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Macbeth Act 1: Masculinity | Shakespeare Play by Play

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 32m

Having taste, both literally and metaphorically, requires consciousness.

no earthquake (cultural tutor) @noearthquake.bsky.social · 1h

LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 49m

"having taste", both literally and metaphorically, requires consciousness.

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 12h

Macbeth Act 1: Masculinity | Shakespeare Play by Play | From @amorsciendi.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlyG...

YouTube video by Shakespeare Play By Play

Time Team is a British TV series following specialists who dig deep to uncover as much as they can about Britain's archaeology and history. For more Time Team content, check out the Time Team Official...

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 13h

NW, there's the new Time Team on that channel and they're also replaying lots of the originals randomly here:

www.youtube.com/@TimeTeamCla...

Time Team Classics

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 19h

X would wither away to nothing if everyone who's not a bigot abandoned it, and gone would be its cultural influence. Yet good people stay, kidding themselves - like the dismissive non-voter - that they're little account doesn't matter. That's a crappy argument and most of them know it.

BBC Four - Remembers..., Professor Angie Hobbs Remembers... The Great Philosophers

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 20h

Or if you're active on X.

Unpopular opinion? Don't give a fuck.

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social · 1d

On BBC4 tonight, Angie Hobbs on Bryan Magee's series the Great Philosophers, first broadcast in 1987, followed by the first three interviews: Myles Burnyeat on Plato, Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle, and Anthony Kenny on mediaeval philosophy: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Professor Angie Hobbs gives a modern view on Bryan Magee’s highly influential 1987 series.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Avó chinesa muito católica @acexaman.bsky.social · 2d

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 22h

In the footsteps of giants: How one of the longest dinosaur trackways in the world was uncovered in the UK

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News

One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

www.bbc.co.uk

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 22h

It was exciting to be watching TV all day at school, but they were also exciting events in themselves. And dangerous - should things have gone wrong we could have all been traumatised!

Introducing Macbeth by William Shakespeare | Context, Summary, and Major Themes

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 23h

Introducing Macbeth by William Shakespeare | Context, Summary, and Major Themes | From @amorsciendi.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYDU...

YouTube video by Shakespeare Play By Play

How they're preserving Henry VIII's flagship

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 23h

New Time Team Special: How they're preserving The Mary Rose, Henry VIII's flagship | From @timeteam.bsky.social

I remember when the raised this in 1982, my primary school let the older kids watch the whole thing. This and the first Space Shuttle launch as I recall

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kUC...

YouTube video by Time Team Official

Is Fine-Tuning Evidence for a Multiverse?

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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 1d

'Is Fine-Tuning Evidence for a Multiverse?' I've just written this response to a recent critique.
open.substack.com/pub/philipgo...

Response to Critics

open.substack.com

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Doug Balogh @astro-doug.bsky.social · 2d

Supernova’s are rare. Last in our Milky Way was over 200 years ago. So to see them, we need to look outside our galaxy to other galaxies. Turns out, one ignited in July, in Galaxy NGC7731. It is fading, but still visible. My image from about a week ago.

Click ALT in pic for more info
#astronomy

Supernova 2025rbs is type 1a supernova.
A type 1a occurs when a binary star system is made up of white dwarf and red giant stars. The white dwarf collects hydrogen from the red giant until it has collected enough for nuclear fusion to occur. The result is a bright star for a while. But in a matter of weeks, the fuel gets used up and it fades out and goes dark. The arrows point to it in my pic.

2025rbs first lit up in mid July this year. It has been fading since. A telescope with camera is required to see it now.

Visually, the galaxy NGC7331 is located near the constellation Pegasus. But unlike the actual stars in Perseus, NGC7331 is about 40 million LY away. So the supernova 2025rbs resides that far away as well.

Wish I had imaged it a month ago when it was brighter, but well, this is still pretty cool!

Tech stuff:
ZWO SeeStar S50
About 500 10 sec exposures stacked
Bortles 7 skies, waxing Gibbous moon.

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 1d

Whether you agree with the opinion or not, the behind-the-scenes photos of early Doctor Who sets in this thread are amazing! #DrWho

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 1d

Was hoping you might comment :) Yeah, that was one of the other things that peaked my interest.

Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Obsession Isn’t Over

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 1d

I may be getting it wrong regarding the ontologically reality of the two systems or the quantum system's mutiple states that don't correspond to the classical system's single state, but metaphysically it almost seems like a dualistic version of the monistic setup I suspect. I'm open to that.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 2d

Yesterday, I read that, according to Gen Z, when a Millenial puts "lol" at the end of something, it makes them sound old.

They said nothing about Gen X, but, whatever, lol

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Very interesting piece from @jamescrabtree.bsky.social on how Trump's desire for the Nobel Peace Prize has upsides - as in the push for the Gaza ceasefire - yet is also being studied in Islamabad, Beijing and beyond as a diplomatic opportunity worth gaming out

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/t...

His vanity is reshaping geopolitics and opens a way to game U.S. policy.

foreignpolicy.com

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 1d

"when the force on the classical system is zero the quantum state evolves unitarily, while when B is non-zero the additional terms acts to force the system into an eigenstate of the operator B"

A one-world interpretation of quantum mechanics

infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not qualified to comment on the physics, but from some of my philosophical perspectives, this looks like it may be interesting.

"quantum theory is reduced to a description of two interacting systems: one described using Hilbert space, the other using a
classical configuration space"

Jonathan Oppenheim @postquantum.bsky.social · 2d

What if the measurement problem isn't about explaining how the classical world emerges from the quantum world...

...but about what happens when quantum systems interact with something that's already classical?

Turns out, the collapse postulate + Born rule emerge!
scirate.com/arxiv/2510.0...
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The measurement problem is the issue of explaining how the objective classical world emerges from a quantum one. Here we take a different approach. We assume that there is an objective classical syste...

scirate.com

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infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously S02 but what's the episode number please? Want to rewatch...