Frank Zappa telling the future in 1986. That future being today, in America.

#Fascism #Theocracy #FrankZappa #Reagan #GOP #America #Nationalism #ReligiousExtremism

That's close enough, friends.

(Virginia forest in autumn, #Fujifilm X-E4 16mm ƒ2.8)

On a mission to find the shiniest acorn... 🍂

Happy #FlyDay!

"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me."

#Caturday #Batman #Halloween

#OWLS #Photography #Nature #CaptionThis

https://www.geo.de/natur/tierwelt/comedy-wildlife-2022--die-lustigsten-tierfotos-des-jahres-32830832.html ©Mark Schocken

We work at night and sleep during the day, remember?

So it was only a hundred years ago - 1924 - when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts.

She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.

At the time the consensus was stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.

It took 4 more years for a man to confirm the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.

It's all hers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

So OpenAI can use everything ever posted on the internet to train their AI, but Internet Archive can't scan and upload books for people to borrow?? Got it. 🙄

#InternetArchive #OpenAI #AI #internet #tech #books #publishing #libraries

We don't do anything to stop climate change because it makes people who are already rich a lot of money.

That's it. That's the only reason.