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I WANT TO FLY THIS FLAG. #NoKings
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wet forest moon folklorist (@seachanger@alaskan.social)
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Next at the #SolarEclipse Conference Nick James talked about new (and finally amateur-affordable) polarization-sensitive cameras in which each pixel comes with a polarizer: since it's a while til the next solar eclipse he demonstrated it with the #Moon where the #polarization of the maria is higher than of the highlands, matching expectations. 2/n

Hey Tenno, if you feel the weight of the Orokin legacy, boost this to spread the word across the Fediverse! If you enjoy Warframe and love the Fediverse, check out:
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Murderbot deleting the repair manuals from its memory in order to make space for the 19th season of the "premium quality show Sanctuary Moon" is so relatable 😄

#Moon rising behind my favourite #mountain
#xp

17:03 EDT update was still folks trying to make contact with #Resiliance - anyone know what the little house bolted on the rover does? It was unboxed intact, fitted with a fat cable and bolted to the front bumper.
Spaceflight Now is posting periodic #hakuto_r mission 2 updates, but the next press conference won't be until 8pm EDT
https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/06/05/live-coverage-ispace-makes-second-attempt-at-historic-moon-landing/

Heck of a moon tonight! 🌙 #moon #astrophotography #astronomy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Death Valley Girls:
🎵 Sisters of the Moon
#DeathValleyGirls
https://deathvalleygirls.bandcamp.com/album/sisters-of-the-moon-b-w-fire-and-brimstone
https://open.spotify.com/track/3IFIlSnjtGwOF4fcpRuOJa

Dub Side of the Moon
Easy Star All-Stars 2003 - Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4t6mY47ekc

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

Going back to the moon is like going back to Arizona. Why?

Beyond the Desktop: XR-Driven Segmentation with Meta Quest 3 and MX Ink
Lisle Faray de Paiva, Gijs Luijten, Ana Sofia Ferreira Santos, Moon Kim, Behrus Puladi, Jens Kleesiek, Jan Egger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04858

Beyond the Desktop: XR-Driven Segmentation with Meta Quest 3 and MX Ink
Medical imaging segmentation is essential in clinical settings for diagnosing diseases, planning surgeries, and other procedures. However, manual annotation is a cumbersome and effortful task. To mitigate these aspects, this study implements and evaluates the usability and clinical applicability of an extended reality (XR)-based segmentation tool for anatomical CT scans, using the Meta Quest 3 headset and Logitech MX Ink stylus. We develop an immersive interface enabling real-time interaction w…

We need to stop reasoning about AI like this. Every time it can do something amazing it's "well that's just because its training data is so big, everything is bound to be in there."
Then, when it shows some limitation, it's "Well that's because it must not be in the training data".
It can show a shark jumping out of the moon through a computer screen. It can generate stuff that's not in the data. Also, hands counting down are obviously in t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
Laura Mvula, BBC Singers & Nicholas Chalmers:
🎵 Sing to the Moon
#LauraMvula #BBCSingers #NicholasChalmers

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Arc De Soleil:
🎵 Riders of the Moon
#ArcDeSoleil
https://open.spotify.com/track/0deK1kN7aBhfhCy0BEoN1G

On the rejection of Argentina and Poland (among others) proposals for a moon treaty by the USA and the USSR.
#SpacePolicy

SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization
Junpyo Seo (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University), Hanbin Koo (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University), Jieun Yook (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University), Byung-Ro Moon (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University)
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SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization
We propose a novel diffusion-based framework for automatic colorization of Anime-style facial sketches. Our method preserves the structural fidelity of the input sketch while effectively transferring stylistic attributes from a reference image. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on predefined noise schedules - which often compromise perceptual consistency -- our framework builds on continuous-time diffusion models and introduces SSIMBaD (Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion). …

It is freakin' fantastic that "The Rise And Fall of Sanctuary Moon" gets some serious graphics and bad acting in #murderbot TV.

I can only assume that voters who think tariffs will help them are willfully ignorant. It's not possible for *that* many people to be *that* stupid!