I love Mary's first answer on this...no hesitation!

When I was young, we went to the movies. Sometimes there was a sequel. But a franchise was where we went afterwards to get a hamburger.

www.pohodafestival.sk/en/ www.youtube.com/@FestivalPoh...

Classicist and author Daisy Dunn reacts to the latest trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey | From @historyextra.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1QH...

Recently, a pair of researchers made a massive breakthrough in the foundations of physics. In their paper, they describe how gravity is an emergent property. More specifically, they say that the origin of gravity is entropy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxmT...

I... Am So Confused Right Now. First Time Hearing Falco and "Rock Me Amadeus" | From The Charismatic Voice www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL3I...

M104 is a spiral galaxy located about 31 Mly away in the constellation of Virgo. As the galaxy is close to edge on we can see a prominent dust lane along the outer edge of the galaxy. #astronomy

Official video for 1989 song “Blue Spanish Sky” by Chris Isaak. From his album Heart-Shaped World. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8iz0...

7/8 9 What if intelligence requires consciousness as a pre-requisite? 10 What if intelligence cannot be designed by our intelligence? 11 What if intelligence cannot be designed by any intelligence? 12 What if intelligence is not a thing, a quality, or a process?

Kamoʻoalewa is tiny--the smallest asteroid yet observed up close. It's less than 30 meters (100 feet) wide! 🔭🧪

Looking for something to do this weekend?? My 17 appearances on the Closer to Truth PBS show have just gone on my channel (Philip Goff Philosophy) as collaborations....you don't even need to leave the house! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q87e...

@patrickbarkham.bsky.social explains the genetic work on the British Swallowtail that SBBT has recently published with our partners in Montpellier University. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some reflections on book tour mollycrabapple.substack.com/p/some-refle...

Siouxsie and The Banshees 🖤

Putting a glass of water in a microwave oven is an underrated method of making people feel unsettled.

Working better for me via the re-stream on YouTube. I see the original broadcaster's been using the wrong set-list, so the song titles have been all wrong. www.youtube.com/live/OsXStrn...

Thanks to D-Cure, we can watch The Cure at Rock Werchter on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/OsXStrn...

The Cure, live stream now from Werchter Festival, Belgium www.vrt.be/vrtmax/lives...

Why do the characters in JAWS not simply defeat the shark in the marketplace of ideas?

I am an Emily Wilson FAN. Read her interview here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A good first step in reining in the social and epistemological damage caused by chatbots would be to ban their use of the first person pronoun. We are being sold the notion that they are sentient and humanlike. We forgive errors in humans. We mustn't in AI, any more than we would in calculators.

tremble at the power of the NAND gate! see how it replicates human thought! are we not but grass and goats?

Win a copy of Exploring Avebury - The Essential Guide! #StandingStoneSunday Steve Marshall's renowned book Exploring Avebury: The Essential Guide is just out in a newly expanded Second Edition. We have three copies to give away. Read on and follow the link for how to enter... 1/

Watch a pro-shot video of #TheCure 's 2006 concert at the Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland, in its entirety, as broadcast on TVP 1. odysee.com/@TCDB:7/2026... A playlist of all 2026 The Cure concerts so far: shorturl.at/mv7A0

From Tim Pope: #IShootRockStars Tickets are now available for the launch of 'I Shoot Rock Stars'. I'll be in conversation with @Tim_Burgess and signing copies at @roughtrade, London, on Thursday 13 August. More dates to be announced.

"Schrödinger’s A.I. Could Test the Foundations of Reality" — By @georgemusser.com: qspace.fqxi.org/articles/266...

Bare Functionalism Versus Digital Computational Functionalism Functionalism about consciousness is not necessarily committed to the claim that digital computers can achieve consciousness simply by instantiating the right programs. Details here: schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/07/bare...

As soon as you've made enough money to spend the rest of your days sipping cocktails on a private island, you should do so. And if you refuse because you want to continue making money, due to that being toxically perverse, society should confiscate your wealth so you can do so starting from scratch.

Vocal ANALYSIS of Dusty Springfield and "Son of a Preacher Man" | From The Charismatic Voice www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6_0...

Polish TV stream from last night's Cure show

#AustinsMusicMonth #MusicChallenge #ASongThat #KnowsItsOwnWorth Day 3: 3 July 2026

There are at least *three* right-wing text-based social media sites, one owned by The Actual President, another by the richest man in history, and all of which openly foster white supremacy. But those are not the ones every op-ed page in the western world is sneering about

I apologise for the feelings of jealousy that are rising in you right now but I have a pint of crème caramel and you have not

"The number of parameters we need to describe [a neuron] is undoubtedly very very large" Indeed, and keep going down to where quantum effects dominate and you might find the mechanism for consciousness, but the parameters won't be spatiotemporal. Til then no true AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHQf...

Sign of a pro, @reevesgabrels.bsky.social is well prepared

The only "pathetic" thing is that for twitter to be corrupted into a platform for bigots took the resources of the world's richest idiot, under the flaccid watch of sanctimonious 'free speech' faux intellectuals erroneously labelled 'liberal'. They're still there, and they're still bleating on.

Recently, biologists built the most advanced artificial cell to date. “It’s a big step forward to this holy grail of making a living thing out of dead components,” said systems chemist Sijbren Otto.

Did Bronze Age artists in Iberia and Scandinavia meet each other and talk technique? Archaeologists examining rock art in Spain and Portugal noticed that some motifs closely match those carved in Nordic regions 3,000 years ago! archaeology.org/news/2026/06/30/bronze-age-boat-artwork-analyzed/

The Cure – Charlotte Sometimes, live last night in Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPS-...

Space Bites: "Vera Rubin survey is underway. Could a spare Perseverance rover be going to the moon? Two planets that are less dense than cotton candy. A vast connected magma system on Mars." From @universetoday.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kinx...

The success of a society should be measured in the number of scientists and artists it can support in an egalitarian manner

Came across this gem today: a replica of Isaac Newton’s telescope, placed on a pedestal below the 200-inch Palomar telescope, for comparison. (Look closely!) 🔭 1958 photo from the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

'Dub’s non-standard techniques and unfettered format helped Public Image Ltd and The Slits to move beyond punk’s three-chord restrictions and there were echoes of dub in early hip hop cutups too...' The Strange World... Of #KingTubby buff.ly/Kt2lG8o

Two of my favourite board games as a kid in the 70s. Formula One: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula... Seven League Boots: boardgamegeek.com/image/111280...

Just listened to this in full. Best Madonna album in a long time.

Japanese artist Akie Nakata (known as Akie) turns found stones and rocks into animal paintings #WomensArt

"There are millions of people who seem to believe that their personal Claude is conscious, and yet I can’t find anyone who thinks that DALL-E has a soul.. It’s a fascinating dichotomy.. in light of the fact that both image diffusion and language transformers use such similar underlying technologies"

Madonna - Confessions II (Playlist) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx83...