Amin Noor

I hate this sensation of constant time poverty - where I am just meeting my obligations and there’s no time left to rest or to regroup or to be still in nature or do art

It is not at all. Where we need to be is different where companies need to be to double their worth. One should not mix one with the other.

Downplaying your achievements is not the antidote to appearing arrogant.

Humility is acknowledging your weaknesses, not denying your strengths. Generosity is elevating others, not diminishing yourself.

Owning your success doesn't make you a narcissist—it makes you a role model.

No taxation without representation. If our representatives (ie, Congress) have no authority over the Treasury, why should citizens be compelled to pay into it? Asking for 335 Million friends.

They say pandas are the dumbest animals in the world, but I bet they never listen to sad music when they’re sad so they can be even more sad.

Politeness is not the same as kindness.

Being polite is saying what makes people feel good today. Being kind is doing what helps people get better tomorrow.

When the norm is politeness, people withhold disagreement and criticism. When the norm is kindness, people speak their minds respectfully.

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are flopped down on the floor, cuddling on top of each other. Green: Have you figured out what you want yet? Blue: A little hut with a garden in the woods, with a lake nearby. A vision of Blue rowing a garden with a long-handled hoe, wearing a straw hat. Blue, narrating: To spend my summers fishing, foraging, and growing vegetables Another vision of Blue, now admiring his row of assorted cans and jars. Blue, continuing to narrate: Drying, canning and preserving enough to last the winter. Back to present day, Blue and Green are laying down in the exact same spot and position as earlier. Green: I meant for your birthday. Blue: Oh. You don't have to get me anything.

It's my boyfriend's birthday today!

Exclusive: Norway’s Equinor Forced to Withdraw Key Carbon Capture Claim This story is the tenth part of a DeSmog series on carbon capture and was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of ca...

"Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at its flagship carbon capture project after DeSmog obtained data showing the real figure was as little as a tenth of that amount"

Wait what, fossil fuel companies aren't trustworthy?

[ceo tossing and turning in bed] the air. the air they breathe should be a subscription service.

Follow your dreams, kids. If Robert Kennedy can be health secretary, you can literally do anything. Can't swim but wanna be a lifeguard? Do it. Blind sharpshooter? Awesome. First person to walk on the sun? Fuck yeah playboy, go get it

Microsoft and Google combined now use around the same amount of electricity each year as Portugal.

what a great use of chart to convey a message

Jack Posobiec: What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing.

Randomly remembered this galaxy brain take

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

I heard we doing commentary on European electricity market 🔌💡

به به، چه نمایی

OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.

So much concentration of money and power in big Tech. Sad story indeed.

www.ocregister.com/2024/12/13/o...

When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.

Well, there’s a story.

🦏
آدمی را چگونه باید شناخت؟
آدمی را خواهی که بشناسی
او را در سخن آر.
از سخنِ او، او را بدانی..

حضرت مولانا

We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.

Conviction is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for reflecting deeply.

It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.

I found this online so am not claiming to have come up with it.

Amidst #COP29, you might have missed it but, the most important environmental treaty since the #Paris is being negotiated THIS week!

At the #INC-5 in Busan, countries are hoping to strike an agreement on a global treaty to reduce #plastic pollution.

But why is this relevant for climate? A 🧵

1/

Fun fact: it was over 1,000(!) years ago that someone (a Persian astronomer) made the first known drawing of another galaxy!

Described as “a cloud” at the mouth of a fish (Arabic constellation), it’s the Andromeda Galaxy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...

قصاب 😉

I never wanted to live in interesting times.

Japan resells more LNG as gas demand at home weakens 🇯🇵 🚢

📈 Japanese utilities resold nearly 40% of LNG that importers purchased via long-term contracts & other deals
☢️ Nuclear reactor restarts (and more renewables) cut gas needs
💰 Meanwhile, Japan’s LNG traders profit

A comic strip featuring two characters discussing social media engagement. One character mentions "unbelievable viral skeet," while another points out that it only has "3 likes." A dog is present beside them.

Who remembers the early days of Bluesky?

Site of ancient, key battle in Iraq found by archeologists using spy satellite images 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led archeologists to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that was decisive in the spread of Islam in the region.

Wow! The site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyah in #Iraq has been identified by using Cold War-era spy satellite images!

www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient...