Incredible artistry. Colours like another world calling.
28.02.2026 09:36 —
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Top of page https://courses.nikau.io/cloudbreak
IMAGE a bank of clouds in greyscale.
The heading: CLOUDBREAK
Text on webpage in pale pink box:
Your own cloud in only 6 hours
Break up with the Big Tech cloud in this unique 1 x 6hr live training intensive where you are wholly supported in the process of building up your own sovereign, self-hosted and private infrastructure –"
Skills for the big-tech break-up 🌻☁️
Next weekend, Julian Oliver/Nīkau hosts Cloudbreak, a 6 hr intensive workshop to get you up & running w. a Hetzner-hosted server: courses.nikau.io/cloudbreak
Expert teaching, & a timely workshop.
Say goodbye to Google/MS/Zoom...
#ByeByeBigTech #RunYourOwnServer
28.02.2026 07:06 —
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Having just about made it through the first weeks of 2026, I now understand at the core of my being why the Oxford University Press chose “rage-bait” as the 2025 word of the year.
13.02.2026 05:46 —
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Truly.
13.02.2026 03:24 —
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“we need to let go of the machine”
The conversation metaphor is lovely.
It feels to me that the complexity, dynamical, systems theory approaches Cutts points to in this essay should have eclipsed the mechanical by now…
13.02.2026 03:17 —
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Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.
Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.
a lot is bleak, really really bleak ofc, but i'm in a perverse way hopeful for media (moreso than, say, climate)
it's dead, it's been dead, the only way out is through. support the outlets doing the tiny, mighty stuff we need. invulnerability of the truly grassroots?
www.cjr.org/feature/publ...
05.02.2026 06:43 —
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Deep Maps: Blue Humanities — Online Peer Review Party - Copim
Join the Experimental Publishing Group for an online peer review party for Deep Maps: Blue Humanities, an experimental publishing project by James Smith, deve…
Take part in an experiment in collective review 🧪
Join our Experimental Publishing Group for an online peer review party on 29 Jan!
Help review Deep Maps: Blue Humanities - to be published @uniwestpress.bsky.social - alongside author @scrivenersmith.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
Find out more 👉
20.01.2026 09:01 —
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Arabic astrology. Mansions of the Moon, miniature from an Ottoman survey of world history, ca, 1580 CE
13.12.2025 20:52 —
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Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington) coastal landscape at dusk with full moon. The moon rises above the mountains across the harbour.
Exterior of Te Ara Whānui ki te Rangi / Space Place at Carter Observatory. The white domed planetarium with a deep blue banner reading “Space Place at Carter Observatory, Travel the southern skies.
The in-person group for Te Wānanga o Hina at Space Place, sitting on the grass outside Space Place on a sunny day.
Inside the planetarium, the Te Wānanga o Hina group smiling and waving on the seats beneath the dome, lit by blue light.
On Nov 8, we met at Space Place and online to plant seeds for Te Wānanga o Hina, a gathering for lunar futures across Aotearoa, Australia, Vanuatu, Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. An event in collaboration with Taipōrutu (Māhia), AELA, Te Herenga Waka–VUW & @astroecologies.bsky.social.
hinawananga.nz
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14.12.2025 03:25 —
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YouTube video by Internet Archive
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
a mellow livestream from @archive.org. a nice feeling of co-working for internet futures.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...
19.11.2025 22:56 —
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YouTube video by Cosmoimaginaries
Earthly & extraterrestrial connections: CETI/SETI in Armenia & Czechoslovakia | Gabriela Radulescu
Not exactly this... but we recently had a great meeting with Gabriela Radulescu on the history of radio astronomy & SETI in the context of Armenia and the former Czechoslovakia. A great thinker and historian, expanding the conversation from USA focus.
peertube.seti-hub.org/w/1LnfyywBWa...
