness” to me, at least.

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MikeDunnAuthor Mar 6

Today in Labor History March 6, 1978: President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to quash the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The UMWA had been on strike since December 1977, but rejected a tentative contract agreement in early March, 1978. Carter invoked the national emergency provision of Taft-Hartley and ordered strikers back to work. They ignored the order and the government did little to enforce it. By late March, they reached a settlement. Taft-Hartley was enacted in the wake of the strike wave of 1945-1946 and was designed to prevent solidarity strikes and General Strikes. Until the recent General Strike in Minneapolis, the last General Strikes in U.S. history occurred in 1946 in Lancaster, PA; Stamford, CT; Rochester, NY; and Oakland, CA, just prior to the creation of Taft-Hartley.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #GeneralStrike #union #solidarity #TaftHartley #oakland #UMWA #POTUS #UnitedMineWorkers

David Velasquez Mar 5

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David Velasquez Mar 3

Currently feel like I just hit the jackpot now I’ve found the perfect last name for one of my main characters (the male lead) after a damn good longass time: Tomis. Which is the city where Ovid was exiled to/died, also supposedly derives from the Slavic word for “tame/gentle.”

As for Ovid, why relevant?
This particular story is really about Metamorphosis - those for it NOW! being in conflict with those
against it. Get a clue, dummy - there’s not a damn thing “new” really.

David Velasquez Mar 2

March 1st, 2026: Finally, finally *finally* reading D+G themselves, not a secondary work *about* D+G!

A Thousand Plateaus, tbe, and so far am finding it easier reading as well as more fun than I was probably expecting. Also, I am taking full advantage of D’s suggestion that it be read rhizomatically, not linearly - hell yeah I can do that for sure! Jumping around is a bad habit I’ve always had, and like it or not, this interwebs age has of course only made that tendency worse.

David Velasquez Feb 28

Revival 69: “the concert that rocked the world” is a recent documentary about the time John Lennon and the plastic Ono band performed in Canada (in 1969, of course). In it, one of the musicians (I believe it was the plastic Ono drummer) for the first time clarified for me the meaning and purpose behind Yoko’s vocalizing style. Only then, just about 1 1/2 yrs ago, did it finally make sense to me. She is a lot, true: Yoko is genius.

https://youtu.be/7GMHl7bmlzw?si=2IJyEh22m_lbpF78

VOICE PIECE FOR SOPRANO & WISH TREE at MoMA, Summer 2010 by yoko ono

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