Steve Hammond✒️ 📚🔭📹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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SF Writer/Duffer • Ex-DMA Design (Writer for Hired Guns/ Co-Writer for Grand Theft Auto & Body Harvest) • Hobby Moviemaker and Coder (Directed Britain's 1st Star Trek Fan Film) • 90s Has Been / Burnt Out Husk
LocationAberdeenshire, Scotland
Websitehttps://www.stevehammond.org
Free Scottish UFO Casebookhttps://www.stevehammond.org/_downloads/ScottishUFOCasebook-Free.pdf
Thanks everyone for keeping me entertained!

There's a wee buzz in UFOlogy today because the US Gov has registered domains alien.gov and aliens.gov. Imminent Disclosure?

I did a simple registrar search, so they've been created by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Which in turn (another search) is part of Homeland Security.

So I'm guessing in this case it just means "aliens" as in "foreigners".

I need help with the server hosting all my open-source projects: #Fedilab, #HolosSocial, #HolosDiscover, and more.
The current server costs €350/year but is no longer suited for the load. I often run out of disk space. I need to migrate to a more powerful one with expandable storage. Renewal is due in a few days.
I have set a goal of €500 on Ko-fi, cost unknown.

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Looks at spike in replies.

That'll teach me to have an afternoon nap.

World War III

World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053. The conflict involved nuclear cataclysm as well as genocide and eco-terrorism. The post-atomic horror in the aftermath persisted as late as 2079. The war was preceded by the Eugenics Wars and the Second Civil War, all of which were sometimes regarded as parts of a single escalating conflict. It resulted in the deaths of some 30% of the Human population, at least six hundred million people, and...

Memory Alpha

@snap2grid that only says to me we are rattling the cages of the billionaires.

Keep it up everyone!

Just found out (according to Peter Theil) that critics of AI are "legionnaires of the antichrist"¹

Hello fellow legionnaires!

¹Thank John Oliver (again).

Well, I have now been quoted calling SpaceX "fuckweasels" in a real publication by real journalists: https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116598/spacex-to-start-small-with-1-million-satellite-plan-pushes-back-on-critics

I guess I am proud of myself? (They are, indeed, fuckweasels, for their complete lack of care for the atmosphere that we all depend on, as well as not caring about Kessler Syndrome, or light pollution, or smashing people on the ground...)

SpaceX To Start Small With 1 Million Satellite Plan, Pushes Back On Critics

The company's rebuttal to the FCC mentions launching orbital data center constellation in phases, and studying potential atmospheric impacts. SpaceX also threw plenty of shade at Amazon.

PCMag Australia
Astronomers definitely need a black budget for anti-satellite lasers.
I actually had a short story idea 20 years or so back, _Killing Leo_, which would have been an antiterrorist agency figuring what the titular plot referred to. And it would turn out -- too late of course -- that LEO was Low Earth Orbit.