Giulio Cesare Solaroli

Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

Between rocky Earths and gas-rich Neptunes, there are worlds that should exist but don’t. Why?

New exoplanet surveys reveal how stellar radiation may strip planets bare, showing that our solar system isn’t the rule: maybe it’s the exception.
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...

Switzerland just voted to create a new electronic ID card (the Swiss introduced physical ones in 1955). It's stored locally on your device, you personally approve requests for your data, and is designed to prevent profiling. Contrast to, for example, Britain's centralized proposal.

China’s cycling resurgence can best be admired at street level, where cities like Kunshan are building infrastructure of incredibly high quantity and quality.

Cohesive networks that offer both practical connectivity and inviting usability; with abundant width, shade, protection, and natural beauty.

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Is there any chance you will be able to send some jackets also to Europe?

A man in business attire rides a red shared bicycle with a group on the streets of Osaka.

A man in business attire rides a red shared bicycle with a group on the streets of Osaka.

Just another day at the office…

This week, Chris was proudly representing the @dutchcycling.nl Embassy, and putting the humble bicycle on a global stage during a special “Dutch Cycling Culture” diplomatic event hosted by the Netherlands Pavilion at the Osaka Kansai World Expo in Japan.

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Digital Enterprise Research Institute - Wikipedia

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No, Galway

Dove “spirito” ha un simpatico doppio senso. 🥰
(ho lavorato anche io due anni in Irlanda, anche se in un ambiente internazionale, con relativamente pochi “indigeni”)

I use Notability on the iPad instead on “pen and paper” and it has worked very well for me, besides Obsidian for more refined (textual/mermaid) notes.
Unfortunately the document format is proprietary, so it retain that bad feeling of locking that Obsidian has smartly overcome using plain text files.

The high cost of free speech Jimmy Kimmel's suspension shows us that nothing will ever satisfy Trump's unquenchable thirst for power.

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Canceled Disney Plus and subscribed to the handbasket. 👍

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

Patch stitched with the text, "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing."

Fascism and authoritarianism need your fear to thrive. Stay strong, help your community, create, create, create.

Queen

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I doubt that is possible, but we could have a world in which excessive wealth is capped by taxation, large political donations are illegal and there are limits to how much of the media a single person can own.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

South Korean workers detained in immigration raid leave Atlanta and head home A plane carrying more than 300 workers from South Korea who were detained during an immigration raid at a battery factory in Georgia last week left Atlanta around noon Thursday, bound for South Korea.

Headline: Country that properly impeaches and prosecutes former leaders for malfeasance rescues its citizens from kidnappers.

Wonder if their employees are going to have any kind of respect for their bosses after this…

One of the most valuable takeaway of attending any kind of school is the variety of experiences you are exposed to, mostly not curricula related.
It may feel like a useless effort initially, but they add up and create awareness and adaptability to different difficulties.

"I didn't vote for this." - people who absolutely voted for this but thought this would only hurt people they hate

Text from David Wells ("Recent Economic Changes, and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of wealth and the Well-Being of Society") in 1889 as quoted by Carlota Perez ("Technological Revolutions and Finance Capital") in 2002

GPUs ca. 1875

I didn't know rich-world per-capita carbon emissions have been falling for 20 years
ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

looks like china's emissions stopped growing since 2023, fell 1% between H1 2024 and H1 2025
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-rec...
climateactiontracker.org/countries/ch...

I want to run a consultancy that helps businesses extricate themselves from bespoke software and use computers only in standard, working, helpful ways

this entire society is functioning like a company that laid off its IT department and is ambling along on software it can't maintain for a few more years before it goes out of business

A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing This book is an introduction to computer science. It will teach you to program, and do so in ways that are of practical value and importance. However, it will also go beyond programming to computer sc...

Super excited to release the latest version of "A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing" (DCIC). See release notes for 2025-08-27 for what's changed and new (a LOT!): dcic-world.org/2025-08-27/R....
dcic-world.org