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Inspired by a question from my son, I had Claude put together something I've always wondered - how long does it take for a supercomputer to make it to your home?

sound drops at 15:00 and returns at 17:00 youtu.be/zMG6aRZhIGE

as above, compose below. probably the world's first occult category theory music video verified by lean.

users here regularly disappoint me in not finding the fine line between feeling vindicated privately by someone's downfall and actively bullying or publicly mobbing. we should try to love more, and when we cant find it in ourselves we should try harder to avoid hatred.

Here's Tharp's map of the ocean floor— first of its kind—revealing the mid-Atlantic Ridge (photo is of a reproduction of Tharp's map given to me by my wonderful former PhD student @federicabocchi.bsky.social) Learn more about Tharp here: lamont.columbia.edu/news/marie-t... #WomenInSTEM #histsci ⚒️ 🌊🧪

USA and Houthis both trying their best to assert illegal authority over maritime traffic. at least the USA maintains global de facto control over illegal foreign leader kidnappings, civilian assassinations, and foreign resource extraction.

We can equally laud and condemn Fritz Haber simultaneously without needing to pick one. No human being is reducible to a single judgement call encompassing every aspect of their life.

Since many people are learning about effective altruism, it's worth learning about Mozi, the ancient Chinese philosopher who was surprisingly close to being a proto-effective-altruist (particularly the… https://firefly.social/post/ff-11a0871a0db84db6a704f9cbce6b07ca?s=bsky

burgertime deluxe, print ad, imagery, game boy (1991) archive.org/details/elec...

It's so cool we have this depiction from just after 1066, and then this photograph 920 years later in 1986.

Daily #2150 - A green bnuy

calling iran a gas station masquerading as a country is like calling the US an orwelian war machine disguised as a freedom-loving democracy. you arent wrong, but also not entirely accurate. in both cases, theres a rich history of culture and artisans being represented by a sociopathic monstrosity.

On August 26, 1966, readers of the NYT woke up to the first photo of the Earth from the Moon on the front page. Here's a thread about how the Lunar Orbiter team retrieved it from film on a spacecraft orbiting the Moon, showing the reconstruction process back on Earth. 🧵(1/12) 🗃️🔭 #photography

My initial thoughts on the Langtang-Lirung glacier collapse and devastating floods in Tibet and Nepal. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2026/08/augu...

Appears to be a very thorough review of how the internet has become far more closed and censored. Excited to read. arctotherium.substack.com/p/the-closur...

imo, there are two kinds of people in this world: those that put energy into wishing away or ignoring the negative externalities of capitalism and those who put energy into figuring out how we transition to a post-scarce era.

Insane statistic: In 2025, China increased its electricity generation by almost 500 terawatt-hours (TWh). That's the equivalent of the entirety of Germany's grid added to China's electricity system in just one year.

I hate this. 'All new cars manufactured and sold in the EU and in the US will have to include a mandatory infrared camera aimed at the driver's face at all times, which is alarming some privacy groups.' - @campuscodi.risky.biz news.risky.biz/risky-bullet... cc @enbrown.bsky.social

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

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See the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.

if this flag offends you i'll help you pack

Daily #2104 - Let the doodlier doodles continue!

alarming when you realize the data is a 30 year average.

Jupiter spins so fast that gravity at its poles is 16.7% higher than at the equator. In fact, the equatorial velocity of 12.6 km/s is faster than Earth's escape velocity.

*ass slap* good game

ive always suspected 1999 was a yolo year for babymaking and now i can see the bump in 2000 pop growth data to confirm it.

A plot of the most colorful birds.

Man throwing shoe at George W Bush gold ring

Daily #2063 - doodle

Another shot of the door at St Edward’s, Stow-on-the-wold.

The DNC "autopsy" omits the biggest reason Democrats lost in 2024: inflation and anti-incumbent sentiment. In doing so, it fails to incentivize party actors to think about how they will overcome the same negative forces in 2030 and 2032 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

my father dated a woman who denied dinosaurs ever existed. she also fiercely defended other glimmers of knowledge like "females do not fart"

people with robot girl pfps posting 'datacenters are destroying the planet' from their cyberpunk aesthetic accounts. bestie my culture is not your costume

The interior staircase of Casa Navàs, a masterpiece of Catalan Modernism located in Reus, Spain

ASN: AS4766 Korea Telecom Country: KR City: Seoul State: Seoul Scanned: 2025-05-06T10:27:21 https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse#id/16881552 #vnc #infosec

Too many people frame the world as good vs bad, us/them and it falls apart in reality. In the scope of humanity the good are the people and the bad are any institution that becomes distant from the people it builds on. Nationalism, feudalism, federalism, corporatocracy, hegemony are the 'bad guys'.

Perfect example of humans desiring something but underestimating the dependencies. Look at how small that rootball is. I'm no palm expert but the stresses of that windy transplant with high albedo surroundings with that tiny fraction of roots equates to very low odds of survival.

Greed, uh...finds a way.

A Moroccan artisan meticulously working on "gebs", the traditional carved plasterwork that decorates walls in Moroccan architecture.

This was confirmed by multiple accounts, then twitter turned off the feature due to 'inaccuracies', and when the feature came back online this was changed

Powerful computational tools are cool. But not when the vast majority of funding is lined up for research towards WMDs. Thumbnail is cringe, but I'm glad 404 has the Alamos budget on display in this article.

Amazing Architecture Photography of the Barcelona’s Santa Catarina Market with an undulating Ceramic Rooftop. A mosaic of 325 000 hexagonal tiles in 67 Colors. photo: Duccio Malagamba

Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.