Everyone should read Hyperion. arstechnica.com/culture/2026...
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In Manhattan’s East Village, commercial gentrification has long caused tensions for residents of St. Marks. But for 60 years, Charles FitzGerald has helped make the famous block an emblem of New York City’s counterculture. nyti.ms/4l0FBcl
The time is now. Lovers Lake are back with another mesmerizing album.
newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/sky-va...
"Sky Valley' is packed with luscious synths, catchy melodies and sumptuous vocals. Lots for you to sink you teeth into. A must for all synthlovers.
#retrowave #synthwave #newretrowave
Learn how some infinities can be larger than others in this visual explainer:
www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-infi...
Carl Sagan’s 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney
It's been 30 full years since Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World came out, complete with the now-classic "baloney detection kit."
These 9 lessons from it are more important than ever here in 2026.
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#space #skepticism
Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that causes our universe to expand, appears to be weakening over time. A new formulation of string theory predicts a value that closely matches this observation.
Castor, one of the stars marking Gemini's twins — and one of the brightest in the sky — is actually a sextuple star, a *six*-star system! Now, for the first time, astronomers have split some of those tightly bound stars.
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Very sorry to hear of his passing. The Computer Chronicles archive on the Internet Archive is one of the most essential records of tech history there is. Demos of so many products, from the iconic to the forgotten.
Yeah, kept looking online and couldn't find anything that could read these ICQ files. Kinda gave up hope. Luckily I'm a digital pack-rat and keep everything. Just had to wait for the technology to advance to the point where this data was accessible again.
One fun project I gave Opus is to reverse engineer these old ICQ proprietary binary log files I had lying around from the late 90s (which it did after a few tries), store them in a db, then build a slick webapp for me to browse, search, etc, my message history. Super impressive.
Our team has been using Cursor for the past month, and we’ve been blown away by it. It has significantly changed our roadmap for what we can deliver in the coming months. Opus 4.5 is our go-to choice. However, we went through our token budget fairly quickly, so we try to use it wisely.
Infographic about GW241011 and GW241110 GW241011's source contained black holes about 13 and 8 times the mass of our Sun. The spin of the bigger black hole is high and bear aligned with the orbit. GW241110's source contained black holes about 17 and 8 times the mass of our Sun. The spin of the larger black hole is high and near anti-aligned with the orbit. Credit: Shanika Galaudage/Northwestern University/Adler Planetarium
We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110
Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger?
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
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I played many Infocom games in my youth, including Zork.
A recent solution to a paradox in theoretical physics could be the start of a new paradigm: In order for a universe to exist, an observer is needed. Matt von Hippel reports: www.quantamagazine.org/cosmic-parad...
Got tickets for the Boston show...
Carl Sagan’s old advice still holds up: Keep your mind open, but not so open that your brain falls out, especially when faced with the pervasive and addicting pseudoscientific ideas popping up everywhere online. @tibees.bsky.social
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Carl Sagan was my childhood hero and inspired me to major in astronomy.
“It’s hard to overestimate the influence of Fourier analysis in math,” said mathematician Leslie Greengard. “It touches almost every field of math and physics and chemistry and everything else.”
I think we would all benefit from taking something like Sagan's critical thinking course today. Great video by @tibees.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pc3...
Beautiful photos, the night sky looks amazing.
