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Kamini

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中国朋友们我有一个问题： “换” 和 “还” 有什么区别呢？那一个怎么用？
还有， “还”- 有两个用法。 “还有”的意思是第二个意思。那，什么时候用“换” ，什么时候用 “还”？

July 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM

Kamini

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July 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM

Kamini

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‘At the heart of this clash is the ambition of an officially atheist, authoritarian state to dominate a centuries-old spiritual tradition – and to control the hearts and minds of a people determined to preserve their unique identity.’

China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum @chinalawtranslate.bsky.social · Jul 4

This story scores high on both the "China Bad" and "China Weird" scales, so gets a lot of traction even in this news cycle.

Otherwise, discussing someone's impending death would usually be considered a bad angle for observing their 90th birthday.

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At 90, the Dalai Lama braces for final showdown with Beijing: his reincarnation | CNN

For much of the past century, the Dalai Lama has been the living embodiment of Tibet’s struggle for greater freedoms under Chinese Communist Party rule, sustaining the cause from exile even as an incr...

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July 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM

Kamini

@kaminig123.bsky.social

Yeahyeah, all a lot of gas

Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · Jul 2

A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy

I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west.

This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes).

The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia).

I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope).

The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used.

I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them.

In any case, I hope you li...

July 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM

Kamini

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‘I am not anti-ethics. I am anti-purity politics disguised as ethics’

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · Jul 3

We need to stop treating AI as good or bad and start asking better questions. Who benefits? Who is excluded? What does ethical use look like in practice, not just in theory, asks Siobhan Cole in our recent Comment piece 👇 #BookSky