I continue to progress and enjoy the Adrift Expedition in No Man's Sky. I have acquired a couple more starships to go along with the basic ass hauler I started with. The Solar Ship came by way of the Phase 2 "find a crashed ship and repair it" milestone. Oddly enough, I could swear I got one with the same name in the last Expedition I played through. I've been carrying around some odd thing in my inventory almost since I started, and finally used it and had a Sentinel ship …
The anonymous Christian author of *The Cloud of Unknowing* spoke of contemplative practice as "a naked, blind feeling of being."
The Buddhists, especially in #Zen, speak similarly of practicing "thusness" or "suchness."
Tonight that came to expression for me as:
the way things are is what does the practice
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(I'll be away on a Zen retreat…
Trump to campaign in Arizona following hush money conviction (Jonathan J. Cooper/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-arizona-speech-conviction-turning-point-c4c2de44823c2fbf9cb9dec105e92a22
http://www.memeorandum.com/240606/p7#a240606p7
"Rather than maintain a safe distance and operate as a “machine politician” ... Faiza has tramped the streets to talk to people about local issues, earning a great deal of respect as a result. The fact that the #LabourParty has so easily brushed aside this work by deselecting Faiza suggests a basic lack of awareness of the very problems that they are claiming to have the remedies for.
The writer Mark Slouka counsels against filling our time with work:
#idleness is not only a psychological necessity, requisite for the construction of a complete human being;
#Idleness constitutes a kind of political space, a space as necessary for the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press.<…
Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats
NASA’s #Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023: https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/06/13/voyager-1-returning-science-data-from-all-four-instruments/ - its four instruments study plasma waves, magnetic fields, and particles; Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft to directly sample interstellar space, which is the region outside the heliosphere — the protective bubble of magnetic fields and solar wind created by the Sun.
War cabinet member Benny Gantz on Saturday canceled a news conference planned for the evening, during which he was expected to announce his National Unity party was leaving the government.
In a May 18 speech, Gantz issued an ultimatum to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding the premier present an agreed-upon vision for Gaza’s post-war governance.
If Netanyahu failed to do so by June 8, the former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff threatened to pull his centrist Nationa…
The Fibonacci Space-Filling Curve
Mustafa Ismail Ozkaraca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05583 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.05583
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09785 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…