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I prefer the ancient Egyptian's own name for it, "Spells of Coming Forth by Day", over the egyptologist-forced "Book of the Dead". The tone difference is so important.

Some nice birds from #Glasgow (seen along the Kelvin river and the Forth & Clyde canal)
photos: @…
#NatureIsBeautiful

from my link log —
Thoughts on FORTH programming.
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth.txt
saved 2022-05-29 h…

There were some really eerie comments about conspiracies and so forth regarding the initial virus, considering the show ended two years before COVID hit.
Read more 👉 #genealogy

When Genealogy Research Turns Up More Than You Expected – Bob Mueller
Genealogy research uncovered a family patent, historic photos, and surprising stories, plus thoughts on marriage, memories, and The Last Ship.

Trump's back-and-forth on troops in Europe potentially cost millions, US officials say (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/troop-deployments-europe-costs-trump-bb43a4fd108a663e69ba4bc9b9f6e6ce
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p71#a260605p71

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Note that spelling and notation are correct: 😁
https://www.forth.gr/en/home/

Home | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas
The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) was founded in 1983. It is one of the largest research centers in Greece with well-organized facilities, highly qualified personnel and a reputation as a top-level research institution worldwide.

POL-STD: Unbekannte beschädigen Auto in Himmelpforten - Zeugen gesucht Stade (ots) - Unbekannte Täter haben in der vergangenen Nacht zwischen 23:00 h und 07:20 h in Himmelpforten in der Straße "Forth" bei einem dort geparkten orangenen Renault Twingo die Heckscheibe eingeschlagen und mehrere Lackschäden an der ... https://www.

Small village on the Fife coast. Can't remember which one. If anyone knows, please say as I forgot to make a note of it at the time. [Turns out it's Crail]
#SilentSunday

Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's relationship with DOD soured (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-secu

This November, California voters will weigh what could become America’s first-ever tax on net worth.
The Billionaire Tax Act,
a ballot initiative put forth by health workers after Donald Trump blew holes in the state Medicaid budget,
would impose a one-time tax of 5 percent on personal wealth exceeding $1 billion.
With polls indicating majority support,
tech oligarchs have threatened an exodus
and crafted competing measures,
bankrolling them to the…

How to tax a billionaire
America's oligarchs guard their hoards jealously—but there may be a way in.

#Euclid Early Release Observations – Internal kinematics and the convective-transition gap of NGC 6397, High-precision multiple-pass photometry and astrometry: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa60441-26.pdf -> Scientists Surprised to Find Brightness ‘Gap’ in Ancient Star Cluster: https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2026/news-2026-405

Dreamt I was watching a damaged scientific satellite from a nearby viewpoint floating in space.
The bus was a rectangular shape about 2:1 aspect ratio with no visible solar arrays, perhaps not yet extended.
Its reaction wheels and one large annular ion thruster were working but the other ion thruster on the far side of the centerline had fallen silent for some reason causing off center thrust. It was twitching back and forth, firing the one good thruster for a short time then rot…

The rain has brought forth beauty #Bloomscrolling

Already posted this years ago, but still keep thinking a lot about this seemingly trivial quote/insight and more generally what it means to build futures, not just the future, whilst choosing different lenses of the past and present as selective references/tools for aiming at, achieving (or even avoiding) said futures:
"Fredric Jameson establishes that in postmodernism we have experienced a weakening sense of historisity such that what is, what was, and what will be all exist as…

I’m 100% positive they’re doing this endless back and forth to manipulate markets to personally cash in

Bessent, Wyden get in heated back and forth over Jeffrey Epstein (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/live-blog/trump-primary-elections-midterm-ca-nj-sd-iowa-iran-war-live-updates-rcna348166/rcrd110957?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p61#a260603p61

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson/116664133468323564
This whole back-and-forth has been so wild.

A lone bat flapping
Back and forth hunting bugs at
Dusk in the city.
#haiku

Reading in front of the Forth Bridge.
#SilentSunday #Scotland

The VMC survey LV - The coherent expansion of the SMC: #SmallMagellanicCloud

I don't think I actually *use* these key bindings, myself, but this kind of user-empowered thinking is a good illustration of why I've settled on Vivaldi as my daily driver browser.
It's the *least unlike* a User Agent, as we've come to expect, IMO. https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon/116818

"Melting ice led to a tsunami in Greenland. It could happen again."
#Greenland #Climate #ClimateChange

Melting ice led to a tsunami in Greenland. It could happen again.
A massive landslide sent huge waves crashing back and forth in a fjord.

