Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun

158 first-gen Starlinks have now relocated from the 547 km/53 deg shell to the 475 km/53 deg shell. About another 180 are on the way down still.

Wish I'd said that

So far this is the best novel I've read this year. Deceptively straightforward in its telling, and in the understated but expert delineation of its cliate-change future, it slowly, surely builds a superb waking-dreaming narrative of the magnificent strangeness of existence.

A Personal Anthology, by Paul McAuley ‘A Way Home’ by Theodore Sturgeon (First published in Amazing Stories, 1953.

@jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's A Personal Anthology project now features over 300 guest editors. I'm honoured to be the latest -- my selection of 12 stories that have taken up permanent residence in my head can be found here:

Trying to track down the first 'musical episode' of a TV series. Any advance on 'Santa Claus-trophobia' (Roberts Robots, 1974)?

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social just finish Loss Protocol. Definitely going to have this one living in my head for the next few days. Like an eco-thriller penned by M John Harrison, and I cant think of deeper praise than that.

Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move

Goldman's point was that if the role had gone to a star it would have been made more sympathetic; only an actor like Duval was allowed to show the character as he was

Did you know that in 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation had an episode featuring a deaf character played by a Deaf actor? The original draft script had the character learning to speak after his interpreters were killed but the actor convinced them to have him teach others to sign instead.

Thank you to @gtconway.bsky.social for lifting this up. American science is in free-fall, pushed off the cliff by Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli.

2026 is WILD, yo.

The Picasso anecdote in The Paper is brilliant

Agreed -- there is a great passage in Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade (or possibly Which Lie Did I Tell) where he describes how that performance is a great example of one that a movie star could not give but a performer like Duvall could.

My personal favourite Robert Duvall performance in Lonesome Dove

He was awesome

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Low-angle view of Cloud Gate (“The Bean”) in Millennium Park, Chicago, with snow clinging to its mirrored surface and a bright sun flare at the top edge. The Chicago skyline reflects across the curved steel, and winter light creates strong highlights on the plaza.

Winter light and fresh snow turned The Bean playful. Sun flare at the top, snow clinging to the mirrored surface, and the skyline wrapped across it.

There’s always another story waiting to be seen.

#Photography #Chicago #MillenniumPark #ScottKissPhoto

It is a long time since I read something so simultaneously elusive and satisfying.

Loss Protocol Eight years after the catastrophic downfall of the cult his sister Izzy had joined, Marc Winters has at last found a refuge from unwanted attention. The wild...

Loss Protocol is Paul McAuley at his very best. It sits in a superposition of science fiction, pastoral and fantasy, blending a compelling plot, a world both reduced and resilient and a meditation on loss, grief and restitution.
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That's nice to hear. Wouldn't judge but saw a screengrab of an X post from your account and wondered.

If I could quote tweet this I would -- know nothing about Manga but this seems analytically so very likely

@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social David do you find the substack business model requires you to still be a presence on X?

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

Has anyone who works at a self-driving car company actually called for action to keep pedestrians off the road in the UK?

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Would be helpful to know how many of the people selling teh second hand EVs are replacing them with new EVs

I watched the BBC News Channel for about twenty minutes today - first time I've watched ANY news programme for a couple of years

Jeez, it was depressing. Rubio In Hungary; Navalny and the frog venom; Social Media and the under 16s

Depressing

I can see why people avoid the news...

While I maintain that Vertigo is Hitchcock's best, I can understand why someone would dislike it.

Rear Window, on the other hand, is that rare perfection where I can't comprehend how someone couldn't enjoy it. Godfather 1 (even if 2 is better) and Wizard of Oz are other examples of this.

#TCMParty

+1

Clean-Cooking Company’s Collapse Touches World Bank and Beyond The collapse of clean-cooking company Koko Networks Ltd. will reverberate beyond the $300 million investors lost on what used to be one of the industry’s leading businesses.

Clean cooking is a key climate solution. A company that raised $300 million and was reliant on carbon offset sales for its business model to work has gone bust. Lots of lessons for developing countries and offset sellers.

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