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Radiant Star (Hardcover) An electrifying new space opera of power, politics, and faith, set in the world of the Imperial Radch, Ann Leckie's ground-breaking, Hugo Award-winning science fiction epic. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star is an inconvenience: A backwater religious site on an unimportant planet soon to be absorbed into the imperial Radch’s own, superior culture.

Wanna pre-order Radiant Star and also get it signed (by me)?

www.left-bank.com/book/9780316...

I’ve been on #bluefin #fedora #linux since May 2024 and fully bought into the #atomic mindset. After weeks on a custom #nix image, I’m wondering if it’s time to flip it around: #NixOS + optional #distrobox/#flatpak. Declarative feels like the next step. After flakes OCI containers feel clunky.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Illustration as described. Owl flying above clouds.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Two Fairies Standing on the Back of an Owl Beneath a Moon, Amelia Jane Murray.

A stylised red and white owl.

'Red on White, Owl' - Ippitsusai Buncho, Japanese Edo period. From the Harvard Art Museum collection.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Bath owl in stained glass window

This is the barn owl stained glass window in St Thomas’s Church at Harty on the Isle of Sheppey. Sure did hear those last night in the moments when I drifted in and out of sleep! #NightInAChurch #Sheppey #WinterSolstice

Cover art for a fictional book based on the TV show ALIEN: EARTH entitled "Do Androids Dream of Eccentric Sheep?" features a headshot of the android Kirsh, with a graphic cutout of his forehead that reveals within a sheep with its left eye replaced by a member of species T. Ocellus. The tagline reads, "Think about how the scoprion must fieel… trapped under glass, menaced by giants."

#AlienEarth required reading!

#IncorrectAlienEarth #fanart =)
#photoshop #mashup

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Unmanned Mole People Cold Storage 2. Dank Robots 3. Lemurian Lighthouse

IMINT #933 from SBIRS GEO-5 (L CLEARANCE)

1. Unmanned Mole People Cold Storage
2. Dank Robots
3. Lemurian Lighthouse

I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music.

Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4

What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like? From deep-sea mining to climate change, this Indigenous woman sees a better future for the world's oceans.

What would an Indigenous Law of the Sea look like? | grist.org/global-indig...

Proud to announce that #Randonautica got invited to this year's Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration. The online conference takes place on Zoom Sep 20-21, 2025.

I will be presenting "Beyond The Reality Tunnel: Data-driven Insights and Experiments in Randonautica" on the 21st.

YouTube video by Sarah Maria Sander Gaza-Brief von Künstlern an Bundeskanzler Merz - Meine Antwort an die deutsche Kulturszene

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f89...

Auditory environments influence the link between Autistic traits and quality of life - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Auditory environments influence the link between Autistic traits and quality of life

Autistics aren't merely "sensitive" to sound; autistic tendencies also include "expanded access to auditory information, heightened perception to pitch, difficulties dealing with speech in background noise, and taking longer to adapt to auditory environments.":

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Can an anthropology of the near be as conceptually complex as an anthropology of the far away? Does the distance required for strangeness need necessarily be geographic?

I have a bad habit of imagining every place I visit in the US before the highways, before the settlers, before the strip malls. It’s always very beautiful & then there’s a heavy grief in my chest.

Eventually all philosophy needs a demon in there somewhere to make it all work 😂

YouTube video by The Dangerous Maybe Nick Land Explains the Numogram

Here is a decades overdue, very epic, nerdy, 3:33 hours long deep dive into the esoteric Lemurian "Numogram" with the beast himself: Nick Land, clearing up some confusions and of course adding heaps more of it.

Already cult!

#numogram #ccru #lemurian

www.youtube.com/watch?v=URWF...

Ritual design toolkit ritualdesign.net

During a Russian strike on Odesa, the Chinese consulate building was damaged. Ukrainian official Andrii Sybiha also shared images of Shahed drone debris found after the Kyiv attack, showing components of Chinese origin.

"voracious" that is 😅

A photo of Speaker Johnson surrounded by GOP members all smiling broadly with their thumbs up, just after passing a Bill which strips healthcare, food nutrition and school meals from some of the most vulnerable families in America.

Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.

Called "verocious" in ancient Egypt, the shrew was venerated as a form of Horus in Letopolis. Blind at birth, gained eyesight, able to travel both the light and the dark realms, he took the roles of guiding the Sun god through the underworld and aided in the dead’s regeneration.

The American concentration camp on view Tuesday was erected within the Big Cypress National Preserve, traditional Miccosukee land. The tribe was not consulted, said Betty Osceola, a member and activist who lives a few miles from the camp’s entrance. She was one of hundreds of people protesting on the road outside the camp over the last several days as massive trucks streamed into the site. “People should be concerned about the secrecy of this,” Osceola told the Fort Myers News-Press. “It’s a big deal. Our ancestors were laid to rest in this area, and they talk about it like it’s a vast wasteland. It’s not.”

They built the concentration camp on an Indian burial ground. A little on the nose but subtlety isn’t really the vibe these days newrepublic.com/article/1975...

Someone should write a magical realist novel where the Arrow of Time is an actual relic, venerated by physicists, like the Spear of Destiny or the Holy Thorn

Why is a “time machine” a machine that travels through time and not a machine that makes time? Who made it so?

Growing up being gaslit by boomers GenX has a well trained sense for when shit smells funny but avoids pointless arguments with people who refuse to grok that.

On this week's show I discuss the proliferation of "AI" technology and its incumbent harms, dangers, and dumbness with Michael M. Hughes.
Michael has lately been a vocal critic of the AI slop onslaught, writing about it on his Medium account in a regularly...🧵
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THE MOON — The Forty Servants in Theory & Practice | Tommie Kelly Get more from Tommie Kelly on Patreon

The latest in the Forty Servants in Theory & Practice series is out. This one is on The Moon and talks about the artwork, sigil, the best ways to do magick with it and what it means if it comes up in a divination. www.patreon.com/posts/moon-f... #magick #divination #tarot #witchsky