Fuck. Reflect Orbital apparently had more time than we thought to respond, and they just did. We have a lot more writing to do. Hopefully some of you who wrote comments will also write and submit replies to Reflect Orbital's FCC response. I'm sure it's total bullshit, and I am not sure when I will have the strength to read it.

Fuck you, Reflect Orbital. I hate absolutely everything you are planning to do. Really tempted to submit THAT to the FCC...but I will rethink when not 100% exhausted.

@janefriedman is reporting that the amount authors will receive in the Anthropic book settlement has gone up because the class-action lawyers have reduced their fees.

It was $3,000 per book (usually split 50/50 with your publisher), but now it's likely to be $3,700 per book (before split).

It's worth your time to see if your name is in the database.

Check here: https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Learn more: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

It's been a few years since I drew this. I still stand by it.

#MastoArt #HumanArt #CreativeToots

https://youtu.be/er2ajrP1cp0 - Interview with Erin Reed, journalist tracking anti-LGTB+ legislation around the world and discusses her 'Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map'

'Erin in the Morning' on Substack
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-national-legal-risk-assessment-a5d

#LGBTQ #HumanRights #Trans #Video #USpol

I presented at the local planetary journal club this morning about the 3 articles I co-authored for The Conversation in the past weeks about the effects that one million satellites would have on the night sky, the atmosphere, and the orbital environment (spoiler alert: all very very bad)

https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

And one on light pollution that I thought would get published today but might not be out until after the weekend.

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

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Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.