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
@astronomerritt Another rec for LyX. I've used it myself for a fairly complex book. Really smooths the process. That said, it doesn't protect you from 95% of LaTeX being amazing and the last 5% being a complete nightmare.
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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@jwz
The current episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

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
@WoodlandSpirit Well, there's always the "best" of the bad stuff https://aidarwinawards.org/
AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions

Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.

AI Darwin Awards

@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).