In a month, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a journey to discover the unknowns of our universe!
Launching 9 months ahead of schedule, Roman is slated to lift off no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30 aboard a @SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
View of Starship in space from a Starlink V3 satellite on Flight 13.
This composite is made of imagery from four separate cameras on a single satellite. Six of the satellites were equipped with cameras to scan Starship’s heat shield and transmit imagery down to operators to continue testing methods of analyzing Starship’s heat shield readiness for return to launch site on future missions
My son Julian just released Overcome, his second album of original songs on Spotify today.
He was three years old when he first sang in front of an audience. We were attending my cousin Bob Anderson's wedding, almost thirty years ago—in a small town hall in Aylsham, Saskatchewan, now one of that province's many ghost towns.
My wife Tammy and I had been collecting old Country and Western albums for a few years by then. We listened to them in our cozy little house by the park in Arlington, Massachussetts, where we lived when I was lecturing and doing research at Harvard, and in our car, when we drove to Crane Beach for the day.
The kids (Julian and his older sister Mikhaila) were accustomed to singing along to Johnny Horton, the Sons of the Pioneers, the Carter Family—all the old greats of the genre. Julian's voice was notable for its clear tone and perfect pitch.
The wedding ceremony had concluded. We were in the hall for the dinner speeches and the wedding dance. People were stepping up to the microphone to say a few words, complimentary or humorous, about the bride and groom.
Tammy picked up Julian, and said, "do you want to see something magical? Go up there and sing 'Why don't you love me.'" He said, "Mom, you have to come with me." She said, "I'll hold you up."
They were up at the mic at the next opportunity, Tammy and our bright-eyed son, surveying the preoccupied crowd, murmuring away absently as they ate and talked.
"Why don't you love me like you used to do?
How come you treat me like a worn-out shoe?
His three-year old voice, innocent, confident, clear as a bell, rang out over the assemblage. Everyone stopped, silent, turning their attention to the pair at the front of the hall:
"My hair's still curly and my eyes are still blue
Why don't you love me like you used to do?"
Cowboys and farmers and their wives and girlfriends immediately on their feet clapping and cheering. The magic Tammy promised.
He sang a lot after that. In Toronto, with an advanced children's choir that performed at Carnegie Hall and the UN. We went to New York with my sister Bonnie, my mother Beverley, and her sister Margaret—mother to the aforementioned Bob—to hear him to and his fellow choir members. That was ridiculously exciting. He picked up the guitar in his teens, and formed a small band. He started writing songs, and released his first album, Sight, in 2020.
On my last two tours, I always traveled with a musician. My son performed that role on a dozen or more occasions. His mother and I would listen backstage to the four or five songs he played, bursting with pride as he charmed the audience. I can't tell you what a privilege that was.
It strikes me to the soul to recall it.
On a couple of rare occasions he sang, to open, Tammy gave a speech to set the tone for the lecture, and Mikhaila, my daughter, handled the Q and A, all four of us in the great old theatres we were so fortunate to visit, thrilled to death to be there together, understanding the impossibility of what was happening, overcome with gratitude and thankfulness.
I can't tell you how much I love my son. He's a rock. He's great. I love his wife Jillian. They have three great kids, the grandchildren the two of them have blessed Tammy and I with.
Congratulations, Julian. Long may you play.
latest known posts from jordan peterson on internet, privacy as a tool for criminals and enabling all kinds of horrors, and on eventual security systems for prioritizing the physical individual, as said and talked before
@jordanbpeterson No recent posts were found explicitly framing "privacy as a tool for criminals enabling all kinds of horrors," large-scale scraping operations by internet criminals, or detailed phased "transitioning internet ID for platforms" mechanisms beyond the verified-vs-anonymoity
Latest known relevant posts/comments from Jordan Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) on these themes (anonymity/privacy enabling online abuse, psychopathy, harassment, and the idea of separating verified real-identity users from anonymous ones on platforms):
@jordanbpeterson His comments emphasize voluntary or platform-level separation of verified real people from anonymous accounts for accountability against abuse/harassment/psychopathic behavior, rather than immediate mandatory government-wide internet ID or elimination of all privacy/anonymity.
@jordanbpeterson Note on related but distinct views: Peterson has also publicly warned against Chinese-style totalitarian digital ID + social credit systems as bringing "a totalitarian tyranny so 100% complete that it would make George Orwell's 1984 look like a picnic."
@jordanbpeterson Older foundational statement (widely referenced, from around 2021–2022): "I am increasingly convinced that Twitter anonymity is the refuge of scoundrels and fiends. Say it and stand behind it or hold your tongue."
@jordanbpeterson And which camp are you in?"
He has repeatedly used the phrase "troll-demons" / "anonymous troll demons" (wrongly termed from his non-tech background. / "Dark Tetrad" (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism)
@jordanbpeterson As the Dark Tetrad types multiply without restraint
And exert disproportionate influence"
Follow-up the same day: "Clue in
I said In writing
Separate the anonymous cowards from the people willing to stand behind their words
@jordanbpeterson Key post (July 13, 2024): "Dear @elonmusk
There is a lot of this on X And more all the time
There is no consequence for psychopathic behavior on the platform
@jordanbpeterson "transitioning internet ID" systems).
Key post (July 13, 2024): "Dear @elonmusk
There is a lot of this on X And more all the time
There is no consequence for psychopathic behavior on the platform
And casual anonymity has a lot to do with it