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I found an odd shell bug & I'm not entirely sure who's at fault. Some interaction between screen, ANSI colors & grep seems to make a char disappear.
Reproducer: run this in screen on a terminal with 80 chars width:
echo -e 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx12345'|grep 234
The "4" disappears mysteriously... Seems to be caused by escape code '[K' from grep. I'd appreciate explanations whethe…

Digging in the dirt https://song.link/i/987396903

The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
GLYND: The evidence, my friends. [Holds tapes] Surveillance report on Supreme Commander Servalan's attempt to cheat the Federation of one hundred million credits in return for the supercomputer Orac. Confidential report on your trial, Blake, and the subsequent elimination of your defence lawyer when he discovered that the evidence against you had been falsified. Need I continue? [Closes case of tapes] Enough, as I have said, to convict th…

This basic science advance was made with a rocket sled. (And math.) But rocket sleds are FUN!
#Science #PlanetaryScience #RocketSled

Mysterious State of Matter Discovered Flowing Inside Earth's Core
By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird part-solid, …

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
[Two Pyroans approach from a distance. They appear and disappear; each time they reappear they are closer.]
SERVALAN: Let me speak to them. [to approaching Pyroans] We're friends.
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About last night. Among many other things that can't be talked about there was good #meshcore radio reception on the rooftop of weekend club Berlin :)

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
RECEPTIONIST: We have to move on to health reception. You can go together if you wish.
VILA: Oh, thank you.
CALLY: We'd like that, thank you.
RECEPTIONIST: This way.
VILA: Thank you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/416 B7B5

Imagine being so exhausted you can barely stand, yet thousands of people are waiting for you to give everything you have. Night after night. City after city.
There's a singer who knows this feeling intimately. After months of touring, she's running on empty—traveling by day, performing by night, adrenaline keeping her wired long after the final encore. Sleep won't come. The body is exhausted, but the mind won't stop. She captures this feeling in a song about desperate ti…