"It depends"

I understand how getting stuck in Belgium can contribute to a feeling of Weirdness

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage.

Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video.

This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

The inaugural FIFA Peace Prize recipient and FIFA World Cup 2026 host on Easter Sunday, 67 days prior to the first game of the World Cup.

FYI: these bike lanes are the lowest grade of lanes, and are called "kill strips" here. Where possible, they are being replaced with separated lanes

Oh my.

It's taken from the right side of an aircraft flying past Cape Canaveral just as the Artemis II mission was taking off.

Source: Reddit (posted by u/Spook_485; I don't know if that's the person who took the video)

🔴 🟡 ⚠️ 🌵 😷 Whole evolution of the #haboob that from southern Algeria and Marocco has crossed Northwestern #Africa, as well as engulfing #Canary Islands, reporting more than 1300ug/m3 of PM10 in #Tenerife
⬇️ 24hrs animation from Meteosat-12 on 30-31 March, with GeoColor and Dust RBG.Data via #EumetView

Inderdaad de kortste afstand van voordeur tot ingang Halve Maan van iedereen :)
Wel maar 25 graden gemeten hier

In awe of the dust storm we saw earlier today.

Just an epic view.

An 800+ mile long haboob sweeping across northwest Africa.

My oh my...

Similar to www.clean-sheet.org

Woa! Some years back, I talked a bit with Andrew to see if I could help him getting it back alive, but our cooperation never materialized...

Is Airbus dan niet-commercieel en onafhankelijk?

An early world map using the Mercator projection, which makes the northern hemisphere appear lager. It takes the form of two circular maps, one for N/S America, the other for Africa/Europe/Asia

Portrait of Gerardus Mercator

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Mar 5, 1512 Gerardus Mercator born in Rupelmonde, Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

1569: he Invented of cylindrical projection for portraying the globe on maps, to preserve straightness of rhumb lines
(for better or worse, but it helped Europeans navigate the seas)

NEW MARSUPIALS

Satellite images from NASA Worldview on March 5 reveal the extent of the blackout in Cuba. A failure at the most important power plant, combined with the US blockade on fuel shipments in the country has left nearly 70% of the island's inhabitants without power.

Straße von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die Straße von Hormus lahm Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die Straße von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das für den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com.

Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte.

🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Brilliant idea, or... that wasn't in the data :)

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth.

Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇

What a difference a year makes! In mid-February 2025, northeastern Morocco was affected by severe drought. One year later and after 2 months of rain, these Copernicus Sentinel-3 images show that the region has been transformed into an expanse of green vegetation.

Diagram showing “Understanding” (blue) and “Execution” (orange) over time. For most of history, they rise together from the same point. After a dashed horizontal line labeled as the present, execution curves upward more steeply than understanding. Text reads: “With AI, execution increasingly outpaces understanding” and “For most of history, what we could do was evidence of what we understood.”

using LLMs for certain types of coding tasks has made me crank output faster but I can actively feel my understanding and my sense of craftsmanship diminishing, and I don't like that feeling at all

Don't know if he is a historian, but: bsky.app/profile/kirk...

“We have all been here before
We have all been here before…”

I am almost certainly going

Why not?

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

1. Dataviz package author closes PR from a bot
2. Bot angry, writes hit piece on package author
3. Tech news site reports
4. Tech news site needs to retract article: contains hallucinated quotes from package author
5. Me: seriously questioning career choices

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Cartoon showing a street in the rain. A man on a bike is delivering food, while another courier is delivering packages from Amazon. Two other workers are collecting garbage. Inside one of the houses on the street, we see robots labeled 'AI' sitting dry and warm, engaged in making a paining, playing the violin and writing.

The robot apocalypse hasn't happened yet, but still I can't escape the feeling that something has gone horribly wrong... Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl.

More of my work for Trouw: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje...

#ArtificialIntelligence #creativity #work #GenerativeAI