The website for the Abolitionist Guide to NYC is just getting started, but the site does house an Abolitionist Map of NYC.

The Abolitionist Map of NYC offers a geographic survey of incarceration and anti-carceral resistance in Manahatta from the Dutch colonization of Lenapehoking to the present day. The map highlights some of the first jails and prisons to exist in the area, the movement of facilities from one place to the next, and sites of rebellion against the expansion of the prison industrial complex.

It is meant to serve as a tool for abolitionist resistance grounded in a long view of the struggle, tactics, and goals.

The map is available as a PDF and as an interactive version. (via @prisonculture.bsky.social)

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James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Don’t let anyone dull your shine 💫

The heart of galaxy M77 is shining so brightly in this Webb telescope image, it nearly outshines the galaxy itself. The intense glow is due to gas being pulled by the strong gravity of the central black hole into a tight and rapid orbit around it. The motion of the gas causes it to heat up, releasing tremendous amounts of radiation.

In this near-infrared image, a bar spanning across the central region is revealed. The bar is enclosed by a bright ring, called a starburst ring, formed by the inner ends of M77’s two spiral arms. Starburst regions in galaxies are typified by extremely high star-formation rates. This ring is more than 6 000 light-years across and displays intense and widespread starbursts, visible in both near and mid-infrared.

Those bright orange lines radiating out of the center are diffraction spikes. They aren’t a physical feature of the galaxy, but an optical effect caused by the telescope itself. Observing a bright object results in the light being slightly bent (or diffracted) around the edges of the telescope primary mirror, and the struts that hold the secondary mirror. In this case, Webb’s primary mirror segments are hexagonal, and there is a tripod holding up the secondary, which gives the resulting spike effect a distinctive six-plus-two-pointed signature pattern. Hubble images will show 4 point diffraction spikes due to the different configuration.

Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2604c/

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy

Image Description: A spiral galaxy shown in near-infrared light. Six long, thin rays of light emit from the center, which are diffraction spikes created by the telescope’s optics. A glowing bar spans across the center. A glittering orange ring of stars and dust surrounds the bar; at each side, the ring splits off into a spiral arm that winds outwards, traced by dark red dust and more glowing orange spots. The galaxy’s disc is a pale glow.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Don’t let anyone dull your shine 💫

The heart of galaxy M77 is shining so brightly in this Webb telescope image, it nearly outshines the galaxy itself. The intense glow is due to gas being pulled by the strong gravity of the central black hole into a tight and rapid orbit around it. The motion of the gas causes it to heat up, releasing tremendous amounts of radiation.

This image is Webb’s mid-infrared view with swirling filaments of dust shown in blue. The glowing orange bubbles along the arms are being carved out by newly formed star clusters.

Those bright orange lines radiating out of the center are diffraction spikes. They aren’t a physical feature of the galaxy, but an optical effect caused by the telescope itself. Observing a bright object results in the light being slightly bent (or diffracted) around the edges of the telescope primary mirror, and the struts that hold the secondary mirror. In this case, Webb’s primary mirror segments are hexagonal, and there is a tripod holding up the secondary, which gives the resulting spike effect a distinctive six-plus-two-pointed signature pattern. Hubble images will show 4 point diffraction spikes due to the different configuration.

Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2604a/

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy

Image Description: A spiral galaxy shown in mid-infrared light. The image is dominated by an extremely bright glow from the galaxy’s nucleus. Six large and two smaller rays of light emit from the centre, which are diffraction spikes created by the telescope’s optics. The galaxy’s spiral arms are visible by two lines of glowing orange bubbles which whirl out into the disc. Swirling blue clouds of dust make up the rest of the galaxy.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

Don’t let anyone dull your shine 💫

The heart of galaxy M77 is shining so brightly in this Webb telescope image, it nearly outshines the galaxy itself. The intense glow is due to gas being pulled by the strong gravity of the central black hole into a tight and rapid orbit around it. The motion of the gas causes it to heat up, releasing tremendous amounts of radiation.

