rfmcdonald | Entries tagged with artificial intelligence

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes new research on where the sun is located within the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers the value of slow fashion.

Centauri Dreams notes the different gas giants that our early methods have yet to pick up.

Crooked Timber shares a lovely photo looking back at Venice from across its lagoon.

D-Brief notes that upcoming space telescopes might find hundreds of rogue planets thanks to microlensing.

io9 notes that Marvel will soon be producing Warhammer40K comics.

The Island Review shares some poetry and photography by Ken Cockburn inspired by the Isle of Jura.

JSTOR Daily notes that different humpback whale groups have different songs, different cultures.

Language Hat tries to find the meaning of the odd Soviet Yiddish word "kolvirt".

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the history of Elizabeth Warren as a law teacher.

Map Room Blog shares information from Google Maps about its use of data.

Marginal Revolution notes that in 2016, not a single child born in the United Kingdom was given the name Nigel.

Peter Watts talks about AI and what else he is doing.

The NYR Daily marked the centennial of a horrible massacre of African-Americans centered on the Arkansas community of Elaine.

Emily Margolis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at how the Apollo moon missions helped galvanize tourism in Florida.

Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money looks at the constitutional crisis in Peru.

Drew Rowsome takes a look at A Streetcar Named Desire.

Peter Rukavina looks at a spreadsheet revealing the distribution of PEI public servants.

Spacing reviews a book imagining how small communities can rebuild themselves in neoliberalism.

Towleroad shares the criticism of Christine and the Queens of the allegedly opportunistic use of queer culture by Taylor Swift.

Understanding Society considers, sociologically, the way artifacts work.

The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China should be a day of mourning, on account of the high human toll of the PRC.

Window on Eurasia suggests the Russian generation of the 1970s was too small to create lasting change.

Arnold Zwicky looks at how underwear ads can be quite sexualized.

Universe Today looks at the impressive Internet speed of the ISS, 600 megabits a second, here.

The National Observer reports on how the infrastructure of the Maritimes will need to be able to handle climate change, here.

Wired reports on the partially successful effort in China to use CRISPR to cure HIV, here.

Technology Review looks at how machine learning can be used to translate lost languages and unknown scripts, like Linear A, here.

Atlas Obscura reports on how the Trabant car of East Germany keeps its fanbase, here.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how variable gravity is on irregular asteroid Bennu.

Bruce Dorminey reports on how the European Southern Observatory has charted the Magellanic Clouds in unprecedented detail.

The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links looking at the Precambrian Earth.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the late 1950s race to send probes to the Moon.

Gizmodo shares some stunning astronomy photos.

JSTOR Daily reports on the saltwater roads, the routes that slaves in Florida used to escape to the free Bahamas.

Language Log looks at some examples of bad English from Japan. How did they come about?

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money rejects the idea of honouring people like Condoleezza Rice.

Marginal Revolution considers the idea of free will in light of neurology.

Corey S Powell at Out There interviews James Lovelock on his new book Novacene, in which Lovelock imagines the future world and Gaia taken over by AI.

Window on Eurasia notes the water shortages faced by downstream countries in Central Asia.

Architectuul looks at some architecturally innovative pools.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at Wolf 359, a star made famous in Star Trek for the Starfleet battle there against the Borg but also a noteworthy red dwarf star in its own right.

Centauri Dreams looks at how the NASA Deep Space Atomic Clock will play a vital role in interplanetary navigation.

The Crux considers the "drunken monkey" thesis, the idea that drinking alcohol might have been an evolutionary asset for early hominids.

D-Brief reports on what may be the next step for genetic engineering beyond CRISPR.

Bruce Dorminey looks at how artificial intelligence may play a key role in searching for threat asteroids.

The Island Review shares some poetry from Roseanne Watt, inspired by the Shetlands and using its dialect.

Livia Gershon writes at JSTOR Daily about how YouTube, by promising to make work fun, actually also makes fun work in psychologically problematic ways.

