HD Footage of New York: from the 70s to 90s YouTube video by TRNGL

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The decimal representation for 1/7s is really cool

My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley Shirley Wang's father, Lin, was on a business trip when he ran into NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley. It was the beginning of a friendship.

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Did Scientists Just Detect an Exploding Black Hole?

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/s...

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I’ve found that to do anything meaningful with it, Anthropic really wants their $20 a month. As a serious user that requires it for business, I pay $100 a month to avoid almost all throttling.

Tour Richard Hell’s Book-Filled East Village Home (Gift Article) The punk-rock icon and writer has spent more than 50 years in his East Village tenement apartment.

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Everyone has their own spot in Night City, what's yours? #Cyberpunk #Cyberpunk2077

This Is the Scariest Place in The Universe YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.

Everyone should read Hyperion. arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

In Manhattan’s East Village, commercial gentrification has long caused tensions for residents of St. Marks. But for 60 years, Charles FitzGerald has helped make the famous block an emblem of New York City’s counterculture. nyti.ms/4l0FBcl

Sky Valley, by Lovers Lake 9 track album

The time is now. Lovers Lake are back with another mesmerizing album.
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"Sky Valley' is packed with luscious synths, catchy melodies and sumptuous vocals. Lots for you to sink you teeth into. A must for all synthlovers.
#retrowave #synthwave #newretrowave

How Can Infinity Come in Many Sizes? | Quanta Magazine Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.

Learn how some infinities can be larger than others in this visual explainer:
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† CARPENTER BRUT - SPEED OR PERISH † Directed by Seth Ickerman (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Carpenter Brut

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Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.

Carl Sagan’s 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney

It's been 30 full years since Carl Sagan's Demon Haunted World came out, complete with the now-classic "baloney detection kit."

These 9 lessons from it are more important than ever here in 2026.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #skepticism

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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The Marathon Moby-Dick Reading Is a Radical Act It’s an all-analog mass redreaming of a flawed American gospel: superbly countercultural.

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String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy | Quanta Magazine In an unprecedented step, researchers crafted a detailed model compatible with the universe’s accelerated expansion.

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that causes our universe to expand, appears to be weakening over time. A new formulation of string theory predicts a value that closely matches this observation.

Splitting Castor’s sextuple star system Four stars seen separately in the system for the first time

Castor, one of the stars marking Gemini's twins — and one of the brightest in the sky — is actually a sextuple star, a *six*-star system! Now, for the first time, astronomers have split some of those tightly bound stars.

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Very sorry to hear of his passing. The Computer Chronicles archive on the Internet Archive is one of the most essential records of tech history there is. Demos of so many products, from the iconic to the forgotten.

Yeah, kept looking online and couldn't find anything that could read these ICQ files. Kinda gave up hope. Luckily I'm a digital pack-rat and keep everything. Just had to wait for the technology to advance to the point where this data was accessible again.

One fun project I gave Opus is to reverse engineer these old ICQ proprietary binary log files I had lying around from the late 90s (which it did after a few tries), store them in a db, then build a slick webapp for me to browse, search, etc, my message history. Super impressive.

Our team has been using Cursor for the past month, and we’ve been blown away by it. It has significantly changed our roadmap for what we can deliver in the coming months. Opus 4.5 is our go-to choice. However, we went through our token budget fairly quickly, so we try to use it wisely.

Astronomy Is In Crisis...And It's Incredibly Exciting YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Where Dante Guides Us The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy rooted in the imperfectly human.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Infographic about GW241011 and GW241110 GW241011's source contained black holes about 13 and 8 times the mass of our Sun. The spin of the bigger black hole is high and bear aligned with the orbit. GW241110's source contained black holes about 17 and 8 times the mass of our Sun. The spin of the larger black hole is high and near anti-aligned with the orbit. Credit: Shanika Galaudage/Northwestern University/Adler Planetarium

We are pleased to announce our discovery of #GW241011 and #GW241110

Both come from binary black holes where one black hole is much larger than the other. The larger black holes have large spin. Could these black holes have formed in a previous merger?

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#O4IsHere 🔭🧪⚛️☄️

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:

Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

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I played many Infocom games in my youth, including Zork.

Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe | Quanta Magazine Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole universes. What they’re finding has them questioning fundamental assumptions abo...

A recent solution to a paradox in theoretical physics could be the start of a new paradigm: In order for a universe to exist, an observer is needed. Matt von Hippel reports: www.quantamagazine.org/cosmic-parad...

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