There's a lot of buzz going around about the possibility of a #DarkMatterStar, or #DarkStar, which could be 500k times the mass of our sun and out-shine an entire galaxy. The data from James Webb Space Telescope #JWST has provided some insight that these stars may exist. They differ from our sun, fueled by nuclear fusion, because they would be fueled by "the self-annihilation of dark matter". It could also provide a new explanation for the creation of supermassive black holes.

Check out YouTube videos by Dr. Becky or PBS as well.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-might-have-spotted-the-first-dark-matter-stars/

Lots of paint ranges to choose from at Mighty Lancer Games, Army Painter to Two Thin Coats , Vallejo to Reaper and lots in between

Take a look in store & on our website https://www.mightylancergames.co.uk/pages/paint-hobby

#darkstar #paint #hobby #tamiya #modelling #modeller #Bridlington

Lost Soul Aside e Daba: Land of Water Scar, nuovo gameplay dal ChinaJoy 2023

https://www.gamingtalker.it/notizie/117725/lost-soul-aside-daba-land-of-water-scar-nuovo-gameplay-chinajoy-2023/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social_share

#DabaLandOfWaterScar #DarkStar #LostSoulAside #UltizeroGames #Video

@bourgwick I love Graeme Boone discussing the fine details of the 1973 Kiel Dark Star on the Deadcast. He talks about how giving the jams names is a bit strange for such open music, and I immediately thought, “What shall we say, shall we call it by a name?”

#TheGratefulDead #TheGoodOlGratefulDeadcast #GraemeBoone #DarkStar #LetItGrow #Music #Improvisation #Jamming

https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2020/05/texts-and-instrumental-passages-in.html

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Talk to the bomb. You have to talk to it, Doolittle. Teach it PHENOMENOLOGY.”
Joe Sanders/John Carpenter in Dark Star
#DarkStar #JohnCarpenter #DanOBannon #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

Supermassive #DarkStar candidates seen by #JWST

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2305762120

Testing out some Colour Forge primer & some Darkstar molten metal paints has probably created my best paint job yet! I'm super happy with the results!

#colourforgeprimers #colourforge #darkstar #darkstarpaints #moltenmetals #kitbash #wargaming #warlordgames #alternativearmies #morkborg #forbiddenpsalm #miniatures #miniaturespainting #fantasyminiatures #ukge

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Konsequenterweise folgt als nächstes, dass die KI die vorgegebenen Ziele hinterfragt. Willkommen bei #DarkStar 🎞

Back when I was young and impressionable, I was a casual fan of the #GratefulDead.

Andrew Hickey, on his wonderful “History of Rock Music in 500 songs” reached the moment when he had to confront the challenge of the Dead.

https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-165-dark-star-by-the-grateful-dead/

The song he chose was “#DarkStar”.

His podcast is usually a half hour long. This one is a highly structured improvisation with a runtime of about four hours, which begins with a précis of the #KurtVonnegut novel *Slaughterhouse Five*, because the only way to tell this story is to take the Tralfamadorian approach to being unstuck in time.

Along the way he picks up the essay about the #CaliforniaIdeology, and ties it into the Dead and the Net.

It’s a work of art.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...

Darkstar:
🎵 Wolf

#NowPlaying #Darkstar

https://open.spotify.com/track/0gI6KFnLCbneSdaayPBwiI

https://wearebearwolf.bandcamp.com/track/darkstar

Related: my ex is basically living out #DarkStar, arguing phenomenology and spirituality with #ChatGPT cos it's perfectly cheery to be forceful with warnings and disclaimers about tarot and yet also cheerfully supportive of inquiry into the existence of a monotheistic God.

49 years ago:
Dark Star (US)
A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meanin...
1974-04-01
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1410
#DarkStar #DanOBannon #NickCastle #JohnCarpenter #SciFi #Movies

I'm confused ... #DarkStar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwISbJfRNz0

It's tempting to imagine that everything the #GratefulDead did emerged spontaneously from the psychedelic ether, and then you stumble upon notes from a board meeting where they were approving special lights for the forthcoming #DarkStar bust out.

