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@spacelizard @esoastronomy as someone that follows you both, I can confirm I am now following in the new instance

@astropartigirl I can’t help feeling like VR has been an absolute sleeper hit. There was so much attention given to JWST in the lead up years that interested amateurs like me weren’t necessarily getting the message of VR’s capabilities. Probably my most pleasant surprise for this year so far.

Demallien 2d ago

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Angus McIntyre 3d ago

@asrg @pengfold @pluralistic

I don't want to poison "AI” crawlers with huge quantities of random text. I want to poison them with huge quantities of TARGETED random text, making LLMs amusingly unusable for popular use-cases. Imagine the business reports we could make them write:

“Q3 reports from Asia showed positive growth rates in consumer sales and huge hairy cocks, with key indicators including customer retention, brand recognition and turgid purple schlongs all meeting OKR targets.”

Demallien 2d ago

Sophia Gad-Nasr 2d ago

I still can't get over the first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory. This is the Virgo Cluster, which contains over 1000 galaxies and is 50 million light-years away from us. And, just so you know, when you see a few galaxies that look like they're connected by dust, those are tidal tails from interactions between these galaxies. They are very likely going to collide with one another! See a couple examples in the zoomed in screenshots in the following post.

Demallien 2d ago

Astronomy Picture of the Day 3d ago

Rubin's First Look: A Sagittarius Skyscape

Image Credit & License: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250625.html #APOD

Demallien 3d ago

Ars Technica 3d ago

Discovery of HMS Endeavor wreck confirmed
“The timbers are British timbers. The size of all the timber scantlings are almost identical to Endeavour ."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/discovery-of-hms-endeavor-wreck-confirmed/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Demallien 4d ago

Sophia Gad-Nasr 5d ago

Once again, the view way up there is far more beautiful than the view down here. You're looking at the FIRST IMAGES from the state-of-the-art Vera Rubin Observatory! These are of the Virgo cluster, a cluster of over 1000 gravitationally bound galaxies, 50 million light years away. The first image shows two beautiful spiral galaxies in the lower right, and three interacting galaxies in the upper right (you can see the tidal tails connecting them).

Tomorrow, more images are going to be released!

Demallien 4d ago

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Anthony Horton 5d ago

Now that's a nice bit of astrophotography.

(Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory)

#Astronomy #Astrodon #RubinObservatory #VeraRubinObservatory

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Demallien Jun 21

@playdate I don’t have time in my life for yet another gaming device that doesn’t get turned on, but damn - Shadowgate almost got me. I continue to be staggered by how many great games this little device had in its catalog.

Demallien Jun 19

Gibberish and Stuff Jun 18

Technotes https://zhenyi.gibber.blog/technotes

Technotes - Gibberish and Stuff

A few months ago, I posted this image on Mastodon, because sometimes I think the Apple documentation website isn't very good. Many people have already pointed this out, so I won't repeat their...