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Whoever needs to hear this today: Your body is literally animated star ashes and I think you're marvelous - you legacy of time and space. Go shine. 🌟

77%! Donations close tomorrow so we can get the funds out in time! If you're willing and able, now is the time! Thank you all so very much for making another year possible for @EsthersEcho and the women and girls of Sierra Leone. gofund.me/3958d9152

Two Thirds of the way there! Can we hit our goal for @EsthersEcho!? Donations have to be received by Dec 22nd! Every dollar goes directly to Esther's school, the Women in Action Development Project in Sierra Leone. gofund.me/95294027e

That was a great #GivingTuesday! Thank you all who donated! We're well underway to our goal! We're taking donations all the way until Dec 21st! Please consider donating to the GoFundMe supporting women's education in #SierraLeone gofund.me/6bbc645d7 @GivingTuesday

We are launching the annual fundraising campaign for Esther's school - The Women in Action Development Project - Your donation provides a place of safety, and educational opportunities for vulnerable women and girls provided by local leadership! 2/2 gofund.me/53989ad98

Hey Stardusts! I do science communication because I love our planet and the life on it. In my other life I run a small non-profit called Esther's Echo that supports a school started by Sierra Leone local community leader Esther Kanu. 1/2

Pricing would be based on size and material. DM me if you're interested and check out more sample images using the G-Drive link below! 3/3 -SPAAAAACE! drive.google.com/drive/u/1/fold…

1) One of my images on canvas, metal, or acrylic 2) A custom inscription if wanted 3) A personalized video from me about how the image was taken, processed, and its spacey significance. 2/3

If you're looking for a spacey Christmas Gift this Holiday Season, I wanted to offer a space print from yours truly. I have done some astrophotography over the years and you could give one of my prints to somebody special! What would you get: 1/3

Hey, @masseffect fans! The cast is doing an #N7Day livestream! This Fri Nov 7 at 5pm EST on the @StreamilyLive YouTube channel, we'll be live and chatting with you! Click the link below to grab a customized SIGNED print by each of us… streamily.com/n7day #MassEffect

Come join me and @doctorow for a chat about AI, ENSHITTIFICATION, and how workers can help deshittify the world, happening now on Blood in the Machine: bloodinthemachine.com

SO EXCITED!! TOMORROW join @janewiedlin @kimberlydbrooks and moi LIVE at 1p PT for a #hexgirls reunion! 🔥🎸🔥

Altogether, AI data centers now use more electricity than most countries. We didn’t ask for any of this. These data centers steal our jobs, energy, and water. Shut them all down & turn them into social housing units.

If the likelihood of a catastrophic event is > 10% then the Risks are unacceptable high. This is the point we have reached on scientific evidence for AMOC shutdown. This is the "Don't look up moment" for risks of liveability on Earth theguardian.com/environment/20…

This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework. It shows once again that capitalism is an extremely inefficient system characterized by high levels of aggregate production to the point of driving ecological breakdown, even while masses of humanity remain deprived of basic needs.

Long-running scientific experiments that might represent the cure for the cancer you’ll contract next year, or a way to improve solar output and save you from the wildfires and floods that have your town’s name on them, or a vaccine for the next pandemic, have had the plug pulled and may never restart. Research groups at universities are falling apart, their grants illegally canceled, the teams scattered to the four winds, never to reform.

The Moon is so close, we can taste it! New footage from @fireflyspace shows their lunar lander's view from 60 miles (100 km) above the Moon. Blue Ghost will land at Mare Crisium, on the near side of the Moon, on March 2, no earlier than 3:34am ET (0834 UTC).

I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer on Microsoft and Ninja Theory’s undeniably awesome new videogame AI tech, Muse — and I do like the idea of AI being used to help port classic games to modern systems — but this is my thought on AI generated games… It’s very cool. And like Thanos it’s inevitable. But here’s the problem with AI generated art: When everyone can prompt their own thing into existence, who’s going to buy anything? It’s not just the jobs lost, it’s the audience. We have the petri dish of that with YouTube and TikTok. Finding an audience for your video content is already akin to winning a lottery. Lots of excellent work is going unnoticed. Not just amateur work but professional productions as well. A broadcast or streaming hit in 2025 is a minuscule amount of people compared to a hit 20 or 30 years ago because audiences are splintered across a million touchpoints. And all of that video material in 2025 is still crafted by humans. Millions of options will become trillions of options and soon nothing will be a shared experience. Everyone will be “watch/play/listen to my thing” and all of this AI content will be just met with a shrug by humans. Not because it will be bad—eventually it’ll be great—but because there will be so much of it no one will give a crap. So it’ll be a cool tool for a bit and then it’ll be robots making games for robots. That’s my thought on this.

I mean...it *could* be a coincidence that @PlutoTV is streaming #StarTrek TOS 'Patterns of Force' but timely nevertheless