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I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of the novel “Klara and the Sun,” which has recently been adapted into a movie. The story is set in the future and is narrated by Klara, a robotic “Artificial Friend,” whose job is to be a companion to a sick teenage girl.

👻 BOO! A reminder we are open every day during half term (26 October - 1 November). Join us for: 🕹️ Spooky Game On Guided Tour 👻 Ghost Hunt with the micro:bit 👩🏼‍🏭 Electronics Lab: Meet Stinky, Our Friendly Ghost 🎃 Book here: www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/30677/...

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.” ― Carl Sagan

In 1687, Isaac Newton published the book that explained gravity, with Edmond Halley paying for its printing. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/p... Philosophiae Naturalis by Newton at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28233 www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404 #books #science #physics #mathematics

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

Ursula K. Le Guin was born #OTD in 1929. First female author to win both the Nebula & Hugo awards for Best Novel for "The Left Hand of Darkness," 1970. In total, she won 8 Hugo & 6 Nebula awards. Second woman Grand Master of the #ScienceFiction & Fantasy Writers of America. #SciFi #LitSky #BookSky

Can't wait for this thing to take my job, collapse my job's industry, hopelessly lose money on my job, then need a taxpayer bailout from me despite me having no job anymore.

Christmas trains wrapped in LED lights are a holiday tradition from the UK to Canada, and some, like the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train, collect food for local food banks

A short video I made in the 'classroom' at the Northwest Computer Museum. Those of you who were at a UK school in the 1980s will probably remember the BBC Micros and CUB Monitors. The PCs running DOOM will bring back memories too - the legendary first-person shooter ( FPS ) from 1993.

How to be a (Roman) man Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination by Catharine Edwards aeon.co/essays/the-p... Books by Cicero at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

I saw this video on Reddit of DuneCrawl, which uses my Asset Forge for sketching. I love it, in fact, I loved seeing this so much that it gave me a lot of inspiration. Big plans for Asset Forge, hopefully will already be able to share soon. redd.it/1x2fy0r

Let's celebrate, today is Ada Lovelace Day! Known for creating the first machine algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace is widely celebrated as the first programmer. Ada Lovelace at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #womeninstem

Dominic Pajak built a tiny desk toy that runs a cycle-accurate BBC Micro emulator on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip to play Elite.

One potato. Then two. Then the universe. A minimalist game about exponential growth. Think Universal Paperclips on steroids. 👉 Try ponzipotato.com

Me when my bae catches that new Russian plague… Have a wonderfurl week #Caturday

From their three hearts to their doughnut-shaped brains, octopuses are fascinating creatures that are also biologically wired to die after they reproduce. We spoke with cephalopod expert Z. Yan Wang to learn more about octopus death spirals and to answer listener questions for Cephalopod Week!

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

What if you could take a work of art, remix it, study it, share it, or build something new from it? You can. Public-domain works belong to everyone to be: 🛠️ Reused 🔀 Remixed ❤️ Enjoyed 🧠 Reimagined So go find something. Then make something new. Free to (re)use. blog.archive.org/2026/01/01/w...

Fire breathing cat #Cat #Caturday

The big tech companies want you to believe that their default software offerings are the only option, but spoiler alert, there’s a wide array of fantastic software out there. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...

Astronaut, pilot & engineer Samantha Cristoforetti: the first Italian woman in space, 2014. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 She holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut & brewed the first espresso in space. #WomenInSTEM #Italy 📷 : Coolest #coffee break in history!

Half Dome (or El Capitan) and the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, California, illuminated by golden sunlight or alpenglow

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

Using Copilot now be all like www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo

#Cat TV. #Cats

Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot' — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

I've already got the prize. The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it—those are the real things; the honors are unreal to me. I don't believe in honors. — Richard Feynman

In April 1946, Albert Einstein visited Lincoln University, a historically Black university, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and spoke against racial segregation in the United States. A refugee from Nazi Germany, he supported civil rights causes and corresponded with W.E.B. Du Bois.

When you can’t afford a PlayStation Original post

The effectiveness of propaganda demonstrates one of the chief characteristics of modern masses. What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part. — Hannah Arendt

What does it mean to live a good life? We think it’s a question worth asking together. ❤️ #Humanism #EthicalCulture #StLouis #Community

Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.