The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/usmediatimesair-force-one-42429e4d4da8accc42b6c3…

Government withdraws subpoenas of 3 reporters for The New York Times
The government has withdrawn subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet. The withdrawals in U.S. District Court followed a remarkable back and forth between a visibly irritated Judge Arun Subramanian and government attorneys. They come at a time when the Trump administration is vigorously going after news organizations whose reporting and coverage it doesn’t lik…

Destructuring the #disk of AB Aurigae - Dynamics and accretion: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa59736-26.pdf -> First ever live observation of the rotation of a planetary nursery / The spinning origins of a planetary system: https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/first-ever-live-observation-rotation-planetary-nursery / https://www.eso.org/public/videos/potw2622a/

Make the Decision Right: A 1987 Aphorism Against the Age of the Open Tab
An old professor of mine, holding forth in 1987, handed his students one sentence to carry out the door: don't make the right decision; make the decision right....
https://bolesblog…

New 10x8" silver gelatin print. This one took a lot of refining, back and forth and test strips to achieve the right balance between brightness, contrast (esp. in the brighter parts of the clouds) and smooth mid-tone transitions. So even though this is a contact print from a digital negative, this was the first time in ages (i.e. decades) that I used some physical dodging to soften the horizon and emphasize the haze in the distance a tiny bit more...

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Sanghita Chandra of the IMPRS Solar System School successfully defended her thesis “Interpreting Solar Spicules using Synthetic Diagnostics from 3D Radiative Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations” at the @…

Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …

The Sega Genesis implies the existence of a Sega Revelations:
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard as the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a blue hedgehog; and golden rings were given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And when he had opened the second seal, the beast that came out was red: and power was given to him to take peace from the earth: and there was given unto him gre…

@… I'm a little surprised how different some parts of the PICO images are. In the sample image of the lady with a red hat (kodak_kodim04), the eyebrow on the right side of the image is slightly higher than in the reference image. Flipping back and forth between them makes it look like she's subtly hinting something

from the Paradise of God
Without remorse drive out the sinful Pair
From hallowd ground th' unholie, and denounce
To them and to thir Progenie from thence
Perpetual banishment. [...]
If patiently thy bidding they obey,
Dismiss them not disconsolate; reveale
To Adam what shall come in future dayes,
As I shall thee enlighten, intermix
My Cov'nant in the womans seed renewd;
So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace.
-- John…

The hole in the neighbor's roof - I've told him about it more than once - has brought forth it's annual bounty once again this year. Happy baby raccoon season, everyone!

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…

The video #Megaconstellation threat to astronomy (and more) is linked in the sidebar of the ESO release but deserves a separate shout-out. Also learned that the actual paper has just been formally published in https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa60006-26.pdf - and see https://gizmodo.com/eso-study-finds-that-no-more-than-100000-satellites-should-orbit-earth-2000780091 for an article.

from my link log —
Linn Rekursiv: The computer at the bottom of a canal.
https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/18/the-computer-at-the-bottom-of-a-canal/
saved 2026-07-19

The computer at the bottom of a canal
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access in hardware, garbage-collected its own heap in silicon, […]

I am so fucking tired of working on this circus wagon, and I would estimate my level of completion to be a generous 30%
We plow forth nonetheless

It's that time again! Tomorrow (Tues, 12 May) at 20:00 NZST we will be having our monthly Libre/FOSS Meeting. Anyone is welcome to participate. Questions and demos at any level both welcome and appreciated. We'll be holding forth on our BigBlueButton (thanks, as usual, to https://Prodigi.nz for sponsored infrastruc…

TIL the Carmina Burana (11th/12th century) had a poem about generative AI use at universities
Florebat olim studium,
nunc vertitur in tedium;
iam scire diu viguit,
sed ludere prevaluit.
iam pueris astutia
contingit ante tempora,
qui per malivolentiam
excludunt sapientiam.
sed retro actis seculis
vix licuit discipulis
tandem nonagenarium
quiescere post studium.
at nunc decennes pueri
decusso iugo liberi
se nunc magistros iactitant,
ceci cecos precipitant,
implumes aves volitant,
brunelli chordas incitant,
boves in aula salitant,
stive precones militant.
Translation:
Once learning flourished. Now it's come
to be condemned as tedium:
the days of thirsting after truth
are now the idle days of youth.
For students hardly in their prime
find themselves wise before their time:
they know it all — impertinence
replaces plain intelligence.
In days gone by we were required
to stick with study: none retired,
or wished himself to be released,
till ninety years of age at least.
Now lads of barely a decade
can graduate — get themselves made
professors too! And who's to mind
how blind the blind who lead the blind?
So fledgelings soar upon the wing,
so donkeys play the lute and sing:
bulls dance about at court like sprites
and ploughboys sally forth as knights.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Ned Rorem, Evelyn Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong & Jean Thorel:
🎵 Mallet Concerto: III. Back and Forth
#NedRorem #EvelynGlennie #CityChamberOrchestraofHongKong #JeanThorel

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Brandy, Camper:
🎵 BACK AND FORTH
#Brandy #Camper
https://open.spotify.com/track/5bRd2dXJSjAPRMTiNN4UEa