Kagi seems interesting -- anyone here try it out yet? kagi.com

This mechanical bird drops dead when your home’s air quality worsens www.theverge.com/tech/935292/...

I CAN'T believe Trump would lie about something important like that.

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist theoutpost.ai/news-story/o...

I know there's been a ton of buzz about this book lately and to be clear: I haven't read it -- but (by synopses alone) isn't this just Octavia E. Butler's 'Kindred' for white people? english.elpais.com/culture/2026...

'A hidden blood pump': How chewing more boosts your brain www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

And here is a heartwarming story about an adorable little (?) animal in a neighborhood of animal lovers with a happy ending www.npr.org/2026/05/18/n...

The existence of Ibogaine is rather revelatory -- because total recall of all our past events wasn't thought to be possible with our regular brain hardware. Points to "cloud memory" but from where? The theoretical consciousness field? www.bbc.com/future/artic... Of course not just valuable to vets

I did finish watching this one and recommend it highly. Years & Years, a production from the UK that is eerily prescient and couldn't be more timely now in 2026 even tho it was released back in 2019. A hidden, pre-dystopian gem, if you will www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY41...

I haven't finished watching this yet, but it's an intriguing concept featuring some lovely animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGmB...

Now here's something you don't see every day. Very cool apnews.com/photo-essay/...

Smit said: “When you look at towns, you realise you could dig up a lot of the asphalt and put up a lot of large growing boxes all over the place.” He believed this would encourage people to eat more vegetables and pave the way for farmers’ markets in town centres www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This is especially disturbing because it reminds one of the unforgettable opening to Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future which dramatized a wet bulb event ending in mass mortality www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/c...

The Tree House A voyage to the source of a backyard dream. www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/t...

Javier Bardem says condemning the Gaza genocide has led to more work www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

“Hey, robot, please make me a home. An earthship would be ideal, but kindly just use whatever is lying around (non-sentient), thanks!” www.kxan.com/technology/r...

I have seen online blowback to Amsterdam over this but they are exactly right: the dirty energy & corpse-based food industries = 90% of carbon pollution & this fact just isn’t well-known enough www.bbc.com/news/article... Transitioning to clean energy and plant-based foods = 90% solarpunk solution

Behold: a small yet noble strive toward Ecotopia in Stockholm, Sweden www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

Yes, I would love that: a micro forest of my own to protect and nurture, thank you ambrook.com/offrange/env... (Decentralize micro forests?)

“Every village or town should have a Nightingale’s Forest of its own for a cumulative effect,” he said. “It is important to start somewhere.” apnews.com/article/serb...

Listening to Fenian now. Lovely www.npr.org/2026/05/01/n...

I also was emotional at every new neurodivergent diagnosis (I have a stack) that I received/self-gleaned about half a decade ago. It’s like my whole life was wasted & now I have only a couple decades at end as I age to even begin to try to make things right www.ladbible.com/news/us-news...

F yeah, clean energy FTW!!! edition.cnn.com/2026/04/26/e...

Coffee: a Stimulant That Made the Modern World worldhistory.substack.com/p/coffee-a-s...

The Lost Birds www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Apocalypse Early Warning System ews.kylemcdonald.net

“Do you guys like Bob Ross?” www.salon.com/2026/05/02/b...

Boom, boom, boom Solarpunk booms are the best booms of all www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Go, go, go The global mass decentralization of clean energy continues apace apnews.com/article/sola...

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This is sad and disappointing to see. Ada’s is one of those few places left here in Seattle that still retain the old Seattle feel www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/04/afte...

“Death Cafes” or old goths? “Death Cafes” or old goths? Hrmmmmmmm www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/h...

Neo birdhouse design, a gift article from the NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/a...

‘Street culture is about revolution’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Mm-mm good physicsworld.com/a/coffee-wit...

“How Star Trek, Missy Elliott and queer theory help explain the deepest questions in physics“ www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis... I read the last book by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and enjoyed it very much

Fucking A. So relieved there is some sanity in the world somewhere www.semafor.com/article/04/3...

An excellent option for May Day: www.standupforscience.net

Hallelujah and none too soon www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Go solarpunk or go home

Yes, and this is an extremely nice way of putting it askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/the-left-i... (As I have said before, when good people put their head in the sand over AI, by default the predominant models will be anti-empathy muskbots--the true question is who trains it, Octavia Butler or Musk?)

Maybe not everything should go green? www.sciencenews.org/article/humi...

The best feel-good story of last week www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The internet is so vast, I am constantly astounded at things I don't know. Like, I just learned this week there is a whole TV channel/site for vegans! Way to go, vegans! unchainedtv.com Unchained TV. Plus the app doesn't even demand an email addy to start watching, I checked--so it is 100% free!

With AI music, did you really "make" it? Even if you wrote the lyrics & gave explicit directions on all musical fronts? Arguably no but also: would it exist without you? Also no? Like all new tech it presents a Philip K. Dickian-like nest of meta conundrums www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-m...

No, EL PAÍS, I haven't heard of "Lo-TEK" but it sounds promising! "Regenerative and environmentally just systems" sounds delish because I am not a psychopathic anti-empathy/anti-Earth POS! I LOVE this planet & want to keep her clean & safe for all life! Do tell! english.elpais.com/climate/2026...

Most people have a general idea of how bad war is. So something illegal *even in war*??? Can you imagine how despicable that is? That is a war crime. And yet that is the US & Israel, whose collective tagline could be: "We make war worse! We have no ethics whatsoever! Ethics are WOKE, doncha know?!"

Kneecap visited Cuba? Which is currently under blockade by the criminal American con man regime? I didn't hear about this in the US press?! Viva @bellyofthebeastcuba.com! www.bellyofthebeastcuba.com/kneecap-in-c... (And yes collective punishment is a war crime regularly practiced by Israel & US)

"I’ve just watched another of my neighbours rip up everything green and growing around their home. It’s enough to make David Attenborough weep" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Meet Yuji, the Mexican baby monkey finding comfort in a plush companion apnews.com/video/meet-y...

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...