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How Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos | Quanta Magazine Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology.

The night sky simmers and sparks. Any attempt to understand what we see in the cosmos relies on knowing how it changes, night after night. These variations are preserved beautifully on a hundred years of glass plate photographs.

A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

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Look, if you wanna listen to REAL chiptune (and fakebit still counts, we're not having THAT discussion here) I'll make a list for y'all!

Anyone interested in that sort of thing?

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They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.

In my ongoing attempts to give you a break from *gestures widely* THE HORRORS:

Let's talk about the utterly bizarre science of cats' purring.

Here's a weird starting point:
There are NO cats (Felidae) that can BOTH roar AND purr.

Cats that roar = genus Panthera
Cats that purr = genus Felis

About Face Death and surrender to power in the clothing of men.

I will never forget the chill I felt the first time I read "About Face" by @natepowell.bsky.social

I didn't want to accept what it said about the future that is now staring us in the face

I encourage everyone to read it now that we no longer have a choice

popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

You don’t have to use their words to describe crimes they committed. You should not use their words at all.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

dude with dark hair, wearing glasses, drowning in a mountain of floppy disks, hand raised. behind him is a sea of thousands upon thousands of floppy disks.

nibble express: volume IV, book, excerpt (1984) archive.org/details/isbn...

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

“Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden.” In the comments, by Annessey.

Cat Monet, black with quite a lot of white bits (face, belly, paws), lies on the edge of a table (covered by a Persian rug). Behind the cat a man with an 80s hairdo, smoking and with a glass of beer in front of him, seems to be talking to someone who is not in the picture. In the background there are records and a record player.

Archive Breda, photographed by Johan van Gurp, 1985

Another lazy weekend for cat Monet

It will become increasingly important for people to take video and protect and save that video so that when there is finally an accounting for what’s happening, there will be evidence.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

a nine by nine grid image of various black and white zines photographed with colorful backgrounds and monster action figures

the world is dark and full of terrors but free zine mail is dazzling and full of cheer!

1. go to forms.gle/1zpDmK93w2B9...
2. choose a zine
3. sit tight
4. do a little dance when the mailperson arrives!

Black and white photo of a shorthaired white cat lying on a lawn with a white house visible but very blurry in the background. Everything in the photo has a hazy, dreamy look.

Dreamy bean. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

important thread/development! 1925 marks the dawn of electric recording, so the next crop of public domain recordings offers access to a dramatically new audio era -- which, to boot, was ruled by blues queens and hot jazz combos.

Black and white photo of a plump shorthaired tuxedo cat sitting on an upholstered ottoman next to a tinseled Christmas tree, staring up into space. Open boxes of presents can be seen scattered about the floor.

Christmas stupor. Photo from my collection, 1956.

Black and white photo of an aggressively, cute shorthaired, white and tabby kitten. It is sitting up for a beautifully lit studio portrait.

Wee skrunkleton. Postcard from my collection, 1955.