Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

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Finally. Hoping things stay peaceful.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

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I also read your posts here.

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Claude Monet

Wonderful! Thanks for this Carl! I used to own a copy of this book but it somehow disappeared years ago. Very happy to be able to read it again!

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"The sea rises, the light fails… The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."

- James Baldwin

It's not that AI is useless.

It's that AI is useful like asbestos was useful.

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🔭 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler; Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

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Spot on! 🎯

György Kurtág - Stele, Op.33 (Audio + Full Score) YouTube video by Ryan Power

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Messages de feu Demoiselle R. V. Troussova, Op. 17 YouTube video by Pierre Boulez - Topic

Wishing György Kurtág a very happy hundredth birthday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXW...

a bright comet with two distinct tails. One tail is longer than the other. The nucleus of the comet glows green. The comet is positioned on the right of the image. The background is a sea of stars. To the left, is a near-edge on spiral galaxy, residing in the distance.

I really *love* when we get these conjunctions!

Depth is hard to perceive when looking into the cosmos, but images like this give us an idea.

Comet - our Solar System
Stars - further out, but our Galaxy
Galaxy - very far away with a void between

Looking across space & time!

📸 Daniele Gasparri

Why does my car automatically play Radiohead’s “Airbag” every time I get in it?

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition,

The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance

Iconic imo

“Something that has to do with … leaving … ” Between the winter of 1950–51, when he began mapping out a series of “Projections” in squares on graph paper, and the attenuating final breath of “Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello” in 1987, there were fewe...

Morty's 100th birthday is Monday. Tim Rutherford-Johnson has a beautiful essay in this week's VAN with reflections on the composer's aesthetic of absence. van-magazine.com/mag/morton-f...

Big wave and good light.

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A fast shutter photo of a twisting wave. Black and white and square.

A ‘clapotis’ off the East Sussex coast.

Chord of the first twenty three primes #chord

A bit inconvenient for potential alien life forms if they’re constantly being incinerated by their own suns

Trained Cat Hypnotizes Woman 3 panels a cat sat on a desk, next to a telephone, looking at a woman the womans head slumped forward a close up of the cats eyes

A mere 390 light-years away, Sun-like stars and future planetary systems are forming in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to our fair planet. The James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam peered into the nearby natal chaos to capture this infrared image at an inspiring scale. The frame spans less than a light-year across the Rho Ophiuchi region and contains about 50 young stars. Brighter stars clearly show Webb's characteristic pattern of diffraction spikes. Huge jets of shocked molecular hydrogen blasting from newborn stars are red in the image, with the large, yellowish dusty cavity carved out by the energetic young star near its centre. Near some stars in the stunning image are shadows cast by their protoplanetary disks. The spectacular cosmic snapshot was released in 2023 to celebrate the successful first year of Webb's exploration of the Universe.

🔭 Webb's Rho Ophiuchi

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI),

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I’m very sorry for your loss.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"There is nothing new under the sun. But there are new suns." - Octavia Butler
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