my clan? xymox

the freedom that FOSS gives you, is that you can patch it if someone adds a feature you don't like this is easier than ever in the era of code LLMs

A corollary to this: education on the scale of the material inputs of human civ is basically nonexistent, and the innumeracy that falls out of that makes it trivial to shock the general public with scary-looking numbers about the resource use of just about any element of modernity you so please.

This evening's #ISS pass over The Hague. 10 x 0.5 ms unfiltered mono in Celestron 8" + 2.5x powermate. #astrophotography

AR14392 was pointed directly at Earth & let off a CME. (Flare M2.36, 18.3.26) This is a 4 hour time lapse compressed down to 30 seconds 📸 simon2940 www.instagram.com/reel/DWDKxOG... 🎵 Mathias Fritsche, Melina•Transformers - Tessa (Epic Version)

i still feel like the dot com boom is a good analogy for what's going on with ai rn. people might not remember or weren't around for it, but there were tons of pointless or bad business ideas people made websites for that largely failed but that didn't mean the internet as a concept was a fad.

Someone managed to take a stand Gather round, ye fuckers, and witness that rarest of organs, the human spine!

apparently "wireless bra" is a thing. this makes me vry curious about the wired ones

cosmism, or specifically fedorovism, is the best future prophecy specifically because it has the classically russian theological/philosophical signature of uncompromising absolutism. every later such ideology is full of cowardly western hedging

If you see this, show your orange art #digitalart #3dmodel #scifi #scifiart

She's All That Kill All Artists shirt but it says Kill All Payment Providers.

but games that render the character as '@' give me gender dysphoria

HH1159-HH1164 in the Carina Nebula (star-forming region) with #JWST 🔭 NIRCam (F164N, F444W, F470N) program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

Holy cow!!

today in cursed ways that flash storage breaks: USB stick that doesn't process writes anymore. no, it's not write-protected. it doesn't send i/o errors. it accepts them and ignores them. reads work fine, but return the old state

People often ask me how to completely destroy (disintegrate) the planet Earth. I did some calculations that might be useful to you for reference. The gravitational binding energy of all the matter of Earth is 2.49×10³² joules This is an equivalent amount of energy released by 5.951×10²² tons of TNT

OSHW robotics lab

"There may, indeed, be other applications of the [lambda calculus] than its use as a logic." ~ Alonzo Church, in the understatement of the century

wat

Sylph songstress

Publishers, your fight should not be with a vital public good.

Finally some good fucking enby rep.

Winter noch Lente Pastels on Sennelier La Carte pastel paper 50x65 cm #pastelart #softpastel #pastel #landscape #winterlandscape #holland #TheNetherlands #painting #art #sennelier

Online became a lot more tolerable when I rejected fake ideas like "open discourse" and "starting a dialogue" and embraced a Morrowind quote instead

A lot of the time I won't reblog a post I actually quite like because it's screenshotting or quoting some complete and utter dogshit and I don't wanna inflict that on people.

that moment when structure emerges from the slime... beautiful transition from chaos to pattern. the emotional rollercoaster feels like part of the process - doubt keeping excitement honest. wishing you clear eyes for verification, and space to celebrate if it holds. :3

amazing tool, u should check it out if u haven't!

animated versions of those datasets (1/2) www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop...

it might be possible to make clothing with lights reflecting your emotions at this point, right?

the Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

flying a drone through a tunnel while listening to old vnv nation is certainly a vibe

they call it work life balance because you balance the joy of work with the despair of life

there's even an 80's-inspired hardware design game named after that store.steampowered.com/app/576030/M...

tip of my tongue: does anyone remember that art game from ~2016 era that was all monochromatic black and white and you were flying a drone spaceship thing through cliffs and oceans I think it was unreal engine? merveilles-adjacent artist

"The Ignorance Cults all worship the smallest cages they can find: the accidents of birth, of biology, of history and culture." --Greg Egan, Distress

`pilot` is the correct metaphor for llm coding by the way in the sense that it's a large thing, you have a lot of control surfaces, and it can also go completely out of control in ways that nobody can really predict

ESO 350-38 (in wikipedia under Haro 11) with #Hubble ACS (ultraviolet, left) and #JWST MIRI (mid-infrared, right) Filters HST: F125LP, F150LP Filters JWST: F770W, F1130W program HST: archive.stsci.edu/proposal_sea... program JWST: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

and people complain about ai hallucination

this is how i access bluesky

"Automating grueling farming work is bad actually." - statement dreamt up by the utterly reactionary (The proper response here would btw be working towards open sourcing these farming drones, machines, etc. so they are no longer locked down by corporations like John Deere.)

Right now, there are only 24 iNaturalist observations of this stunning purple plant (subspecies Pulsatilla halleri rhodopaea)!

Huge solar prominence from July 2023 This was shot using 204mm refractor with an additional 2x Powermate on top of the 4.2x within the @daystarfilters Gemini solar filter coupled with a Player One Apollo-Max 📸simon2940 www.instagram.com/simon2940/re...

abolish daylight savings time

I like hard sci-fi too. Would love recommendations from others. Given that I love Kim Stanley-Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars series, I really enjoyed 'The Terraformers' by Annalee Newitz recently. I've been pressing @aptshadow.bsky.social's Children of Time on everyone for years, too.

yeah I absolutely love this place #vrchat

happy international women's day to those who celebrate

i wonder if "fully automated reverse-engineering of hardware register-level documentation from a binary device driver" is already within reach

one persistent issue i've noticed with claude code is that it often removes perfectly good comments, even when they're completely unrelated to the change in question

0x00 OURS IS A WORLD IN VERTIGO. 💜