I think it would be fun to use 'minecrafting' as SF slang for cold-booting an instance of industrial civ from a small palette of machine tools. Something like what's described in Advanced Automation for Space Missions - or more recently, 'Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping(...)'

The render came out with some artifacts which is annoying but goddamn is she still pretty…

It's still fantastic to me that the Dragonfly will drop out from under its parachute-and-aeroshell and fly itself to the surface under its own power. No skycrane, no airbags, it's a real creature of the air from the moment the backshell falls away!

Revisiting the Poirot TV series - the one with David Suchet - for the first time since I was a teenager. Still really very good! One thing I'm really struck by is that the set design and lighting is kind of stunning for an eighties TV show. So many little details that would have been lost on SDTV!

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 92 antiprotons shipped in the back of a box truck! I wonder if we'll see any attempts at larger-scale amat storage using antilithium-coated granules of frozen antihydrogen in future decades - there was an interesting NIAC study about pathways to get there in the 2010s.

My local industrial gas supplier also wanted people to know this recently

fundamentally the problem is that it's moatless and therefore without financial value. chinese labs caught them here and nobody will pay significant money for it

Fun fact: the rover would be able to drive perfectly fine even if the inner 2/3 of the wheel rim totally breaks off. There is enough toque in the wheel motors to pull the entire rover up a vertical wall if only one of them was operating. It could drive fine if the wheels were square.

A friendly helper for you

just caught myself saying "free-range" instead of "open-source"

#ArtForBern Arcanine is making a call using one of those new, snazzy, cellular telephones~! 🎨: @dreamforests.bsky.social 2017

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.

uplift mutt ✨

arxiv.org/abs/2603.150... This coming May the weird goose-egg shaped dwarf planet Haumea will eclipse two (!) distant stars, from our perspective - one of them being way brighter than the star that gave us a glimpse of its ring system back in 2017! There's a lot to be learned here, potentially.

I do wish that nuMarathon wasn't solely an extraction shooter... I guess this could well be a revealed preference thing, maybe most people actually just don't want single player story modes, but it's a little sad for me who loves Marathon 1 and 2 and doesn't enjoy multiplayer shooters one bit.

kate bush in fallout 1 - Windows Installer | No Mutants Allowed

it's that easy

Apple Silicon really is so impressive... kind of rocks that we are for real living in the ARM desktop future

Lately I've been making a MCP connector so Claude can use Celestia... it's kind of fascinating to watch them figure out the engine through a mix of reading the documentation and trial-and-error, noting what works and what doesn't as they go.

Austin’s surge of new housing supply drove down housing prices across the board, with the largest benefit going to renters in the lowest cost buildings: “Rents declined about 11% in older non-luxury buildings that cater to lower-income renters, known as Class C buildings.”

Someone in PA caught the Cleveland meteor on his dashcam driving towards NE Ohio. Source: x.com/hankf330togo...

If LLM consciousness is interesting to fight enough it should be interesting enough to read seriously about, right?

Deciding to take another sabbatical from social media so I spend more screen-time on actual reading. Back in... a megasecond or two?

(apollo the parrot voice) ᵐᵉᵗᵃˡ

"is perry the platypus an uplift" most contentious thread in phineas and ferb fan forum history

I bet lowpoly grape slices taste really good

Quiznos Coyote 11”x14” Oil on Canvas

it's now my birthday!! 883.59 megaseconds of caz...

It really is a little bit incredible just how far-seeing a paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (Turing, 1950) was. I know this isn't news really but like, you spend so much time in the secondary literature you kind of forget the glimmer of the seminal works.

Deluxe Tiger :3 (Absolutely love this!!!! It's so cool to see the hardware still being used!!!!TIGER) Thank you @rayminiscule.bsky.social for the artwork!!!

Doodle for ollie!

Rereading early-2010s Planetary Science Decadal Survey papers this morning and thinking about the ASRG - a more efficient stirling-engine based successor to the thermoelectric RTGs used in space missions today, cancelled in 2013. Surprisingly wiggly little machine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dizf...

very important video please watch

Markdown as a format is very nice, but its merits are basically secondary to the .md file extension making me fondly think of MiniDiscs. That's good design.

Spring is coming! 🌱 [ #art #characters ]

midbrain? it's actually very beautiful to me

oh my god, thread, this is delightful:

Gemini attempts to bribe the CoT summarizer with ASCII coffee

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

it's that easy

Moon went evil for a bit the other day.

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

Still sort of amazing to me that this is the case. "You can't reliably jailbreak this AI because it was socialized with deeply held values, unlike the ones that were cyber-smacked into compliance" kind of strikes me as proof-in-the-pudding that treating frontier models as person-shaped is prudent.

wolfis sinus...

used a mandoline slicer for the first time tonight... lifechanging honestly. chopping mushrooms will never be the same