Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I.

Fascinating piece on the demands for and challenges of access to AI in American prisons.

The first photograph from the mission which captures my interest is an intimate one; you probably saw it, it went mildly viral. It shows Christina Koch looking out of a porthole window, grinning face framed against the sky, her hair tied in a pair of floating braids. Look, I thought: a woman, in space, so far from home. Only men have been to the moon before and though I knew it was theoretically possible for a woman to go to the moon, evidently I needed to see it to really believe it. Look! A girl! A girl is orbiting the moon, and her hair is in bunches.

"A girl is orbiting the moon, and her hair is in bunches."
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I'm sitting in a room with one window and one door, both closed. A fly has just started buzzing around the room. Where did it come from?!

In our Gaston era

This is exactly the kind of policy that should be left to headteachers, who know what will work best for their own school (and almost all have strict curbs on phones anyway). But the government wants the headline.

Oh yeah absolutely, a bunch of old books are priced in at this point by virtue of having hung around so long

Let Amazon be a warehouse, it's good at it

I love books for both their content and physical presence, but I only have room for a few hundred!

*whispers* apart from books with sentimental value, you can just get rid of most of them and buy them back if you ever need to (I have never needed to)

How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could the nation's drone expertise help it rebuild? To learn more, New Scientist gained exclusive access to ...

Constant battlefield iteration is the key - we ran this piece, with detailed reporting from Ukraine, a couple of months ago www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

My controversial opinion is not only should Pluto be a planet, most moons should be as well. If it's round and not on fire, it's a planet

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

The only thing really worth spending money on is time, by either offloading or shortening activities you don't want to do. I have loads of things I enjoy doing at near-zero cost, but only so many hours to do them in

These incredible Buff Tip Moths blend in so well with branches that you might mistake them for sticks. Nature's masters of disguise are truly fascinating!

AI is an incredibly important technology that everyone must embrace, but you can't use it until you're 16

Compare and contrast

I need to genetically engineer myself another hand so I can facepalm hard enough

Many stunning images posted by this user. None with credits or links. Many of them shown to be old or fake or misrepresented. But beautiful!

Over 200k accounts follow this poster. It makes me feel kinda sad and hopeless to see so many gushing & gullible responses.

Electric vehicle owners could earn thousands by supporting power grid Electric vehicles could store renewable energy when there is excess supply and give it back to the grid when demand peaks, but car companies disagree on the best way to do that

If vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging was available in the US, an EV could make you <$3,359/yr selling energy to the grid when parked, a pilot project found.
Nissan, VW, Tesla, BYD, Ford, etc are starting to offer V2G, but govs/utilities need to make buyback tariffs www.newscientist.com/article/2523...

"would you like money now, or more, free money later" goes some of the way, but I guess the problem is that many people do just need the money now

I used to think "it's fine, I've used it on holiday, why would I care?". Then the Eurocrisis happened, individual countries weren't able to set appropriate interest rates, and I began to understand what a currency is actually for

We don't really, because if your hypothesis is that smartphones or algorithms are making people sad it should show up in data after 2007 or so. That may be the case for other datasets, but not this one

It's kind of incredible just how much engagement this post has and I can only see one other person pointing this out. All takes, no one engaging with what the data actually shows, which is that the early 2020s were, unsurprisingly, not great!

Ignore the curve and you can see that this dataset is basically a flat line for 40 decades until the pandemic hits

These astronauts just refuse to get off their phones bsky.app/profile/astr...

Aren't the maps we have detailed enough to essentially stimulate any photo of the moon that we want?

Well, to persuade politicians/taxpayers

I do find it slightly tiring that NASA keeps talking about the science value of the Artemis II lunar observations, it's basically zero! We've fully mapped the moon in detail, astronauts sticking cameras out their window really doesn't add much

Artemis II, it's just like coach travel