One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.

Playing soccer at 9:30 when you're old means the hormones stay high until way too late. At least I've got Le Bureau des Légendes to watch

Anyone looking for Wintersday Bells???🔔 … also Guild Wars 2 community… y u like dis? Stahp!

Enjoy!

I love the warnings on that article

Math is over-rated. The dear leader’s feelings are more important.

We're finally addressing the root of all evil: the tyranny of maths! Let numbers be free!

Congratulations to Kellyanne Conway. She will be providing the new alternative job numbers.

When Is “Recyclable” Not Really Recyclable? When the Plastics Industry Gets to Define What the Word Means. Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually…

Turning old plastic into new plastic is really, really hard.

Products made with dyes, flame retardants and other toxic chemicals create a health hazard when heated for recycling, severely limiting the products you can make from recycled plastic.

(Published Aug. 2024)

Yeah except that "dry bone" will not survive long when all the flesh is gone

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Not a single week over the past 6 months when this gif wasn't relevant...

$15K bond to be a tourist in the USA (is that a crypto scam?)

This is incredible

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

A large rock sits on cracked desert ground, leaving a long curved trail behind it. Text says: These rocks have somewhere to be. Trails of sliding rocks have been observed and studied in various locations. The rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.

No wheels. No help. Just vibes. ⛵🪨

For more than a century, people have noticed these so-called sailing stones silently making their own trails, moving, somehow, while no one is watching. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

On Sun Day, we’re celebrating the power of clean energy from the sun and wind. We want to show the world that clean energy works by hosting events like ☀️ solar panel installations, 🚲 ebike rides, 🪧 marches, 🎨 art installations, 🎶 concerts and more.

Real quick PSA in light of the uproar.

Don't forget you can DETACH yourself from someone quote posting you here.

So, if someone is trying to start something or dogpile you, you can detach yourself so they no longer have your post on their TL and then block.

It's another great privacy feature.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Silhouetted desert trees with spiky branches beneath a glowing arc of the Milky Way.

Milky Way over Joshua Tree National Park

#milkyway #astrophotography #stars #space #photography

I guess the negative is that it shows the immense opportunity the USA missed and China is embracing!

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Want some fresh mental oxygen? Read this from @billmckibben.bsky.social " Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world." www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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On repeat for the rest of the night 🔁

Swiss woman is denied entry at the US border and detained «You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen ...

What a horror story. Why would anyone come to the USA for a vacation?

Story of a Swiss woman detained in humiliating conditions at JFK + in NJ detention before being deported. www.nzz.ch/english/you-...

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Imagine thinking being kind *isn't* punk rock...

Impossible to build a meritocracy in that utopia. Even harder to build a fair system. And impossible to create anything we can "trust."

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

It's disturbing that the story has hardly been told, so people hardly grasp how profoundly different (as in better) the possibilities are than they were not long ago. And that California, among other places, is realizing those possibilities. @billmckibben.bsky.social did a great piece on that:

Centrist Democrats are now scrambling to act as if they've always been against Israel's genocide in Gaza, despite several of them recently posing for a photo with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Zeteo's Frank Cappello returns as our (fake) centrist Democrat to imagine the deflections they would use.

Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

"It's really beautiful to imagine relying on a power source that you can't hoard."

If you feel yourself slipping into climate doomerism like I have lately, I implore you to read/listen to this convo with @billmckibben.bsky.social. It genuinely helped me see a path forward

Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs Workers at a South Carolina site that once made nuclear bomb parts have found a radioactive wasp nest. Officials say there's no danger to anyone.

If you thought 2025 couldn't get worse…

What a sunset from Issaquah, WA tonight!! #wawx #sunset