Conor R
@alienitems.bsky.social
"...at the time you just thought, yes, of course. More, more of this."
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I did a bit more processing with my Pleiades picture from the other day. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I did a bit more processing with my Pleiades picture from the other day. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Orbital
Massive Attack
dEUS
Super Furry Animals
Kerbdog
Orbital
Massive Attack
dEUS
Super Furry Animals
Kerbdog
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
The Prodigy
The Manic Street Preachers
The Foo Fighters
Soundgarden
Green Day
The Prodigy
The Manic Street Preachers
The Foo Fighters
Soundgarden
Green Day
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
The Verve
The Seahorses
Super Furry Animals
Ride
The Cure
The Verve
The Seahorses
Super Furry Animals
Ride
The Cure
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Orbital
Massive Attack
dEUS
Super Furry Animals
Kerbdog
Orbital
Massive Attack
dEUS
Super Furry Animals
Kerbdog
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#Waxing, #crescent #Moon
Check out the shadows in the craters along the terminator.
Date: 2025 11 27
Time: 20:46:18 UTC
Altitude: 13° 41'
Distance: 383 881 km
Phase: 45%
Nikon D800
Skywatcher 200P
Exposure: f/5.9, 1/125s, ISO-400
Focal Length: 1200 mm
#astronomy #astrophotography #craters
Check out the shadows in the craters along the terminator.
Date: 2025 11 27
Time: 20:46:18 UTC
Altitude: 13° 41'
Distance: 383 881 km
Phase: 45%
Nikon D800
Skywatcher 200P
Exposure: f/5.9, 1/125s, ISO-400
Focal Length: 1200 mm
#astronomy #astrophotography #craters
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#Waxing, #crescent #Moon
Check out the shadows in the craters along the terminator.
Date: 2025 11 27
Time: 20:46:18 UTC
Altitude: 13° 41'
Distance: 383 881 km
Phase: 45%
Nikon D800
Skywatcher 200P
Exposure: f/5.9, 1/125s, ISO-400
Focal Length: 1200 mm
#astronomy #astrophotography #craters
Check out the shadows in the craters along the terminator.
Date: 2025 11 27
Time: 20:46:18 UTC
Altitude: 13° 41'
Distance: 383 881 km
Phase: 45%
Nikon D800
Skywatcher 200P
Exposure: f/5.9, 1/125s, ISO-400
Focal Length: 1200 mm
#astronomy #astrophotography #craters
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Free Download codes for 'Sonar Kella' by Minced Oath countersunk.bandcamp.com/album/sonar-... #downloadcodes #free #bandcamp #newmusic #ambient #synth #eggs countersunk.bandcamp.com/yum nwzd-6aqu
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Sonar Kella, by Minced Oath
9 track album
countersunk.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Free Download codes for 'Sonar Kella' by Minced Oath countersunk.bandcamp.com/album/sonar-... #downloadcodes #free #bandcamp #newmusic #ambient #synth #eggs countersunk.bandcamp.com/yum nwzd-6aqu
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Picked this one up today, another great Minced Oath release, really interesting story behind it
'Sonar Kella', the fourth album by Minced Oath is Out Now on Countersunk - available on all digital streaming platforms except for Slopify (Bandcamp is best) countersunk.bandcamp.com/album/sonar-...
#newmusic
#newmusic
Sonar Kella, by Minced Oath
9 track album
countersunk.bandcamp.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Picked this one up today, another great Minced Oath release, really interesting story behind it
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This is an insanely cool (actual) photo taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy of a skydiver buddy seen in silhouette against the distant sun. Full story, videos, and more here: www.instagram.com/p/DRBAaqLkvy...
November 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is an insanely cool (actual) photo taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy of a skydiver buddy seen in silhouette against the distant sun. Full story, videos, and more here: www.instagram.com/p/DRBAaqLkvy...
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Magical Autumn wonderland at Knockbarron wood ❤️ @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Magical Autumn wonderland at Knockbarron wood ❤️ @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social
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This is the Flaming Star Nebula. An emission / reflection nebula found in the constellation Auriga. I need to do more processing on this image but it is a spectacular looking nebula even without any processing.
November 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is the Flaming Star Nebula. An emission / reflection nebula found in the constellation Auriga. I need to do more processing on this image but it is a spectacular looking nebula even without any processing.
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
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Managed to grab a few more images of Comet Lemmon this evening (Sunday Oct 26th) from Kielder Campsite, Northumberland, through very brief gaps in the clouds. This is a phone-processed stack of half a dozen jpg images taken with my Seestar S50.
October 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Managed to grab a few more images of Comet Lemmon this evening (Sunday Oct 26th) from Kielder Campsite, Northumberland, through very brief gaps in the clouds. This is a phone-processed stack of half a dozen jpg images taken with my Seestar S50.
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Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Amazing auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska
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Evolution of Comet Lemmon over the past few nights, as imaged with my Seestar S50 from Kielder Star Camp...
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Evolution of Comet Lemmon over the past few nights, as imaged with my Seestar S50 from Kielder Star Camp...
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This is just podcasters shuffling the same $5 between them via Patreon except that someone shoved the decimal point about a dozen places to the right
Another depiction if the circularity of capital flows between OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, CoreWeave, AMD, and Oracle.
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is just podcasters shuffling the same $5 between them via Patreon except that someone shoved the decimal point about a dozen places to the right
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
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This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles:
1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,
2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,
3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.
Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.
1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,
2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,
3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.
Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.
There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three
Here's how to capitalize on them.
www.fastcompany.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This piece argues we’re in not one, but three AI bubbles:
1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,
2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,
3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.
Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.
1. a financial bubble with inflated valuations,
2. an infrastructure bubble with overbuilt data centers,
3. a hype bubble where AI can’t meet its promises.
Honestly, all three seem highly likely to me.
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September 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The people who *make this tech* can't get it to work in a simple demo, and their magical thinking about it has convinced them that they didn't need to do the most basic level of preparation for their demonstration. So it is, in fact, an excellent demonstration of what genAI will do for society.
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“There’s a joy in comprehension, that moment of understanding something new. AI robs them of that.”
This is really, really good.
This is really, really good.
I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning
As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake
www.irishtimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“There’s a joy in comprehension, that moment of understanding something new. AI robs them of that.”
This is really, really good.
This is really, really good.
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will never forget when @abeba.bsky.social made an offhand comment in a q&a session after her talk that (paraphrasing) ‘tech bros love sci fi but can’t read’
Videos like this should be required watching for all students (and all politicians) as basic tech ethics and media literacy.
youtu.be/gKOzDU64iPA?...
youtu.be/gKOzDU64iPA?...
Do billionaires even understand the sci-fi they’re inspired by? | The Listening Post
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
youtu.be
September 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
will never forget when @abeba.bsky.social made an offhand comment in a q&a session after her talk that (paraphrasing) ‘tech bros love sci fi but can’t read’
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'By integrating gen AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but..outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to...capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit'
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
September 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
'By integrating gen AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but..outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to...capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit'
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September 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Released last year, a relaxing ambient one with sounds of wildlife throughout
auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...
auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...
Spring at Home, by Saapato
2 track album
auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Released last year, a relaxing ambient one with sounds of wildlife throughout
auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...
auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/spring...
Picked this one up a few weeks back, really really nice ambient tunes, drifting and progressing pitp.bandcamp.com/album/heilun
Heilun, by Hyldýpi
7 track album
pitp.bandcamp.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Picked this one up a few weeks back, really really nice ambient tunes, drifting and progressing pitp.bandcamp.com/album/heilun
