"Every time we share outrage bait or doom-laden headlines, we're feeding a machine that makes everyone more miserable. But we also have the ability to choose differently." h/t to @fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...

They will be taking this down soon www.floridahealth.gov/programs-and...

"No oxygen, no problem! We can breathe hydrogen and sulfur" www.quantamagazine.org/the-cells-th...

It’s “Team by team reporters, baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped, Look at that low playing, fine, then

I can

Word of the day: "Kairomone": A semiochemical released by an organism that mediates interactions in a way that benefits the receiver. For example, sweat and mosquitoes... (I'm studying #biomimicry and chemistry this semester, so hang on to your molecules)

This is the Al we need

Like so many things these days, this step backwards will cost our country dearly. It's like the climate crisis is just sci-fi to them. “This will mean to us a lot of additional profit,” said CEO Antonio Filosa." 😞😞😞 @zamafir.bsky.social they'll be gone in 10 yrs right? www.wsj.com/business/aut...

I'm off for one week and our headline game appears to have improved exponentially. None of that pearl-clutching asterisk bullshit here for reported speech. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517092...

"air-conditioning is more than a convenience; in certain conditions, it’s a safety measure. That should be an easy enough concept to grasp....in many parts of the world we expect access to heating in the name of safety. Nobody wants to freeze to death." www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/17/1...

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

Sting wrote 'Fragile' in 1987 but it's timeless. "Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could"

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/07/trea...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Name a more dynamic duo. I'll wait.

Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"No need to stress about the coming of Artificial General Intelligence if Artificial Worm Intelligence remains such a distant impossibility. I hope it underscores how mightily naive we are about the possibility of truly imitating life." youtu.be/jwr1EOvAxQI?...

Waffle House embraces EV charging with BP Pulse fast chargers. #EVCharging #ElectricVehicles #SustainableFuture

"Where do you see yourself in five years?" "Living like a hermit wizard"

i kind of think the opening sequence in STAR TREK (2009) is the best thing abrams ever put to film

Well, there go our chances of seeing a Rendezvous with Rama movie 😕 www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n... James Bond: Denis Villeneuve is the director of next spy film : NPR

Are you seeing fireflies in your yard this summer? Did you leave the leaves in the fall? They are directly correlated, remember this in a few months! From @joandeart.bsky.social

200 years of controversy! 200 years of people carrying about the classification of jellyfish! (complimentary)

You know what to do: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives. - Tales From Earthsea: Dragonfly, by Ursula Le Guin

Significantly revised and rewritten, here's my deep dive (make yourself a cuppa as it's a long read) into Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running (1972) medium.com/cathode-ray-... #Filmsky #70sScienceFiction

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power. - Carl Sagan, Contact

At the vet this morning: "The whole world is short staffed. Please be kind to those who showed up." 🐶

Me at the whaling museum yesterday:

Much to like in the goals of “natural capitalism,” an economy “in service to life” thehill.com/opinion/ener... The theory is great. How do you make it work in reality?

If America makes it through, this great woman will someday be its president

I woke up to an email titled "Strange AI behavior". I thought the Robot Age would be more exciting and less dystopian, but here we are.

Word of the day: Gyroids. Nanostructures that act as photonic crystals. This is how blue morpho butterflies create their blue iridescence! 🦋 #biomimicry #LifesPrinciples #LifeCreatesConditionsConducivetoLife

Evergreen 🌲

@amalelmohtar.com #ThisIsHowYouLoseTheTimeWar

Great use of #systemsthinking archetypes to map out the energy transition

bluecorridors.org is live! Watch whales doing their thing as they mooch and migrate throughout the year. It is an honour to be involved in processing the data for this amazing living initiative. Looking forward to expanding it further!

@johnmoralestv.bsky.social is one of the good ones ✊

"Truly sophisticated technologies wouldn’t disrupt nature’s preexisting complexities, but would work with and through them." The way forward is symbiosis with nature, not parasitism. #biomimicry www.noemamag.com/are-we-accid...

I thought this story was horrific, but realizing it was an actor I long enjoyed only made it worse. My God.

#BlueSkyMonday #dusk

Starting now - access is free: www.youtube.com/@hollywoodcl...

A great opportunity for climate storytellers: www.nrdc.org/RewriteTheFu...

From @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter: "I struck wind!" said the ebullient Davis, who likes to restyle Trump's "drill, baby, drill" mantra into "turn, baby, turn" in recognition of his wind turbines. "I done turned the money into my back ass pocket," he said.

I sent an "old man yells at cloud" message to Stop & Shop yesterday complaining about the self-checkout lanes and how dehumanizing they are. It won't change anything, but it made me feel better. Hearing the robotic voice all day every day must be maddening for the actual human employees in the store

"If identity is the stories you tell yourself about yourself, culture is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves." @eliotpeper.bsky.social every.to/thesis/ai-is...

I don't think Ray Nayler is on Bsky, but he posted this link on IG about cephalopod intelligences in fiction. I've read The Mountain in the Sea, but still need to read the other two! 🦑🐙 www.newyorker.com/books/book-c... Peter Godfrey-Smith on Alien Intelligences in Our Midst | The New Yorker