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Q: What did the Egyptians use to travel to the underworld?

A: A new bus.
#JustForFun

Scientists discover ‘most chemically pristine’ star yet found in the universe On trip to Chilean telescope, UChicago undergrad class sheds new light on evolution of earliest stars

Scientists discover ‘most chemically pristine’ star yet found in the universe | University of Chicago News
news.uchicago.edu/story/scient... #BecauseScience

Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused pain meds during a root canal?

His goal was to transcend dental medication.
#JustForFun

Did a thing yesterday... #NoKings

GamesIndustry.biz The resource for people who make and sell games.

"We were there in the 80s for the crash, and this is definitely crashier." John and Brenda Romero reflect on the industry crisis | GamesIndustry.biz
www.gamesindustry.biz/we-were-ther... #GameDev

Webb and Hubble share most comprehensive view of Saturn to date - Infrared and visible observations show layers and storms in the ringed planet’s atmosphere The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have joined forces to capture new views of Saturn, revealing the planet in strikingly different ways.

Webb and Hubble share most comprehensive view of Saturn to date | ESA/Webb
esawebb.org/news/weic2606/ #BecauseScience

From the gameassets community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the gameassets community

800+ free music tracks for games - free with attribution
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GamesIndustry.biz The resource for people who make and sell games.

"When you're setting the price point, it's a time you really need to set your imposter syndrome on the other side of the door"

"I think people undervalue their own work" – ID@Xbox head Chris Charla | GamesIndustry.biz
www.gamesindustry.biz/i-think-peop... #GameDev

Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a gigan...

Astronomers discover giant cosmic sheet around the Milky Way | ScienceDaily
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #BecauseScience

Hades devs: accidentally inventing a subgenre was 'surreal' Greg Kasavin and Amir Rao describe the experience of watching their hit game become foundational for other developers.

"Did the gods themselves play a role in the success of the Hades series?"

Hades devs: accidentally inventing a subgenre was 'surreal'
www.gamedeveloper.com/design/hades... #GameDev

GamesIndustry.biz The resource for people who make and sell games.

"How game developers can stay on the right side of current and upcoming legislation affecting the industry"

How recent laws impact game design, from in-game chat to notifications | GamesIndustry.biz
www.gamesindustry.biz/how-recent-l... #GameDev

NASA and China warn that the Moon could be hit by a 60-meter rock and that the impact could trigger a meteor storm that would knock out the Internet, satellites, and GPS for years Asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike the Moon in 2032, triggering a meteor storm that threatens satellites and GPS.

NASA and China warn that the Moon could be hit by a 60-meter rock and that the impact could trigger a meteor storm that would knock out the Internet, satellites, and GPS for years
www.ecoticias.com/en/nasa-and-...

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"Composer turned director Filippo Beck Peccoz explains why he preferred paying for marketing over pitching to publishers for his debut game Imprinted"

Who needs a publisher, anyway? "I mean, who does physical any more?" | GamesIndustry.biz
www.gamesindustry.biz/who-needs-a-... #GameDev

fediverse.info The bespoke fediverse guide and people directory.

[Proprietary software and centralized servers. This is why we need open source software and distributed servers ( fediverse.info ) - jjk]

What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under? - Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02...

We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time

"The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time"

We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
www.newscientist.com/article/2514... #BecauseScience

Scientists get clearest view ever of star collapsing into a black hole. And they very nearly missed it | BBC Sky at Night Magazine M31-2014-DS1 is a star in the Andromeda Galaxy that underwent a brightening in infrared. Astronomers say it was a star becoming a black hole.

"Strange infrared glow found in archival data from a defunct NASA mission"

Scientists get clearest view ever of star collapsing into a black hole. And they very nearly missed it | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/m31-201... #BecauseScience

287 Chrome Extensions Caught Harvesting Browsing Data from 37M Users New investigation by Q Continuum reveals 287 Chrome extensions leaking the private browsing data of 37.4 million users to firms like Similarweb and Alibaba.

[Sometimes I think we'd be better off going back to used lynx]
287 Chrome Extensions Caught Harvesting Browsing Data from 37M Users
hackread.com/chrome-exten...

Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy One way to get out of the video-game industry funk is to recognize that players aren’t spending $70 on most games

"One way to get out of the video-game industry funk is to recognize that players aren’t spending $70 on most games"

Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy - Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... #GameDev

[From the 'No Sh*t, Sherlock' dept.]

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) - Noel Berry
noelberry.ca/posts/making... #GameDev

EZ-Tree - Free Procedural Tree Generation Software – GameFromScratch.com
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Toyota Create New Game Engine - Fluorite – GameFromScratch.com
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Astronomers detected a strong signal from space lasting seven hours. Now they may have worked out what it was | BBC Sky at Night Magazine In 2025, astronomers detected a blast from space lasting seven hours. Now they’re uncovering the processes behind the exceptional outburst.

Astronomers detected a strong signal from space lasting seven hours. Now they may have worked out what it was | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/grb-250... #BecauseScience

Every major galaxy is speeding away from us, except one — and we finally know why A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding toward us while our other neighbors are moving away from us.

Every major galaxy is speeding away from the Milky Way, except one — and we finally know why | Live Science
www.livescience.com/space/cosmol... #BecauseScience

Microsoft just gave us another great reason to switch to Linux Handing over BitLocker keys has to be the final straw.

Microsoft just gave us another great reason to switch to #Linux | Make Use Of
www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-ju...

New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

New animal species that survived mass extinction event half a billion years ago found in a quarry in China - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient... #BecauseScience

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#Linux Inside a PDF - HackingPassion.com : root@HackingPassion.com-[~]
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Mysterious dark matter seen in new high-resolution map of distant galaxies Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity warps and bends the star stuff around it.

Mysterious dark matter seen in new high-resolution map of distant galaxies - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/news/dark-ma... #BecauseScience

Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.

Mysterious Giants Could Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists : ScienceAlert
www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-g... #BecauseScience

Yūgen's Terrain Authoring Toolkit for Godot – GameFromScratch.com
gamefromscratch.com/yugens-terra... #GameDev