Yet another revelation....

Jane Roberts, who is married to Chief Justice #JohnRoberts, made $10.3 million in commissions from elite law firms, whistleblower documents show

At least one of those firms argued a case before Chief Justice Roberts after paying his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars. #SCOTUS #corruption

https://www.businessinsider.com/jane-roberts-chief-justice-wife-10-million-commissions-2023-4

Welp, I'm giving another talk on satellite pollution so I have to update the numbers in my slides.

*checks https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html and https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=tle*

Oh crap, there are 150 more Starlinks than when I gave a talk on this topic 1 month ago.

3908 Starlink satellites out of 7545 total satellites.

52% of all sats now owned by one awful dude. Still with effectively no regulations. This is so bad.

it was 50 years ago this week that humans were last on the moon, represented by apollo 17 astronauts gene cernan, ronald evans, and jack schmitt. the sequence of images above were taken on december 10, 1972, during the crew's second orbit around the moon. it was taken with a hasselblad 500 edl 70mm medium format camera through a 250 mm lens, using so-368 color ektachrome ms film.

i processed and composited film scans provided through the project apollo archive to create this image.

What will enter the #publicdomain in 2023? At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Each day through December we’ll open a new window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! By public domain day on January 1st they will all be unveiled. https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/

(And for the impatient/curious we've also links to lists of the new entrants!)

Today, a Virginia Woolf classic...