What do we get when capitalists are scared? Fascism. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social about capitalism’s worst mood and how the left is doing better than we think we are. Listen to the conversation here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/how-...

"The crew for Nasa's Artemis II mission have described seeing the far side of the Moon for the first time." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Spot on. And the good news is that despite many bumps in the road that set us back, historically it 𝑖𝑠 the direction of travel: yesterday's progressives are always to some degree or other bigoted by today's standards. Don't cling to the standards you fought for in your youth: expect to be superseded

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-...

Yes, a base is the ultimate goal of the Artemis program. The plan: Artemis I: uncrewed, testing rocket ➡️Artemis II: crewed, testing rocket/systems Artemis III: crewed, testing rendezvous with lander Artemis IV: crewed, landing on Moon Artemis V: crewed, landing on Moon, beginning base construction

I'm not religious, but sometimes I like to watch a religious film at Christmas or Easter. This time was first watch of Italian production The Passion of The Christ (2004). My one-word review would be 'Brutal'. One time's enough, but I'll be interested in the upcoming sequels.

Jet-Powered Comet // Artemis 2 Launched // NO-Dark-Matter Galaxy | Space Bites from @universetoday.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMH...

It was at 8pm, Eastern Standard Time (admittedly I'm posting this in BST!) on the 3rd of April 1956 when the CBC broadcast, live from Studio 1 on Jarvis Street in Toronto, the play Flight into Danger - the play which begat Airplane! and, arguably in a way, #DoctorWho...

Dr. Koch argues that, because AI computers have a structure very reminiscent of the human cerebellum—which is empirically known not to be involved in human consciousness—we have no reason to expect AI computers to have a conscious inner life of their own. www.essentiafoundation.org/can-ai-be-co...

Galen Strawson responds gracefully and with good humour to my dig at panpsychism in @thetls.bsky.social @michaelpollan.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

@craigatcof.bsky.social Is a Good Friday... it's Cure night on BBC4. The Cure at the BBC and the (SOALW) Radio2 In Concert. They will be on iPlayer for anyone who misses them. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This must be the shot of the mission so far. Beautiful. #ArtemisII

Reasons to Return to The Moon, WW3 and The Kessler Syndrome, Time Delay Cosmography | Q&A 411 from @universetoday.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=poOg...

Hmm, always interesting, but imagination is wholly phenomenal and in what phenomenal consciousness consists is unknown. I strongly suspect we're investigating at the wrong scale, confounding findings. We don't yet have the tools to see clearly what's going on.

A nice piece from @swapnakrishna.com about the plan for the #Artemis II crew to take a new Earthrise photo while swinging around the Moon

Coincidence? Probably fucking not. www.jezebel.com/turns-out-th...

Status of Artemis II right now. 🧪 www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Is the universe really fine-tuned for life? The claim that even tiny changes in fundamental constants would make life impossible (the God-needed argument) is been dismantled by recent research: Life can emerge under a wide range of physical conditions ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019PhR....

George Monbiot talks with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on his Bold Politics channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...

One of my favorite Shots from my Trip to Edinburgh 🖤 #photography #moody #edinburgh #scotland

Wow counting down the days... 😂 #leibniz #philosophy

And they’re up! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The Claude Code leak makes clear the extent to which the wrapping around the “LLM” itself does so much heavy lifting. The stochastic flock starts a murmuration in these places, which are also Anthropic’s way of constraining it. The flock escapes the aviary when systems interact. ⬇️

We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's Artemis II launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) from Kennedy Space Center. Carrying four astronauts, the Orion spacecraft's planned lunar flyby will be the first in over

"What Dinosaur Tracks Can Tell Us (That Bones Can’t!)" | From Geo Girl #paleontology www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGed...

"Alex O'Connor's Triangle Challenge. Philosophers & scientists reply" "if all mental states are just brain states, then where exactly is the triangle when he imagines one in his mind?" Teaser of an upcoming video from Phil Halpern #philosophy #neuroscience www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1h...

#nowplaying with thanks to the wonderful @getinherears.bsky.social for the recommendation, this beauty from steel. #newmusic youtu.be/Or2o0pvxXPM?...

American English vs. British English | From @robwords.bsky.social and @jesszafarris.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvWU...

Where is the tomb of Nefertiti? That’s one of the hottest debates in Egyptology, but some archaeologists think her grave was discovered long ago, in the 1880s, in a tomb called Amarna 26. archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2013/collection/nefertiti-queen-egypt-amarna-26/lost-tombs/

Brilliant short video with Douglas Trumbull talking very candidly about his work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a challenging production to say the least! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARtB...

Archaeologists are analyzing DNA from Neanderthals to figure out, well, what happened to them. New research reveals that around 65,000 years ago, a major disruption wiped out most Neanderthal lineages ... archaeology.org/news/2026/03/30/study-tracks-genetic-lineages-of-europes-last-neanderthals/

In a recent #SETILive conversation, SETI Institute planetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee spoke with SETI Institute Deputy Director of Carl Sagan Center, Simon Steel, to examine what the Artemis mission represents for the future of exploration. 🧪 🔭 Learn more: www.seti.org/news/from-mo...

Creating the miniatures in Star Trek The Motion Picture (1979). Images from Berton Pierce’s must-watch Sense of Scale documentary series on YouTube.

All the news today caused the major outlets to forget that we are taking the first human flight to the moon tomorrow in >50 years! I think about all the wonder & inspiration that came from the Apollo and Voyager missions & how we are missing that now bc of all the terrible things happening. 🔭🚀

Five-Song Peel Session of English punk rock band The Damned from November 17, 1976. Includes “Neat Neat Neat” and “New Rose”. Length: 11:08. #PunkRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=w1m9...

BLACK SABBATH ON TAPE! 🎸 Pictured are collections of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne tapes dating back to 1970 followed by a selection of bootleg Sabbath tapes. These tapes were loaned to us by superfans Stephen Knowles and Chris Hopkins. Do you still have your own stash of Black Sabbath tapes?

We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."

Shakespeare's Green Worlds: Northrop Frye's Analysis of Arden Forest | From @amorsciendi.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjt1...

There's a reason Iran hawks call Iranian leaders "the mullahs"—-to frame them as zealots who must be crushed rather than rational actors who can be dealt with. This is part of a larger problem, I argue in my latest NonZero Newsletter.

Yeah, and generalizes.

Bees are so cool. They dance, they can play soccer, and they have intelligence only seen in vertebrates. That's right, these little ladies are as smart as things with spines, but they don't even need spines.

In 1999, archaeologists in England discovered Seahenge, a mysterious circle of oak posts. It resembles folkloric descriptions of cuckoo pens. Did Bronze Age Britons build Seahenge to entice the birds to linger? archaeology.org/issues/september-october-2024/digs-discoveries/seahenge-sings/

Cornwall Butterfly Conservation have made the move to Bluesky! We'll use this account to share Branch news, events, and conservation activities, and we would love to hear about your butterfly and moth sightings from across Cornwall.

Chvrches also played Lullabies live for the first time at their Royal Albert Hall show.

Every employee of every packaging design team in the world should first have to extract the edible portion of a banana, and then of a coconut, before beginning their role.

The liberal media is living in a cloud cuckoo land of decades past, where the sun shone, the birds sang, obvious bigotry was confined to the private ramblings of undesirables and there was scant need to call it out in mainstream opinion, as had to be done in the 70s and 80s. They're wrong.