You're welcome! Stay curious 😁

2. These are literally astronomical scales and bigger/farther away than anything else we're used to. The moonscape is moving, but it is too slow to see at 1x speed.

That does make sense! I can think of two reasons:

1. In that video, the effect of the moon's orbit causes the Moon to move left on-screen much faster then the ship's movement does. I think this is the main effect but I've not done the math. Relative to the Earth, the moon is faster than Artemis II.

What do you mean by hovering? They're in space (floating) and moving roughly sideways relative to the moon

You may find this site helpful to visualize the trip. Move the timeline to +5 days and you can see the moon flyby issinfo.net/artemis

In this video, they are moving behind the moon more and more. The zoom itself is the camera. In other words it's the first half of the flyby, before they reach the closest point to the moon in their trip. It would be "rising" if they were moving farther away and leaving the moon - like on Apollo

..what? Did you really just accuse me of using AI to answer because I corrected you?

That's not what you said: you said "geosynchronous" and that the moon doesn't set. In a overall confusingly worded paragraph

That's incorrect. The Moon is *not* in a geosynchronous orbit. It is tidally locked: it orbits the Earth and spins on its axis at the same rate. This is what causes us to always see the same side.

The moon rises and sets on Earth roughly once a day, occurring about 50 minutes later each time.

a person is laying on a bed in a room with a red star on the wall Alt: Nutella floats by in the Artemis II cockpit

Them and Nutella are getting some excellent unofficial advertising

absent father 😭

The ship they are on is coasting around the moon: that's what causes the Earth to "set"

There actually is no Earth rise/set on the moon surface, just a little wobble while the Earth stays in the same spot in the sky

there's this visual effect where if you are closer to something it looks bigger and if you're farther away it looks smaller

you may have seen the effect before

That's kind of the point. The human eye is never going to see what the Artemis image shows. Sure, you can jack up the ISO and throw on a f1/8 lens and hold the shutter open for a few seconds and make the night sky bright as hell. But it's not representative of what we see. It's what a sensor sees.

They also think the shot never should have been taken as-is and should only mirror what the human eye would see

In a brewing First Amendment fight, California’s Attorney General threatens journalists for possessing a public records document Reporters obtained a list of police convictions through a public records request. California’s Attorney General, claiming its mere possession is a misdemeanor crime, is threatening them with legal act...

As a Californian watching the governor’s race play out, I really don’t love this. In 2019, then AG, now Gov candidate Xavier Becerra threatened journalists for possessing a list of criminal cops.

Given that the LAPD is actively coordinating with ICE, we need a Gov willing to hold them accountable

I'm not sure where on your site the raw data is linked. Can you link to it? I would like to archive it

I guess it depends what "captive" means here? The way I see it, all ERGs are "captive" in the same way anyone hired at-will is "captive" to employer whims, but the "cage" is out of sight as long as you don't truly rock the boat. This is good enough for a lot of people!

🗞️ Google Ordered to the Bargaining Table After Federal Labor Board Finds Refusal to Negotiate Unlawful The NLRB ordered Google to bargain with the Alphabet Workers Union after ruling it unlawfully refused to recognize the union as a joint employer with staffing contractor Accenture Flex.

I also suspect that's an additional reason that Sundar buddied up to Trump, but it hasn't worked out quite as expected 🤭

Yeah agreed! I was pretty horrified by it. Maybe things have changed or some existing legal cases have made progress since I left, but things were Bad then and I didn't expect their treatment of the NLRA to improve. IIRC though the only cases that actually made it to court (?) were wrongful firings

Folks started arguing that company contracts that result in one's work being used to kill was a reasonable "working condition" to deliberate, and execs very much did not like the idea of that being protected and becoming a source of leaks and area of collective bargaining (speculating about them)

You might think it'd be the same at Google! I had some phenomenal healthcare.

I suspect the two biggest gripes to start were 1. the inequitable treatment of temps/vendors/contractors vs. full-timers and 2. various abhorrent military/government contracts (ICE IDF, etc.). N/A for Pokémon 😆 ...right?

All this to say: there's some truth to ERGs being "yellow unions" controlled by leadership. If our exec sponsor had an order from the C-suite we obeyed or would be shut down. It's a group where you can ostensibly discuss working conditions, but if execs get union-spooked, ERGs are not a safe place.

The weirdest and most demoralizing was that no one could discuss "working conditions" in chat groups or as a conference talk. How does that make sense for an ERG? Not a lot - I think it chilled important internal discourse. From what I saw, the rule was always there for ERGs, but it was unenforced.

When Google started getting spooked about unions a few years back, they went through all large groups, including ERGs, and had them institute rules that IMO were designed to make it difficult to argue any group served the function of a union.

From experience you almost certainly got the sanitized version of any drama 😄

For a time I was involved with the trans ERG leadership at Google. The characterization above isn't perfect but isn't totally wrong either, at least for the big tech companies. Did your ERG forbid any particular topics for its official events or in its chat rooms?

(I tried reloading a dozen times before even taking the screenshot)

oof both incredibly difficult things on a mobile browser

ublock origin can't disable js without a reload and the page can't load without any js enabled

An archive.org capture from Apr 16 2021 which shows only a white page with three black ovals of decreasing width

Curiously, this is what I see? It pops up the article for just a second and then disappears. I tried Firefox and Vivaldi/webkit

i support whichever candidate will vow to eradicate palantir and its owners

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