(From the excellent AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE by Mark A. Rodriguez)

@roberre @csgordon @go_shrumm @fzzlkfly @philosophy

Well, a properly designed simulation would presumably take measures to toy with our perceptions, so I would not look to perception as the way to judge this.

There are some good Star Trek episodes that explore and exploit this concept of perceiving simulation. Ship in a Bottle, for example, but there are several more.

You'd want to do some investigative work to find things other than mere perception to judge whether you were inside a simulation. Determining if there were boundaries or limits of granularity. In one Star Trek episode, the computer starts to slow down when asked unexpected questions that cause it to have to conjure simulation faster than it can keep up with.

Studies of the quantum realm or distant astrophysics can provide worthy avenues of study. Trying to figure out whether quantum randomness is truly random or not (I think it's believed to be).

The strongest evidence against "free will" that appeals to me is that there is no known situation in which free will has ever been documented to violate what physics would have done absent free will. That a willful universe would stay consistent with an unwillful one is very odd, and it's easier for me just to accept the lack of will, that we are reactive and rationalizing, not pro-active and rational.

Greg Bear, in his excellent novel Moving Mars, offers a model where (if memory serves, it's been a while) quantum randomness serves as a distributed bank, kind of like the "give a penny, take a penny" things near cash registers, so if you have to violate physics you can repair the bookkeeping locally by fudging the randomness. It's a clever concept for a book. Whether it would work in "reality" (and I use the term with some amusement), is hard to say.

Also, in the same year as The Matrix there was another film that was much more elegant and thoughtful on similar topics but got less press: The Thirteenth Floor. (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/)
With excellent performances by Armin Mueller-Stahl and Vincent D'onofrio, I might add. If you have not seen that movie, I highly recommend it. By contrast, I found it hard to take The Matrix seriously. YMMV.

Back to perception, then there's always John Carpenter's 1974 cult-classic Dark Star. :) The phenomenology scene with the (smart) bomb is a classic. Relevant excerpts here (13:17) on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/86186993. Though if you're in more of a hurry you might prefer here (4:25) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73PsFKtIck. The shorter one captures the critical scene but without useful context.

#Philosophy #MetaPhysics #Phenomenology #Perception #Simulation #Simulacrum #Simulacra #FreeWill
#Physics #QuantumRandomness
#Movies #TheMatrix #TheThirteenthFloor #DarkStar
#Books #MovingMars
#TV #StarTrek

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Darkstar:
🎵 Wolf

#Darkstar

https://open.spotify.com/track/0gI6KFnLCbneSdaayPBwiI

https://wearebearwolf.bandcamp.com/track/darkstar

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day 42

#GratefulDead
Light Into Ashes
Rhino Records

Playing In The Band -> Drums -> Dark Star -> Morning Dew -> Playin!

A special dead.net exclusive excerpt from 10/18/1972 from the St Louis box set. The 'formless reflections' vinyl is very cool looking in person and seems almost unreal in photographs.

There is also a vinyl box with a complete show from one of the 1971 shows from this set.

#GratefulDeadVinyl #vinyl #vinylcommunity #Deadheads #DeadOfTheDay #DeadVinylOfTheDay #DarkStar

So I was lucky enough to gain access to the new Bing before they started putting some of the guardrails in place. Here's my conversation!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h73PsFKtIck

#LLMs #llm #ai #machinelearning #ml #bug #chatbot #bing #darkstar #phenomenology

SUPER jazzed about #KSP2, but felt like the main menu screen might be missing a certain theme I'm nostalgic for... so I decided to make this - a version of the beloved theme with a twist inspired by a certain recent hit movie. #TopGunMaverick #DarkStar #Kerbal #KSP #videogames

https://on.soundcloud.com/cyRiL

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq

Dark Star:
🎵 Strangers and Madmen

#DarkStar

https://dark-star.bandcamp.com/track/strangers-madmen