An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It looks like daytime but it is actually illuminated by moonlight. There’s a bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a bright dot on the lower right (Venus) and a glow (zodiacal light). A few stars can be seen in the dark beyond the Earth.

An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It is dark with muted colors. There’s a very bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a small dot on the lower right (Venus). The background is dark with a few faint stars visible.

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

More context on this #Artemis II image:

* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right

* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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It appears their support site uses Zendesk, but they might still use Salesforce/Salesloft in addition.

Operational Technology feels. 🙃

Top Chats in Canadian App Store. Showing Focus Friend is #1.

Number 1 in Canada now.

Just finished The Outsider so I could watch the miniseries, and I am currently reading Mr. Mercedes so I can watch that series, then after that The Long Walk before the movie comes out. Then back to Discworld for a bit.

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

The future of the internet… Computers learning from computers that are pretending to be human.

I hope more companies adopt this, and I’m happy Sony has made this decision. Logging in after launching a single player game is so frustrating.

I use a Cloud PC for gaming, and we are increasingly deploying Cloud PCs at work for Privileged Access. This technology is poised to help with both those cases. Pretty exciting, even though adoption in my country will likely be slow (Canada).

Oh wow, I forgot about this device. I wish I still had mine.

Here’s hoping other countries do not go along with it.

My dad’s friend trapped my family into watching, what I assume was that same movie, when we visited his hometown for a family reunion.

I still avoid contact with that person.

I left Goodreads long ago, I haven’t looked into alternatives recently. I’m going to try StoryGraph, thanks for the recommendation.

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

It’s hard to explain to some people that say they have nothing to hide, how fast that could change without them actually doing anything wrong.

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Instantly stuck in my head now.

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

Adding to my list, didn’t realize this was made.

Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own. The problem we face is existential and spiritual, not situational.

I wrote an essay about our bottomless thirst for diversion and how avoiding boredom is the engine of modern life. It’s based on the research I did for my book.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...

Well, this was a good week to schedule my vacation I guess. 👀

Are there any keyboard shortcuts you wish you'd known about sooner? ⌨️

For me, one of those is ALT + SHIFT + Up/Down - moves the selected item up or down in a list in Word and OneNote. Works on tables too!

So much time wasted copying and pasting

This is Keyboard Shortcut Advent Calendar Day 20 🎁🎄

Well, that seems a lot more shady than I expected. It seems like a superfund should definitely exist for boats, trains, and planes.

The article got mad at me for not subscribing. Is this so common because the company or person responsible for the boat goes bankrupt and thus nobody has any responsibility to decommission them anymore?

I think the current Windows Update is a technological marvel that gets little recognition on how great it works nearly always nowadays.

Windows has a near infinite range in hardware and software configurations, and a mandate for backward compatibility. It’s quite amazing that it just works.

a cartoon character from family guy is standing in a dark room . Alt: A cartoon character from family guy is following a trail of candy, picking them up, and saying “oo a piece of candy.”

“Just one more side-quest then I’ll get back to the urgent main story… just another side-quest…”

Some helpful tools for image posting on this app.