there’s nothing that makes me more hopeful than discussing AI with kids & young people (& i have been getting plenty of emails from students and their teachers). this reply from a young student, a big fan of technology who ended up writing his project on the dangers of AI has made my day 😍

Starting a new Rome thread. The Arch Of Gallienus. 3D: skfb.ly/pJn9Y

My massive art sale is now live! All paintings are now HALF OFF the listed price! Free shipping in the US and I also offer worldwide shipping! Check it out, buy some paintings, and help me keep a roof over my head! 😝 KateAveryArt.com

good tweet

Really interesting one from @paulmsmithphoto.bsky.social with lots of red sprite, aurora and meteor footage - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j1Z...

Tickets for all shows on sale now www.paviliontheatre.ie/events/view/...

Along with no job response I have 2 days, counting today, to get 400$ somehow ☠️. Its an emergency This piece is still for Sale! It comes framed, signed, and with a hand drawn token! PLEASE message me if you’re interested in getting a truly iconic logo! Like & share plz! #MTG

Another sun sets on an Irish Atlantic rainforest.

Latest image from Artemis II spacecraft. Taken by Reid Wiseman. 🔭 🧪

We were not expecting this on our day-off walk yesterday. A full carpet of bluebells stretching in all directions. A haze of blue. Beautiful scent in the air. What a way to welcome April.

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

As is tradition... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words. On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape. www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...

Today at around 20:59, a fireball (bright meteor) was observed in the Kanto region. The video is played at actual speed. Recording time: February 9, 20:59:11–15 📸 KAGAYA

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