Birthdaying begins by spreading ARSE to the world! Stupid time change has me awake before everyone else.
HEADS UP TWIN CITIES > New sunspot 4549 erupted this morning, hurling a full-halo CME straight toward Earth. Forecast models predict it will arrive on Oct. 9th, possibly sparking a G2-class geomagnetic storm. The timing is perfect as a nearly new Moon keeps rural skies dark. Spaceweather.com
Spaceweather.com - realtime news about the Sun-Earth environment
Solar flares, geomagnetic storms, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.
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Here's the delightful development story behind Big Walk, one of this year's best video games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The Six-Year Journey Behind ‘Big Walk,’ One of This Year’s Best Video Games
The delightful new co-op game started off as a pandemic fever dream
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I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it
Swords | The Webcomic@swordscomic.bsky.social · 2mo agoEnd of an era
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
Yo! We have a speaker schedule! jawncon.org/schedule.html Ticket information: jawncon.org/tickets.html
JawnCon
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Fresh on SmallRun — GW-1386-1 8K Replacement for Dallas DS1386 Module by Glitch Works Hobbyist Sales. → https://smallrun.net/shop/glitchwrks/gw-1386-1-8k
As I know that DEFCON is at hand, along with various other hacker events for those who don't want to go to Vegas, just *PLEASE* don't take your hazardous device and/or hazmats with you to show off at your table, room, or Crom help you, the restauraunt. Your ̶v̶i̶c̶t̶i̶m̶s̶ waitstaff will not be impressed.
Found this via Fedi. My first quick thought was, "ooh, the hardware moral equivalent of MULTICS." negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/t...
The computer at the bottom of a canal
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a proce...
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Once again, I have to teach the valuable lesson “You bought it, you’re responsible for it to the bitter end. Don’t start projects you haven’t planned for the end of.” This lessons brought to you by butthurt at how hard it is to dispose of a beryllium containing article with large amounts of lead.
Soft touch coatings on electronic devices should be illegal. I will not be taking further questions at this time.
On the 15th, I will putting myself at the disposal of some museum collections managers to let them ask all the safety questions they don’t normally have the resources to ask. It is good for them that I work for the price of lunch in this context. “You aren’t allowed to pay me” weirds people out.
When a pilot flew through one of the strongest aurora storms in years, he saw the sky literally explode in color. From the cockpit of a Boeing 787, Matt Melnyk had a view like no one else. Flying at 37,000 feet over Manitoba, he watched as the auroras filled the entire sky. Original post
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
And we reached the $30k mark! Bigger book! BIGGER BOOK!
📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…
The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.
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Your ascent up Mount Kami is uniquely yours! Every fall when you’re almost at the top, and every impossible wall you conquered with grit and experience. Now you can immortalize your journey on your very own custom route T-shirt! Perfect for digital & physical climbing sessions 😉
Can confirm, it's amazing how much stuff can happen if you decide you're just going to do it. It's worth 5 minutes of due diligence to make sure the thing you're doing isn't something that exists that you can join and support. But if it doesn't exist? Go make that thing happen.
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.@sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 6mo agoJust had dinner with two people who have a very "if you think it should exist, just DO it" attitude, & my god I love when people feel this way. We would be better off if more good people with pure intentions just DID the stuff they wish existed without waiting for some power to give them permission.
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.
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Another downside of hosting stuff externally rather than using campus infrastructure: external hosting services block our cloud-based web archiving tools with aggressive captchas, and you can't just Slack the sysadmin to whitelist the crawler IP address. Back to web archiving from my laptop. 🫠
On Thursday we're going to be celebrating the relaunch of the Global Medieval Sourcebook as a static site, thereby putting to rest the very last zombie Drupal inherited from my predecessor. Join us for a frank DH project talk about how this project came to be, and three takes on where it might go.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CESTA DH Seminar - Kathryn Starkey, Quinn Dombrowski, and Nino Martin. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CESTA DH Seminar - Kathryn Starkey, Quinn Dombrowski, and Nino Martin. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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