ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Day 20. #ArtAdventCalendar

Throwback to this joyful moment at the start of 2023, awkwardly holding a wet painting that ended up being Week 1 in my 52 Weeks of Finding Light adventure this year!

4”x4”, oil.

https://tishamark.com/product/week-1-52-weeks-of-finding-light

#MastoArt #art #painting

it's alive

#lightning

End of an Era.

I went out and bought this, the Dec. 2023 issue of National Geographic. It's the last issue of this venerable institution that will appear on newsstands. 🧵

the beautiful song of the limpkin, so soothing, the perfect thing to lull you to sleep https://xeno-canto.org/731017

The last important thing about the cloth simulation: reconstructing the normal & tangent vectors for proper lighting calculations, since the input mesh contains those for the initial static positions.

See how all the top-facing surfaces have green normals, but not the curtains.

I…. huh. 😒

Live coverage of Betelgeuse occultation should start in about 2 2 1/2 hours at https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/2023/12/04/the-extremely-rare-betelgeuse-occultation-by-asteroid-319-leona-online-event-12-dec-2023/

In your timezone: https://everytimezone.com/s/7e2c7e1a

#NYT 📆 May 5, 2023 The #northern lights have expanded farther #south. This phenomenon will peak in 📆 2025, during the phase known as #solar ☀️ maximum 📈. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/science/northern-lights.html

#SpaceWeather "The exposure of a human body to ionizing #radiation ☢️ has the same harmful effects whether the source of the radiation is a medical X-ray machine, a nuclear power plant, or radiation in #space 🌌. The degree of the harmful effect depends on the length of exposure and the radiation's energy #density." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weather#Humans_in_space

#HumanSpaceflightHealth

Picture : :cc_zero: #NASA

In England, "booster shot" is spelled "borchestershire shot."

In the new Gmail design, currently in testing, you'll be able to reply as soon as you read an email -- without clicking to another window. https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/gmails-new-chat-like-redesign-makes-it-easier-to-reply-to-all-your-emails/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

I can feel you, my dear!

I'm excited to be attending the Computer History Museum's fellow awards celebration tonight, especially since one of the honorees is Tom Kurtz, the co-inventor of BASIC! https://computerhistory.org/2023-fellow-awards/

this is my kind of hotel

This map shows the 50 countries in the world where you can (mostly) drink the tap water. But: “Fewer than one billion people have a tap at home that issues potable water.” https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/drink-tap-water-50-countries/

Just a reminder for Aussies out in nature: if you find a dead bird with no obvious sign of injury then please call the emerging animal disease hotline 1800 675 888

Experts are right now trying to monitor for signs of avian influenza across the country.
https://www.michellewille.com/avian-influenza-resources/

Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data

It's funny because it's true