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Lady Emily ☄️

@ladyemily.nebula.tv

My transforming robot franchise with a cartoon series and toyline isn’t for kids 😤 robots die!!!

August 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM

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Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour

@medus4.com

Current situation

August 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM

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Kenneth Becker

@geophotographer.org

Physicist Gunther Kletetschka from UAF proposes that time may have three dimensions, with space emerging as a secondary consequence. His framework reproduces known particle masses and makes testable predictions
#Physics #Spacetime #TheoreticalPhysics
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Paper
www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/...

New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist.

phys.org

June 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM

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Norio Nakatsuji

@norionakatsuji.bsky.social

[Trump’s inner circle shifted view to support limited, one-off strike on Iran nuclear sites]

“Trump’s move to bomb 3 nuclear sites in Iran came as those inside his orbit who were opposed to US intervention shifted their views in favor of a limited strike“

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump’s inner circle shifted view to support limited, one-off strike on Iran nuclear sites

As Trump considered striking Iran, some advisers adjusted public arguments to suggest quick bombing run

www.theguardian.com

June 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM

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Sayaka Oki おきさやか

@okisayaka.bsky.social

「なぜ今」学長通知に波紋　神戸大「軍事研究」助成制度への方針一変
digital.asahi.com/articles/AST...
神戸大学で学術会議問題に絡めて行われた講演会取材にも言及があります

「なぜ今」学長通知に波紋　神戸大「軍事研究」助成制度への方針一変：朝日新聞

神戸大（神戸市灘区）で今年度、学長名で出された「通知」が学内に波紋を広げている。安全保障分野の研究を支援する国の助成制度に対し、応募の「自粛」から「解禁」に方針転換するというものだ。教員や学生からは…

digital.asahi.com

June 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM

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Zeno Agency

@zenoagency.bsky.social

New audiobook edition of William Gibson's COUNT ZERO is out in the summer!
zenoagency.com/news/coming-...

Due to be published by @wfhowes.bsky.social, on June 26th.
@greatdismal.bsky.social

Audiobook cover for William Gibson's COUNT ZERO.

May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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Leonardo Da Vinci

@leonardo-davinci.bsky.social

Cannon foundry https://www.wikiart.org/en/leonardo-da-vinci/cannon-foundry-1487

May 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM

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Brian Eno News

@dark-shark.bsky.social

Africa Express: Terry Riley's In C Mali - their 2014 album; vocals by Brian Eno, Olugbenga Adelekan and Bijou www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FXQ...

Africa Express Presents: Terry Riley's In C Mali

YouTube video by Pitchfork

www.youtube.com

May 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM

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Greg Egan

@gregegansf.bsky.social

A Wieferich prime is a prime number p that satisfies the condition:

2^(p-1) ≡ 1 (mod p^2)

We only know two primes with this property: 1093 and 3511.

But people still think there are infinitely many!

Why should anyone care about Wieferich primes?

May 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM

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Greg Egan

@gregegansf.bsky.social

My new novel MORPHOTROPHIC is available now!
You can read the first two chapters here:
www.gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHI...

Book jacket for Morphotrophic by Greg Egan, with a pattern of veined tissue and a colour gradient across the image.

Book synopsis reads:

In a world where the cells that make up our bodies are not committed to any one organism, Marla is confronted by the fickleness of her cytes, and resolves to understand them with help from Ada, a centuries-old Flourisher. Swappers like Ruth embrace fluidity, and meet with others to exchange cytes, seeking the perfect mix. But Ruth faces her own crisis, and as the technology to manipulate cytes advances, all three are drawn into a struggle to shape the future of life.

November 25, 2024 at 1:14 PM

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Colson Whitehead

@colsonwhitehead.com

Uhhhh….closing in on first draft of the new book. A few more weeks. Gotta put on the home stretch anthem, blast it at the start of the work day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgU...