After #r4today we’ll have “In Our Time” on MC Escher, starting just after 9, and continuing endlessly.

Solar panels in the rain? No problem.

Most people: We'd like less light pollution, and more starry nights. The Valley: Cool... How about giant unregulated space mirrors reflecting the Sun onto your community, turning night into day whenever we can make a buck off it? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/c...

Solar panels lower the temperature around the sand that they sit on, effectively “greening” the desert. As the warm air around the panels has nowhere else to go but up, they naturally form massive rainclouds in a part of the world known for its dryness. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...

I want them to run themselves when power is abundant and renewable too

The intensity of the past few weeks has been astounding. In the midst of this I locate my hope in the works many of you are doing to transform our systems. To that, here is the Spring issue of "Notes on a Present Future" with an amazing roster of beautiful projects. buttondown.com/LinaSrivasta...

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

As a resilience professional, your city looks to you to prepare for the next emergency. Design coastal wetlands plans to safeguard cities from tides. Develop communication strategies to combat radicalization. Lead organizations through cyber threats. cssh.northeastern.edu/polisci/prog...

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To those still complaining about Artemis 2: We spend 100× more on killing people for oil profits, but yeah, NASA’s the problem. 🤦🏽‍♀️ NASA: $25B Defense: $901B That’s 36 NASAs. Space programs have driven major advancements in science, medicine, and technology, real benefits for humanity.

The Left Behind books did not prepare me for a stupid Antichrist. I feel misled.

scientist using cheese-based microscope: "it appears that at a microscopic level, the entire universe is tainted by ubiquitous cheese" futurism.com/science-ener...

Don’t let this fly under the radar: the Trump administration wants to kick ~6 million more people off of food assistance programs, including nearly 2 million children. That would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.

The actual fook is wrong with this administration

It’s ironically very funny that scientists conducted a study showing scientists aren’t funny

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England. I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Like @toni.bsky.team mentioned, we're only 42 team members. We also happened to hit 43m users last week. Figures like >1m users per person speak to the caliber of the brains at Bluesky. Come be another brain building the future of social: bsky.social/about/join

No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.

*record scratch* *freeze frame* yup, thats me. youre probably wondering how i ended up in this situation. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.

Reposting for no particular reason, except that I want to carve it into this century’s forehead

This is what ecocide looks like.

Iran is now bombing Amazon and Microsoft data centres. “Drone strikes on Amazon Web Services facilities… highlight the vulnerability of cloud facilities — prominent symbols of US tech power in the region and hard to defend against air attack.”

Isn’t this the start of the Snow Queen story ? One willl shatter and drop shards that beguile guys share.google/OVvw2nmgBIWq...

hey guys how's it going

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

If something other than AI falls in the forest right now, does it make a sound?

China adopted the circular economy as a national priority since 2009 recognising it can generate growth decoupled from resource use. This case study covers growth in the vehicle remanufacturing sector. www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-exa...

📣 We’re building a new kind of infrastructure for scientific work, where ideas don't get lost, experiments get claimed and completed, and new researchers can hit the ground running. For 40 months, the @matsulab.com has piloted this approach. It's working! #AcademiaSky 🔗 experiment.com/u/Hd2AYg

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Fascinating and doesn’t bode well

Hey look, America wants to further ruin the sky!

Wow.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Dude on Reddit doing God's work www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/co...

#NollaignamBan During WWII Kay McNulty was one of the women who devised processing routines for the ENIAC machine, establishing how artificial intelligence developed. At the public launch in 1946 the women programmers were relegated to the role of hostesses. www.dib.ie/biography/mc...

Beautiful walk this lunchtime in Ayr by the sea. A tad nippy.

This is very bad news for Greenland

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I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

The absolute state of this. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

finally, we're living through precedented times

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.