Author | Lightnews

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

Trying to suppress facts and information because they don't align with your political views is a show of weakness.

Trying to weaken people's critical faculties is an expression of weakness.

It means facts are not on your side.

5 57 290

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 5h

My nieces and nephews could not comprehend how I could draw, how I was drawing something right in front of them. This sucks.

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 11h

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social):

As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead."

But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that"

Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

8 250 760

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 1d

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

12 280 880

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Screenshot text from The Atlantic:

For now, money is still pouring into the AI industry. But there’s also something circular about these investments. To wit: OpenAI has agreed to pay $300 billion to Oracle for new computing capacity, Oracle is paying Nvidia tens of billions of dollars for chips to install in one of OpenAI’s data centers, and Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys Nvidia chips. Attempts to illustrate these circular investments have produced a series of byzantine charts that one software engineer referred to on X as “the technocapital hyperobject at the end of time.” The consensus seems to be that although this is legal, it likely cannot go on forever.

10 170 630

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 3h

As if wikipedia didn't have enough editors with personal beef/ideé fixe

Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 1d

“It has no real purpose other than to strategically plant lies into a reference manual. This renders it not only a malevolent product, but a lousy one.”
www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

I tried Elon Musk's Wikipedia clone and boy is it racist

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary tested out Grokipedia and has some notes.

www.sfgate.com

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 3h

Desktops followed Moore's Law (/Dennard Scaling), monitors didn't. Hence, monitor is now Limiting Factor (Liebig's Law) in a setup; surplus monitor power now makes sense.

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 4h

I forget the author I quote, but: 'Lunar settlements will be sustainable when asteroidal resources make them sustainable."

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 4h

"History of Planetary Defense" by New Space Economy. Pretty solid, except for giving Vera Rubin Obs as "under construction". Even then, they're only off by a day.

cphlo.net/abc/index.php/1/10/2025/history-of-planetary-defense-post

“History of Planetary Defense” Post - Asteroid Blog, c Phlo...

Don’t dismiss the Canadian space effort, official or unofficial. The website New Space Economy is… not above leading headlines and trolling questions, but otherwise it’s a fairly informed and up-to-da...

cphlo.net

1

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Fabian Schussler @fabianschussler.bsky.social · 2d

The #arXiv computer science category is trying to cut down on AI slop spamming the system. They no longer accept un-published (journal or conference) review papers... Other categories may follow (depending on decisions by the moderators). ⚛️🧪☄️

blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

blog.arxiv.org

5 19

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Cornell Astronomical Society @ Fuertes Observatory @cornellastrosociety.org · 3d

This Friday, 11/7, CAS will be hosting a special lecture by Gillis Lowry, "The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth"! See details in the flyer attached. 🪐🔭

Lectures are always free and open to the public, both in person and virtually. More information at www.cornellastrosociety.org/lecture-series!

1 1 6

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 8h

Part of our #CosmicVision plan, #ESAEuclid launched in 2023 on a quest to solve the mysteries of the dark Universe. 🔭

Its goal? Create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies. 1/ #CM25

2 11 62

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

SkyCalPro | Kev @skycalpro.com · 15h

In 1610, Galileo and Simon Marius first saw Jupiter’s moons. Galileo is credited with the discovery as he published first. The sketches below are from his book. Galileo tried to argue that Earth circles the Sun, but under threat of torture was forced to renounce the idea
#AstroHistory #Jupiter

Page from Galileo's book Sidereus Nuncius, charting Jupiter and its four moons over successive nights. The diagrams are labeled “Ori.” (east) and “Occ.” (west). Jupiter is shown as a simple circle, with asterisks marking the moons’ positions.

1 3 10

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

AAS Nova @aasnova.org · 1d

Kasper Zoellner reports for @astrobites.bsky.social on the consequences of shooting an asteroid with a spacecraft. aasnova.org/2025/11/03/s... 🔭

Shot by the DART and We’re to Blame! Now That Space Rock Won’t Be the Same

Astrobites reports on the consequences of shooting an asteroid with a spacecraft.

aasnova.org

5 10

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

ESO @eso.org · 1d

Open Sesame!

