#California is testing water conservation and #renewableenergy generation. Instead of building solar farms on new land, engineers are installing #solarpanels above irrigation canals, allowing the same space to produce electricity while helping reduce water loss. #ActOnClimate #Renewables

Stephen Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony 😂 REUTERS/Octavio Jones

Marc Bouldoukian a Wildlife Photographer captures a heartwarming moment a mama bear carrying her three cubs across the water.

Daniel Mmesomachukwu coaxing some blues notes from her guitar. #blues #guitar

On his birthday, we remember René Auberjonois, who was Odo for all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and directed 8 episodes, guest starred on Enterprise, and played Colonel West in an eventually deleted scene from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He is very missed.

Visible Deadline is now up! eblong.com/infocom/visi... That's the Visible-Zorker edition of Infocom's original mystery game, Deadline. I had a bunch of fun diagramming the NPC navigation logic on the map.

I'm offering a 5 day Inform Bootcamp, free to all Narrascope Attendees! Online registration is open until June 10! The Game Jam starts tomorrow! If you've got a work if interactive fiction in you that wants out, here's a place to start! itch.io/jam/royal-fl...

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

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GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

Here is a very important video of an otter having his head stroked.

The enchanted forests of Finland-based artist Ulla Thynell

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Here you go. Cleanse your brain and soul.

The Grand Canyon seen from Space!😮

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. (Published Aug. 2025 with @adn.com)

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

Why Pete Hegseth’s Tarantino Blunder Wasn’t the Least Bit Surprising America's defense secretary is fixated on a fringe, violent version of Christian Nationalism. ...

Twine 2.12.0 is now out! Major highlights include a new way to see tags in the story map and a better tag autocomplete. www.patreon.com/posts/155317...

Maple syrup under a microscope. That is why Canadians are so happy, we literally eat glitter. 😊 #Canada

Omg! Huge shoutout to San Francisco, CA! Ocean Beach, you crushed it! 🌊

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

March 23: Register for the LifeLove Game Design Challenge to [de]*toxify* about toxic masculinity, toxic relationships, toxic behavior Finalists ust complete games by July 28: - All Finalists receive critiques from a panel of experts - $10,000 prize pool - Winners keep their games #gamejam #g4c

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

YES. They will make stuff up and lie to you, politely and guilelessly, just to please you. An LLM assured a man that he had proven the existence of God with math. Yet, even as he doubted himself and pushed back, the AI convinced him he was a True Genius! The bullshit bubble bursts hard. #ai

Artist, writer, musician, media friends: STEALING ISN'T INNOVATION is a global campaign to support fair compensation (licensing) for creative works scraped by AI systems. See the growing list of signatories and more info here: www.stealingisntinnovation.com #stealingisntinnovation #authors #ai

Re last comment… (I can never remember whether everybody sees replies, so I'll repost:) Last week I gave a ThinkyCon talk: “Towers of Pen: puzzle experiences that zoom out and out” The video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHxZ... The talk as a web page, text and slides: eblong.com/zarf/essays/...

So cool that we can see something seven billion years old and that scientists have the ability to learn from it! (I wish we lived in a world where this was headline news, and not the latest act of political idiocy, greed, or cruelty). www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

For whoever needs the Gift of the Fungi today...

Me, when I am free from tasks: do not ever burden me with a task Me, when I have been burdened with a task: lord help me I have been burdened with a task Me, when the tasks continue: I am burdened lord

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

A heart cockle shell has been found to let in light through a design that resembles fiber optic cables. This could inspire everything from helping coral survive to designing new camera lenses.

I'm writing for a "cozy game" and now, it seems, that's a trending lifestyle. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...