Chad O

Tennessee Valley Authority enters a deal with Google and nuclear startup Kairos Power to purchase electricity from a small modular reactor slated for 2030, marking the first US utility offtake agreement with an advanced nuclear plant

Here’s hoping we ban AI by 2030 and that this reactor will be used instead to supplement the rich lives of simple, land-based communities across Tennessee

A SKELATON RIDDIN A SKELATEN HORSE NAD IT SAYS "COUNTRYS ARENT REAL BORDERS ARENT REAL "NOOO YOU HAVE TO STAY ON YOU'RE SIDE OF THE LINE" GROW UP!!!! AND THERE RIGHT TO SAY IT!!! NONE OFTHIS SHIT IS REAL THERE JUST DRAWN LINES ON A MAP LIKE A KID IN A DORM ROOM AND THEY SAY YOU CANT CROSS THE LINE ONTO MY SIDE OF DA ROOM , ITS SO BAD EVEN A "R.A" WILL AGREE AND THERE DUMB AS SHIT, THERE THE GUYS IN THE DORM WHO ARE ALSO STILL STUDENT'S BUT THEY GET PUT IN CHARGE OF DA OTHER STUDENT'S, ITS A GOOD LESSON TO LEARN THAT HAVING A SMALL AMOUNT OF POWER CORRUPTS MOST PEOPLE AND THEY START PUSHIN YOU AROUND, JUST LIKE A REGULAR COP THEY NEVER FIX ANY REAL PROBLEM'S BUT THERE GONNA HASSLE YOU IF THEY DONT LIKE HOW YOU LOOK , NOW IMAGINE A WHOLE ECONOMIC SYSTEM BUILT ON A HIERARCHY OF EXTREMELY PETIT KINGS WITH EXTREMLY SMALL AMOUNT'S OF POWER, A PYRAMID OF CAPITAL BASED ON THE VIBE OF A DRUNK DAD YELLIN AT THERE KID, WHO THEN HAS TO SUBLIMATE THERE PROBLEM BY YELLIN AT THE PERSON BELLOW THEM ON THE PYRAMID, AND THE WHOLE TIME EVERYONES SENDIN THEIR MONEY UP DA STEPS SO THEY CAN WATCH STREAMIG VIDEO AND YELL AT STRANGER'S ON LINE, WE MUST DESTROY CAPTALISM, WE MUST DESTROY ALL COMPUTER'S, WE MUST DESTROY DA PORTABLE TELEPHONE, AND ULTIMATELY WE MUST ASK DA QUESTION "WHY HAS EARTH ALLOWED HUMAN'S TO PROSPER WHEN WERE DA WORST OF WHATS ON THE DAMB PLANET" BUT WHO HAS ROOM TO TYPE THAT IN DA ALT TEXT ANY WAY, GIVE ME A SHOUT OUT IF YOUR READIN THIS, ONLY DA REAL HEAD'S KNOW WHATS UP IN THIS SECTION , I THINK I TYPED DA WORDS FROM DA IMAGE AND RUNNING OUT OF ROOM SO SEE YA - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

GROW UP - dashare.zone ADMIN

Apple! Are those even… is that… language? Like, a real human one? Are those… words? How does this even happen? (Source material is the voiceover from scientificanimism.substack.com/p/slow-hedon...)

ode to breath + confessions of a recovering techno-optimist still-warm bits of was-just-self, becoming atmosphere

The moon keeps to its schedule and so, for now, do I. Here’s a poem that turned out to be a little bit about the internet and my complicity open.substack.com/pub/scientif...

You are my uncanniest valley

You are my largest language model

Animist Gratitude Prayers body, ground, microbes, moss, trees, beings, mystery

Whatever happens on Tuesday, I want to be ready to ground myself in reverence, in awe for all that is still beautiful in the world, in gratitude. I wrote this to help me. Maybe it will help you, too. open.substack.com/pub/scientif...