Marginal Revolution notes how the relatively small Taiwan has become a financial superpower.

Janine di Giovanni at the NYR Daily looks back at the 2000 intervention in Sierra Leone. Why did it work?

Jamais Cascio at Open the Future looks back at a 2004 futurological exercise, the rather accurate Participatory Panopticon. What did he anticipate correctly? How? What does it suggest for us now to our world?

The Planetary Society Blog notes that LightSail 2 will launch before the end of June.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how the discovery of gas between galaxies helps solve a dark matter question.

Strange Company shares a broad collection of links.

Window on Eurasia makes the obvious observation that the West prefers a North Caucasus controlled by Russia to one controlled by Islamists.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at American diner culture, including American Chinese food.

In an extended meditation, Antipope's Charlie Stross considers what the domestic architecture of the future will look like. What different technologies, with different uses of space, will come into play?

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the new SPECULOOS exoplanet hunting telescope, specializing in the search for planets around the coolest stars.

The Crux looks at the evolutionary origins of hominins and chimpanzees in an upright walking ape several million years ago.

D-Brief notes the multiple detections of gravitational waves made by LIGO.

The Dragon's Tales looks at the development of laser weapons by China.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the gap between social theory and field research.

Gizmodo shares an interesting discussion with paleontologists and other dinosaur experts: What would the dinosaurs have become if not for the Chixculub impact?

Hornet Stories notes the ways in which the policies of the Satanic Temple would be good for queer students.

io9 notes how the Deep Space 9 documentary What We Leave Behind imagines what a Season 8 would have looked like.

Joe. My. God. reports that activist Jacob Wohl is apparently behind allegations of a sexual assault by Pete Buttigieg against a subordinate.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the uses of the yellow ribbon in American popular culture.
Language Hat shares an account of the life experiences of an Israeli taxi driver, spread across languages and borders.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money makes deserved fun of Bret Easton Ellis for his claims to having been marginalized.

Marginal Revolution considers, briefly, the idea that artificial intelligence might not be harmful to humans. (Why would it necessarily have to be?)

The NYR Daily considers a British exhibition of artworks by artists from the former Czechoslovakia.

Peter Rukavina looks at gender representation in party caucuses in PEI from the early 1990s on, noting the huge surge in female representation in the Greens now.

The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress is preserving Latin American monographs.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how Einstein knew that gravity must bend light.

Window on Eurasia explains the sharp drop in the ethnic Russian population of Tuva in the 1990s.

Wired notes that Apple is transforming itself into a luxury brand. Is this an unsustainable niche?

Wired examines how Google's human AI experts are trying to train artificial intelligences to do their work.

Universe Today notes that SpaceIL is planning to return to the Moon with a Beresheet 2 probe.

The New Yorker looks at the progress made towards the roboticization of agriculture, looking at strawberry harvesting in particular. Can it be done?

Stephen Buranyi writes at the NYR Daily about the impact of gene editing technologies on humanity. How will we manage them? Can we?

Centauri Dreams notes the discovery of rocky debris indicative of destroyed planets in orbit of the white dwarf SDSS J122859.93+104032.9, 400 light-years away.

JSTOR Daily shows how the Columbine massacre led to a resurgence of evangelical Christianity in the US.

Language Log notes an example of digraphia, two scripts, in use in Taiwan.

Lawyers, Guns and Money identifies the presidential run of Howard Schultz in ways unflattering to him yet accurate.

The LRB Blog takes a look at the current, unsettling, stage of artificial intelligence research.

At the NYR Daily, Boyd Tonkin writes about an exhibition of the works of Van Gogh at the Tate Britain highlighting his ties with England and with his Europeanness.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the ultimate fate of the Earth, a cinder orbiting a black dwarf.

Strange Company tells the strange, sad story of 19th century California writer Yda Hillis Addis.

At Vintage Space, Amy Shira Teitel explains why the Apollo missions made use of a dangerous pure-oxygen environment.

