Gorgeous purple aurora

By far the most terrifying opening paragraph I've read in an FT piece giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... omg @soumayakeynes.ft.com

Thank you to Belgium for enforcing the rules-based international order

>Settings >Advanced settings >Truly advanced settings >Turn back, it's not worth it >Expert settings >Dev mode settings >I tried to warn you >Experimental settings >Forgotten settings >Cancel subscription

Gift link has run out but we've intervened at god level and made it free to read as it's a year old. www.ft.com/content/3862...

Simon Schama on the pleasure-giving, life-affirming art of David Hockney

Britain’s most popular living painter has maintained an unfashionable commitment to optical delight

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You are out of your damn mind if you think that none of this matters/its all math and inert silicon can “replicate” what it does.

Corey@kh0rish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So the ”hard problem of consciousness” is only hard because instead of trying to understand what cells are actually doing, these guys look for signs of a concept we completely made up (“information” processing) and analyze everything as if that concept is true, completely ignoring material reality.

Pet Shop Boys have posted a remix of the Arsenal supporters' anthem The Angel by Louis Dunford to celebrate this season's Premier League championship. 🥰 Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DYiVryp...

The meatspace layer for AI. 🤖 Since your AI assistant can’t actually walk your dog we’ll need those silly humans.

RentAHuman - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks

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I believe people in Dubai don’t watch the Flintstones, but those in Abu Dhabi do.

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From Early Nirvana To Phish, A Chicago Fan's Secret Recordings Of 10,000 Shows Are Now Online

Aadam Jacobs has secretly recorded over 10,000 local concerts since 1989. Now, they are cleaned up and ready to listen to for free online.

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TIL about the animated film "The Battle of Kerzhenets" by Yuri Norstein that uses stop motion and 14th–16th century frescoes. Pretty cool.

The Battle of Kerzhenets

YouTube video by gullitas1902

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This has to be seen to be believed. 🎥: ALeagues/APL #WELvAKL #ALM

#ITeachPhysics another relative velocity video for you

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

repost @verinaut__ on IG From the archives for the self portrait prompt from @creativecodeart GLSL particle system modeled on the slime mold Physarum Polycephalum. Webcam input alters the paths of physarum particles. Built with @touchdesigner #physarum #glsl #touchdesigner

The Flintstones showed humans and dinosaurs living side-by-side when in fact the age of dinosaurs and the age of humans were separated by hundreds of years. If they lied to you about this, what else are they lying to you about?

It’s easy to tell how close to Christmas we are by what the tūī are getting into. Right now it’s the Taiwanese cherry. Soon it will be the kōwhai. Then the harakeke. And after that it will be the pōhutukawa and you know what that means… 🪶🇳🇿

The Queen of Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms just once a year at night and only for a few hours.

repost @shedrawswithcode on IG 190405: B-side (distraction 😬 from the main game) ... NO LIBRARIES | NO FILTERS | NO POST PRODUCTION ... #processing #creativeCoding

Randy Bumgardner. Todger Strunk. Butch Otter. General Booty. And now this. The warning lights were flashing about Americans LONG before 2016.

Alabama Political Reporter@alreporter.com · last yr.

Young Boozer announced his 2026 bid for Alabama treasurer, aiming to continue his long record of managing billions in state dollars.

A short timelapse of 45mins of just before midnight last night as the Ngā Kurakura o Hinenuitepō Aurora Australis went nuts over Hoopers Inlet on Muaūpoko Otago Peninsula, Ōtepoti Dunedin. NZ #Nikon #Photography

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

This is known as a “Holy Ghost”

repost @jeonghopark on IG Test Meta Quest 3 + Threejs Particles Motion. #htwdresdendesign #threejs #metaquest3 #vr #ar #vectorfield #particles #motiondesign @design.htwd

spider news from Mars.

Daniel Pomarède@pomarede.bsky.social · last yr.

Shocking Spherules! Last week the Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange rock comprised of hundreds of millimeter-sized spheres… and the team are now working hard to understand their origin. science.nasa.gov/blog/shockin... #Mars 🧪🔭

. The Norfolk Pine It doesn’t mind that we’re down here drinking wine. It has that little cross on the top to keep it happy. And of course it’s so incredibly high: even Jesus couldn’t get up there. .

damn is this real?

NASA’s updated global temperature spirals including 2024. Up and up and up.

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