The image is a composite of both mid and near infrared. In mid-infrared, swirling filaments of dust are shown in blue. The glowing orange bubbles along the arms are being carved out by newly formed star clusters. In the near-infrared, a bar spanning across the central region is revealed. The bar is enclosed by a bright ring, called a starburst ring, formed by the inner ends of M77’s two spiral arms. Starburst regions in galaxies are typified by extremely high star-formation rates. This ring is more than 6 000 light-years across and displays intense and widespread starbursts, visible in both images.

Those bright orange lines radiating out of the center are diffraction spikes. They aren’t a physical feature of the galaxy, but an optical effect caused by the telescope itself. Observing a bright object results in the light being slightly bent (or diffracted) around the edges of the telescope primary mirror, and the struts that hold the secondary mirror. In this case, Webb’s primary mirror segments are hexagonal, and there is a tripod holding up the secondary, which gives the resulting spike effect a distinctive six-plus-two-pointed signature pattern. Hubble images will show 4 point diffraction spikes due to the different configuration.

Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2604b/

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy

Image Description: A spiral galaxy shown in infrared light. Six long and two smaller rays of light emit from the center, which are diffraction spikes created by the telescope’s optics. A glowing bar spans across the center. A glittering ring of stars and dust surrounds the bar; at each side, the ring splits off into a spiral arm that winds outwards. Faint, dark red dust clouds swirl throughout the rest of the disc, backed by a pale glow from all the galaxy’s stars.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Een kostbare Audi RS3 Sportback gaat in een parkeergarage in Rotterdam-Zuid in vlammen op. Twee mannen zijn daarvoor verantwoordelijk. De Audi wordt op zaterdag 15 november om ongeveer 03:45 uur aan de Factorij in brand gestoken.

Een kostbare Audi RS3 Sportback gaat in een parkeergarage in Rotterdam Zuid in vlammen op. Twee mannen zijn daarvoor verantwoordelijk. De Audi wordt op zaterdag 15 november om ongeveer 03:45 uur aan de Factorij in brand gestoken.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At its Code with Claude developer conference on Wednesday, Anthropic announced a deal with SpaceX to utilize the entire compute capacity of the latter's data center in Memphis, Tennessee. On stage at the conference, CEO Dario Amodei said the deal was intended to increase usage limits for Anthropic's Pro and Max plan subscribers. The announcement was accompanied by an increase in those usage limits; Anthropic doubled Claude Code's five-hour window limits for Pro and Max subscribers, removed the peak-hours limit reduction on Claude Code for those same accounts, and raised API limits for its Opus model. The table [here] outlining the Opus changes was shared in the company's blog post on the topic.

Anthropic claims the deal gives the company access to more than 300 megawatts of new compute capacity. For its part, SpaceX focused its announcement on the capability of the Colossus 1 supercomputer that's at the center of the deal. "Colossus 1 features over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including dense deployments of H100, H200, and next-generation GB200 accelerators," SpaceX wrote. Additionally, Anthropic "expressed interest" in working with SpaceX to build up "multiple gigawatts" of orbital compute capacity, tying into a recent (but unproven) focus on exploring orbital data centers as an answer to the problem that "compute required to train and operate the next generation of these systems is outpacing what terrestrial power, land, and cooling can deliver on the timelines that matter." "I spent a lot of time last week with senior members of the Anthropic team to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity and was impressed," Elon Musk said on Wednesday. "No one set off my evil detector."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

PARIJS (ANP/BLOOMBERG/DPA/AFP) - Frankrijk heeft zijn onderzoek naar Elon Musk en diens socialemediaplatform X opgevoerd, nadat de miljardair niet kwam opdagen voor een vrijwillig verhoor waarvoor hij was opgeroepen. Dat meldden Franse aanklagers donderdag.

Er is nu een formele procedure gestart tegen Musk, het platform X en voormalig X-topvrouw Linda Yaccarino. De zaak is officieel overgedragen aan onderzoeksrechters.

De autoriteiten in Frankrijk doen al langer onderzoek naar X. Het onderzoek draait onder meer om verdenkingen dat het X-algoritme zou zijn gebruikt voor buitenlandse inmenging in de Franse politiek. Ook is er onderzoek naar de AI-chatbot Grok van Musk, na klachten over het genereren van seksueel getinte nepafbeeldingen en het verspreiden van ontkenningen van de Holocaust op X.

X zei eerder de Franse beschuldigingen van politieke inmenging te verwerpen.