Window on Eurasia notes how, 41 years ago, protests in Georgia forced the Soviet Union to let the Georgian republic keep Georgian as its official language.

Arnold Zwicky starts with peeps and goes on to look at dragons.

Centauri Dreams notes the remarkable imaging of the atmosphere of HR 8799 e.

Crooked Timber starts a discussion about books that, once picked up, turned out to be as good as promised.

The Crux considers obsidian, known in the Game of Thrones world as dragonglass.

Bruce Dorminey notes that NASA is considering a proposal for a floating Venus probe that would be recharged by microwaves from orbit.The Dragon's Tales shares a report that Russia has developed a new satellite to work with a new anti-satellite weapons system.

Far Outliers notes what U.S. Grant learned from the Mexican-American War, as a strategist and as a politician.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests, drawing from the image of M87*, that we have had a world disenchanted by the digital technology used to produce the image.

JSTOR Daily shares what critical theory has to say about the binge-watching of television.

Language Hat notes the Cherokee-language inscriptions on the wall of Manitou Cave.

Language Log considers when the first conversing automaton was built.

Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at a corner of 1970s feminism forgotten despite its innovative ideas.

Marginal Revolution considers the idea of restricting some new migrants to particular regions of the United States.

The NYR Daily explores the important new work by Igiaba Scego, Beyond Babylon.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel answers a surprisingly complex question: What is an electron?

Window on Eurasia explains why the cost of a professional military means Russia will not abandon the draft.

Arnold Zwicky explores "johnson" as a euphemism for penis.

Bad Astronomy notes a push by astronomers to enlist help for giving trans-Neptunian object 2007-OR10 a name.

Centauri Dreams reflects on M87*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of M87 recently imaged, with its implications for galactic habitability.

Crooked Timber is right to note that Kirstjen Nielsen, architect of the cruel border policies of Trump, should not be allowed to resume a normal professional life.

The Crux looks at the Event Horizon Telescope Project that imaged M87*.

D-Brief notes that one-quarter of Japanese in their 20s and 30s have remained virgins, and explains why this might be the case.

Far Outliers notes the process of the writing of U.S. Grant's acclaimed memoirs.

Mark Graham highlights a BBC documentary, one he contributed to, asking if artificial intelligence will kill global development.

Gizmodo explains why the image of black hole M87* does not look exactly like the fictional one from the scientifically-grounded Interstellar.

Hornet Stories explains the joys of Hawai'i in fall.

io9 notes that the new Deep Space Nine anniversary documentary is scheduled for a one-day theatrical release. (Will it be in Toronto?)

JSTOR Daily makes the point that mass enfranchisement is the best way to ensure security for all.

Language Hat looks at the kitabs, the books written in Afrikaans using its original Arabic script kept by Cape Malays.

Language Log notes, with examples, some of the uses of the words "black" and "evil" in contemporary China.

Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the point that having a non-octogenarian president is a good idea.

Marginal Revolution shares the thoughts of Samir Varma on the new technologies--better computers, faster travel, artificial life--that may change the world in the near future.

The NYR Daily explores the subversive fairy tales of 19th century Frenchman Édouard Laboulaye.

The Planetary Society Blog notes the sad crash of the Beresheet probe on the surface of the Moon.

Drew Rowsome engages with the body of work of out horror writer John Saul.

Peter Rukavina maps out where Islanders will be voting, and the distances they will travel, in this month's election.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel engages with the possibility that we might be alone. What next? (Myself, I think the idea of humanity as an elder race is fascinating.)

Arnold Zwicky looks at the sort of humour that involves ambiguous adverbs.

National Observer notes how, in Toronto, hundreds of anti-racist protesters blocked a far-right group.

A $C 100 million donation has recently been made to the University of Toronto, to fund artificial intelligence research. CBC reports.

Harm reduction activists want TTC operators to be trained in the usage of naloxone kits, to aid overdose victims. CBC reports.

