Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸

rnf@mindly.social

Author: Kid's science; Adult horror, SciFi, palindromes. Retired engineer/programmer, PHP/SQL fan. Colorado resident, 2nd-gen TX native (missing the wildly varied landforms). Generalist, liberal, gardener, bird watcher, dog lover, cat-tolerant, health nut, syncopated, eccentric to a fault. 0-7 toots/day.Profile pic=selfie. Header=heart of Milky Way by NASA.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AmWriting</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SpaceOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SpaceOpera</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/palindromes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#palindrom

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Post #4320446
United Citizens Defeating Citizens United! Here is State Representative Kanani Souza, speaking in support of Hawai&#39;i bill that bans corporations from spending money in the state to influence elections. This bill effectively overturns the Citizens United decision by the US Supreme Court. 14 states are preparing similar legislation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApkYPUsJ1A Starts at 1:44:18, ends at 1:50:14 In more videos, Velshi interviewed Representative Souza and Tom Moore, the ar...
Post #4320445
@Binder Cheer I learned in High School: Secant, Tangent, Cosine, Sine! Three point one four one five nine! #math #mathematics
Post #4320444
Good news for women: NIST researcher is working on a pain-free mammogram technology. https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/my-research-working-toward-pain-free-mammogram-alternative #womensHealth #women #medicine
Post #4320443
Canada&#39;s boreal forests are burning bigger than ever. And, yes, the reason is climate change. The article is worth viewing just for the animated image of swirling smoke from the arc of active fires during 1 week. It&#39;s also loaded with scientific facts that refute Trump&#39;s blaming of Canada. Image by NASA Scientific Visualization Studio. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-blame-canada-wildfires-toxic-smoke #canada #wildfire #NASA #science
Post #2640267
#ScribesAndMakers 7 May: When did you think of the idea for your current project? Do you remember how it came about? Nine years ago, I critiqued a horror short story by a better writer than I. He thought my comments were so helpful, he suggested I try writing horror. I thanked him, basked in his generosity for a while, and privately dismissed the idea at first. But it wouldn&#39;t let go of me. So I asked, what is most horrific? Being eaten, not necessarily alive. Using that idea, I wrot...
Post #1052332
ProWritingAid is sponsoring a writing contest called Novel Beginnings. Submit the first 5,000 words of your work in progress for a chance to win the $50,000 grand prize or one of the $5,000 shortlisted awards. Any unrepresented, unpublished fiction writers in any genre. If you have self-published you&#39;re still eligible. Read the rules for details. Entry costs $20. It&#39;s free if you have a paid ProWritingAid plan. Entries close: 23:59 GMT on March 31st, 2026 https://prowritingaid....
Post #1052329
Cartoon by Amy Hwang, a prolific New Yorker cartoonist. From my photo of a New Yorker promotional post card. https://www.amyhwang.com/ She also appears in the &#39;Women Laughing&#39; documentary. https://www.womenlaughingfilm.com/screenings #women #cartoonist #humor #funny
Post #1052328
Watch Artemis II lift off in 10 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eMVaWoJtE0 And cue Major Tom, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMDbX1zksgI #artemis #nasa
Post #1052327
Quantum security keeps improving. Science News reports that scientists have used photon entanglement to demonstrate &#39;quantum position verification&#39; for the first time. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-location-security It means an information recipient can know the actual location of the information sender. Thus, we may ultimately be able to dox all the spammers and scammers! 👹 🍄 #science #quantum #security
Post #1052326
The library ebook market has evolved into a complex mess that serves no one but the big five publishers. Some librarians are looking to a legislative fix. https://www.wordsandmoney.com/librarians-say-the-library-ebook-market-needs-another-breakthrough-moment-can-legislation-help-deliver-it/ The Internet Archive linked to the story above in their newsletter. You can subscribe here: https://empoweringlibraries.org/#getinvolved-module One way authors could influence this unsustainable situation,...
Post #516744
I want fewer &quot;mathy maths&quot; (the gas-guzzlers formerly known as generative AI) and more predictive AI, please. Point a predictive AI at scammers, spammers, and malware mobsters, and make them go poof!! https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129179/generative-ai-hype-distracts-us-from-ais-more-important-breakthroughs/ #AI #predictiveAI #utopia
Post #516741
Holographic Metasurface Nano-Lithography is today&#39;s new buzzword. It describes a way to package and interconnect multiple IC (integrated circuit) chips in a single step. The optical mask projects a precision hologram into a hybrid metal-polymer liquid. The result is a custom selection of chips sintered into one circuit. https://news.utexas.edu/2025/12/03/3d-printed-chip-packages-could-supercharge-semiconductor-manufacturing/ #science #engineering #electronics
Post #516740
Asgard archaea might be the precursors to all eukaryotic life on Earth. And the proposed process is so simple, it suggests the galaxy is teeming with complex life! 🦠 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cells-origin-of-life-asgard-archaea #science #microbiology #life
Post #516738
#today 27 Jigsaw puzzle end game. Sky pieces sorted by shade and partially by shape. Chaotic water flowers sorted by shape and oriented with tall, spiky leaves vertical. No clear patterns remain. It&#39;s a search for one piece at a time. #jigsaw #puzzle
Post #516737
#ScribesAndMakers Jan 4 &quot;And the face of Jess Viscosie Turned a whiter shade of pale.&quot; &quot;A Whiter Shade of Pale&quot; by Procol Harem.
Post #516736
Satellite view of one of the world&#39;s largest solar farms in China, west of the Longyang Gorge reservoir. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Taruo+Qiaoyi,+Gonghe+County,+Hainan+Tibetan+Autonomous+Prefecture,+Qinghai,+China,+813000/@36.0131425,100.4978604,5412m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x37acd4af9b96e073:0x19d1ff990e91e68a!8m2!3d36.01311!4d100.51846!16s%2Fg%2F11pqx3gppx?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDIxMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D Lately, individual projects hold the record of largest fo...
Post #516733
The business world sees the US losing the AI energy race. We could probably catch up if we decided ALL forms of energy development are on the table. https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/02/05/why-the-us-is-losing-the-ai-energy-race-to-china?utm_campaign=MKP_WEEKLY_newsletter_20260213&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=sfmc_&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_term=120315934 #ai #energy #solar
Post #516732
Spider silk spun by the rufous net-casting spider (Asianopis subrufa) can stretch up to 24 times its extruded length without breaking. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/silk-net-casting-spiders-prey-web #spider #science #biology #arachnid