I knew I was cranky about AI, but I guess I didn't realize just how cranky until I filled out this obnoxious and wildly boosterish questionnaire from the government of Canada.
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/public-co…
Observational Evidence of Dust Evolution in Supernova Remnants: Size Redistribution Toward Larger Grains in Early Sedov Phase
He Zhao, Bingqiu Chen, Jun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12067
A long day, but worth every second of it.
While I’m hearing a cock crowing in the background, I’m heading to experience a hopefully great train/bus ride to Poland via Ostrava.
Security guards arriving at the station with supermarket bags containing their wives’ homemade lunches. They call those bags *“sitovka”*—they use them for everything: as a swim bag, for example. I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it to go skiing!
Homeless drunks at the main station comforting each o…
Give yourself the gift of digital permanence by applying for a DPOE grant to pay for digital preservation training this spring.
Students who've applied it to my online DIG 550 class https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu say it's easy and paid for the course.
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Preston Damsky was a student at the University of Florida’s law school that made the most of a Trump-appointed judge teaching a class by rehashing Klan constitutionalism.
And while the paper he wrote about killing Mexicans and disenfranchising non-whites got him some notoriety,
he wasn’t in trouble over it per se.
He got in trouble after he took to Twitter to announce that
“Jews should be abolished by any means.”
That tweet was read as a threat by the univers…
Heading South
But not for the warmth.. Tomorrow I'm taking the first stage of the journey to Antarctica, ironically enough though, I'm heading south by first heading north, to Oslo, where the Norwegian Polar Institute have organised an almost direct flight from Oslo to Troll station with a short stopover in Cape Town. Bags almost packed and ready to go... I'm super excited and also suffering a little trepidation.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/heading-south/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Holst's The Planets at the BBC Proms
Student musicians from Helsinki and London under Sakari Oramo perform Holst's suite alongside Sibelius’ The Wood Nymph and a new work for soprano and orchestra by Lara Poe.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k460
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Wie kann man zu Hause CO2 sparen und gleichzeitig #Geldbeutel und #Umwelt schonen?💡🌿
Mit einfachen Tipps kann man viel bewirken. Welche Maßnahmen helfen, den CO2-Fußabdruck zu reduzieren, lest Ihr im Beitrag.🌍🏡 Aber bitte nie vergessen: Die Staatengeme…
Always something.
Sourdough bread with brie, a big coffee with good company. That’s how I started my morning: breakfast in a French bakery in Poland.
Next to us, a lady who takes French breakfast to a Slavic level in a fancy way: coupe champagne, assortment bread, lightly salted butter, and cheese—but the cigarette was missing. Actually, what she had was actually what I wanted. After saying goodbye to my friend, I headed to find the train station and a supermarket—with success! On…