“יְהִי אוֹר – fiat lux – let there be light”
Here are the first engineering images from #ESAEuclid, our mission to study the dark universe.
Each shows the full Euclid field, with 36 CCDs for the visible camera, VIS, & 16 HgCdTe detectors for the near-IR imager & spectrometer, NISP, plus zooms to show more detail.
This is just the beginning 🖖🤘
Full story & links to the very large full-res zoom images:
Great news from the frontline:
After having bombed Russian supply lines, depots, command quarters, and more, Ukraine has now begun its “primary thrust” in the south with thousands of new soldiers arriving at the southern front.
In the last 24 hours, Ukraine has liberated Staromaiorske, shown here on the Deep State Map.
History will be written in the coming weeks.
"[O]ne of Hollywood’s greatest tricks has been convincing the creators, whom Hollywood itself is exploiting, that the copyright tool they’re using for said exploitation is in the interest of artists." - @mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/19/stop-rushing-to-copyright-as-a-tool-to-solve-the-problems-of-ai/
Reddit to its volunteer moderators: "You work for us. We don't pay you, of course, but we own everything you do. If you challenge our autocratic, greedy policies, we'll kick you out and find other suckers to do all this work for free. And by the way, up yours."
Facebook is where you realize, you don’t like the people you know.
Mastodon is where you start liking people, you have never met.
Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM
Fairphone proves the usual excuses for ending Android support aren't valid.
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Missing The Point
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