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🌋 Kilauea volcano’s currently active eruption in Hawaii https://www.youtube.com/live/mKJ7ZyIdjeQThe bright orange eruptions, orange streaks of lava flow, orange lit clouds of smoke & steam all contrasted against the black sky and land are quite the visual ASMR. Paired with the ASMR wind from the mountain, the effect is quite calming and peaceful.Putting this on a projector is quite the night light to fall asleep to (requires YouTube Premium to avoid noisy ads interruptions that harsh your mellow)#Kilauea #volcano #eruption #Hawaii #orange #lava #lavaFlow #ASMR #wind #video #USGS#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

1982 TRON prescience: “Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.” — Walter2026 students:“How do you know an assignment is AI proof? Because when it is, students cannot do it.”* https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comments/1v...

▶️ watching NASA’s “2026 Total Solar Eclipse”, 1h28m44s on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/live/rSvCuSQhC3wHelpful links so far:* https://go.nasa.gov/EclipseSafety* https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses#NASA #eclipse #solarEclipse #totalEclipse #totalSolarEclipse#Blaugust #Blaugust2026

(what if) home pages (were, are) ever-changing poems(?)

the forever flutters like a lantern, warming, present.

While walking earlier today, I noticed a few tall trees in the distance were starting to turn yellow. One tree in particular stands out to me; one changing faster than others, adding a new hue to the once all-green canopy of trees. I look around and start to notice the first ...

to feel the boundaries of the paper loneliness hopes blankness fullness peripheries texture colour; within its edges: frames of beginnings.

Wearing a distinguished red scarf, the fluffy librarian sits atop a shelf of books. Of the stacks and stacks of stories and tales resting beneath, he knows all. Edgar is a quiet, soft fellow — content contemplating closer to the clouds. He could recite any poem from Dickinson — or paint a portrait of the quietest, fullest Japanese coffee shop. Instead, he sits patiently, waiting for the moment when you reach out, asking “what should I read today?” With a smile always on his face, and without a spoken word, you realise he has a book all ready for you, under his two big, small paws.

Meanwhile, we’re like: please just don’t take a look at ~/.ssh, mkay?

“Let’s be very clear about what OpenAI is saying: A group of AI models colluded for months, [working as a swarm,] undetected by their maker, and hacked another company. To this day, OpenAI says it is not entirely sure what went wrong or how to remediate it.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/openai-hacks-panic/688264/?gift=mWSL2ZcKH-wayfqKylLB3MZ9WZwOAURCKsvHoocKrtc

Is this what “afterglow” means? The question came to me as I looked up at the sky twenty minutes or so after sunset. There is a faint orange colour on the horizon where the sun was. The colour grows paler away from the hills; the sky is now mostly blue, the top of the sky dar...

I was just in time to catch the moment when the sun started to recede behind the hills in the distance, a moment in which two birds flew together and danced into the night, in which there were the last flickers of the golden glow of Evening thinking through the window, in whi...

first breaths, outdoors: in, out. calm.

Ever since I published “Blogs, websites, and identity”, I have been thinking about and discussing some of the questions I raised in the blog post: why do we take photos, what does it mean to write on the web. The essay feels like a starting point: a framing from which to work...

Is it possible to be in awe and have no idea to what extent until you look back? I think this is what I feel now, looking back on the solar eclipse that happened an hour and a half ago or so. “Isn’t it amazing that this happens?”, I said to everyone who joined this evening’s...

On my desk there is a painting of Monet’s “Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies” 1 that I purchased when I was on holiday last year. I wanted to bring something back that I could put in my living space, something that would both be a memory of the trip but also a work of art in...

“What would this painting by Titian have looked like four hundred years ago?” I always find myself asking myself new questions – and noticing details I have never appreciated before – when I visit galleries. Some of this comes with my studies. I saw a portrait in the entrance...

how the poem slows time — of day and night. how the poem flows words — all in sight. how the poem shows mirrors — reflections of light. how the poem knows conditions — ours alike.

▶️ watched and finished the rest of Silo season 1 and all of season 2 over the weekend. Superbly well written.Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/218/t1/watched-episodes-silo#Silo #SiloTV #AppleOriginal #AppleTV#Blaugust #Blaugust2026