16.11.2025 19:59 —
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What I love about making my work is that sense of, where did that come from? And while I am most definitely an obsessive planner - I never know where I’m going. I know what I want to explore, but the shape it finally takes always surprises me. And that’s how it should be…
18.10.2025 05:27 —
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Images of the clouds left by Rocket Lab’s 5:33 am “Owl New World” satellite launch this week from Māhia Peninsula. Weird jellyfish-like twisting trail of bright vapour illuminated against a blue dawn sky.
The NZ Gov wants to bump Rocket Lab launches from 100 to 1000 a year. 20 a week! Big impacts for communities & te taiao 🌊 Rushed through w. no real consultation.
Please submit to keep the cap low before Sun 11.59pm NZ
consult.environment.govt.nz/marine/regul...
#ProtectMahia #SpaceJustice #TeTiriti
18.10.2025 03:18 —
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Are we alone in the universe? UCLA astronomers enlist the public to find out
Anyone with a computer or smartphone can help scientists classify radio signals that could reveal existence of intelligent life elsewhere.
Yes, SETI@home was a beacon. Different times for science, tech & learning! Big fan of recent works carrying on the spirit, like the nice zooniverse project 'Are We Alone in the Universe?' from Megan Li & Jean-Luc Margot that invites folk to sort radio signal images: newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/fin...
02.10.2025 23:55 —
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Up on the Sunshine Coast tomorrow there's a great example of creative approaches to whale communication. A deep listening journey with Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis, live streaming Humpback Whale song from underwater hydrophones for ANAT SPECTRA::Reciprocity at UniSC: www.anat.org.au/reciprocity-...
02.10.2025 23:31 —
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Abd ar-Rahman al-Sufi. Book of Fixed Stars, 964 CE. Illustrations from 1417. Manuscript reproduced 1730
The constellation Orion
02.10.2025 22:40 —
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Scientific community's plan for alien contact needs updating, study says
The global scientific community, a study says, should prepare for when humanity detects signs of extraterrestrial intelligence in the internet age.
Interesting to see our white paper on post-detection futures for SETI/technosignatures picked up across the media.
This article in the Oklahoman brings out the emphasis on learning from animal communication & emerging research methods for studying whale language.
www.oklahoman.com/story/lifest...
02.10.2025 22:43 —
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What a Signal in a Failed Star’s Clouds Means for the Search for Life
on a brown dwarf dozens of light years from us, astronomers have detected trace amounts of a molecule that, on this planet, is made by living things.
this discovery is not life. but it will help astronomers on their quest to find it elsewhere in the galaxy:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...
02.10.2025 20:35 —
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Partial Solar Eclipse
Taken by Taichi Nakamura on September 22, 2025 @ Dunedin, New Zealand
Canon R6 Borg71F+x2converter
1/8000s ISO 100
spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...
22.09.2025 00:49 —
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Hubble image of the nebula N44, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It shows a "superbubble", a dark, starry void 250 light-years across at the upper centre, surrounded by clouds of bright red hydrogen gas, black lanes of dust and bright spots of massive stars. The deep blue area at about 5 o’clock around the superbubble stands out as the hottest and most active in star formation.
🔭 🧪 🧵
This marvelous Hubble image shows the N44 superbubble complex, a turbulent emission nebula dominated by a vast bubble some 250 ly across: the dark, starry area visible in the upper central region.
➡️ science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...
NASA, ESA, V. Ksoll & D. Gouliermis, et al.; Proc: G. Kober
04.04.2025 11:03 —
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ASAB Guest Info
ASAB is a podcast which brings on trans and non-binary guests in science (undergrad or grad students, technicians, professors, educators, researchers, science journalists, photographers, or even someo...
If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!
23.07.2025 02:23 —
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Day-by-day diary open to "Monday, January 6" and "Tuesday, January 7." Handwritten entries by Burroughs on both pages; the January 7th entry has text at the top that then becomes automatic writing / scribbles.
Pages from the 1975 dream diary of William S. Burroughs, from the William S. Burroughs Papers (SPEC.CMS.40).
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