@blinkenjim

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Engineer helping to create NASA’s next lunar space suit. Employed by Axiom Space.

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I tried that "Create your own GPT" thing, trying to create an assistant to help me understand the details of the SysML standards. Trying to test it now and it's horrendously slow, taking minutes to even formulate the first part of its answer to a simple question.
@jmuscara Happy birthday!

Here's a quick article about the space suit my company is building:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/axiom-space-tests-lunar-spacesuit-at-nasas-johnson-space-center/

Axiom Space Tests Lunar Spacesuit at NASA's Johnson Space Center - NASA

As part of NASA’s Artemis campaign, the agency is working to land astronauts on the lunar surface during Artemis III, laying the groundwork for a

NASA
@NoraReed Ooo! I love scrollsaws. Pretty much any saw actually : )
My car’s parking-assist cameras can be queried remotely from an iOS app. The other morning during a particularly boring series of meetings, I triggered the camera every few minutes then stitched the results into a short time-lapse. Turns out I parked in a spot with some nice shadows.
Star Trek Starfleet insignia spotted on Mars

tarfleet had a base on Mars, as evidenced by an image captured by NASA's Curiosity rover. Here's the truth of what the photo actually shows

Boing Boing
The people’s hero Keanu Reeves has written a novel with China Miéville.

Yep—noted art book publisher, comic book writer, and all-purpose hero Keanu Reeves is back to bless the darkest timeline with a novel. The Book of Elsewhere, which will be published by Del Rey on J…

Literary Hub

Another passing to note, Terry Bisson:

https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/

His short story "They're Made Out of Meat" is ony of my all-time favorites. It's a quick, easy read that you'll enjoy:

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html

Terry Bisson (1942-2024)

Author Terry Bisson, 81, died in the early hours of January 10, 2024. Terry Ballantine Bisson was born February 12, 1942 in Kentucky. After attending Grinnell College in Iowa from 1960-62, and batt…

Locus Online

Yesterday upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today;
I think he's from the CIA.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/04/chief-executive-of-collapsed-crypto-fund-hyperverse-does-not-appear-to-exist

Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist

Steven Reece Lewis was introduced to investors with an impressive list of qualifications and achievements, but no organisation cited can find any record of him

The Guardian