Scientists Revive 1,000-Year-Old Biblical Tree From Seed Found In A Judean Cave This is no burning bush or spruce from the Garden of Eden, but "Sheba", the resurrected tree, may have been featured in the Bible.

“She’s surrounded by thousands of sleeping seeds, all waiting for their DNA to awaken and begin remaking air into wood at the slightest hint of thaw and water. The seeds are humming, they're singing something, she'd swear it, just below ear shot.” – The Overstory

www.iflscience.com/scientists-r...

Maybe the native humans of a continent have coexisted more-or-less peacefully with the dragons for millennia, with only occasional (respectful?) hunting of one species by the other. Then: a foreign colonizing civilization; dragons slaughtered, left to rot, except bones scales and oil.

I want someone to write a tedious speculative fiction considering both. Maybe there’s a tragedy of the commons; dragons hunted to near extinction. Maybe dragons have one baby at a time, and it takes them 50 years to mature. Treaties limiting dragon hunting, new fuel sources to replace dragon oil.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.

Have wondered a lot about what sort of ecosystem would be required to sustain gigantic apex predators like dragons, but never considered the economic value of dragon-slaying until now

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hold-up

5yo: who was my grandma’s grandma’s grandma’s [x30] grandma’s grandma?

me: oh wow I don’t know. You had a lot of them. Who were they? What did they like?

5yo: they liked colors. And shaking their butts.

Something the article didn’t get into quite as much as I’d like is: why is there so much PFAS in our sewage? How did it get there in the first place? It explains that this is sewage from both homes and factories. Are we all flushing loads of PFAS, or is it those factories? Which factories?

In Michigan, among the first states to investigate the chemicals in sludge fertilizer, officials shut down one farm where tests found particularly high concentrations in the soil and in cattle that grazed on the land. This year, the state prohibited the property from ever again being used for agriculture. Michigan hasn't conducted widespread testing at other farms, partly out of concern for the economic effects on its agriculture industry.

One farm… contained 27 different types of PFAS. …testing revealed [a stillborn calf’s] liver to be full of PFAS: 610,000 parts per trillion. [Safe level in drinking water: 4ppt]

Cool, cool

"They say back then our universe was a small black egg," I told my 5yo, misquoting Björk. I asked her if she thought maybe our whole universe was inside an egg.

"The world is way too big to fit in an egg."

To us! But what about the creatures outside the egg?

"There's nothing outside the egg."

Such a good one!! I remember that quote at the beginning. There are even better quotes in the middle and end! Are you reading the anniversary version with a trans person’s review at the end? Loved having that.

Ben Goldfarb: Road ecology and the normalized violence of transport systems (Ep430) — Green Dreamer Ben Goldfarb on the unjust impacts of road ecology, harm reduction in built infrastructures, and more.

Love how Kamea pushes her “I’m just a reporter!” guest—and us along with him—to imagine radical futures with wholly different transportation infrastructure www.greendreamer.com/podcast/ben-...

Not a realistic policy PROBABLY but yeah I think it would make a good stump speech!

Sichuan Chili Crisp Shop Sichuan Chili Crisp by Fly By Jing, a crunchy, savory hot sauce that is good on everything. Add a spicy kick and bold flavor to your meals today!

ok here’s what we’re gonna do we’re gonna cut and mash a banana and stir it up with crunchy peanut butter and then we are going to mix in some Fly By Jing sichuan chili crispies flybyjing.com/shop/sichuan...

fuck universal basic income i want universal extravagant income i wanna pay everyone so much they all stop working and productivity grinds to a halt and everyone eats enough and everyone sleeps enough and everyone thinks enough and we all rebuild society from the ground up around abundance

Male Valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa varipuncta) in the garden, August 2024 #bee #insect #carpenterbee #pollen #garden

on ghosts uncertainty & its unsatisfying stopgaps

Lots of ghost chats with friends lately. More go in for ghosts than expected! Do you?

My thoughts scientificanimism.substack.com/p/on-ghosts?...

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