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Magical Autumn wonderland at Knockbarron wood ❤️ @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social

This is the Flaming Star Nebula. An emission / reflection nebula found in the constellation Auriga. I need to do more processing on this image but it is a spectacular looking nebula even without any processing.

Happy Anniversary to you both!

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Managed to grab a few more images of Comet Lemmon this evening (Sunday Oct 26th) from Kielder Campsite, Northumberland, through very brief gaps in the clouds. This is a phone-processed stack of half a dozen jpg images taken with my Seestar S50.

Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska

Evolution of Comet Lemmon over the past few nights, as imaged with my Seestar S50 from Kielder Star Camp...

This is just podcasters shuffling the same $5 between them via Patreon except that someone shoved the decimal point about a dozen places to the right

Great stuff, enjoy!!

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three Here's how to capitalize on them.

This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles:

1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,

2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,

3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.

Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.

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The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.

NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year - NASA A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of ancient microbial life. Taken

I think they're still working on proving that the finding was from biological reactions, as what was found can form without the presence of life www.nasa.gov/news-release...

I've been listening solidly since it was recommended to me a few months back, signed up to his Patreon too - he does such a great job painting a picture of what was going on around each band and in the music scene generally

Nice one 🙂

We're ok, hope it's back soon

“There’s a joy in comprehension, that moment of understanding something new. AI robs them of that.”

This is really, really good.

will never forget when @abeba.bsky.social made an offhand comment in a q&a session after her talk that (paraphrasing) ‘tech bros love sci fi but can’t read’

'By integrating gen AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but..outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to...capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit'

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Come a long, long way from Gillett & Hicks, Roy Hodgson etc.

Galazeth suggests it strongly right? But not literally

Unbelievable, with how soft the yellow for Grav was

Landed awkwardly on his ankle I think

From @auralcanyon.bsky.social 👏

Spring at Home, by Saapato 2 track album

Released last year, a relaxing ambient one with sounds of wildlife throughout

auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...

I had Onslaught in an RG draft deck with Bruntar and Greatworm: 7-0 with three of the games won on the spot 🙂