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Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Joan Miró “The Morning Star” (1940) • During WWII, Miró produced 23 paintings collectively known as the Constellations. To create each piece, the artist first applied a soft ground of dry-brushed color that evokes the randomness of nature. Next, he painted fanciful black lines and vibrant flat shapes that change color whenever they cross over a line. Red switches to black…black switches to blue…blue switches to red. Miró’s Constellations pulse, like a universe with music in its soul. • During World War II, the Constellations were the first works of art created by a prominent European artist to reach America. Rumor has it they were secretly transported in a diplomatic pouch.

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡

To escape from the reality of WWII into the comfort of a fantasy world, Miró turned to the sky as a coping mechanism. “I felt a deep desire to flee,” said the artist. “The moon and the stars began to play a major role in my paintings.”

Joan Miró, “The Morning Star” (1940)

We all have a role to play in building those new worlds. Determine what the next right step is for you. There is always something that is worth doing. Find your lane and push ahead. Make connections with others. Refuse to acquiesce to despair. Imagine your way forward. There are many ways that things can be different in the world, and we don't know how things will turn out, so we might as well fight like hell for the world we want to inhabit. History teaches us that relatively small groups of people have been responsible for some of the most consequential societal chang-es. It's usually the minority of the minority that engages in struggle in any historical moment. This is reassuring because it means that we don't have to convince everyone in order to attain critical goals. It leaves room for surprise.

This week I am going to continue to try to resist acquiescing to despair.

(per Mariame Kaba’s pep talk below)

A lot of things are very bad, and I highly recommend going out and engaging with art under threat as a resolution.

Photo of a tour group walking down a historic, narrow residential side street in Fells Point, Baltimore.

Photo of a tour guide (and a couple of tour guests) walking up a wide modern street in downtown Baltimore.

Only ONE WEEK until our outdoor walking tours are back!! Come join us outside as the weather warms up!
Sunday, March 8, 5pm: Frederick Douglass’ Fell’s Point
(1.5 hours, $15/$12)
Friday, March 13, 6pm: Revolution in Baltimore Town
(1.75 hours, $20/$15)
Info/tix @ fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/

I need to make it down when the windows are open someday.

The Peacock Room - Wikipedia

The third Thursday of every month, Smithsonian staff open the windows to the Peacock Room restored in the National Gallery of Asian Art, and blue details like this ceiling inlay pop such that you can see them with your eyeballs and not just a decent camera.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pea...

Detail of peacock room ceiling, with painted feather patterns in blue and green, trimmed in gold painted woodwork. There are also four lights

Ceiling detail. Four lights.

Incredibly ornate gold painted peacock motifs on wooden window coverings, ceiling with painted peacock feathers, blue and white china on gold wooden shelving, moody green walls, four electrified formerly gas lamps in the ceiling

Peacock Room, National Gallery of Asian Art, DC

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

As a small child, my grandpa would bring me to the library with my own (Snoopy themed!) roller luggage, which in memory feels like it was close to my own size, regularly filled. I have considered continuing this strategy and bringing a carry-on.

As a small child, my grandpa would bring me to the library with my own (Snoopy themed!) roller luggage, which in memory feels like it was close to my own size, regularly filled. I have considered continuing this strategy and bringing a carry-on.

I do enjoy staunchly continuing to call things by their old names - Dept. of Defense, Kennedy Center, National Airport. It is so easy, like boycotting diamonds.

Oh no, if only we had decades of popular culture suggesting that hooking AI up to our national defense networks might be a thing we don’t want to risk.

From the Desk of Dr. James Gibbs: On the Return of the Floreana Giant Tortoise | Galápagos Conservancy For the first time in 180 years, Floreana lineage giant tortoises set foot on Floreana Island once again returning to their ancestral home.

Yes, the world can be bleak at times. But it really ain't all bad.

This story of tortoises returning to a Galapagos island after 180 yrs brought a smile to my face this morning. 🐢

Pretty interesting science behind this too 🧪
www.galapagos.org/newsroom/gib...

Ancient brass instrument used to interpret the heavens turns 1,000 years old National Museums Scotland said it was one of the rarest scientific instruments in its collection.

Donning my purple gloves to say happy birthday to our 1000-year-old astrolabe #histsci 📜
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

STScI is opening its doors for a celebration of creativity at the intersection of art, science, and community on May 6 at 6 p.m.!

The evening will feature an art exhibit of works by local artists inspired by space and astronomy.

More information: https://www.facebook.com/share/17HoRP1ZxM/

Library book propped up against its shelf: The Lopapeysa Sweater travel guide and knitting book by Kyle Cassidy and Joan of Dark Knits. Trillian is on the cover in a stunning example, against an Icelandic landscape.

What a feeling to plop down in the local public library stacks and incidentally find a book by an old friend from years and platforms and a snake portrait workshop ago.

(Yes of course I checked it out, @kylecassidy.bsky.social)

You can make a good career in SRE, operations, and risk management out of this but they still don't like it when you're right or put 'Cassandra' up as your name in the office afterward.

Thomas Paine proposed a progressive tax on wealth, with the top tax rate being 100%. It's an idea that's as American as Apple Pie. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

Here were the 15 projects/missions told to pause, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Habitable Worlds Observatory, and astrophysics probe missions, contrary to the budget passed by Congress. 🔭

If you've been on our Seton Hill and/or Fells Point tours, you might remember hearing that the Underground Railroad & individual self-emancipations worked in practice *because people were really good at keeping secrets.*
This ⬇️ is a "generational find" for good reason 🧡

It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine If AI music takes over "humans will begin to echo the machines, and there will be a downward spiral into slop."

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.

At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..."

time.com/7338205/rage...

1) It was good for the US when world-class scientists competed to come here.
2) The exodus will have an impact, but is not numerically meaningful, and there will be no emigrating brain drain even from red states, because there are no jobs.
3) Many people will just quit teaching/research, though.

Myst is Merlin, maybe? It's been a long time.

Glad this story is getting told. Metro Surge is an economic blockade against the entire metro and state.