Still a wonder to watch
Just took in this Starlink launch from Vandenberg. Got a lot of pix. These things are common now, but I’m still a big kid, and space stuff excites me. I also seem to be here when launches aren’t happening, so it was great to catch this one. What you see above is the Starlink rocket, with the Beehive Cluster, ~600 light-years away, kinda faint, on the left. It contains over a thousand stars.
For a sense of how much this mattered to my eight-year-old son and me, twenty-one years ago, watch this video.
Also, a CME—a Coronal Mass Ejection—has been burped from the Sun, is headed our way, and is likely to cause auroras. More at SpaceWeather.com.
How a Big AI says, “That’s a good question.”
Actual dialog.
Me:
This thread will be about the Digital Omnibus proposal and 88b within it: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52025PC0837. For now I’ve parked work on my blog post at ProjectVRM, awaiting more input: https://projectvrm.org/2026/06/05/88b/ But that piece does express my thinking at this point in time. What I want now is a better understanding of the state of play with Digital Omnibus and the European Commission, and how we might get through to them how important MyTerms and contract as a lawful basis for processing personal data are to, well, everything. Our group here is also a bit torn about whether or not to blame consent (inferred and extracted) for what Shoshana Zuboff calls Surveillance Capitalism and I call the surveillance fecosystem. I’m on the side of making it as clear as possible to the EC that consent is the problem, and that trying to obtain personal privacy through improving consent still dismisses natural persons as mere data subjects: pinballs in as many pinball machines as there are companies presuming or extracting consent. So I am looking for guidance on both understanding the 88b situation and making our case.
Big AI Chatbot (which I pay):
• Connection interrupted. Waiting for the complete answer
The bullet (•) is still throbbing. To be fair, I’d throb too.
Later, I gave it another chance, and this time it gave me a good answer.
Pro tip: Take a car that runs on snacks
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