Monster CEO increasingly concerned that if society collectively refuses to feed monster it will not have the strength to destroy anything

View from Dublin, amazing with all the streetlights here

Bandcamp has formally introduced a new policy banning music and audio generated wholly or largely by AI from purchase on its platform. Bandcamp said: “With this policy, we’re putting human creativity first." buff.ly/mnjpUZA

[ 1/31 ] 🧵 Time for yet another megathread of my favourite satellite pics. This time I have 123 images processed by me in 2025 *. Various dates, random places. Most of them were taken by Sentinel-2, some by S-3 and one or two by Landsat. *There's one more pic that isn't mine, but it's so good 😊

Great piece and gets to the nub of the issue: "As with blockchain, crypto, NFTs, and virtual reality simulacra like the Metaverse, AI is just the next big open wallet beckoning cash for an industry that last innovated a great, saleable product a decade ago"

I usually post widefield colour "postcard" views of Mars, but today, just for a change, here's a rather more abstract view for you all... Perseverance's tracks meandering across the Martian landscape... Hope you like it! Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

robins 📷by me

More great peaceful sounds from Radio Lento radiolento.podbean.com

I did a bit more processing with my Pleiades picture from the other day. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen Orbital Massive Attack dEUS Super Furry Animals Kerbdog

#Waxing, #crescent #Moon Check out the shadows in the craters along the terminator. Date: 2025 11 27 Time: 20:46:18 UTC Altitude: 13° 41' Distance: 383 881 km Phase: 45% Nikon D800 Skywatcher 200P Exposure: f/5.9, 1/125s, ISO-400 Focal Length: 1200 mm #astronomy #astrophotography #craters

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Picked this one up today, another great Minced Oath release, really interesting story behind it

This is an insanely cool (actual) photo taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy of a skydiver buddy seen in silhouette against the distant sun. Full story, videos, and more here: www.instagram.com/p/DRBAaqLkvy...

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.

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

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.

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.

“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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Released last year, a relaxing ambient one with sounds of wildlife throughout auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...

Picked this one up a few weeks back, really really nice ambient tunes, drifting and progressing pitp.bandcamp.com/album/heilun

#LFC Messaging my son, should have put money on it!

Savage gig, brilliant

Lothlórien - watercolour and acryla gouache on paper I wish I had time to get back to my Tolkien series, these are so much fun. 💙 Prints on saIe for a bit longer! 💙

While we're having a break over the summer, here's an intermission episode. It's a Lento first! It's a super long episode of soundscapes from various locations across the stunning Quantocks in Somerset recorded in October. Episode 278 - Lento Long - Quantocks collection bit.ly/LenLongQuan

No you read this and then spent the next 5 mins mucking around with a shit bit of Javascript to test the idea out

If you'd ever planned to buy us a coffee, now would be a good time. ko-fi.com/radiolento

I picked this one up last week - great stuff

The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.  We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is. Be warned.

Guys, this quite magnificent bill is happening in The Cobblestone two weeks from today. This will be really, really, really good & in the perfect venue. Genuinely one for future elderly anecdotes about shows you saw, unless you're elderly already, which is ok Tickets: billetto.ie/e/alasdair-r...

Whimsical electronica from 2001 - contains audio (swiped from @cookdandbombd.bsky.social) from a panel show where they're discussing the time Chris Morris burst helium balloons in the studio of his radio show, with hilarious results... thelastsound.bandcamp.com/track/helium...

Rewilding isn't only about saving nature, but re-filling the world with beauty and loveliness. We just need to allow it happen.

An ancient yew with spiralled barleystick ribbing stands at the centre of Muckross Franciscan Abbey's 15th century cloistered walkway. What passage of human history and change this incredible tree must have 'witnessed'.

When I was a kid I watched ‘Cosmos’ every week when it aired. I loved that show and it sparked a lifelong interest in astronomy & aliens. I wept when he died, which is not something I’d ever done for a famous person, & haven’t since. He said this in ‘The Demon Haunted World’, in 1995 Just, wow.

Just got a physical copy of the no-longer-latest edition of The GOO, with some nice words in @talldanhegarty.bsky.social 's regular column, regarding the Rainbow Xplode album. @poorcreaturemusic.bsky.social on the cover 🤘

I fully endorse all billionaires to engage in “vibe physics” where they build their own submersible/spaceship/lava boat with AI and then go on adventures

'For many fans their supreme moment is She’s The One - another sublime example of spiralling hypnotist disk mind-bending. As with a lot of their songs, soulful admissions of fear, failure and heartache are hidden amidst nonsense lyrics' The Three E.P.’s by #TheBetaBand buff.ly/i6AE24C