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moon triptych, at dusk 🌒 📸

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at what point will kids just stop knowing what stars are? or like, know them "in theory" but regard them as a legend cause they've never seen one? where i live, you used to be able to see stars. definitely not as many as i wished i could, like what you see in movies, but i knew what they were and id look up at the sky every chance i was allowed to stay up late enough just to look at them. its been a little under a decade and now im lucky to see one or two, and i live even more rural than i used to. it makes me actually just so sad to think that some of these younger kids might just never see the stars. i wonder when they'll start disappearing from kids drawings, when all the poetry will lose meaning, when people will forget wishing on stars.

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random brainstorming about AI

imagine if instead of stealing art and being used for scams ai instead was built into all devices (phones, tablets, laptops) as an automatic assistant. bear with me

currently ai is mostly accessible via websites which means all you can have is a text box and image uploading (there are some exceptions, chatgpt has a desktop app and phone app but the functionality is the same)

if ai was actually built into the OS itself, instead of always having a million menus to navigate the ai could literally just do it all for you via text commands the assistant could just do menial tasks like clean up your desktop or sort folders or change settings for you

it would also effectively take the place of a standard search engine, instead of having to open a browser tab and google something you just ask the ai that's already there

it could also have a data repository (something like a compressed just-text version of wikipedia) for if you're offline

all this functionality is literally super easy for current ai in terms of actual computing power, it's just a hardware integration issue

devices could be made with ai button triggers or gestures on touchscreens to ask it stuff

right now the current methods of ai still have a lot of friction, only in a few specific cases is it frictionless enough to be worth using instead of google or whatever

(most of that is solely due to the task and not the friction of the ai)

hardware integration would actually truly make it frictionless, and would majorly speed up pretty much everything you do on every device

some other benefits of just integrating the ai directly into the OS are instant tech support for anyone that's tech illiterate, it's essentially a perfect automatic screenshare with an IT professional + the general ability to ask about anything on your screen without having to screenshot it and send it to the ai (extreme friction)

this is less of an objective fact but i kind of think the "talking to ai via voice" thing would catch on more if it could "see" your screen and you could use the screen as sort of an interfacing medium for it to understand whatever you're asking about (edited)

if this was actually implemented well i honestly think browsers would overall become kind of obsolete, if you can just ask the ai to link an article about something you really don't need a browser to search for stuff, you just need to view the webpage

overall i think phones/tablets benefit from this the least (touchscreens are inherently super frictionless Uls, and typing is hard) but could still take some pointers

for desktops/laptops i'm envisioning a system that is based around essentially a screenshot mechanic, but that screenshot immediately gets analyzed by the assistant and you just type dialogue right as you take it, to ask the ai about what you're seeing

could even be something like a button press signaling that you want the ai to pay attention to whatever you're pointing at with the cursor

the ultimate goal is just make the most frictionless UI so the use cases increase, because it is actually very useful if there isn't friction

big mistake everyone in ai seems to be making is thinking use cases are tied to the computing power/functional capabilities of the ai when actually use cases are mostly tied to how frictionless its UI is

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supermoon rising 🌕

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the full buck moon of 2024 🌕

photos by me 📸

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sunset 📸☀️

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its been p common knowledge for decades that light pollution can be massively reduced by just putting shades on streetlamps, and that doing that would save energy, help wildlife, and let us see the stars better, but are society says if u wanna change any minor little tiny thing u gotta dedicate ur whole life to campaigning for it and this is a good ways down the list of priorities for most ppl, so instead i gotta walk past newly-installed streetlamps that are just dumb glass globes that use half their electricity to blast half their light directly into the sky where it does only bad things for no reason and think "we should overthrow the government"

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The Full Strawberry Moon 🌕 📸

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Asking on anon cause I don’t have an sfw blog sorry, but what have you used to take pictures of the moon?? because yours are STUNNING!! And I’m obsessed with the moon and like photography and want to take good photos of the moon!

Please and thank you x 🌙

first of all thank you !! i'm glad you like them

the majority of my photos are taken on my nikon z5 camera, it's a standard mirrorless camera. also the lens i use for 98% of these is a tamron 150-600mm zoom lens. the only other gear i use is a tripod.

(these were all taken on that setup)

the reason i said ''majority'' is that some of my lunar closeups and mosaics are taken via my telescope, which is an orion xt8 dobsonian (8'' aperture), and astronomy camera (zwo ASI178mc) hooked up to my laptop

(these were all taken via that setup)

also if you have any other questions about the process or anything ask away !

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happy international moon day! 🌒🌓🌕🌗🌘

here's every full moon i've captured over the past 2 years:

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happy international moon day! 🌒🌓🌕🌗🌘

here's every full moon i've captured over the past 2 years:

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the two fundamental truths of historical and contemporary mankind:

we were just as smart then as we are now

we are just as stupid now as we were then

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Here, I made an easy-to-understand infographic. Hopefully this helps people understand

UPDATED BECAUSE FUCK

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it's fitting to hit 10,000 reblogs on moon day, thank you all !

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happy international moon day! 🌒🌓🌕🌗🌘

here's every full moon i've captured over the past 2 years:

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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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happy international moon day! 🌒🌓🌕🌗🌘

here's every full moon i've captured over the past 2 years: