ChukG
@chukg.bsky.social
science fiction and books and libraries and games and music (alternative, punk, indie etc. and guitar), also @[email protected] he/him
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For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI.
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10 Hours Hypnotic Fireplace Ambiance – 4K Macro Slow-Motion Color Flames, Crackling Fire (No Music)
YouTube video by Rob Sheridan
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December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
For your holiday ambiance, I've made a hypnotic yule log fireplace with ultra slow motion macro footage of flames stretching & warping like liquid as fire reacts with calcium chloride & barium. This is real fire I filmed, not CGI or AI.
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
10hrs, 4K, crackling sounds, no music, no ads. Happy holidays!
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And speaking of Finns, a Finnish equivalent to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” is hänellä ei ole kaikki muumit laaksossa. It means “they don’t have all the Moomins in the valley.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
And speaking of Finns, a Finnish equivalent to “a few sandwiches short of a picnic” is hänellä ei ole kaikki muumit laaksossa. It means “they don’t have all the Moomins in the valley.”
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Re-upping for the people who quite sensibly stay off social media during the weekend: Watch as multiple "AI" fail a simple factual query!
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
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“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
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December 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Re-upping for the people who quite sensibly stay off social media during the weekend: Watch as multiple "AI" fail a simple factual query!
RIP John Varley
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
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Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com/looking-back...
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025 - Reactor
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
RIP John Varley
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SCOOP: Simon Fraser University insists that its new medical school, the first to open in Western Canada in 55 years, is so new and different that its collective agreement with the SFU Faculty Association doesn't apply.
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SFU Wants Only Non-Union Faculty at New Medical School
Simon Fraser contends that the med school is so new and different that its existing collective agreement with university faculty doesn't apply
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December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
SCOOP: Simon Fraser University insists that its new medical school, the first to open in Western Canada in 55 years, is so new and different that its collective agreement with the SFU Faculty Association doesn't apply.
Read more @pressprogress.ca
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In Serranía Celtibérica, a decade of rewilding efforts has revived ecosystems, wildlife & rural livelihoods. Semi-wild herbivores & predators are returning to abandoned farmland, local timber & resin businesses are gaining sustainable footing. buff.ly/CN34T4o
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Rewilding is revitalising lives and landscapes in the Iberian Highlands | Rewilding Europe
The Iberian Highlands of Spain have struggled with rural depopulation and economic decline for many years. Today, rewilding is helping communities in the landscape turn these challenges into new…
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December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In Serranía Celtibérica, a decade of rewilding efforts has revived ecosystems, wildlife & rural livelihoods. Semi-wild herbivores & predators are returning to abandoned farmland, local timber & resin businesses are gaining sustainable footing. buff.ly/CN34T4o
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There’s this core contradiction in RPG design where the medium is scrappy as hell, and requires little more than some scribbles and a dream, but the commercial products are pricey and tremendously polished.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
There’s this core contradiction in RPG design where the medium is scrappy as hell, and requires little more than some scribbles and a dream, but the commercial products are pricey and tremendously polished.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
It’s easy to see, and upon seeing it, the first instinct is usually that Something Is Wrong.
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Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer. https://to.pbs.org/4rUfabq
Sophie Kinsella, author of the millions-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, dies at 55
Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Writer Sophie Kinsella, whose effervescent rom-com “Confessions of a Shopaholic” sparked a millions-selling series, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 55 and had been diagnosed with brain cancer. https://to.pbs.org/4rUfabq
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The Book of Love ebook is currently on sale for 1.99, y'all. :)
You can get it from your favorite independent bookstore here:
indiebound.org
You can get it from your favorite independent bookstore here:
indiebound.org
indiebound.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The Book of Love ebook is currently on sale for 1.99, y'all. :)
You can get it from your favorite independent bookstore here:
indiebound.org
You can get it from your favorite independent bookstore here:
indiebound.org
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Important deep dive into the nuance of current and proposed carbon pricing regimes for Alberta/Canada.
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ANALYSIS | Why a tonne of industrial carbon costs $95 in Alberta but credits sell for less than $20 | CBC News
A key part of the pipeline deal between Alberta and Ottawa is a “minimum effective credit price of $130 per tonne” on industrial carbon emissions, but already the two levels of government are talking ...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Important deep dive into the nuance of current and proposed carbon pricing regimes for Alberta/Canada.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ICYMI: Cast of Wonders 658: Your Hold is Ready by @lduerr.bsky.social narrated by @danicutler.bsky.social produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social hosted by @chesneycat.bsky.social
www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast...
#bannedbooksweek
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#bannedbooksweek
October 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
ICYMI: Cast of Wonders 658: Your Hold is Ready by @lduerr.bsky.social narrated by @danicutler.bsky.social produced by @jeremycarter42.bsky.social hosted by @chesneycat.bsky.social
www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast...
#bannedbooksweek
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#bannedbooksweek
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Happy Clair Cameron Patterson Day. The reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because he fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, & campaigned for its removal from pipes & lead solder from cans. He died 5 Dec 1995.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Happy Clair Cameron Patterson Day. The reason lead levels in children’s blood have dropped 85% in the past thirty years is because he fought car companies to end leaded gasoline. He also removed it from paint, & campaigned for its removal from pipes & lead solder from cans. He died 5 Dec 1995.
I used to have a paperback copy of this, some good stories in it.
From 2 years ago.
Free MIRRORSHADES! Weirdly this epic cyberpunk antho doesn't exist as an ebook. So we turned it into a free online webpage. Happy reading, and may ye wax gnarly and punk and dirty and ecstatic and intricate and all that good shit. Happy cybermonday. rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/
Free MIRRORSHADES! Weirdly this epic cyberpunk antho doesn't exist as an ebook. So we turned it into a free online webpage. Happy reading, and may ye wax gnarly and punk and dirty and ecstatic and intricate and all that good shit. Happy cybermonday. rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/
Mirrorshades
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December 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I used to have a paperback copy of this, some good stories in it.
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We're still trying to identify these little white plastic Pegasus figurines. Can anyone help? We’ve found several on beaches in Cornwall but beachcombers elsewhere have found them too. They're about an inch high.
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We're still trying to identify these little white plastic Pegasus figurines. Can anyone help? We’ve found several on beaches in Cornwall but beachcombers elsewhere have found them too. They're about an inch high.
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People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
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November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.
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Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.
Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.
Prime Minister Mark Carney disagrees with the concept of a premier of one province unilaterally taking over a different province but his hands are tied by his unwillingness to do anything about it.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself premier of B.C.
pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/d... Sounds like we should get rid of James Moore's Copyright Modernisation Act .
Pluralistic: (Digital) Elbows Up (28 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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November 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/d... Sounds like we should get rid of James Moore's Copyright Modernisation Act .
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Outstanding new job at @biodivpathways.bsky.social and @ubcokanagan.bsky.social
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Manager of Operations, Biodiversity Pathways and the BRAES Institute
Staff - Non Union Job Category M&P - AAPS Job Profile AAPS Salaried - Research and Facilitation, Level C Job Title Manager of Operations, Biodiversity Pathways and the BRAES Institute Department U...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Outstanding new job at @biodivpathways.bsky.social and @ubcokanagan.bsky.social
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First country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for:
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The Marshall Islands Just Quietly Implemented the First National Universal Basic Income (UBI)
How the Marshall Islands built the first nationwide universal basic income, funded by a US-capitalized Compact Trust Fund, and what it means for UBI everywhere.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
First country in the world to implement UBI: Marshall Islands! This is a fascinating article how it happened and how it's being paid for:
scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
scottsantens.substack.com/p/marshall-i...
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)