Transit Toronto notes its new Family of Services concept, intended to help Wheel-Trans users access wider city transit.

Samantha Edwards writes at NOW Toronto about how Airbnb is worsening the living experiences of permanent residents in condo developments, by encouraging a more transient crowd less invested in local communities.

Wired reports on the daunting scale of the Venezuela power failure, and the sheer difficulty of restoring the network.

The Inter Press Service looks at the possibility for Argentina to enjoy improved agricultural circumstances come climate change.

CBC reports on how artificial intelligences can be used to create frightfully plausible fake news.

Axios notes the sheer density of information that Google has on its users.

CityLab reports on the policies hopeful presidential candidate Pete Buttegieg would bring in relating to the automation of work.

Wired takes a look at the second reported HIV cure and what it means.

The Cantonese language, the SCMP reports, is falling out of use among young people in Guangzhou.

The Muslim Hui, living outside of Xinjiang, are being pressured to shut down Arabic-medium schools. The SCMP reports.

The Scottish government has received only two complaints about Gaelic on bilingual road signs in the past seventeen years. The National reports.

HuffPost Québec notes that the French language has been displaced as the chief language of wine by English.

Advanced artificial intelligence has the potential to aid in the translation of ancient languages like Sumerian, with stockpiles of untranslated material just waiting for an eye's attention. The BBC explains.

Colby King writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about furnace, kiln, and oven operators as recorded in the American Community Survey. What experiences do they have in common, and which separate them?

Far Outliers reports on the work of the Indian Labourer Corps on the Western Front, collecting and recycling raw materials from the front.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes the case that the seeming neutrality of modern digital technologies are dissolving the established political order.

Joe. My. God. notes a report from Andrew McCabe suggesting that Trump did not believe his own intelligence services' reports about the range of North Korean missiles, instead believing Putin.

JSTOR Daily notes how the interracial marriages of serving members of the US military led to the liberalization of immigration law in the United States in the 1960s.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the connections of the police in Portland, Oregon, to the alt-right.

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution shares a report of the discovery of English-speaking unicorns in South America that actually reveals the remarkable language skills of a new AI. Fake news, indeed.

The NYR Daily shares a short story by Panashe Chigumadzi, "You Can't Eat Beauty".

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw welcomes a new fluidity in Australian politics that makes the elections debatable.

Drew Rowsome looks at the horror fiction of Justin Cronin.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares some of the key historical images of Pluto, from its discovery to the present.

Window on Eurasia takes a look at the only church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church operating in Russia, in the Moscow area city of Noginsk.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell makes the point that counting on opinion pieces in journalism as a source of unbiased information is a categorical mistake.

Arnold Zwicky looks back, on President's Day at Berkeley, at his experiences and those of others around him at that university and in its community.

Fast Company reports on NVIDIA's StyleGAN AI, an engine that cannot generate convincing images of cats.

PsyPost reports on a PLOS One study suggesting that the cats of owners experiencing psychological stress are influenced negatively by this.

In the new Captain Marvel movie, the titular character's pet cat Goose is played by a team of four cats.

David Anderson looks at the representation of the cat in the art of ancient Egypt, in scenes both divine and domestic.

The Guardian reports on a new book by Peggy Gavan, looking at evidence of how the men of New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries loved their cats.

I am not quite sure I buy the argument of Nick Cave at Vice's Motherboard that artificial intelligence will never be able to write a great song.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a soundtrack of Lisbon pop songs, in a variety of genres.

CBC reports on the remarkable recovery of a collection of Yiddish-language songs from the Second World War that led to a Grammy nomination.

Rolling Stone reports< on the work that went into the last, and final, album of the Cranberries following the untimely death last year of Dolores O'Riordan.

At Global News, Alan Cross writes about the psychological and even therapeutic effects of different sorts of music.

Quanta Magazine notes that the deep learning offered by new artificial intelligences can help pick out traces of non-homo sapiens ancestry in our current gene pool.

