Raunak S

Making contact.

let it rain on us forever

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

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⚡️Solar storm incoming! We are actively monitoring severe space weather events, occurring on 11-12 November. Severely disturbed geomagnetic conditions are expected to persist for at least 24 to 48 hours.

🔗 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

@operations.esa.int @science.esa.int

I wrote this article! 🙂

This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪

The UI and items look so much better than Marathon wow.

A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.

Mysterious downlink signals from SpaceX’s classified Starshield satellites in a frequency band reserved for uplinks — raising concerns over spectrum rules and possible interference with other satellites. 🧵⬇️

www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

Any Locked Tomb girlies on bluesky?

How Organisms Come to Know the World: Fundamental Limits on Artificial General Intelligence Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots capable of assisting pe...

general intelligence is linked to agency, which is linked to wanting things, but what is wanting linked to? in all cases we're familiar with, ultimately to pain—to a sensuously unpleasant want of food, water, warmth, etc. want to build a computer that can think? try building one that can suffer.

A series of concentric black and white ovals against a black background, with a dim red dot in the lower left of one of the paths of a black ring. The ovals are dust rings around a young star, and the red dot is a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet called WISPIT 2b.

Proud supervisor moment: #LeidenObservatory graduate student Richelle van Capelleveen led one of two papers on our discovery of WISPIT 2b, a 5 Jupiter mass exoplanet clearing a path in a circumstellar disk. Laird Close and his team saw it in H-alpha, indicating gas accretion #astrodon 🔭 🧪

"Screenshot of a Firefox browser dialog box overlaying a Meshtastic documentation webpage. The dialog has a dark theme and is titled 'See more with AI?' with a sparkle icon. The dialog text reads: 'Firefox uses AI to read the beginning of the page and generate a few key points. To prioritize your privacy, this happens on your device.' At the bottom are two buttons: a teal 'Continue' button and a gray 'Cancel' button. Behind the dialog, the webpage shows meshtastic.org with a link to 'Devices | Supported Hardware Overview | Meshtastic' and text describing detailed documentation on Meshtastic supported devices, with an estimated reading time of 6-7 minutes."

This Firefox AI summaries thing is so annoying. I don't need link previews on a desktop browser, and even if I do, I certainly don't want a goddam AI summary of it.

Disabled it by setting browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled and browser.ml.enable to false in about:config.

YouTube video by KRIILL Kriill - Your Eyes, Will I Ever (Official Music Video)

This is both a great tune full of longing and a rather mysterious video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQfe...

"His Only Friend," a painting by Briton Rivière, featuring an exhausted boy taking a break from walking to London with his scruffy terrier.

"The Welcome," by Briton Riviere. A small white puppy greets a man returning from a day at work.

"Giants at Play" by Briton Rivière. Three men relax against a brick wall, languidly playing with a small terrier puppy.

"Fidelity," by Briton Rivière. An imprisoned man, implied to have been roughed up during capture, languishes in a cell, head in hand, beneath a scratched-in drawing of a hanged man. his loyal dog attempts to comfort him.

Artist You Might Not Know About: Briton Rivière.

He's a British artist, widely known for his beautiful paintings of animal/human interactions.

I especially like his sentimental depictions of loyal dogs and their owners.

🚨I found the ill-fated @Int_Machines #IM2 #Athena lander using the #Chandrayaan2 OHRC and it shows some interesting patterns around the site where it hard landed. Exclusive story 👇 and I’ll share more detailed observations and my thoughts on this soon in my blog. (More pictures are storely below)

'old habits die hard' #systemshock

// gouache + pencils

Severe thunderstorms erupt near Chicago and over Lake Michigan this afternoon.

Thank you!

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Defended my dissertation today. Officially completed my PhD!

Been a long 5 years since the Covid Era™️ began. Thanks @uhnsm.bsky.social!

Whoa.

That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today.

With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

My own ballot was kinda cliché but what can you do.

(www.nytimes.com/interactive/...)

A 16 square (4 by 4) image, from left to right, top to bottom, Dystopian to Utopian & then Anthropic to Exoanthropic: the possibilities are "Prole Anarchist Anomie Collapse", "Kowloonian Lassiez-Faire Interplaneetary Neon Megapolis", "Alternate Timeline Cyber-Maoist Technotopia", "Intergalactic Betel Nut Utopian Social Democracy", next row; "Han Kuo-Yu Psychedelic Mind Control Cabal", "Jack Marian 997 Cyberogian Beehive Neo-Slavery", "Heavenly Kingdom 2.0 Techno-feudalism", "Xi Jinping Mandate of Heaven Actualisation Exit", next row; "Global Orwellian AI Police State", "Androfascist Diaosicore Post-Female Hikikomority", "Taobao VR Mall Sesame Credit Hypercapitalistic Candy Hell", "Fully automated Gay Space Luxury Socialism with Chinese characteristics", next row; "0 Child Policy Mass Extinction", "Post-Singularity Mass AUtomated Falun Gong Organ Farms", "Government Mandated Mass Consciousness Upload", and finally "Post-Buddhist Cyberdhammic Tech-Transcendence." That was a lot to type.

i've been microdosing expired chinese benzos and silica gel packs and have discovered all 16 major future possibilities across trillions of timelines

This is very neat! Wonder how this smoothness translates over to Arabic or Bengali, with their long chains of curving letters.

In social psychology, the pratfall effect is the tendency for interpersonal appeal to change after an individual makes a mistake, depending on the individual's perceived competence. In particular, highly competent individuals tend to become more likeable after committing mistakes, while average-seeming individuals tend to become less likeable even if they commit the same mistake.

Haowang Guarantee (formerly Huione Guarantee) had done more than $27 billion in total transactions, mostly money laundering for crypto scammers but also sales of targeting data, telecom infrastructure, and even GPS-enabled collars and electric batons for forced labor scam compounds.

YouTube video by Konstantin's video archive Dis Mons on Io – Revised Visualization of the ‘Steeple’ Mountain

Cool Io flyover. "Dis Mons on Io – Revised Visualization of the ‘Steeple’ Mountain" www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rh9... with description at www.weareinquisitive.com/news/hidden-...

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

Name that Fighter-Jet!