LOCAL: Our local art council plans for a project that brings natural elements into unused spaces. If we have a 5-point intersection nearby, chances are a couple of the points between the converging roads are undeveloped. Roundabouts are usually developed spaces. People like to plant stuff that resembles a home & gardens spread, invasives, odd florid assemblages.
Edible gardens, a field of wildflowers, printed colorful panels for selfie backdrops. Funding has disappeared, so we are basically looking at growing food to survive. Also, we would like to install things that local knuckleheads cannot drive over and destroy with ATVs in a heartbeat come spring thaw. The struggle is real.
I looked into selling my hair. Unfortunately, my hair is way too short. I did consider selling my eyebrows to raise awareness of the hazards of shocked expressions, but I couldn’t put that on a T-shirt and expect it to move units.
NEWS:
NY Times suddenly realizes drones have changed the face of 21st-century battlespaces. Drones Now Rule the Battlefield in the Ukraine-Russia War – The New York Times.
BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform | The Verge . I loved Blade Runner 2049.
SCIENCE:
Firefly Aerospace Becomes First Commercial Company to Successfully Land on the Moon – Firefly Aerospace. The last 50 m of descent were autonomous. The Griffin lander is set to disgorge some rovers and gadgets to study natural resources, physical forces, provide communications, and explore the lunar regolith.
There is a launch scheduled for ~9 pm tonight for Spherex and Punch. Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Im-2 from Intuitive Machines lands on the lunar south polar region 03/06/25, in two days. Check launch schedule.
It’s getting crowded, so here’s a schedule. Launch Schedule Archives – NASA
The idea of using coal plants to power AI is the dumbest idea ever. Those are my two cents.
ART: I am working on an oil painting of an aerial I took in downtown Pittsburgh. This is a five-day project due to wet-on-dry needs. It is yet unfinished.
Nearly 50-year-old art heist solved. Crime always makes the art headlines. Thoughtcrime.
Duchamp would be so jealous. They chopped up the gold toilet and sold it. It took five-minutes for five guys to become felons.
ChatGPT logos. Yesterday this code worked, but this morning I found it replaced with an outline of code structure. The links go dead, but the dead don’t die!
Falcon P & O 
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