This sensitive article in The Atlantic examines the extent to which consciousness and emotion are ubiquitous in the world of animals.

NASA notes evidence of the great greening of China and India, associated not only with agriculture in both countries but with the commitment of China to reforestation projects.

Mashable examines the fundamental brittleness of closed systems that will likely limit the classical generation starship.

SciTechDaily notes new observations of SN 1987A revealing a much greater prediction of dust than previously believed.

Centauri Dreams extends further consideration the roles that artificial intelligences might play in interstellar exploration.

D-Brief notes that the genes associated with being a night owl also seem to be associated with poor mental health outcomes.

Far Outliers looks at the lifeboat system created on the upper Yangtze in the late 19th century.

Kashmir Hill, writing at Gizmodo, notes how blocking Google from her phone left her online experience crippled.

Imageo notes that, even if halted, global warming still means that many glaciers well melt as they respond to temperature changes.

JSTOR Daily looks at the racism that permeated ads in 19th century North America.

Language Hat looks at how some Turkish-speaking Christians transcribed the Turkish language in the Greek alphabet.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how utterly ineffective the Trump Administration's new refugee waiver system actually is.

The LRB Blog looks at the film and theatre career of Lorenza Mazetti.

Marginal Revolution notes, in passing, the import of being a YouTube celebrity.

Molly Crabapple at the NYR Daily writes about the work of the New Sanctuary coalition, which among other things waits with refugees in court as they face their hearings.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle looks for traces of the elusive muskrat.

Towleroad shares footage of New Order performing the early song "Ceremony" in 1981.

Transit Toronto notes that Metrolinx now has an app for Presto up!

At Vintage Space, Amy Shira Teitel looks at the Soviet Moon exploration program in 1969.

Window on Eurasia notes the new pressures being placed by rising Islamism and instability in Afghanistan upon Turkmenistan.

Arnold Zwicky considers, briefly, the little is known about the lives of 1980s gay porn stars Greg Patton and Bobby Pyron. How did they lead their lives?

Centauri Dreams considers the possible roles and threats posed by artificial intelligence for interstellar missions.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber makes the point that blaming Facebook for the propagation of fake news misses entirely the motives of the people who spread these rumours, online or otherwise.

The Crux looks at the factors which led to the human species' diversity of skin colours.

Dangerous Minds reports on a new collection of early North American electronica.

Far Outliers reports on the salt extraction industry of Sichuan.

JSTOR Daily notes how inbreeding can be a threat to endangered populations, like gorillas.

Language Log examines the connection of the Thai word for soul with Old Sinitic.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at divisions on the American left, including pro-Trump left radicals.

Caitlin Chandler at the NYR Daily reports on the plight of undocumented immigrants in Rome, forced from their squats under the pressure of the new populist government of Italy.

Spacing takes a look at the work of Acton Ostry Architects.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the ten largest non-planetary bodies in the solar system.

Strange Company looks at the very strange 1997 disappearance of Judy Smith from Philadelphia and her latest discovery in the North Carolina wilderness. What happened to her?

Strange Maps looks at the worrisome polarization globally between supporters and opponents of the current government in Venezuela. Is this a 1914 moment?

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia and Venezuela share a common oil-fueled authoritarian fragility.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the camelids of Peru, stuffed toys and llamas and more.

I have been thinking a lot about Grimes' new single, "We Appreciate Power", since its release last week.

"Grimes - We Appreciate Power (Lyric Video)" (Watch on YouTube)

This song is incredibly catchy, a development of Grimes' dreamier earlier music in a harder direction. The lyrical direction takes an even harder turn, moving beyond the cyberpunk evoked by Grimes and her collaborator HANA in the lyric video for "We Appreciate Power" towards hard transhumanism.

Simulation, give me something good
God's creation, so misunderstood
Pray to the divinity, the keeper of the key
One day everyone will believe

[. . .]

