rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield space travellers from cosmic rays?

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Protomolecule, is that you?

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Yep, insects only get weirder the more you find out about them! What a killer opening to the paper:

"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm"

Ancient 'female-centered' society thrived 9,000 years ago in proto-city in Turkey Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.

New genomic research suggests Çatalhöyük was a female-centered society. The discovery builds on past archaeological theories and evidence like this "mother goddess" statue. 🏺🧪

Solstice Night Parade #HappyLongestNightOfTheYear

The CTA holiday train, complete with Santa in downtown Chicago…

Doing so was nice walk down memory lane of thoughts from years ago.

After importing them all, I did remove most of those old tweets since they aren't relevant to todays time.

Porto - Import your Tweets to Bluesky - Chrome Web Store A chrome extension to port all your twitter/X tweets to bluesky at a click of a button

Used Porto to move all my old tweets into Bluesky. Worked really well! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/porto...

Polarization allows scholars, journalists, politicians, pundits, and philanthropists to talk about politics without talking about the root of politics - power - at all. 2/

Live at @AugustHall_SF it’s @bearsdenmusic

Kraftwerk at Red Rocks

#spring

#treefort10

Mt Diablo basking in the last rays of 2021

54 years ago, a computer programmer fixed a massive bug — and created an existential crisis A blinking cursor follows us everywhere in the digital world, but who invented it and why? From block printing to the Apple II, this is the forgotten history of the blinking cursor

How many cursor blinks have you see in your life?

inverse.com/innovation/bli…

Inflation > Singularity

bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

The spirit of the Billboard Liberation Front lives on!

sfgate.com/sf-culture/art…

Fri eve while watching the full moon rise I encountered the Bernal Hill Coyote #BernalCoyote #BernalHeights #SF

#SutroTower sunset tonight

Sunset today

It was a party in @GoldenGatePark's enchanted forest last night - #Entwined by SF artist Charles Gadeken #GGP150 @sfparksalliance @sfrecpark

#MoonTwitter didn’t disappoint when suggesting to look at the moon right now #HugeMoonRing

The Christmas Day Gingerbread Monolith Miracle is real #believe

If you do care about liberty then support normalizing wearing facemasks since it will mess up the rapidly deploying face recognition surveillance infrastructure

Nightfall on Mars Base... nope, just lunchtime in San Francisco