Bandcamp has banned AI music.

The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp."

stereogum.com/2485199/band...

Conic Sections

xkcd.com/3189/

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

Le REM augmente (anecdote pour l'instant) l'achalandage de centre-ville Montréal. Dépenses en transport collectif public pas seulement pour déplacer des travailleurs urbains. C'est aussi:
* Des dépenses en développement économique
* Réduction de trafic et congestion

www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...

English to science translation: episode ... 3?

"We explore the feasibility of ..."
"We explore the possibility of ..."

Replace with

"We explore the conditions under which ... can be achieved."

Ahh... Much scientific-er.

Whenever I'm writing proposal, reference letter, CV, etc, I giggle if I invert the i and o in the -tion ending of a word.

combustino: the fundamental particle of a flame. syn: ember.

Concordia students are launching the first student built bi-propellant rocket aimed at reaching space. Also, the first Canadian rocket launch since the 1990s.

Livestream going up soon here SCRD-Launch.short.gy/livestream

#space

Students in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science have been working for 7 years, in the Space Concordia Rocketry Division, to build and launch the 1st student built bi-propellant rocket to reach space. Looks like launch should be in the next 6 hours www.youtube.com/live/610YciE...

Just a breathtaking shot from NASA’s recently launched satellite to monitor the planet’s life-support system as we derange it in ways we don’t fully understand, double down on carbon emissions, and abandon scientific research www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/c...

Though the deadline passed: Concordia University is still looking for a tenure-track hire for aerospace, specifically #spsace #academicskye #academic #tenure #engineering

www.concordia.ca/ginacody/abo...

1) I can't decipher: "[T]ests showed it was live with a very small amount of charge, the BBC reported." They used a small charge or it contained a small charge?
2) explosives can become initially less and then more unstable over time...
.hat tip to non bsky-friend
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

Next time I inadvertently blow something up in the lab, I'm describing it as a "research oopsy" to facilities management.