People like to say that we're insane
But AI will reward us when it reigns
Pledge allegiance to the world's most powerful computer
Simulation: it's the future

"We Appreciate Power" is the pop music of the singularity.

Jeremy Gordon's essay at The Outline makes a compelling case for considering the techno-futurism of Grimes' partner Elon Musk as an influence on her musical direction. I can see it, though I can also see this song as being a product of an ambient cultural moment. As Erica Russell's thoughtful review at Paper Magazine makes clear, the recognition of the power of AI is becoming increasingly common.

According to a press release, the technocultural song was inspired by North Korean-formed propagandist music group Moranbong, and is "written from the perspective of a Pro-A.I. Girl Group Propaganda machine who use song, dance, sex and fashion to spread goodwill towards Artificial Intelligence — it's coming whether you like it or not."

That chilling final warning fits perfectly in line with "We Appreciate Power's" maniacal dystopian energy, which fully leans into the ever-impending cyber-apocalypse with unhinged glee: "Submit, submit, submit, submit, submit..." Grimes diabolically commands on the outro. If the rise of artificial intelligence is upon us, who are we to deny our own brainwashing at the hands of our creations? We're already glued to our laptops/cell phones just listening to this song, aren't we?

In 2018, AI is much more than just the plot device for many of our favorite sci-fi films, from Blade Runner to Ex-Machina. It's the new normal — a reality we're currently living in while simultaneously rushing even faster towards. Every day, AI infiltrates our lives, whether we realize it or not. Using facial recognition, Facebook automatically offers to tag our friends in the photos we upload; Siri helps us find that perfect restaurant we've been craving but totally forgot the name of; each week, Spotify curates an eerily on-point Discover Weekly playlist for us. AI is useful — imperative even, perhaps, in our newly advanced and increasingly tech-dependent world — but is it really more evil than necessary?

On "We Appreciate Power," Grimes crafts a complex industrial cyber-pop anthem that leans into technological determinism and the very real possibility of a future AI revolution which, depending on how you feel about living in The Matrix, might sound totally terrifying or, in the case of Grimes, exciting. "Neanderthal to human being/ Evolution, kill the gene/ Biology is superficial/ Intelligence is artificial," she sings, pointing out the cyclical and temporary nature of humanity. She also appears to celebrate tech's superiority as the next stage of societal advancement... even if it may spell doom for some. Maybe.

I will be definitely very interested to see where Grimes goes next, with her upcoming album and all. I will also be interested to see, as described in the NME, the continuing influence of these ideas on the global pop music scene. What next?

Ostensibly bilingual New Brunswick is not having a French-language leaders' debate this election because of the weak language skills of the PC leader. Global News reports.

A man from Québec was able to hitchhike across Canada, as far as Alberta even, using only his French. The Toronto Star ,a href="https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2018/08/22/quebec-man-hitchhikes-across-canada-speaking-only-french.html">reports.
Québec Solidaire created a minor political storm over a tweet regarding the official languages of the province. The Montreal Gazette reports.

Québec Solidaire also wants to give Quebec Sign Language official status. The Huffington Post reports.

Amazon is working hard to give its Alexa Canadian French language support, making the device fluent in the local dialect. IT World Canada reports.

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[BLOG] Some Friday links

[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: ISS internet, Maritimes, CRISPR, machine translation, Trabants

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[NEWS] Five tech links: Apple, AI, Beresheet 2, agricultural robots, gene editing

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: anti-racist protest, AI at U of T, naloxone, TTC, Airbnb

[NEWS] Sox tech links: Venezuela power, Argentina agriculture, AI writing, Google, Buttegieg, HIV

[NEWS] Five language links: Cantonese, Arabic, Gaelic, French, Sumerian

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[CAT] Five cat links: AI, psychology, Captain Marvel, Ancient Egypt, New York City

[MUSIC] Five music links: Nick Cave on AI, Lisbon, Yiddish, Cranberries, psychology

[NEWS] Five science links: ancient humans, animal minds, green Asia, generation starships, SN1987A

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links