The ELT doors have moved for the first time. This was no small feat, as each door will weigh 650 tonnes once completed.

The ELT dome & its doors will guard the telescope from the harsh conditions of the Atacama Desert.

https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2544a/

🔭 🧪
📹 ESO/ACe

4 110 330

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Dr Laura Driessen @astrolaura.com · 1d

I've been thinking a bit about how talking about aliens affects how we share new astronomy discoveries, so I wrote an article about it 👽🔭🧪 theconversation.com/is-it-aliens...

Is it aliens? Why that’s the least important question about interstellar objects

The alien question, while fun, generates misinformation and distracts from the science.

theconversation.com

4 10 42

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 2d

New issue of Journal for the History of Astronomy Vol. 56, No. 4 (2025) journals.sagepub.com/toc/jhaa/56/4 @sagepub.com

Journal for the History of Astronomy - Volume 56, Number 4

Table of contents for Journal for the History of Astronomy, 56, 4

journals.sagepub.com

1 3 11

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 2d

😉 I have been overhearing a lot of people talking about "the world Ceres" but not seeing any images here, so here's Ceres, which has dual citizenship as a dwarf planet and the largest asteroid. 🔭 1/4

4 14 92

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Leila Belkora PhD, astrophysics @leilabelkora.bsky.social · 2d

“Two iconic features of southwestern USA geology are linked by our hypothesis that the … Meteor Crater impact in northern Arizona triggered cliff collapse in Grand Canyon 56,000 years ago…” 🧪🔭☄️

eos.org/articles/an-...

An Asteroid Impact May Have Led to Flooding near the Grand Canyon - Eos

There’s remarkable synchronicity between the timing of a paleolake in what is today Grand Canyon National Park and the formation of nearby Barringer Meteorite Crater.

eos.org

3 46 140

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Marc Kuchner | Author @marckuchner.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to Siddharth Patel, a 12 year old Canadian who found two candidate asteroids with NASA’s IASC project! Teachers, sign up your classroom at iasc.cosmosearch.org #space #stem #astronomy #education #citizenscience

3 11

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Matija Ćuk specializes in the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Solar System bodies and has worked on the origin and dynamics of binary asteroids, the Earth-Moon system, and Saturn's moons and rings. 🧪 🔭

#PlanetaryScience #SpaceScience #SETI #NotJustAliens

Text: #notjustaliens. Matija Ćuk, Solar System Dynamics. Background: Starry night sky. Inset: Photo of Matija Ćuk.

Text: Dr. Matija Ćuk specializes in the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Solar System bodies and has worked on the origin and dynamics of binary asteroids, the Earth-Moon system, and Saturn's moons and rings. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets in front of it.

Text: Dr. Ćuk’s current research involves determining where and when the moons of Mars - Phobos and Deimos - formed and whether Saturn's large moon Titan formed in a merger of two smaller moons. Background: Starry night sky with graphics of a star and exoplanets.

1 4 30

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 9d

Uncritical University... gee, that would be a diploma mill

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 9d

> “Universities are not tech companies,” Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij, two computational cognitive scientists at Radboud University in the Netherlands[.] “Our role is to foster critical thinking,” the researchers said, “not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 9d

I was pleased to see @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social mentioned in this NYT article (gift link below). But I wish there was more analysis. Boasts and critiques re: #GenAI were strewn throughout, requiring readers to sort the concerns from the hyperbole. For example… (1/2)

3 7

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 9d

“A lot of niche research should be published on preprint servers and be informally reviewed by the appropriate community” - speaks to the old question of what % of papers should be formally peer reviewed newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo...

Journalology #126: Open access week

Hello fellow journalologists,

newsletter.journalology.com

2 1 10

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 9d

Gee, sounds like... Bluesky!

c Phlo- Future Engineering @cphlo.bsky.social · 9d

I've used both styles. Yes, context matters.

Reposted by c Phlo- Future Engineering

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 9d

Really surreal hearing my uni career center talking about careers in AI as if even the billionaires pushing it hadn’t started admitting that there’s a huge bubble about to burst

3 4 25